Freddy Hernandez
Dallas,TX
Summary
Production supervisor with extensive experience in optimizing processes and ensuring quality control. Proven track record in coordinating production schedules and troubleshooting mechanical issues to meet customer deadlines. Committed to fostering a culture of safety and teamwork within the production environment.
Overview
39
39
years of professional experience
Work History
Production Supervisor
Tekni-Plex
01.2015 - 12.2025
- Supervise and coordinate daily operations for efficiency and safety, promote development initiatives and continuous improvement as an individual and team environment.
- Promote employee and labor relations within the department.
- Collaborate with production staff and upper management to solve production problems.
- Ensure production team abide by GMP’s safety, sanitation, and other regulations.
- Have regular monthly safety / affirmative action meetings to provide training, knowledge to maintain OSHA recordable injuries to zero.
- Create weekly schedules and ensure workers’ hours are accurate in Kronos / UKG.
- Assist in some mechanical work, trouble shoot, interface with other departments, and resolve work problems to keep customer deadlines.
- I work in all aspects of the production floor from DS (Department Specialist, then to the maintenance as a maintenance technician over the printing section and to Supervision). Track and analyze machinery to foresee problems to maximize the downtime with production needs and communicate with upper management for future PM on machinery.
- Maintenance Technician – repair and rebuild if necessary, all equipment for the printers, make necessary repairs to printers to keep them running and trouble shoot when necessary. I also assist in the forming area of the production floor when needed.
Back End Relief
Building Material Investments
06.2008 - 01.2015
- Duties and responsibilities of the Back End Relief are to assume the role and responsibilities of each position on the back end. The Back End relief encompassed of 4 sections being the Dry Mat Area, Coater Area, Granule Area and the Cooling Section Area.
- Each section adheres to a certain procedure to ensure a good quality product is being made for the customer (shingles for homes).
- Dry Mat Area is to have back to back fiber glass roll spliced together to have continuous flow of fiber glass sheet through the dry mat looper.
- Coater operator maintain a constant flow of asphalt onto the fiber glass sheet and maintaining weights and filler (calcium chloride).
- Communication with others in the back end section as well with the front end to discard any bad product until necessary adjustments are made to get back into company’s specs.
- Granule section consist of the blending of different colors of granule and being applies to the fiber glass sheet with asphalt and also applying sand underneath to keep fiber glass sheet from sticking to the drum during operating procedures.
- Cooling section consist of maintaining press, water and silicone and non-silicone tape to the shingle sheet and then hung through a FPL(finished product looper) to dry off extra access off water before making its way to the front end.
- All 4 sections have to work and communicate together to maintain a quality shingle sheet before it makes it way to the front end section. The front end does all the cutting the sheet into single sheet of shingles, stacking and wrapping into a finished product.
- GAF
Production Supervisor
Continental Cast Stone
06.2007 - 02.2008
- Coordinate production schedules and to meet daily goals in a timely manner.
- Order raw materials from vendors in a timely manner for production to keep running efficiently.
- Purchase and send equipment for repairs when needed to keep production running efficiently.
- Quality control of all production molds being used for production and that it matches mold ticket and its blueprints dimensions.
- Ensure all mixes are accurate with correct measurements of sand, cement, hair mesh, color pigmentation water and color guard.
- Maintain that procedures are being used for the duration of precast stone with water being applied within 2 hours and then put through a steam generators for a complete dry of product to make a precast stone durability.
Production Supervisor
Valassis ( Advo Inc.)
08.1999 - 07.2005
- Coordinate and lead production crewmembers to meet Customer IHD ( In Home Date). Cross train, supervise, mentor, and evaluate all production employees on the Mullers and Alphaliners.
- Plan production operations to achieve the priorities of the company goals.
- Quality control all production lines and maintain that there were no copies inserted incorrectly, duplicates and/or misprint and correct copy versioning.
- Track and analyze data to foresee problems to schedule staffing for machinery productivity.
- Maintain machinery with attention to PM the machinery to maximize downtime and other issues that may occur to reduce cost and prevent any process delay.
- Review daily reports and confer with other departments and supervisors to obtain information required for planning department needs to meet customer demands.
- Conduct regular employee safety / affirmative action meetings in order to reduce OSHA recordable injuries.
- Provide leadership and motivations for all employees by communicating core beliefs and values of the company vision.
Department Specialist
Dolco Packaging
01.1992 - 10.1998
- Oversee production in the conversion of raw materials into finished polystyrene products.
- Cross train, supervise and evaluate production employees on the thermoforms and off set printing on the condes.
- Quality control of all products.
- Assume the responsibilities of supervision in the absence of the supervisor and its amenities.
- Train how to set up off set printing and trouble shoot and disassemble and repair a detachable used for the off set printing.
Shipping Clerk
Star Automotive Warehouse
10.1986 - 01.1992
- Coordinate loading schedules for all trailers to be shipped out daily and weekly basis.
- Organize the floor layout for merchandise to be on skids until ready to be loaded and shipped out for daily.
Education
Diploma -
Skyline High School
01-1985
Courses - Extruder Control Systems, Workplace Critical Thinking / Problem Solving, Team and Consensus Building, Building Commitment, Building Trust
Mountain View College
Skills
- Quality Control
- Troubleshooting
- People Management
- Production Reports
- Teamwork
- Knowledge of Excel
- Knowledge of Windows
- Knowledge of Outlook
- Knowledge of Word
- 10 Key
- Forklift Operation
- Quality control
- Production scheduling
- Safety compliance
- Effective communication
- Employee training
- Time management
- Leadership development
- Root cause analysis
- Workflow optimization
- Worker training
- Print production
- Health and safety compliance
- Shift checklists
- Standard operating procedures
- Activity reporting
- Production targets
- Manufacturing
- Employee leadership
- Process documentation
- Continuous improvement
- Housekeeping oversight
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Safety procedures
- Workforce training
- Decision-making
Languages
- Spanish
- English
- Spanish
Timeline
Production Supervisor
Tekni-Plex
01.2015 - 12.2025
Back End Relief
Building Material Investments
06.2008 - 01.2015
Production Supervisor
Continental Cast Stone
06.2007 - 02.2008
Production Supervisor
Valassis ( Advo Inc.)
08.1999 - 07.2005
Department Specialist
Dolco Packaging
01.1992 - 10.1998
Shipping Clerk
Star Automotive Warehouse
10.1986 - 01.1992
Diploma -
Skyline High School
Courses - Extruder Control Systems, Workplace Critical Thinking / Problem Solving, Team and Consensus Building, Building Commitment, Building Trust
Mountain View College