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John Lah
Operations Superintendent
Gibsonia,PA
Summary
Creative and strategic manager with expertise prioritizing projects, planing workflow and managing employees to achieve operational goals. Resourceful individual with over 20 years of active experience managing efforts within deadline-driven environments. Diplomatic individual with strong leadership and decision making skills. Process focused Quality Manager with years of experience guiding teams and boosting performance. Practical problem-solver with excellent issue and conflict resolution skills to drive team and organizational success. Highly effective and knowledgeable in process improvement and inventory control.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Supervisor
Whemco Steel Castings
West Homestead, PA
09.2020 - Current
- Applied strong leadership talents and problem-solving skills to maintain team efficiency and organize workflows to meet any daily demand.
- Evaluated employee skills and knowledge regularly, providing hands-on training and mentoring to individuals with lagging skills.
Machine Shop Superintendent
Union Electric - Akers
Avonmore, PA
10.2016 - 06.2020
- Trained and guided team members to maintain high productivity and performance metrics by establishing benchmarks and clear goals to be met for each shift.
- Created and implemented aggressive action plan to address pressing cost control needs. Focused on man-hours per ton KPI to improve department performance.
- Assisted in recruiting, hiring and training of team members. Emphasized cross training of operators to improve flexibility in a Union seniority based shop.
- Boosted team member productivity by enhancing performance monitoring and instituting motivational approaches including incentivizing mentoring and peer to peer training.
Quality Manager
Fasteners Unlimited
Warrendale, PA
10.1998 - 01.2015
- Wrote internal quality control standards, established production methods and inspection procedures to meet compliance requirements of customers across the power generation, defense, and nuclear industries.
- Mentored and encouraged employees to strive for excellence while fostering professional growth. Trained and supervised all inspectors, machinists and CNC programmers
- Developed and deployed production control plans, including creating all related work instructions and procedures. Directed purchase of all capital equipment and tooling required for production.
- Equipped and organized facility to comply with customer requirements. Directed purchase, installation, training and operations of all metrology, NDT, and tensile testing as required to meet customer specification.
- Managed and archived quality documentation and participated in internal and external quality audits.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Chemistry
Allegheny College
Meadville, PASkills
Operations management
undefinedSoftware
Mastercam CAD/CAM
Timeline
Supervisor
Whemco Steel Castings
09.2020 - Current
Machine Shop Superintendent
Union Electric - Akers
10.2016 - 06.2020
Quality Manager
Fasteners Unlimited
10.1998 - 01.2015
Bachelor of Science - Chemistry
Allegheny College
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