Jeffrey Fossetta
Parlin,New Jersey
Summary
Motivated and engaged employee looking to use skills and abilities developed in both the United States Navy, manufacturing and production experience gained within Stryker to further my career within the support teams of operations. Proactive Manager successful at anticipating needs and making adjustments to schedules, materials and workflow. Ready to bring expertise to company needing hands-on, knowledgeable and resourceful leader.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Manufacturing Process Lead 1
Stryker
07.2016 - Current
- Managed 3 departments that produce titanium hips, shoulders and knees
- Mentored junior team members, providing guidance on best practices and contributing to their professional development.
- Streamlined processes by identifying inefficiencies and implementing improvements for increased productivity.
- Managed teams effectively, fostering an environment of open communication and collaboration for better overall performance.
- Received and inspection of parts for Ti Foam and Acetabular
- Optimized resource allocation, ensuring the right personnel were assigned to appropriate tasks for maximum output.
- Trained with Project Manager within the LP_MIM cell on time management, requisitions, Purchase Orders, and shipping labels
- Trained with Production schedulers/planners on business functions of product flow and inventory to understand business function for planning of production numbers, materials and standard hours/cost
- Schedule/Assign daily/weekly work with routers for multiple product families
- Work closely with Planning to understand monthly targets and goals and attribute those to cell work
- Employees track records for cell work showed exceptional progress on training for machines/operations and contributed to 0 GMP/GDP errors within the cell
- Worked on a Millac CNC machine as an operator for 4 years
- Lead on Tier boards: Filled in all tier boards and took any actions assigned to me
- As well as creating and maintaining tier boards for the MIM cell
- Calibration Rep for Ti Foam/MIM: Daily meetings and regularly kept calibration stickers up to date as well as made a master log of all calibration stickers matching their asset numbers
- Oversaw equipment maintenance schedules, ensuring optimal machine uptime through proactive care.
- Ensure supply of raw materials are flowing and there is a constant eye on levels within production to keep processes up and running
- Liaison to Praxis for PSF and Augments and for Lake City Heat Treat Off Site Production (OSP) for hipped parts: Scheduled pick up and drops offs for all parts and received parts in when completed
- Spend Tower Rep
- Fastenal: Managed all material and spare parts orders for MIM cell
- Observed safety practices and upheld standards.
Production Manager
Empire Business Interiors
2010 - 2015
- Scheduled and assisted teams to ensure proper customer satisfaction in orderly and efficient deliveries
- Utilized/Created personal planning models to track deliveries for customers for product families
- Cross lead team of employees to run day to day business activities and product shipments/requests.
Maintenance Department
New Jersey Transit
2009 - 2010
- Understood and followed track safety and rules of railroad operation
- Cleaned / maintained interiors of train cars for cleanliness and sanitation.
Supervisor
All Day Painting
01.2006 - 01.2008
- Supervised team of employees to ensure proper work done with pressure washing, painting, spackling, sanding and sheetrock installation in commercial and residential homes.
Boatswains Mate 3rd Class
USS Kearsage
01.2003 - 01.2007
- Served aboard USS Kearsage working as an Operational Specialist working with Beach masters in order to schedule Landing Craft Air Cushions
- Worked as Fire Investigator to establish safety for fire inspections and root cause of fire investigations
- General contracting of painting, grinding of runway
- Mooring line creation for docking
- Deployed to Persian Gulf during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Education
Hudson County School of Technology
North Bergen, NJ2002
Skills
- MS Office: Word, Excel , Power Point
- Validation/Valgenesis
- Oracle
- Person and natural leader
- Collaborative, team based orientated
- Open minded, Idealistic
- Focused, organized and motivated to learn and achieve
- Training Coordination
- KPI Tracking
- Production Planning
- Dedication to Product Quality
Availability
Available to work upon request
Citizenship
US Citizen
References
Available Upon request
Timeline
Manufacturing Process Lead 1
Stryker
07.2016 - Current
Supervisor
All Day Painting
01.2006 - 01.2008
Boatswains Mate 3rd Class
USS Kearsage
01.2003 - 01.2007
Production Manager
Empire Business Interiors
2010 - 2015
Maintenance Department
New Jersey Transit
2009 - 2010
Hudson County School of Technology