Engineer Manager

Gregory S. Sandmel

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White Cloud, Michigan 49349

231-***-**** (Home)

231-***-**** (Cell)

Career Objective: Obtain production supervisor position in a world class

manufacturing company.

EDUCATION: State Technical Institute, Memphis Tennessee - Associate degree

Electrical Engineering

Arkansas State University, Jonesboro Arkansas - B.S. Electrical Engine

SUMMARY:

. Mid-level manager with over 9 years of production experience in a fast

paced, demanding and time critical business operation

. Green Belt training helped to enhance analytical and T-shooting skills

. HACCP, Better Processing, and AIB skilled

. Root Cause Analysis and create SOP's to correct concerns

. 5S, Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing practices with Green Belt

certification

. Proficient in SAP, Microsoft Office and Kronos

. Effective oral and written skills

. Excellent planning, decision making and organizational know how

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Hearthside Food Solutions, Grand Rapids, Michigan - October 2010 to July

30, 2013

Production Supervisor

. Supervise up to 68 employees on 2 production lines

. Help produce over 1 million cereal bars per day at a 24/7, 365 day

production facility.

. Direct and train leads on how to think for themselves so that they

can complete tasks, help them to develop their people skills and train

them on how to run essential reports so I can spend more time on the

floor developing and implementing improvements.

. Kronos: set-up and enter new employees, enter new time cards when

required verify time for week and assign W/O to hours worked

. Use SAP in day to day operations to verify production and write daily

reports

. Communicate daily with warehouse to ensure that we have enough raw

ingredients to complete order for shift and setting next shift up for

1st 3 hours of production

. Develop and coach 28 fulltime and up to 40 temporary employees daily

through KPIs

. Employ my knowledge of 5S to sustain what we have accomplished

. Conduct daily shift meeting that address key GMP and safety issues,

required production for shift and any issues that may have occurred on

other shifts

. Determine shift's requirement for personnel and rotate labor as needed

to cover production needs

. perform Root Cause Analysis on issues that may affect any aspect of

the facility

Nestle-Gerber, Fremont, Michigan - October 2008 to Sept 2010

Production Supervisor.

. Oversee production of baby cereal in a 24/7, 365 day production

facility.

. Develop and coach 20 full time employees daily through KPI's

. Direct and train leads on how to think for themselves so that they can

complete tasks, help them to develop their people skills and train

them on how to run essential reports so I can spend more time on the

floor developing and implementing improvements.

. Maintain 5S throughout department to sustain what was already

accomplished

. Lead autonomous maintenance team thru Nestle based system

. Lead maintenance TPM team thru Nestle based system,

. Conduct monthly safety and quality meetings

. Utilize SAP to create reports

. Minimize waste by recognizing waste points and correcting them in a

timely manner

. Conduct daily shift meeting that address key GMP and safety issues,

required production for shift and any issues that may have occurred on

other shifts

. Perform Root Cause Analysis on issues that may affect any aspect of

the facility.

Thomas and Betts, Jonesboro, AR - April 2004 to Oct 2008

Maintenance Supervisor, Production Supervisor, and Manufacturing/Plating

Engineer.

Maintenance Supervisor :

. Coordinate projects

. Assign work orders and PM's for up to 15 maintenance employees over 3

shifts.

. Set up and develop tracking system for W/O completion rate.

. Set up tracking system for PM completion rate

TPM Coordinator:

. Develop and implement TPM program for facility

. Set up tracking system for breakdowns

Plating engineer -

. Oversee plating department

. Set up guidelines and standards for process

. Coordinate and oversee projects.

Manufacturing Engineer:

. Set up flow design for department

. Set up and coordinate projects for new machinery.

Milwaukee Electric Tools, Blytheville, AR - 9 years

Position held: CNC Operator, 3rd Shift Supervisor.

. Run CNC armature line

. Train new employees

. Supervise 35 employees in various departments on 3rd shift.

. Open and start up plant on Sunday night/Monday mornings for 3rd shift.

Klinke Brothers Ice Cream, Memphis, TN - 5 years

Position held: Assistant Production Manager and Head Lab Technician

. Inventory control

. Set up production run schedules

. Order raw ingredients and containers

. Assist in supplier contract negotiations.

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Career Achievements:

Education:

State Technical Institute - 4.0 GPA in engineering courses, graduated Cum

Laude

Arkansas State University - 3.5 GPA in all engineering courses overall 3.25

GPA

Hearthside Food Solutions:

. Identified and designed quick change over tools for wrappers, robots

and carton sealers

. set up tracking system for minor stops and breakdowns which also

monitored if shift after change over or during normal production

. set up countdown sheet for ingredients to allow: operators to monitor

usages, production to determine if enough raw materials in house for

shift, shipping to plan door switches and material unloading, and

inventory control to verify that BOMs matched production requirements.

Nestle-Gerber:

. Guided autonomous maintenance team from phase 1 thru phase 3,

. Guided maintenance TPM team from phase 2 thru phase 4

. reduced overfills by monitoring usages and coaching operators

. Better Processing School certificate.

Thomas & Betts -

. Developed and set-up TPM program.

. Co-ordinate and lead project moving equipment from Canadian plant to

Arkansas plant.

. Received Green Belt certificate and conducted 4 successful Green Belt

projects

. Worked up proposal for new $1,000,000 plating line

. Worked up proposal for new $350,000 elbow machine

Milwaukee Electric Tool -

. Reduced line change over time from 2 hours to 0.

. Increased armature line production from 45 parts per hour to 60 parts

per hour.

Klinke Brothers Ice Cream -

. Set up monthly, 6 month and yearly forecast for material usages

. Set up rolling 90 day order with supplier to achieve price breaks on

orders - both processes allowed for increase in sales volume without

excessive inventory.

. Established accuracy of lab to where suppliers took labs results

instead of insisting on outside confirmations.

. Assisted in negotiation of new Butterfat contract with supplier that

resulted in annual savings of $40,000.

Professional References:

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