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Donald Muralles

Fillmore,CA

Summary

Driven Sr. Production Manager and substitute plant manager with over 21 years of experience in leading multiple shifts and multiple facilities in manufacturing operations, cutting waste and optimizing throughput with a proven record in stepping into executive plant leadership and driven continuous improvement through lean and six sigma methodology.

Overview

2
2
Languages
1
1
Certification
23
23
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr production manager

Duda farms
Oxnard, California
02.2017 - 10.2026

Step into plant manager role when VP was not on the plant to direct total facility operations of 550 employee manufacturing.

  • Managed plant budget, achieving 14% reduction in operational costs while maintaining safety, quality, and output.
  • Improve safety programs , daily floor routines achieving 90% reduction in recordable safety incidents and ensuring 100% OSHA compliance .
  • Spearheaded cross-functional leadership across maintenance, quality, safety, supply chain, and production to eliminate bottlenecks and enhance on-time delivery.
  • Direct daily production operations across 3 shifts and 540 employees scaling output by 95%.
  • Implement lean, Kaisen, 5s workshops that help cut changeover time by 14% of the cycle time of the run and cut waste by 4% reducing raw usages reducing cost.
  • Manage master planning to optimize the manufacturing output.
  • Provided mentorship to supervisor, enhancing their leadership skills and operational knowledge.

Operations Manager

Little castle inc
Oxnard, California
12.2003 - 01.2017
  • Oversaw operations across multiple facilities with 640 direct and indirect employees.
  • Leading lean manufacturing.
  • Directed safety programs to ensure compliance and promote a safe work environment.
  • Continuous improvement methodology.
  • On time delivery .
  • Corrective action management.
  • Production scheduling .
  • Purchasing management.

Education

South Gate High
South Gate, CA

Skills

  • Lean manufacturing
  • Kaizen methodology
  • Value stream mapping
  • Master planning
  • Chemical safety
  • HACCP
  • FSMA preventive controls
  • Risk management
  • 30 hr OSHA training
  • Incident command
  • Chemical safety
  • Microbiology fundamentals
  • Human rights training
  • Environmental aspects and impacts
  • Facility management
  • First aid certification
  • Forklift trainer certification
  • Exceptional customer service
  • Human rights training

Languages

English
Full Professional
Spanish
Full Professional

Certification

  • Lean manufacturing.
  • Value steam mapping.
  • Kaisen improvement.
  • Microbiology.
  • Risk management.
  • OSHA 30 hr certification.
  • Train the trainer forklift.
  • HACCP.
  • First aid CPR. AED.
  • Microsoft office 2010.
  • Risk management.
  • FSMA preventive controls .
  • GMP.

Timeline

Sr production manager

Duda farms
02.2017 - 10.2026

Operations Manager

Little castle inc
12.2003 - 01.2017

South Gate High
Donald Muralles