Skills

Three areas: running and improving operations, designing flow and supply, and the tools that turn plant data into decisions.

Engineering & Operational Skills

Leading people, quality, and safety on high-volume production floors.

Operations Leadership

  • Team supervision: 30+ staff across three shifts
  • Shift scheduling and workforce planning
  • Hiring, training, and cross-training
  • Performance reviews and discipline
  • Conflict resolution and mentoring
  • Cross-functional collaboration

Quality Systems

  • Root cause analysis: 5 Whys and Fishbone
  • CAPA, containment, and MRB
  • FMEA / PFMEA and control plans
  • SPC (X-bar/R, p, c) and Cpk/Ppk
  • APQP and PPAP
  • ISO 9001

Safety & Compliance

  • HACCP, GMP, and sanitation
  • Lot traceability
  • Customer, regulatory, and internal audits
  • LOTO, confined space, and hot work
  • PPE, inspections, and risk assessments
  • Odor control and wastewater compliance

Process & Equipment

  • Heavy equipment operation
  • Commissioning and startup of new lines
  • Capital upgrades: RFQs and vendor review
  • Preventive maintenance and reliability
  • Troubleshooting and change management
  • SOPs, work instructions, process flow diagrams, and WBS

Advanced Manufacturing & R&D

  • Ceramic-polymer 3D printing
  • Additive and subtractive manufacturing
  • Scanning for density and dimensional change
  • Microscopy and material testing
  • Printer calibration and maintenance
  • Technical reports and documentation

Lean Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Designing flow, capacity, and supply to cut waste, lead time, and cost.

Lean Manufacturing

  • Kaizen, 5S, and standard work
  • Value stream and MCT mapping
  • Kanban and waste elimination
  • OEE and downtime reduction
  • Six Sigma (DMAIC)
  • Theory of Constraints

Capacity & Flow

  • Capacity and bottleneck analysis
  • Line balancing
  • Time studies and work measurement
  • Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM)
  • Lead-time reduction
  • Material flow and handling design

Facility Layout

  • Systematic Layout Planning (SLP)
  • From-to and relationship charts
  • Cellular manufacturing design
  • Lead and lag capacity expansion plans
  • Make-versus-buy and outsourcing analysis

Production Planning

  • Production planning and scheduling
  • MRP and S&OP
  • Job sequencing (Johnson’s rule)
  • Production KPIs: yield, downtime, steam per ton
  • Budgeting, ROI, NPV, and decision trees
  • Lead time, safety stock, and service levels

Supply & Inventory

  • Demand forecasting (Holt-Winters)
  • Inventory management and EOQ
  • Supply chain design
  • Cross-docking strategy
  • Bill of Materials (BOM)
  • Shipping and logistics coordination

Tools & Analytical Skills

Software, data, and modeling tools I use to turn plant data into decisions.

Programming & Data Tools

  • Python: automation and data tools
  • R: statistics and machine-learning modeling
  • SQL
  • Microsoft Office
  • Data automation and processing

Analytics & Modeling

  • Machine learning
  • Statistical analysis and SPC
  • Design of Experiments (DOE)
  • Thermal image and sensor data analysis
  • Predictive and forecasting models
  • Data processing pipelines

Plant & ERP Systems

  • SAP: inventory and production data
  • SCADA / HMI process control
  • Advanced Excel modeling
  • Batch weighing and scale calibration
  • QC sampling and lab result tracking

Simulation & Design

  • Arena simulation
  • MPX lead-time modeling
  • SolidWorks 3D modeling
  • G-code generation
  • Visio process and flow diagrams

Project & Business

  • Critical path scheduling
  • NPV, ROI, and payback analysis
  • Word and PowerPoint reporting
  • Presenting findings to management
  • Smartsheet