Rick Smith

• Moved from Highland Park to Romulus location for a promotion opportunity which has provided valuable experience in the customer facing side of the business
• Primary facing contact points with OEM customers, discussing EDI demand, shipments, new model builds, engineering changes, build events, and overall business status
• Daily use of customer portals to review and respond to launch tickets, shortage tickets, review supplier scorecard/submit disputes, update company data screens, and other tasks as assigned by the customers. Escalation to internal commercial team when applicable
• Publishing daily build schedules to production team for assembly and sequencing sectors of the plan, ensuring purchased/WIP component and packaging availability
• Collaborating with molding scheduler to ensure presses/tools are scheduled with sufficient lead time and quantities to meet shipment plans and stay current with customer releases
• Handle part number lifespan, from enrichment/setup, sales order/line creation, master data management, cumulative shipped quantity reconciliation, and end effectivity process in QAD

• Returned to Inventory Analyst role in August 2022 when unexpected vacancy occurred, was asked to assist in this role, accepted while still performing Warehouse Manager role until coverage was established in October 2022
• Justified need for resource to plant leadership (2nd inventory analyst), Internally vetted and recruited existing talent in Warehouse Supervisor role to fill this role
• Manage performance reviews and goals for Inventory Analyst and Cycle Counters
• Work with collective teams to resolve opportunities in scrap reporting, backflush, service improvements, part handling, as well as problem-solving teams when material shortages occur
• Through a physical audit of scrap boxes, was able to present findings to plant leadership and obtain resources to conduct daily scrap reviews, saw increase in scrap reporting and decrease in inventory loss.
• Approx $200k of cost avoidance as a result of scrap integrity program, we were able to attack issues, reduce scrap, and save/reuse components by establishing teardown process.
• Review parameters to ensure cycle count schedule is accurate and ABC classes are set up properly
• Perform root cause analysis on part variance found during cycle counts
• Complete management report out to company leadership as part of month end duties
• Manage supplier chargeback project for parts that were over-shipped by suppliers, which was a direct buy initiative for our region
• Ensure all material is tracked physically despite being off books, ensure all unplanned transactions are properly justified and catalogued for financial accrual
• Participate in planning and execution of 2022 API including zoning, recruiting, analysis, freeze/unfreeze, and final posting of result

• Internal Promotion - Responsible for all floor operations, manpower, equipment, shipping/receiving, material presentation, and material flow
• Covered Materials Manager role while this role was vacant (6 months) - Drive department KPIs, attend staff meetings and report out, implement processes, establish shift standardization and end of shift reporting
• Directly managed a team of 9 supervisors and 2 superintendents across 3 shifts, with an indirect workforce of 126 UAW employees
• Responsible for performance reviews / goal setting with supervisors and superintendents
• Enforced compliance with Receiving Standard, ensuring team is 100% auditing every shipment for discrepancies and communicating those to planning team
• Worked to optimize material equipment fleet, collaborating with vendors and finance, managed to convert rentals to leases, eliminated non needed vehicles, and ensuring PM schedules were set up to keep equipment active
• Managed indirect labor metrics, working with CI and IE teams through workload balancing and optimizations, to reduce plant materials RTO from 126 to 90, and eventually 52 when the plant was reduced to 2 shifts and made layout/operating pattern changes in accordance with customer pattern
• Managed salary OT and hourly OT pre-authorization process, providing forecast to plant finance when OT is needed for hot shipments on non production days, special projects etc.

• Responsible for coordinating and facilitating activities associated with material flow and inventory control to meet customer requirements on a timely basis while maintaining a safe work environment
• Responsible for all inventory integrity, via daily reports, customer inventory reconciliation and the cycle counting process
• Remotely and at times directly managing a team of 7 cycle counters, who work the midnight shift and were direct reports
• Ensuring Production and QC department is adhering to inventory handling standards and all Finished Goods and WIP controls are in place to keep accurate inventory
• Ensuring Non-Conforming Material is properly tagged, relocated, dispositioned and ultimately systematically relocated to reflect accurate inventory records
• Lowering risk of obsolescence via demand forecasting, customer communication and dwindling down specific material orders near end of product life
• Participated in December 2019's Annual Physical Inventory 4-wall count - leading data gathering and variance analysis/recount activities.
• Continuing to develop short/long term corrective action plans to prevent instances of inventory inaccuracies, for example, due to Production employees not scanning out end item doors sometimes and throwing off inventory and financial records (process noncompliance), in addition to pushing for accountability, I proposed a verification scan be added which looks for a specific serial # prior to allowing the operation to continue. This ensured that all end item product is classified as such in our inventory and that it will not need to be taken back 4 steps once this is discovered (which eliminates risk of in system-damage)
• For over 6 months, balanced launch activities with my normal duties, whilst manually performing all backflush transactions due to our new MES being incapable of auto-backflush
• Familiarized myself with FCA's (Now Stellantis') MPAB or Modular Pay as Built platform for our new vehicle program
• Continuously investigating inventory variances as well as electronic payment issues, leading a standing call to discuss these issues as well as a myriad of other system-driven issues, driving many to a close and ensuring permanent corrective actions are properly implemented

• During my first 2 months with this company, I worked closely with my manager to increase overall plant throughput by 30% by implementing operator incentive programs, minimizing scrap creation, tracking machine downtime/setup times, planning preventive maintenance activities and setting expectations of hourly/daily production goals
• Manage a team of 80 UAW employees across 2 shifts including materials, quality, manufacturing and setup personnel
• Established and maintained a system of continuity between the two shifts while strengthening overall communication via detailed shift notes and daily overlap meetings with both teams
• Responsible for all employee scheduling, payroll, training, and coaching/mentoring
• Implementing appropriate disciplinary action when expectations are not met or company policies are violated
• Balancing 7 customer programs while meeting all scheduled ship requirements
• Ensuring compliance of IATF standards through standardization of work cells
• Verifying parts are produced in accordance with customer specifications
• Lead organization, cleanliness, 5S and safety requirements in the plant
• Coordinating with support groups to manage day-to-day operation of the plant and prevent issues from occurring
• Training of new supervision

• Managed a team of 17-20 indirect labor UAW material handlers, ensuring to always follow the contract in all of my dealings. Also maintained daily labor hours and training matrix for my team
• Maintained records of all personnel dealings (disciplinary, manning, performance, attendance, sign-offs etc)
• Performed regular dock audits to ensure blind audit process is being followed on all incoming loads and issued disciplinary action when necessary
• Ensured FIFO process is being followed at all times
• Ensured any non-conforming material including trial/new model parts are segregated from live production areas and tagged appropriately
• Followed and enforced 5 Alarm process whenever a material shortage occurred on the floor or was a possibility
• Kept open communication of any issues to leadership, analyst team and participated in followup and overall resolution
• Completed assigned daily EOS Reports, equipment maintenance logs (hilo/wave/tugger) and pre inspection checklists for all equipment
• Ensuring whenever a hilo impact or safety incident occurred, that the employee goes through the entire powered industrial truck refresher process including arranging transportation to/from Concentra for drug/alcohol screening and reviewing results prior to releasing them back to their duties

• Managed a team of 17-20 indirect labor UAW material handlers
• Ensure timely delivery and FIFO of trailers to/from yard/docks and maintaining a safe environment both inside plant and out in yard
• Maintained records of all personnel dealings (disciplinary, manning, performance, attendance, training records, sign-offs etc)
• Trained new personnel and enforced compliance of all BWI Plant & Safety rules as well as 5S standards,all OSHA guidelines, and BOS procedures
• Performed regular dock audits to ensure blind audit process is being followed on all incoming loads and issued disciplinary action when necessary
• Ensured any non-conforming material including trial/new model parts are segregated from live production areas and tagged appropriately.
• Completed assigned daily Shift Reports, Safety Observation Cards, Electronic Layered Process Audits, Total Preventive Maintenance lists for AGC carts, and EOS checklists
• Ensure timely delivery of trailers to/from DTP (customer) and worked with appropriate personnel to resolve any problems

• OSHA certified forklift truck operator
• Audit verification of incoming material - post-delivery, sorting/tracking of outbound containers
• Improved efficiency of the P552 front row foam and trim kitting process
• Assisted in the launch from P415 to P552
• Completion of Discrepancy Material Reports (DMR)
• Knowledge of P552 AGC parts delivery system (General usage and troubleshooting of software and equipment, reducing downtime of waiting for support from IT/Controls)
• Supported BOM audits, updating PFEP documents, suggested changes to min/max to optimize floor space

• Assembly of Ford F-150 seating while providing the highest quality, efficiency and adhering to all safety standards
• Achieved master builder status on P415 passenger line
• Back up rework personnel
• Provided extensive training at various stations to operators on passenger line

• Provided temporary relief on P415 passenger and 20% lines
• Completion of 720 service hours resulting in permanent hire

• Training of job duties and processes of new custodial staffing
• Creation and maintenance of all employee files
• Supervision of staffing to assure completion of assignments

• Provided daily general cleaning of business offices, restrooms, cafeteria, stairwells and lobbies
• Duties included: Floor buffing and waxing utilizing industrial cleaning equipment
• Creation of shift cleaning schedules to accommodate production break times