Joshua Romero
Operation Leader
Oklahoma City,Oklahoma
Summary
Motivated and energetic leader with a successful history of improving processes by embracing change daily and influencing employee buy-in on key projects or changes to operation process. Productivity improvement of 15%YoY by unlocking front-line employees’ ideas to reduce MOTO, improve work aids, ergonomic enhancements, changes in design to ensure manufacturability and repeatability. Comfortable and effective when interacting directly with all levels of business from Frontline employees & Senior Leadership to customers & vendors during start-up or projects. Technology-driven leader who encourages employees to grow utilizing the data captured through on-going transactions driving fast positive outcomes. Retention is a powerful tool creating a competitive advantage. While leading a startup plant the team implemented an onboarding/training program to ensure retention in the first 3 months. The long-term employees benefited from a new skills-based matrix that allowed each employee to self-track achievements required for promotions. With this new programs in place the team had over 100 promotions over a 2-year span.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Manufacturing/Ops Manager
NORTEK AIR SOLUTIONS
04.2021 - 05.2024
- Lead and directed task to achieve monthly KPI’s across multiple departments
- Safety: TRIR >2.0 & 2.5 years without a lost time injury
- Production: Reduction of 20% direct labor with long run standard products
- Production: Q1/23-Q2/24 95% overall OTD, 100% to external customers
- Used data daily to make fast calculated decisions for site personnel and operations; redirecting resources/equipment/material to ensure best outcome
- Weekly reviewed production projects with planning and sales to align staffing with production trends by attrition instead of layoffs using a 6-month rolling calendar
- Successfully grow a production department across 3 different shifts to meet market demand including 260+ direct employees within Fab, Weld, & Assembly
- Project required working with HR to create hiring plans using internal/external staffing methods, set market pay scales, create/adjust JD, and participate during critical interviews to ensure culture fit for all leadership roles
- Lead/Partnered with cross functional teams to introduce 6 products to the market, coordinating production activities during Product development throughout production life cycle
- Successfully passed customer (META & AWS) onsite audits during my 6 years with Nortek, audits included review of training records, manufacturing process (written and actual line review), quality management systems, safety procedures and incident reviews.
Production Supervisor SPLC
NORTEK AIR SOLUTIONS
01.2018 - 04.2021
- Designed and implemented a production area from concept to full production including outbound raw materials, sub-assembly areas, and two production lines using LEAN methods (visual management, one-part flow, 5S, and daily Gemba)
- Improvement Change Champion focused on employee ergonomics, eliminating safety hazards, production flow, and problem solving
- Project management: working with vendors on project task (outside processing, logistical options, overhead crane systems, and production solutions); set-up project timeline and production scheduling (labor, resources, etc.) in assembly area to meet customer demands; maintained project costs in assembly area and reviewed with the finance group; worked change orders (ECOs) based on engineering design changes
- Lead of team of 120+ direct front-line employees, responsible for individual performance, advancement, hiring/dismissal
- Monitor production daily to ensure shipping requirement of 98% OTD of obtained
- Constantly works side-by-side with design Engineering on new and existing product development for manufacturability and world class quality
- Successfully completed my first manufacturing project of 128 units from a concept to manufactured unit, while meeting customers’ requirements for quality & OTD.
Production Supervisor
CLIMATEMASTER INC
08.2013 - 01.2018
- Lead and assist 60+ employees in a mixed-model environment daily, responsible for individual performance, advancement, hiring/dismissal
- Monitor daily production to ensure shipping requirements are met through achieving production rates
- Present key business information to production management team and frontline employees to ensure overall goals are achieved
- Understand, communicate, and be responsible for achieving manufacturing key metrics including safety, quality, 5S, and A3 projects
- Maintain a consistent people centric environment on the production floor
- Influenced employee engagement around safety by creating a Hazard Identification program to give employee more control over correcting or preventing safety incidents
- Coordinated/partnered with cross functional teams to implement 5 new/redesigned production areas to ensure market demand could be obtained while reducing equipment, processes and labor required.
Production Department Lead
CIRCOR ENERGY
01.2007 - 01.2013
- Implemented new processes for inventory control and production flow
- Lead of team of 20+ direct front-line employees
- Oversight of complete value stream (incoming material, assembly, and shipping)
- Managed a project that transformed workplace organization and output
- Implemented lean production model lines that focused on made to stock items reducing lead times from 4 weeks to 2 days
- Changed end-user buying methods to 80% stock products with fast lead times in place of 76% custom products with higher cost & lead time
- Station build cell/production lines, and wide-ranging cycle time production lines
- Work with Continuous Improvement department to create work instructions, properly balance work content (10% max station work content deviation) and drive down direct labor
- Managers to understand and improve the business.
Production - Oklahoma City, OK
MAR-K SPZD MFG INC.
01.2004 - 01.2007
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration - Management
University of Central Oklahoma
Skills
- Decision-Making/Complex problems analysis
- Operations Management
- Operational Excellence: Lean manufacturing and design product implementation
- Standard Operating Procedures
- Workforce Planning
- Cost Reduction/Operational Efficiency
- Operational Excellence
- Performance Management
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Incidents management
- Project Management
Timeline
Sr. Manufacturing/Ops Manager
NORTEK AIR SOLUTIONS
04.2021 - 05.2024
Production Supervisor SPLC
NORTEK AIR SOLUTIONS
01.2018 - 04.2021
Production Supervisor
CLIMATEMASTER INC
08.2013 - 01.2018
Production Department Lead
CIRCOR ENERGY
01.2007 - 01.2013
Production - Oklahoma City, OK
MAR-K SPZD MFG INC.
01.2004 - 01.2007
Bachelor of Business Administration - Management
University of Central Oklahoma
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