Eric Lohner
Lebanon,TN
Summary
To pursue my passion in a challenging career as a decisive and effective Senior Production Manager skilled in leading cross-functional teams to meet customer demands and deadlines.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Investor Partner
Resource Property Solutions
12.2024 - Current
- Developed strategic partnerships to enhance service offerings and expand market reach.
- Analyzed market trends to identify growth opportunities and inform business strategies.
- Established performance metrics to evaluate partner contributions and drive accountability.
- Property investment and renovation business specializing in distressed property acquisition and flipping.
- Property investment and renovation business specializing in distressed property acquisition and flipping.
- Co-manage business operations, including property sourcing, purchasing, budgeting, and scheduling.
- Lead major repairs and renovations, coordinating contractors, inspectors, and city officials to ensure quality and code compliance.
- Oversee vendor relationships, material purchasing, and timelines to keep projects on schedule and within budget.
- Analyze market conditions, rental rates, and ARV (after-repair value) to support profitable purchase and sale decisions.
- Help build a portfolio of 12+ rental and investment properties within the first year of operation.
Floor Production Manager
ABC Technology
05.2024 - 11.2024
- Managed team of approximately 118 employees to maintain smooth-running operations of shop floor.
- Improved customer satisfaction by addressing and resolving concerns promptly and efficiently.
- Oversaw supply restocking, area cleaning, and product organization.
- Boosted employee morale by recognizing outstanding performances, resulting in higher productivity levels.
- Evaluated staff performance regularly to identify areas for improvement or commendation.
- Coordinated with other departments to ensure seamless workflow across all areas of the warehouse floor.
- Implemented safety protocols, reducing workplace accidents and maintaining a secure environment for employees.
- Monitoring and reporting on KPI's in relation to departmental goals, and actively seeks out ways to continuously improve within the department and team.
- Managed staff scheduling to cover peak times effectively without overstaffing.
- Reduced waste and pursued revenue development strategies to keep department aligned with sales and profit targets.
- Oversaw daily operations to ensure compliance with company standards and regulatory requirements.
- Set aggressive targets for employees to drive company success and strengthen motivation.
- Tracked OEE, scrap and unit produced and reported out with Supervisors and the Plant Manager every 2 hours to ensure the team was achieving daily targets.
- Maintained positive vendor relationships, negotiating pricing agreements and ensuring timely delivery of goods.
- Coordinated cross-functional teams for the successful execution of large-scale projects within the warehouse facility.
- Enforced quality control standards by conducting routine inspections of received products and addressing any discrepancies promptly.
Corporate Operations Manager
Permobil
09.2022 - 04.2024
- Develop, manage, and supervise a staff of 8 supervisors and 180+ associates.
- Develop, measure, and improve against KPIs related to safety, quality, cost, and delivery. Identify improvement projects, investments, and trainings needed to maintain and improve areas of responsibility.
- Ensure safety of all personnel within the facility through building a strong safety culture and modeling safety leadership behavior.
- Identified areas of improvement and lead projects that will improve our cost of goods sold in line with our business strategy.
- Help lead the production team to a record Q4 in 2022, including $33,850K record in December.
- Partnered with vendors and suppliers to effectively manage and budget.
- Partner with engineering to develop capital plans and strategies.
- Ensure housekeeping standards are maintained in areas of responsibility.
- Manage production budget within company expectations.
- Work closely with managers and their teams to promote and build a positive and productive work environment, teamwork, strong work relationships, trust, morale, and retention
- Identified and resolved unauthorized, unsafe or ineffective practices.
- Established positive and effective communication direction during daily Gemba walk with leadership, reducing miscommunications and missed deadlines.
- Developed and implemented high-quality work environment as measured through employee satisfaction ratings.
- Worked daily with supply chain team to established inventory targets, stock level and risk mitigation targets and managed flexibility strategy to optimize inventory.
General Manager SM2 Plant
Tenneco Inc, DRiV Division Corp. Flagship For DC
12.2020 - 07.2022
- Helped develop and suggest improvements by analyzing process workflow, manning and space requirements, and equipment layout to implement changes.
- Successfully managed and coordinated all working jobs to meet customers delivery dates, locations and quality expectations
- Assisted and assigned jobs for new associates in corporate development program which included; equipment certification, safety certification, quality process, scholarship program and growth options within the Company.
- Worked directly with production, purchasing, procurement, warehouse management, logistics management, import and exporting and other supply chain functions to facilitate business operations.
- Worked directly with Continuous Improvement Team to improve KPI daily reports for assigned to each department which included; safety, attendance, 5S activities, Gemba walks, production, scrap, ISO 9001 audits and budget goals.
- Consistently came in under forecasted projected budget while overseeing SM2 packaging plant that averaged $0.28 with forecasted $0.62 per unit.
- Reduced process bottlenecks by training and coaching employees on practices, SOP's and performance strategies.
- Part of Facilitating Team that constructed two fully automated 3 story Mezzanines in SM1 to reduce headcount, increase productivity output, reduce damages and mispicks.
- Evaluated suppliers to maintain cost controls and improve operations.
- Boosted productivity consolidating material planning, data collection, payroll and accounting programs into one system.
- Successfully facilitated and consolidated SM3 Packaging into Plant 2 ahead of projected schedule without losing any production time or missing any delivery dates.
- Helped with developing and suggest improvements by analyzing process workflow, manning and space requirements, and equipment layout to implement changes.
- Maximized operational excellence mentoring personnel on management principles, industry practices and company procedures.
Plant Manager
Five Star Manufacturing Inc.
01.2019 - 11.2020
- Identified and implemented viable strategies for continuous improvement
- Organized and guided operations of production, processing and machinery according to business procedures and protocols
- Monitored data through all aspects of production to improve areas in need of improvement
- Maximized plant safety through proactive strategies and well-structured training
- Managed direction and planning for plant with focus on optimization of daily functions, exceeding customer expectations and achieving KPI objectives
- Reduced costs by eliminating materials waste by 13% and unnecessary labor hours by 10%
- Assessed logs and reports to identify inefficiencies, boost production levels and enhance safety
- Reduced financial inconsistencies while assessing and verifying billing invoices and expense reports
- Tracked employee attendance and punctuality, addressing repeat problems quickly to prevent long-term habits
Plant Superintendent
Carlex Glass Company (Formally Ford Glass)
12.2017 - 01.2019
- Help develop new processes for employee evaluation which resulted in marked performance improvements
- Continually analyzing departmental documents for appropriate distribution and filing
- Confirmed all Supervisors were properly executing employee processes: payroll, vacations, point system and attendance related disciplinary action
- Ensuring Manufacturing discipline is preformed daily Cell Phone Policy, 5S while down Policy and Stay In Area Policy. Monitoring all Supervisors and Operators are doing their quality checks
- Mentoring and monitoring all Supervisors with Operators performance; Teach, Train, operational and leadership skills and replace as needed
- Engaging to identify and address issues that prevent us from reaching production targets or from reducing scrap and labor cost
- Manage and monitor financial costs with Supervisors and Leads to meet budgetary objectives
- Collaborated with vendors to keep adequate supplies for production operations
Production Area Manager
Nissan North America, Inc.
09.2011 - 10.2017
- Assist all production technicians in their assigned area, providing them with all tools necessary to successfully grow within NNA
- Prepared all KPI boards and reports for assigned areas progress regarding safety, attendance, 5S activities, production, scrap and budgetary compliance: ensured departmental goals of safety, quality to ISO 9001 standards, cost, and time are met and maintained
- Maintained cross functional mentality to promote and support all counterparts assigned to that department
- Successfully evaluated options when faced with reduced headcount options; absentees, support for counterparts, inclement weather conditions
- Successfully supported counterparts with their responsible zones when absent
- Approving all payroll for regular and OT necessary for each area assigned
- Currently V-ups certified Facilitator level (Nissan's equivalent to 6 sigma)
- Investigated and implement ideas for quality improvement, increased productivity and cost reduction and execute quality improvements for production and product quality
Plant Manager / Regional Manager
Critical Impressions / MKD International
01.2006 - 01.2011
- Conduct daily production meetings to keep all departments updated on WIP
- Complete performance reviews for all employees and effectively communicate accomplishments and development needs
- Set up outside purchases with specialty vendors and manage production timeline
- Help evaluate new purchases on company equipment
- Evaluated customer products and effectively reduced cost by approximately 4% to supply their inventory and negotiate all warehoused program inventory for select accounts and coordinate all import inventory logistics for each customer
- Manage account terms and/or rebates for each customer
- Planned daily production schedule, customer orders, work orders, shipping orders, or requisitions to determine items to be moved, gathered, or distributed
- Ship individual product orders using FedEx or UPS shipping system. Stocked and maintain department area with supplies and equipment
- Verify BOL's are completed correctly and oversee customer orders from stock and place orders on pallets or shelves, or conveys orders to packing station or shipping department and ensure all hazmat requirements are met
- Daily planning, directing, coordinating and assigning manpower to meet aggressive production schedules
Senior Account Manager
Courier / CGX And Consolidated Graphics
03.2002 - 01.2006
- Successfully managed and delegated all personal customer accounts finishing requirements to each department
- Successfully managed and coordinated all working jobs to meet customers drop dates, locations and quality expectations
- Cross sell all 74 companies capabilities to potential and existing customers. Assist clients with designing most cost effective projects to fit their customers budget and needs
- Train and assign jobs for new associates in corporate development program
- Negotiate multi-million dollar contracts and review all customer files and furnished proofs before printing
- Help marketing committee plan and produce all company projects
- Delivered sales presentations and pitches to clients, upper management and junior sales associates for demonstration
- Mentored junior account management professionals to develop skills and increase company revenue
Education
Diploma - Aircraft Armament and Missile System Repair
US Army Aviation Logistics School
Fort EustisAssociate of Applied Science - Electrical Engineering
ITT Technical Institute
Nashville, TNSkills
- Production Management
- Teamwork / Collaboration
- Quality Management
- Project Management
- Six Sigma ( Green Belt )
- Budgeting
- Plastic Molding
- Quality Assurance and Control
- Cost Control
- Lean Manufacturing
- Operations Management
- Safety First Mentality
- Supply Chain Distribution
Timeline
Investor Partner
Resource Property Solutions
12.2024 - Current
Floor Production Manager
ABC Technology
05.2024 - 11.2024
Corporate Operations Manager
Permobil
09.2022 - 04.2024
General Manager SM2 Plant
Tenneco Inc, DRiV Division Corp. Flagship For DC
12.2020 - 07.2022
Plant Manager
Five Star Manufacturing Inc.
01.2019 - 11.2020
Plant Superintendent
Carlex Glass Company (Formally Ford Glass)
12.2017 - 01.2019
Production Area Manager
Nissan North America, Inc.
09.2011 - 10.2017
Plant Manager / Regional Manager
Critical Impressions / MKD International
01.2006 - 01.2011
Senior Account Manager
Courier / CGX And Consolidated Graphics
03.2002 - 01.2006
Diploma - Aircraft Armament and Missile System Repair
US Army Aviation Logistics School
Associate of Applied Science - Electrical Engineering
ITT Technical Institute