Christopher Kubichek

• Promoted a safe work environment by enforcing strict adherence to safety regulations and guidelines.
• Provided training, support, direction and mentorship to continually develop employee work habits, job skills and safety practices.
• Fostered a positive working culture promoting open dialogue among team members that encouraged sharing ideas leading to innovation.
• Recommended and initiated improvements to production processes to increase manufacturing efficiency.
• Regularly reviewed workflow trends data helping identify areas requiring improvement which resulted in stronger overall performances within the fabrication department.
• Reduced downtime by establishing preventive maintenance schedules for fabrication equipment.
• Recruited hired, trained new personnel contributing towards building a strong workforce capable of meeting or exceeding business objectives.
• Implemented quality control measures to ensure that fabricated products met customer specifications and industry standards.
• Enhanced employee performance through regular coaching, training, and performance reviews.
• Monitored daily and weekly key performance indicators to maintain on-track status.
• Kept accurate and detailed records of personnel progress and productivity.
• Collaborated with other leaders and executives to direct workflow and support operations.

• Investigated root causes of production defects, implementing corrective actions to prevent reoccurrence.
• Maintained accurate documentation of fabrication processes, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and facilitating process improvements.
• Regularly reviewed workflow trends data helping identify areas requiring improvement which resulted in stronger overall performances within the fabrication department.
• Promoted a safe work environment by enforcing strict adherence to safety regulations and guidelines.
• Provided training, support, direction and mentorship to continually develop employee work habits, job skills and safety practices.
• Led continuous improvement initiatives within the fabrication department, resulting in increased efficiency and effectiveness of operations.
• Developed cross-functional teams to foster collaboration between departments and improve project outcomes.
• Fostered a positive working culture promoting open dialogue among team members that encouraged sharing ideas leading to innovation.

• Led press brake, robotic brakes, and panel bend team in day to day operations. Coaching, guiding and team building to build a better department.
• Implantation of Lean, 5s, Kaizen, and best practices, to help improve a growing company.
• Communicated with managers of other departments to maintain transparency, planning, changes to prints, and meeting daily goals.
• Work with tech team to provide feed back from operators and create consistency for programming standards, schedule pm for machines to minimize down time.
• Drove productivity and financial performance and managed achievement of corporate and factory level metric goals, such as Safety, Quality, Productivity.
• Delivered factory-level communications and tactical direction and drove achievement of quality, delivery, productivity and financial performance goals and objectives.

Weld fabricate blueprint reading identifying problems in a prompt manor led me to be able to become a supervisor.

• Supervised and led 1st 2nd and 3rd shift employees to maintain productivity and customer service levels.
• Delegated tasks to employees and monitored activities and task completion.
• Showing new employees how to work safe, build parts right, and then be fast.
• Checked orders for quality and completeness.
• Mentored and coached staff by giving employees suggestions and feedback to improve job performance.
• Enforced company policies, answered coworkers' questions and trained new personnel.
• Conducted training in equipment operations and safety procedures, briefing employees of hazards associated with work.
• Make building safety calls such as when fires occurred, also administration of first aid to injured employees
• Conducted regular staff meetings to keep team members informed about company updates, policy changes, and performance expectations.

• Dismantled heavy equipment to locate and accurately diagnose mechanical defects.
• Assessed equipment to determine cause of issue or malfunction and identified appropriate repairs.
• Disassembled equipment using hand tools and hoists to begin repair work.
• Performed preventative maintenance on wide variety of automotive, road construction and other heavy equipment.
• Structural welding of beams post pipe on feed mill type structures
• Cutting torching plasma and oxygen
• Helping pull wires and run electrical with basic trouble shooting skills.
• Read and interpreted technical details such as schematics, manuals and drawings.
• Kept accurate records of all machine and equipment repair work that had been performed.