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Aaron Kowalewski

Attica,NY

Summary

Team-oriented warehouse leader and machine operator with proven leadership and motivational skills successful in helping group members achieve business goals. Respectful and clear communicator focused on enhancing teamwork and collaboratively addressing challenges with logical approaches. Skilled in building relationships and enhancing workflow. Trained in many areas of work and technical skills, very receptive to new ideas and training. Eager to start new projects and finish important tasks.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Work Group Lead (warehouse)

OAtKa Milk Products CoOp
09.2017 - Current
  • Trained new team members by relaying information on company procedures and safety requirements. At any given time having 30 plus employees managed every day.
  • Attended staff development meetings and workshops and applied information from those events into daily activities.
  • Reviewed daily requirements and delegated work for optimal coverage. Daily schedule managed had 5 departments with docks having 50 plus truck appointments daily.
  • Reorganized and enhanced employee training to close knowledge gaps and boost group performance.
  • Maintained clean and well-organized production areas to avoid violations or unnecessary work delays due to hazards or inefficient layouts.
  • Evaluated employee skills and knowledge regularly, training and mentoring individuals with lagging skills.
  • Minimized resource and time losses by addressing employee or production issue directly and implementing timely solutions.
  • Used focused email groups across production back to warehouse to ensure communication across every department.
  • Used forklifts and other machinery to move, manage and ship products everyday.
  • Filled in any position that was falling behind or had missing operators. Everyday had new challenges and unique opportunities to get work done.
  • Prepared, calibrated and monitored production machinery to maintain optimal production levels and consistently achieve daily targets.
  • Prepared facilities for operational audits and health agency inspections. Had monthly GMP audits and quarterly SQF audits that had to be above average,

Moulder Operator/ Stave Core Manager

Upstate Door
07.2013 - 09.2017
  • Set up machines to start production cycles and controlled machine settings. Work flow started in Stave core with multiple jobs daily. Usually 50 plus doors daily.
  • Inspected machine parts with measuring tools. The 5 head Moulder used required blade balancing, zeroing out motor heads to accurately set up profiles and constant parameter changes to pay attention to.
  • Efficiently read and interpreted blueprints. Door and stile blueprints changed daily and always needed accuracy.
  • Kept accurate records of defective units or products.
  • Fed raw materials into machines.
  • Made sure that products were produced on time and are of good quality.
  • Inspected finished products for quality and adherence to customer specifications. If products were found to be bad, We set up a system to reuse materials that weren't damaged.
  • Trained a team of 5 to run certain machines at certain times to stream line the process efficiently, similar to an assembly line.
  • Monitored employee actions for adherence to safety procedures.
  • Calibrated machines to maintain required productivity levels and adherence to quality standards. Changed saw blades when dulled, hydraulic fluid in presses, blades on planers and jointers and wheels on rip saws.
  • Oversaw logistics and inventory management for storeroom. Kept wood stock and core stock accurate and never let inventory run low and impede production.
  • Adjusted alignment of drills, guides and holding devices.

Lead Sales/ Manger

Wolcott Brothers Music Store
06.2010 - 06.2013
  • Used POS system to process sales, returns, online orders and gift card activations. Responsible for over 25 members that had discounts and other perks that were treated differently, used as sales tactic to encourage member status.
  • Organized store merchandise racks and displays to promote and maintain visually appealing environments.
  • Offered each customer top-notch, personal service to boost sales and customer satisfaction.
  • Up-sold and cross-sold products effectively, driving sales and increasing revenue.
  • Contacted customers to immediately find resolutions for escalated issues.
  • Boosted revenue by bringing in and cementing relationships with new clients and optimizing servicing of existing customer accounts.
  • Identified and analyzed key competitors and related products.
  • Held events to draw in new customer base with games and auctions.
  • Maintained guitar and music equipment to keep with top standard, along with repairing equipment that came in
  • Set up on guitars consisting of string changes, polishing and cleaning, re-soldering bad circuitry and anything customers wanted.

Education

Advanced Regents Diploma -

Warsaw Central High School
Warsaw, NY
06.2013

Career Assessment Program - Electronics Technology

Genesee Valley Boces
Batavia, NY
06.2013

Skills

  • Group and Individual Instruction, shift leadership
  • Staff Management
  • Health and Safety Procedures, GMP, SQF and 4S trained
  • Inventory Control
  • Warehouse oversight
  • Operate Machinery and set-ups
  • Preparing Shipments
  • Raw Material Loading, Manifest trained
  • Identifying Flaws and corrective action
  • Forklift, Pallet Jack, scissor lift and boom lift Operation
  • Precision measuring with calipers and machine blade set-up
  • Chemical training with ambrosia, handling and containing

Hobbies:

  • EFI small engine tuning- modifying ECUs to change the behavior of vehicles with air/fuel ratios on my own vehicles for fun and as a enthusiast. along with working on my own vehicle repairs such as brakes, oil, electrical and body repair.
  • Playing guitar and production- i write and play music as a hobby, its still something im passionate about to this day. i have done live sound for venus and enjoy setting up for a whole live band to play.
  • Electronic and tech coding- i often play around with circuit boards and raspberry PI, a single board computer used for learning coding and basic computer science. i have experience soldiering circuit boards and fixing gaming consols for myself and friends. I learned a lot of the basics in electronics in boces in high school.

Timeline

Work Group Lead (warehouse)

OAtKa Milk Products CoOp
09.2017 - Current

Moulder Operator/ Stave Core Manager

Upstate Door
07.2013 - 09.2017

Lead Sales/ Manger

Wolcott Brothers Music Store
06.2010 - 06.2013

Advanced Regents Diploma -

Warsaw Central High School

Career Assessment Program - Electronics Technology

Genesee Valley Boces

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