Greg Skerven
Marshfield
Summary
Experienced Supervisor leads team members to complete jobs on-time. Assigns tasks, trains employees, and implements company procedures. Excellent communication and listening skills. Provides leadership and vision, driving teams to meet goals.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Supervisor
Forte/Masonite
09.2018 - Current
- Lean Kaizen yellow belt supervisor overseeing 130 union employees while working on Six Sigma green belt, with 5S, VSM, FIFO and TPM lean training.
- Incident commander for 2nd shift, which involves fire police or rescue directions and being the contact for those departments, responsible for giving the all clear to return to the facility.
- CPR/AED, blood born pathogen and first aid responder.
- One of my strong leadership skills is placing employees in positions where they will succeed.
- I was responsible for starting a movement at Masonite when I started asking the questions of why we pass bad quality to the next department
- We eliminated a step in the process at Masonite by having all machine operator’s looking at quality and fixing errors right at point of contact saving the company time and money.
- We are responsible for employee weekly and daily vacations, as well as cross training team members to backfill for those positions, knowing they can do the job safely and in a timely manner.
- Familiar with ADP /Kronos timecards for payroll.
- Running daily reports for quality, productivity, scrap and labor hours.
- Troubleshooting quality issues and implementing change to prevent further quality issues.
- Prioritizing orders to guarantee on time delivery.
- Insuring FPY is above 95%. Insuring all policies are being followed and taking action when they are not.
- I deal with upset and or employee issues very well as well as prioritizing when issues arise, which and in what order they need to be addressed.
Supervisor
Nekoosa Coated Products
09.2008 - 09.2018
- I started out as a general laborer and was recognized as one of the top 8 employees and given the opportunity to advance my career, becoming a supervisor in May 2011.
- As a supervisor I was in charge of 80 people and later became the senior supervisor.
- One of the most important parts of the job was cutting costs by 3% year after year, implementing lean manufacturing and cross training all machine operator.
- Being part of the safety team helped with incident reports, workers compensation adjustments and brainstorming ways of making the company a safer place and more profitable place to work.
- Continued online human resource classes helped explain questions to employees.
- Setting up a Kanban system for over 200 skews helped with the inventory.
- Employee working and vacation scheduling along with discipline write-ups was all part of the 7 years in the position.
Skills
- Schedule development
- Strategic planning
- Training and mentoring
- Employee motivation
- Verbal and written communication
- Process improvement
- Policy and procedure development
- Quality control
- Employee development
- Complex Problem-solving
- Decision-making
- Staff discipline
- Staff development
Timeline
Supervisor
Forte/Masonite
09.2018 - Current
Supervisor
Nekoosa Coated Products
09.2008 - 09.2018
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