Anthony Parker
Lincoln,Illinois
Summary
Laborious Warehouse Team Lead with 2 years of experience in manufacturing and warehousing. Committed to meeting long-term financial goals through detail-oriented planning and supervision. Adept at day-to-day streamlining and close worker supervision. Knowledgeable about safety protocols and Software use.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Rivian College Warehouse Team Lead
Rivian
05.2023 - Current
- Adjusting team resources to cover absences across my team and other teams as needed
- Resolving interpersonal conflicts by understanding each person's perspective and facilitating a mutually agreeable compromise
- Engaging with team members to understand and address their needs and concerns
- This includes gathering feedback on their work environment, soliciting ideas for continuous improvement, understanding their professional goals within the company, and explaining the importance of their role and how it impacts other teams
- Eliminating process waste to reduce cycle times and product defects
- Proactively communicating with other teams about changes my team can implement to support their workflows
- Cross-training team members to empower them to work flexibly across different job stations
- Developed a job training matrix in Excel, similar to the Team Guru tool
- Promoting a safety-focused mindset across teams, covering topics like forklift operations, stacking standards, load capacity, and personal protective equipment.
Rivian Battery Team Lead Training
Rivian
11.2022 - 05.2023
- Leading a team of eleven on Battery Line 2 stations 4 through 7
- Receiving and giving pass downs with leadership on other shifts
- Logging attendance, leading the start of shift meetings and communicating to Team Members any problem hotspots on the line
- Delegating Team Members to workstations or projects based on their strengths and weaknesses
- Filling out the start of shift 5s questionnaire, filling out Rivian audit log sheets, working with Team Members to fill out 5s sheets for individual stations
- Altering the break rotation so that less Team Members are needed to cover each other’s breaks
- Monitoring VSI’s for blocks and faults on the line
- Communicating with Engineers and Maintenance when a station goes down
- Inputting downtime in DTT, escalating down time events within the slack thread, tagging the appropriate individuals within the thread
- Creating a Manufacturing Notice of Escalation when downtime reaches fifteen minutes
- Looking for ways to prevent downtime before it happens
- Practicing lean manufacturing, such as maintaining a continuous flow of product instead of batch processing.
Rivian Team Member
Rivian
- 05.2023
- Building battery modules on line 2, operating robots that glue and pickup battery modules
- Operating Nordson glue dispensers
- Identifying and reworking batteries with poor quality
- Troubleshooting problems with robot HMI’s and fixing them
- Changing out buckets and barrels of glue at different workstations
- Troubleshooting and clearing basic faults at stations, knowing how to run each station efficiently while maintaining quality and safety.
Memorial Hospital Emergency Room
Memorial Hospital
- Registering patients arriving in ambulances, reacting fast to emergencies, judging priority of medical emergencies then locating and informing nurses based on priority, overseeing multiple alarms systems, camera systems, operating helicopter pad lights for landings and take offs, speaking over an intercom system to relay emergencies distinguished by codes, diagnosing and repairing computers, computer software, printers
- Contacting other emergency services such as police, fire department, other hospitals, EMTS, funeral homes, DCFS and animal control
- Keeping records in a precise and fast paced manner while assisting patients with emergencies.
Monsanto Bayer Material Handler
Monsanto Bayer
- Operating Forklifts, marshalling loads, 5s, SAP, forklift charging and watering, outbound operations, consolidating storage bins, inventory audits of storage bins, operating a wrapping machine, using a pallet flipper to flip loads upside down and replace bad pallets.
Eaton Assembler
Eaton
01.2019 - 08.2020
- Operating pallet jacks, picking material for multiple assemble lines, using work instructions, reducing cycle time of processes, experience on the paint line, packaging material, 5S, training team members on four different assembly lines.
Caterpillar Material Handler
Caterpillar
03.2018 - 11.2018
- Operating forklifts, operating pallet jacks, forklift trainer, banding and wrapping material, repackaging material, moving material with SAP, inbound material handler, outbound material handler, 5s, utilizing FIFO in a lean environment.
Fazoli’s Associate
Fazoli’s
09.2016 - 03.2018
- Preparing pasta, baking bread, cashier, cleaning, serving guests, maintaining food safety, surpassing the expectations of guests.
Subway Associate
Subway
09.2014 - 07.2015
- Maintaining food safety, creating sandwiches, cashier, cleaning, preparing food, improving customer engagement.
Lincoln City Street & Alley
Lincoln City
06.2014 - 09.2014
- Cutting down trees, patching roads, concrete work, engaging with members of the community, assisting full time employees in daily work.
Education
working on a bachelor’s in production & supply chain management -
Wisconsin’s Governor University
associate’s degree in liberal arts -
Heartland Community College
01.2020
General Studies -
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
05.2017
General Studies -
Lincoln Community College
05.2015
Skills
- Warehouse Operations
- Project Management
- Strategic Planning
- Time Management
- Conflict Management
- Training and Development
- Lean principles
- Team leadership and coaching
- Materials transportation
- Warehouse Safety
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Delegation
- Performance Improvement
- Problem-solving abilities
- Multitasking
- Quick Learner
- Organizational Skills
- Adaptability and Flexibility
- Decision-Making
- Shipping and receiving
Timeline
Rivian College Warehouse Team Lead
Rivian
05.2023 - Current
Rivian Battery Team Lead Training
Rivian
11.2022 - 05.2023
Eaton Assembler
Eaton
01.2019 - 08.2020
Caterpillar Material Handler
Caterpillar
03.2018 - 11.2018
Fazoli’s Associate
Fazoli’s
09.2016 - 03.2018
Subway Associate
Subway
09.2014 - 07.2015
Lincoln City Street & Alley
Lincoln City
06.2014 - 09.2014
Rivian Team Member
Rivian
- 05.2023
Memorial Hospital Emergency Room
Memorial Hospital
Monsanto Bayer Material Handler
Monsanto Bayer
working on a bachelor’s in production & supply chain management -
Wisconsin’s Governor University
associate’s degree in liberal arts -
Heartland Community College
General Studies -
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
General Studies -
Lincoln Community College