John Snead

• Resolved issues quickly to maintain productivity goals.
• Reviewed work for quality and compliance with company standards and design specifications.
• Standardized production procedures, job roles, and quality assurance guidelines.
• Managed continuous improvement initiatives to drive gains in quality, flow, and output.
• Utilized data analysis tools to identify and resolve production issues.
• Analyzed production data and prepared reports for senior management.
• Enforced health and safety protocols to promote safe working environment.
• Coordinated with other departments to align production with customer requirements.
• Delivered direct feedback to senior management regarding project visibility and status.
• Partnered with leadership on recruiting, hiring and coaching production personnel.
• Evaluated employee performance and provided feedback and training as needed.

Responsible for leading Production, Scheduling, Inventory Control, Quality and Shipping/Receiving at our ATI (MGC Industrial Inc) - west coast location. This is remote with daily touchpoints with travel on-site every 4-6 weeks.

• Co-Lead of the acquisition team during the purchase of MGC Industrial.
• Manages two Production Supervisors and Quality Engineer.
• Team consist of 6 core leaders and 42 hourly associates.
• CI Lead for the facility.
• Co-Lead for the facility relocation in Nov, 2022.
• Co-Project leader for implementation for a new ERP system at this facility, May 2023.
• Resolved issues quickly to maintain productivity goals.
• Reviewed work for quality and compliance with company standards and design specifications.
• Standardized production procedures, job roles, and quality assurance guidelines.
• Managed continuous improvement initiatives to drive gains in quality, flow, and output.

• Supervised 29 workers and coordinated daily work activities.
• Collaborated with other leaders and executives to direct workflow and support operations.
• Work directly with Engineering, Inventory, Production Scheduling, Purchasing.
• Collaborated with internal teams to streamline operations across materials handling, production, and shipping.
• Provides training on all new products and to all new manufacturing employees.
• Worked directly with QA personnel to identify and correct defects.
• Prepared monthly and yearly reports for management.
• Executed new processes and implementation of assembly lines.
• Partnered with a team to create performance metrics for all assembly centers.
• Strengthened performance metrics tracking and analysis to enhance tactical and strategic company plans.
• Implementation team for Intuitive ERP that won the Consona Summit Award.
• Headed team to design and implement new assembly lines in assembly department.
• Member of the ISO 9001 Internal Audit team.
• Planned, organized and monitored resources to deliver efficient use of labor, equipment and materials.

• Managed 12 employees
• Helped create a retail parts department for a new division of the company
• Responsible for all ordering/returning of parts and cores
• Help implement new CRM system for inventory, work order tracking, and billing
• Reorganize inventory for better efficiency
• Distribute parts and safety supplies for mechanics, shop and field technicians
• Oversaw employee performance, corrected problems, and increased efficiency to maintain productivity targets.
• Located new vendors with better costs per unit and set up favorable terms and pricing structures to reduce company expenses.