Manufacturing problems rarely stay inside one department.

Lead daily production operations for 30+ associates, including two supervisors, aligning labor, equipment, material availability, capacity, and shop-floor priorities with customer demand and delivery requirements.

• Set clear production expectations and hold associates accountable for execution, productivity, utilization, attendance, job-clock accuracy, and results.
• Reduced past-due line items from 2,432 to 30 in under 24 months, reversing chronic delivery failures while stabilizing a standard product line spanning more than 1,400 SKUs.
• Coordinate production, materials, scheduling, sales, and shipping to resolve constraints, recover schedules, and protect customer commitments.
• Analyze production, ERP, and shop-floor data to identify shortages, bottlenecks, capacity constraints, schedule risks, production gaps, and emerging performance issues.
• Develop Google Sheets and Apps Script production-management applications that transform ERP data into real-time production, inventory, scheduling, and priority tools to improve visibility and operational decision-making.

Developed and controlled CNC and manual machining schedules using customer demand, machine capacity, labor, material availability, routing requirements, production priorities, and delivery commitments.

• Managed machine loading and production sequencing to balance workload, reduce bottlenecks, improve utilization, and maintain flow.
• Adjusted schedules in real time for downtime, shortages, capacity constraints, and changing customer requirements.
• Increased output 40% and eliminated a backlog of approximately 350 past-due orders in under 12 months without increasing headcount.
• Coordinated sales, production, materials, and shipping priorities to improve production flow, order movement, and delivery reliability.

Led materials management, receiving, inventory control, and material-flow operations for a nine-person team, including two supervisors.

• Established operational priorities, performance expectations, and accountability across the department while ensuring material availability, inventory accuracy, and production support.
• Increased daily receiving throughput 35% through workflow redesign and improved material movement.
• Implemented visual inventory controls that improved replenishment, shortage visibility, material availability, and production readiness.
• Developed ERP-integrated Excel tools and automated RFQ processes that improved data accuracy, streamlined administrative workflows, and significantly reduced manual workload.
• Developed and implemented a job-specific material organization and labeling system for purchased components, improving tool assembly efficiency by 50% and eliminating material misplacement.
• Managed shortages, discrepancies, incoming material priorities, staging, and job-specific requirements according to operational impact.

Managed master production and tooling schedules against customer requirements, internal capacity, material availability, supplier commitments, and critical milestones.

• Improved supplier delivery performance from 75% to 95% through stronger performance expectations, consistent follow-up, supplier accountability, and recovery planning.
• Identified missing, late, and at-risk components early and drove recovery plans before shortages disrupted scheduled production.
• Balanced changing demand, supplier performance, material constraints, and internal priorities while protecting production continuity.
• Developed sourcing and quoting strategies around supplier capabilities, capacity, lead time, and technical strengths, improving supplier engagement and reducing purchasing costs.
• Monitored supplier commitments and drove follow-up, accountability, expediting, and corrective action on critical orders.

Coordinated international assembly operations supporting U.S. manufacturing requirements and global customer demand through a period of major product and volume growth.

• Expanded the managed product portfolio from five products to more than 1,000 SKUs while annual production grew from approximately 200,000 units to 3.1 million units.
• Managed more than $10 million in inventory while maintaining 99.2% inventory accuracy and material availability.
• Aligned material, inventory, and assembly priorities across a rapidly expanding international product line.
• Developed an Excel-based pick-and-pull inventory system and partnered with I.T. to improve inventory visibility, material flow, accuracy, and operational decision-making.