JUAN TORRES
Downey,CA
Summary
Results-driven Production Supervisor with expertise in scheduling, staff training, and manufacturing support. Leads teams to optimize productivity, ensure quality compliance, and implement 5S operations. Proven experience in minimizing downtime and waste while meeting production targets. Collaborates effectively with quality, maintenance, and warehouse teams to enhance operational efficiency.
Overview
2
2
Languages
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Production Supervisor
Shultz Steel
South Gate, California
11.2023 - 06.2026
- Lead, train, and assist saw operators and production staff.
- Delegated responsibilities, monitored productivity, and organized staffing to achieve production goals.
- Support daily saw operations and keep production schedules on track safely and efficiently.
- Check cutting quality, dimensions, tolerances, and product specifications.
- Complete or support machine setup, adjustments, tooling changes, and routine maintenance.
- Troubleshoot production equipment and quality concerns and help take corrective action.
- Review production orders, drawings, and work instructions for accurate material processing.
- Follow OSHA, company safety policies, PPE requirements, and workplace procedures.
- Perform safety inspections and promote clean, organized work areas.
- Monitored scrap material usage, downtime, and production efficiency to identify improvement areas.
- Maintain accurate production, quality, maintenance, and employee records.
- Work with quality control, maintenance, warehouse, and production management.
- Identified opportunities for productivity improvements to enhance operational efficiency. to improve productivity, reduce waste, and cut downtime.
- Investigate quality issues and support corrective and preventive actions.
- Processed raw materials to prepare for production, ensuring proper handling and identification. and finished products with proper storage and identification.
- Communicated production priorities, changes, and issues to employees and management to ensure alignment and understanding.
- Provide employee coaching, performance feedback, and disciplinary action when needed.
- Support continuous-improvement initiatives and meet departmental production and quality goals.
Production Supervisor
Magnesium Alloy Products
Compton, CA
06.2019 - 11.2023
- Executed production plans by scheduling and assigning personnel, revising schedules, and prioritizing tasks to ensure on-time delivery.
- Planned production operations while establishing priorities and sequences for manufacturing processes.
- Established and updated production schedules to meet changing demands.
- Aligned production requirements with material handling and staffing functions to optimize workflow.
- Delegated tasks to employees and monitored accurate and timely completion of tasks to meet project milestones.
- Set up, adjusted and maintained machines to operate at peak levels and meet challenging demands.
- Issued work orders for repairs to plan maintenance of equipment, machinery and vehicles.
- Led continuous improvement initiatives in lean environment, enhancing quality and flow while increasing overall output.
- Reviewed individual employee performance to correct issues and enhance productivity.
- Conducted performance reviews to identify and rectify areas for skill improvement.
- Researched issues and negotiated with vendors and suppliers to improve processes and reduce unnecessary costs.
Production Supervisor
Consolidated Precision Products Corp.
Pomona, CA
05.2017 - 06.2019
- Directed and coordinated production activities, fostering a culture of quality compliance among employees.
- Completed production plans by scheduling and assigning personnel, revising schedules and establishing priorities.
- Assigned specific tasks to team members and monitored progress to ensure timely project completion. to employees and monitored productivity, performance and task completion.
- Conducted training in equipment operations and safety procedures, briefing employees of hazards associated with the work.
- Enforced company policies, answered coworkers' questions and trained new personnel.
- Evaluated and assessed personnel to identify potential candidates for promotion.
- Read and interpreted work order specifications and information to plan, schedule and carry out jobs effectively.
- Performed minor equipment repairs to keep jobs on task and notified the maintenance department of major machinery failures.
- Kept records of employees' attendance and working hours for accurate calculation of billable cycle.
Engineer Technician
Magnesium Alloy Products
Compton, CA
03.2014 - 06.2019
- Develop and document new foundry techniques to improve manufacturing processes.
- Created and updated procedures in collaboration with foundry to capture all processes in part technique.
- Manage and organize tooling records, ensuring accuracy and compliance with standards.
- Work closed with Sales to ensure all tooling records are created and maintained, specifically ensuring that tooling records are submitted to the customer are complete and acceptable with the appropriate identification.
- Addressed molding-related issues on foundry floor and provided guidance to resolve challenges.
- Follow up of production and problem parts- feedback of results to stakeholders.
- Advise core room supervisor of sample changes and controlled change conditions.
- Conduct regular analysis of various solutions to ensure quality control.
- -Acid pickle solution (weekly)
- -Chrome pickle solution (weekly)
- -Glycol solution (every quench)
- Develop etch rate. Update log when analysis is made if any additions are made.
- Ensuring that all available data is completed and prepared for review daily at the MRB morning meeting. (Prepare weld maps)
- Demonstrate foundational understanding of Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) inspection techniques.
- Operate spectrograph equipment to analyze material composition.
- Record continuous improvement to streamline workflow in detection, monitoring strategies of elimination of defects.
- Hands-on-for day to day review of information and evaluation strategies and understanding of defect cause
- Create new working travelers for first article jobs.
- Keep record of all outgoing and incoming tooling.
- Verify P.O. rework description.
- Inspect tooling for rework performed per blueprint prior to being released.
- -Grind & File Procedure.
- -Straining Procedure.
Education
High School Diploma -
Huntington Park Senior High School
Huntington Park, CA06-1996
Skills
- Production planning
- Project management
- Process improvement
- Continuous improvement
- Cost reduction
- Quality assurance
- Manufacturing software
- Staff supervision
- Strong work ethic
- Production scheduling
Languages
English: Full Professional, Spanish: Full Professional
Education and Training
- Skill Path Seminars | 07/2018
- Training: How To Excel At Managing And Supervise People
- Frontline leadership
- Theory of constrains
Languages
English
Professional
Spanish
Professional
Timeline
Production Supervisor
Shultz Steel
11.2023 - 06.2026
Production Supervisor
Magnesium Alloy Products
06.2019 - 11.2023
Production Supervisor
Consolidated Precision Products Corp.
05.2017 - 06.2019
Engineer Technician
Magnesium Alloy Products
03.2014 - 06.2019
High School Diploma -
Huntington Park Senior High School