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Joseph Hawkey

New Lebanon,OH

Summary

Solid operations management professional wanting to utilize my skills, work experience and education to obtain a position that is rewarding, challenging, benefits the company and promotes growth. Driven to maintain service standards by supporting staff in handling service issues and customer communications.

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Supervisor

MAHLE BEHR
Dayton, OH
03.2018 - Current
  • Educated workers about proper safety procedures to prevent accidents and injuries.
  • Trained supervisors to develop new team leads for department needs factoring in processes, employee knowledge and customer demands.
  • Coordinated supervisory assignments to maintain strong front-line leadership over daily operations.
  • Learned every team members' role to offer skilled backup during shortages and high-volume periods.
  • Instructed employees on proper cleaning and sanitation of equipment and surfaces.
  • Conducted routine inspections of incoming materials to check quality and compliance with established product specifications.
  • Performed annual evaluations and reviews for large staff of employees.
  • Involved in the interview process for needed supervisors.
  • Increased production quality while controlling costs by 10%.

Machining/Quality Group Leader, Assembly

DMAX LTD DURAMAX DIESEL ENGINE PLANT
Moraine, OH
10.2004 - 03.2018
  • Reorganized and enhanced employee training to close knowledge gaps and boost group performance.
  • Aligned strategies with expected production demands and particular customer requirements.
  • Implement Kaizen to keep leaders and assembly associates proactively working together to achieve quality improvement.
  • Comply with ISO 9000and TS 16949 standards
  • Work with union and labor relations to resolve personnel issues.
  • Payroll
  • Updating hourly budget targets daily.
  • Reviewed final products to check conformance for assembly readiness.
  • Traveled to customer for new model launches.
  • Make changes per ECR's to increase procuctivity and eliminate quality issues.
  • Developed banking system to maximize the plants thoughput by pulling forward PM's.
  • Received recognition from Plant manager for forward thinking banking strategies allowing for significant reduction in labor cost.

Assistant Division Manager, Injection Division

GREEN TOKAI CO LTD
Brookville, OH
06.1997 - 10.2004
  • Manage injection division evaluating up to 190 individuals in managing all aspects of gas injected automotive parts.
  • Ensue safety, quality and delivery throughout all processes . Monitor man power, productivity, scrap and daily operations.
  • Develop and implement countermeasures, negotiate limit samples, resolve quality standards, design and inspection methods and part submission requirements.

Special Testing

WHIRLPOOL
Dayton, OH
01.1997 - 06.1997
  • Performance and durability testing on microwave ovens and hot water dispensers.
  • Trouble shooting, before and after test data adding to spreadsheets and graphs.


Special Testing

DELPHI CHASSIS
Moraine, OH
09.1991 - 02.1994
  • Performance, durability, friction, memory steer and leak tested shocks/struts.
  • Warranty analysis, tested warranty returned parts to determine defects.
  • Tested with material test system, plotted and graphed data.


Education

Associate of Science - Communications

Sinclair Community College
Dayton, OH
05.1994

Skills

  • Operations management
  • Priority management
  • Training and mentoring
  • Inventory oversight
  • Strategic planning
  • SAP, Power Point, Kronos, Windows Excel, and Gensuite experience
  • Team Building

Accomplishments

U.S. Army, three years Active Duty-Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Honorable discharge, National defense service medal, good conduct medal, army commendation medal.

Timeline

Lead Supervisor

MAHLE BEHR
03.2018 - Current

Machining/Quality Group Leader, Assembly

DMAX LTD DURAMAX DIESEL ENGINE PLANT
10.2004 - 03.2018

Assistant Division Manager, Injection Division

GREEN TOKAI CO LTD
06.1997 - 10.2004

Special Testing

WHIRLPOOL
01.1997 - 06.1997

Special Testing

DELPHI CHASSIS
09.1991 - 02.1994

Associate of Science - Communications

Sinclair Community College

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