Luis Castaneda
Baldwin Park,USA
Summary
Highly motivated individual with 10+ years of experience in aerospace manufacturing, production scheduling, and demand planning. Proven ability to enhance productivity and ensure timely project completion. Known for fostering collaborative work environment and adapting to changing production needs, ensuring efficient workflow and high-quality results.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
PRODUCTION PLANNER, EXPEDITOR
BRISTOL INDUSTRIES
02.2019 - Current
- Plan shop floor production for in house and OSP work orders (CNC lathe, Mill, EDM, ACME, DAVANPORT)
- Purchased tools from outside vendors if needed to facilitate and expedite in house production.
- Review production work orders and released production to ensure customer delivery.
- Created Min-Max on tooling requirements and components to facilitate work schedule for production.
- Worked closely with employees to communicate shop priorities and urgent production requirements
- Prioritize production for month end schedules and shipments.
- Work with Engineering and procurement to anticipate any issues with production lots.
- Working with operations to optimize workflow and improve efficiency in the departments.
- Monitor inventory levels on Min-Max and LTA items to ensure fulfillment of customer needs.
- Work with outside companies to optimize throughput in our components area by doubling capacity.
- Developed production schedules according to deadlines for existing orders and sales forecasting.
- Implement strategies to reduce waste by 30% and improve cost efficiency in the shop.
- Identify any bottlenecks or risk that may impact or affect production schedules and deliveries.
- Work closely with procurement team to monitor and ensure timely delivery of Raw material.
- Provide status reports to update leadership on progress regarding projects and milestones.
- Educate new planners on the manufacturing process and constraints on the floor.
- Communicate, daily, with Sales on updates regarding issues or follow-ups received.
- Support sales with expedites or milestones in need of being executed on the shop floor.
- Ensure availability of tools, materials, and components when in need.
- Create and manage work orders to ensure customer demand.
- Maintain and update any BOM changes to reflect engineering changes and requirements.
- Communicate with Schedulers to update and resolve any production delays or constraints.
- Generate reports for upper management to demonstrate capacity using data.
- Support any tooling shortages that impact the manufacturing process.
- Surpass monthly dollar targets on monthly deliverables of 2.4M by 12.5% on average.
- Improved the output for Shocker machine. This was executed by optimizing the reamer used for this process, switching from T15 to Carbide and extending tool life. (Avg. $65K annually in cost savings).
PRODUCT EXPEDITOR AND PLANNER
MILLER CASTINGS
08.2017 - 02.2019
- Generate work orders for new purchase orders and plan to ensure on time delivery to customer.
- Order product form outside vendors with timely manner to assure tools and product needed was received on time.
- Review purchase orders from customers and assure enough product was made to fulfill customer demand.
- Talk to outside processes and labs to expedite jobs and assure parts will be completed on committed time.
- Create customer milestones utilizing Excel to provide them with time lines and assure customer satisfaction.
- Keeping track of shipments, movement of material and assure deadlines involved are met.
- Work close with supervisors to understand the needs and constrains, make sure they have what they need to get the job done.
PRODUCTION PLANNER & ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT
CONSOLIDATED PRECISION PRODUCTS
02.2013 - 06.2017
- Worked in conjunction with different departments such as Purchasing, Production, Customer Service and Engineering.
- Collect data for preparation of daily meetings to review open order reports and conduct productivity meetings.
- Revised Work Orders and reviewed requested changes on casting processes and take any actions needed.
- Computer literate, utilize Microsoft Excel, Outlook and Microsoft Word for planning.
- Advised Management of the status of work in progress, supervised and walked the floor as needed daily.
- Worked close with Engineering to determined casting defects, probable cases and prevent future scarp/waist.
- Worked with Quality department to ensure all castings and Work Orders went thru the processes accordingly to customer demand and processes.
- Analyzed material and equipment availability and potential production problems to ensure daily personnel goals.
- Establish and sustain a daily production schedules to provide clarity and consistence on the shop floor, find opportunities in production.
- Created routers that follow the process required to complete customized orders.
- Planned and released production orders to the floor for processing and updated schedules.
- Ensured all completed PO's and production orders are closed with lead time to successfully achieve customer delivery date.
- Created and provided Milestones to customers to ensure delivery dates and customer satisfaction.
- Expedite parts thru the floor and processes as needed to ensure customer delivery dates.
Education
High School Diploma -
Sierra Vista High School
Baldwin Park, CA06.2010
Supply Chain Management
Mt. San Antonio College
Walnut, CA10-2025
Skills
- Creative Problem Solver
- Communication Skills
- Quick Learner
- Strong Client Relations
- Bilingual (Spanish & English)
- MRP Systems
- Team collaborations
- Scheduling
- Production scheduling
- Material requirements planning
- Production and processing
- Resource allocation
- Supply chain management
- Raw materials
- Cost reduction
- Demand forecasting
Timeline
PRODUCTION PLANNER, EXPEDITOR
BRISTOL INDUSTRIES
02.2019 - Current
PRODUCT EXPEDITOR AND PLANNER
MILLER CASTINGS
08.2017 - 02.2019
PRODUCTION PLANNER & ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT
CONSOLIDATED PRECISION PRODUCTS
02.2013 - 06.2017
High School Diploma -
Sierra Vista High School
Supply Chain Management
Mt. San Antonio College
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