Morgan Hinkel
Charlotte,NC
Summary
I grew up in a family owned business, which provided a turnkey service of manufactured privacy systems including cubicle curtains for the healthcare industry, as well as window treatments including draperies and top treatments for the hospitality and assisted living communities. We also provided full installation of our products and treated customers like family. The business was built by my parents with hard work and always putting our core values first. Integrity, honesty, accountability, and customer focus. Growing up in and around the business taught me life lessons that I carry with me every day in my current and past leadership roles. I am passionate about growing and developing teams to create excellence in an operation. Developing the best in every team member and also recognizing areas of needed change. Continuous improvement and change is essential.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Plant Manager
Inpro Corporation
03.2015 - Current
- Provided leadership to develop plant supervisors across sewing, shipping/receiving, and track fabrication through weekly coaching and consistent one on ones to facilitate high levels of productivity and quality.
- Constant collaboration with sales, purchasing, materials management, and quality to ensure customer satisfaction.
- Reduced costs by eliminating materials waste and unnecessary labor hours.
- Development of metrics and reports within the NetSuite platform to maintain accurate inventory, make ready stock levels, and fulfillment accuracy.
- Maximized plant safety through implementation of proactive strategies and well-structured equipment training.
- Created relevant KPI's to our operation related to throughput, safety, on time performance, and quality.
- Communicated plant performance to staff to set goals, celebrate successes, and address areas of needed improvement.
- Monitored and evaluated individual plant employee performance to identify areas of excellence, and address areas of needed improvement. Clear, direct, consistent communication with all plant employees.
- Managed direction and planning for plant with focus on optimization of daily functions, exceeding customer expectations, and achieving KPIs.
- Researched and determined ROI on capital expenditures related to production equipment to grow the business as well as maintain excellent quality and throughput.
- Maintained year over year on time performance metric of no less than 99.5% based on company lead times.
- Maintained a quality metric of >.40% on all shipments.
Sewing Room Supervisor
Hinkel, Inc.
06.2014 - 03.2015
- Reviewed work orders to strategize cutting of materials considering vertical/horizontal repeats and available inventory for order fulfillment.
- Maintained all sewing and cutting equipment with a preventative maintenance program.
- Onboarded, trained and mentored all plant personnel to maximize quality of service and performance.
- Collaborated with sales and installation teams to plan production schedules to best meet customer driven completion dates.
- Operated cutting room equipment to produce a variety of textiles to produce custom privacy systems including cubicle curtains and window treatments in the drapery and top treatment sector.
- Operated industrial sewing machines with various operations to manufacture a variety window treatments and privacy products.
- Determined appropriate staffing levels to meet current demands and set lead times.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Education
University of North Carolina At Charlotte
Charlotte, NC12.2005
Skills
- KPI Tracking
- Capacity Planning
- Facility/Equipment Maintenance
- Servant Leadership / Employee Development
- Financial Planning to Maintain Budgetary Guidelines
- Continuous Improvement
- Team Building
Accomplishments
Led manufacturing team through a company aquisition and successful plant relocation.
Served as a team lead through the integration and employee training of NetSuite in the manufacturing setting.
Developed additional fabrication area within current manufacturing plant to relocate cubicle curtain track fabrication.
Certification
LEED Green Associate
Six Sigma Green Belt
Emerging Leaders- Vistage Group 2021-2023
Vistage Key Group - 2023
Servant Leadership Award 2020
Nominated and voted by senior management as an employee who embodied servant leadership with my operations team through development and growth of employees. This award is given to management positions bi annually throughout the company and was a true honor to receive.
Timeline
Plant Manager
Inpro Corporation
03.2015 - Current
Sewing Room Supervisor
Hinkel, Inc.
06.2014 - 03.2015
Bachelor of Arts - Education
University of North Carolina At Charlotte
LEED Green Associate
Six Sigma Green Belt
Emerging Leaders- Vistage Group 2021-2023
Vistage Key Group - 2023
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