Sara M Boatman
FREMONT,OH
Summary
Dependable Production Manager, with 16 years leadership experience and a track record of success in field, attention to detail and proactive mindset. Seeks opportunities to improve processes and workflows for team benefit. Conscientious, hardworking and excels at multitasking in fast-paced environments.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Paint/Weld Department Manager
Quality Steel
Fremont, OH
07.2021 - Current
- Lead and managed a team of 20 paint personnel, 50 weld personnel, and 5 maintenance personnel.
- Conducted regular performance reviews to monitor progress of individual employees.
- Payroll
- Accident investigations
- Implement policies and standard operating procedures and manage quality, safety and productivity
- Mediate conflicts between employees and facilitate effective resolutions to disputes.
- Plan and lead team meetings to review business results and communicate new and ongoing priorities.
- Review completed work to verify consistency, quality and conformance.
- Complete thorough opening, closing and shift change functions to maintain operational standards each day.
- Responsible for managing all in processing reports
- Team member for the weld line Kaizen improvement team.
Operations Analyst
Whirlpool
Clyde, OH
03.2019 - 07.2021
- Analyzed processes to understand current job functionality and identified areas in the processes that needed improvements.
- Utilized lean tools such as 5 whys, fish bone charts, A3, 5S, takt timing, NIOSH scores (ergonomics), ect.
- Investigated all safety incidents, Gathered, organized and entered data into Gensuite (Safety Logging System). Implemented all short term and permanent countermeasures while tracking sustainment. Did all report outs for all the findings.
- Responsible for leading, training, analyzing benefit to cost ratios and approving all department kaizens.
- Responsible for all project report outs of the area.
- Responsible for writing, Auditing, and updating all SOP's, JBD, SPL of the area and tracking training wheels for all employees of the area.
Paint/Porcelain/Plastics/Assembly Supervisor
Whirlpool
Clyde, OH
02.2010 - 03.2019
- Responsible for department payroll and approving vacation
- Identified areas of deficiency and performed root-cause analysis to solve problems.
- Implemented policies and standard operating procedures and managed quality, customer service and logistics.
- Supported accident investigations and prepared related paperwork.
- Collaborated with team leaders on quality audits.
- Developed initiatives for process improvement and reviewed and assessed ongoing operations.
- Aided senior leadership during executive decision-making process by generating daily reports to recommend corrective actions and improvements.
- Directed day-to-day operations by spearheading implementation of short-term and long-term strategies to achieve business plan and profitability goals.
- Managed scheduling, training and inventory control.
Scheduling Coordinator
Whirlpool
Clyde, OH
04.2008 - 02.2010
- Utilized MS Office and Excel to analyze data and create spreadsheets.
- Did daily floor audits for parts
- Completed timely changes and updates to schedules in central scheduling system.
- Scheduled orders to meet production goals and formed action plans to handle time component constraints.
- Reviewed material shortages, stock outages and safety stock levels while working with buyers, material planners, schedulers and manufacturing to meet customer requirements.
- Contacted suppliers to verify shipment details.
Production Assembler
Whirlpool
Clyde, OH
10.1997 - 04.2008
- Assembler Line 2, 3, and 4
- Back up process leader
- Stand by for all assembly lines
Education
Some College (No Degree) - Business Administration
University of Pheonix
Arizona City, AZSkills
- Team Leadership
- Process Improvement
- Decision-Making
- Problem Solving/5 why
- Standard Work
- Kaizen
- Gensuite
- 5S
- TWI
- Kronos (payroll)
- Paycor (payroll)
- OSHA 30 Certified
- Root cause analyst
- Scheduling and Coordinating
- Employee Coaching and Mentoring
- KLPC (Kamishiba Layered Process Audits) Auditor
- Dupont Stop training
Timeline
Paint/Weld Department Manager
Quality Steel
07.2021 - Current
Operations Analyst
Whirlpool
03.2019 - 07.2021
Paint/Porcelain/Plastics/Assembly Supervisor
Whirlpool
02.2010 - 03.2019
Scheduling Coordinator
Whirlpool
04.2008 - 02.2010
Production Assembler
Whirlpool
10.1997 - 04.2008
Some College (No Degree) - Business Administration
University of Pheonix
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