Perry Pitchford
Marietta,GA
Summary
Dedicated professional with 13+ years of experience in commercial and military manufacturing production, specializing in team management, operational oversight, and process improvement. Proven ability to lead diverse teams, streamline workflows, and enhance productivity in fast-paced environments. Adapt at fostering collaboration, ensuring quality standards, and driving key performance indicators. Seeking to bring exceptional leadership and organizational skills to the workplace.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Production Operation Specialist Senior
Lockheed Martin
Marietta, GA
05.2024 - Current
- Compiles data to create reports and delivers insights and findings to management and stakeholders
- Conducted performance reviews, provided coaching, and supported team development to achieve individual and organizational goals
- Developed and implemented operational strategies that increased efficiency and profitability by 70%
- Support continuous improvement initiatives across functional areas, leveraging best practices, innovative solutions, and lessons learned to enhance overall performance product quality and productivity
- Successfully led and managed a team of 32 employees across multiple areas, overseeing operations and customer satisfaction.
- Coordinates day-to-day workflow and overtime schedule
- Provided real-time floor support to and identify quickly resolve production constraints and ensure continuous product flow
- Enhanced the manufacturing plan to incorporate new technologies and prevent defects
- Conducted manufacturing evaluation of engineering changes, ensuring that modifications align with production capabilities
- Offered technical support to production operations for smooth product flow and operations
Production Operation Specialist Senior
Lockheed Martin
Greenville, SC
05.2022 - 05.2024
- Ensured strict adherence to safety standards, regulatory requirements, and company policies
- Supported continuous improvement initiatives across functional areas, leveraging best practices and innovative solutions
- Performed inspections, checks, tests, and sampling procedures of maintenance procedures, incoming materials, parts, and components
- Read and interpreted engineering drawings and technical manuals, understanding symbols, flags, and general notes
- Performed repairs and modifications of aircraft structures and major subassemblies
- Independently inspected aircraft and determined the nature and extent of repairs to be made
- Troubleshot aircraft structural repair situations in such areas as fuselage and subassemblies
Assembler Level B
Boeing Aircraft Company
North Charleston, SC
03.2011 - 05.2022
- Supported production, repair, and modification of aircraft structures and major subassemblies by planning, fabricating, assembling, installing, and repairing various sheet metal and structural assemblies
- Performed routine equipment inspections and corrective actions by referring to technical publications
- Translated blueprints into fabrications of structural assemblies, including precision drilling, countersinking, and the use of calibrated tools
- Performed part-fitting operations, including filing, sawing, burring, crimping, trimming, framing, riveting, drilling, and reaming
- Aligned parts on jigs using templates and fixtures
Education
Aviation Technician Certification -
Aviation Institute of Maintenance
12.2012
Business Administration - Marketing
Jackson State University
05.2009
High School Diploma -
Grenada High School
Skills
- Team Leadership and Development
- Lean Manufacturing & Process Optimization
- Quality Assurance & Compliance
- Strategic Planning & Execution
- Safety Management & Risk Mitigation
- Cost reduction
- Scheduling coordination
Certification
- F-16 Quality Processes and Procedures
- B787 Safety, Training, FOD & Tool Control
- Blueprints Maintenance Manuals, Structural Repair
References
Available upon request.
Timeline
Production Operation Specialist Senior
Lockheed Martin
05.2024 - Current
Production Operation Specialist Senior
Lockheed Martin
05.2022 - 05.2024
Assembler Level B
Boeing Aircraft Company
03.2011 - 05.2022
Aviation Technician Certification -
Aviation Institute of Maintenance
Business Administration - Marketing
Jackson State University
High School Diploma -
Grenada High School
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