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Paul Humphrey

Boardman,OH

Summary

Professional production specialist with strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results. Skilled in overseeing production processes, optimizing workflows, and ensuring quality standards. Reliable and adaptable, effectively managing resources and fostering productive work environment. Expertise in safety protocols, inventory management, and process improvement.

Overview

36
36
years of professional experience

Work History

Production Line Manager

Viega
Mantua, OH
08.2023 - Current
  • Oversee daily production operations, ensuring adherence to safety and quality standards.
  • Led cross-functional teams to optimize workflow and enhance productivity on production line.
  • Mentored junior staff, fostering skill development and knowledge sharing within teams.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to troubleshoot equipment issues, minimizing disruptions in production flow.
  • Provide ongoing coaching and feedback for employees, supporting their professional growth while reinforcing company values and expectations around performance standards.
  • Increase employee productivity with cross-training initiatives and skill development programs.
  • Determine suitable crew requirements, scheduled employees, and worked with human resources to meet changing production schedules.
  • Partnered with leadership on recruiting, hiring and coaching production personnel.
  • Software systems used: MES-production, SAP-inventory and KPA-safety

Production Manager

Alkegen-Unifrax-Specialty Ceramics Incorporated
Columbiana, Ohio
01.2008 - 01.2023
  • Performance reporting- labor variability with absorption costs and consignment sales using Dynamics 365 and Tableau financial software
  • Raw material purchasing
  • Maintain production schedule utilizing ERP demand driven software (Synchrono)
  • Ensure production meets customer requirements
  • Personnel- onboard, hire, coach, discipline
  • Help maintain ISO 9001 compliancy, Six Sigma and 5S in production
  • Trouble shooting in all manufacturing areas
  • Evaluate shop metrics in key areas for profitability against annual budget
  • Daily customer communication

Print Department Manager/ Shipping Manager

Century Container Corporation
New Waterford, Ohio
01.1998 - 01.2008
  • Production scheduling
  • Coordinate inventory for 3 plants at offsite warehouse $2MM
  • Instituted a preventative maintenance program
  • Performed all areas of maintenance on printers, ovens, automatic feeders, and restackers
  • Resurfaced silk screen frames, stretching, coating, and exposing
  • Plate making- Anderson Vreeland Orbital VIII
  • Dylux procedure
  • 4 years experience moving trailers in yard 24' to 53' trailers Transportation Manager- outbound, inbound and backhauls
    Class 'A' CDL with up to date physical
  • Maintained company vehicles, tractors, trailers, cars, boats

Supervisor Print Department and Injection Molding

Cleveland Steel Container Corporation, Park Ohio, Bennet Industries, Nampac, Southcorp Packaging
Cleveland, Ohio
01.1990 - 01.1998

Supervisor Print Department

  • Hired and trained a new shift
  • Maintenance on 2 four color pail printers
  • Detailed Scheduling
  • Purchasing

Print Department Shift Leader

  • Set up offsets, pail size ranging from 1 gallon to 6 gallon
  • Set up silk screen machines, (Auto roll), from 1 gallon to 6 gallon
  • Custom blended ink

Supervisor Injection Molding

  • Maintained production on fourteen injection molding presses 400 to 1100 ton
  • Performed color, fitting changes, and assisted with mold changes
  • Quality control and UN-DOT testing using dial calipers and pie-tape

Skills

  • Problem Solving
  • Communication
  • Creativity
  • EQ
  • Time Management
  • Teamwork
  • Customer Service
  • Decision Making

Timeline

Production Line Manager

Viega
08.2023 - Current

Production Manager

Alkegen-Unifrax-Specialty Ceramics Incorporated
01.2008 - 01.2023

Print Department Manager/ Shipping Manager

Century Container Corporation
01.1998 - 01.2008

Supervisor Print Department and Injection Molding

Cleveland Steel Container Corporation, Park Ohio, Bennet Industries, Nampac, Southcorp Packaging
01.1990 - 01.1998