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Kevin Ferencz

Statesville

Summary

Dynamic Production Supervisor with extensive experience at Tyson Foods, skilled in Lean Manufacturing and employee evaluation. Proven track record in enhancing production efficiency and fostering team development. Adept at problem-solving and implementing process improvements, ensuring compliance with safety standards while maintaining high product quality. Strong communicator dedicated to achieving operational excellence.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience

Work History

Production Supervisor

TYSON FOODS
01.2024 - Current
  • Ensuring every position is filled before start-up of production line.
  • Overseeing Team Member morning exercises and job rotation to facilitate ergonomics.
  • Ensuring all machinery is performing to the highest standard possible.
  • Ensuring all workstations have passed USDA Inspection.
  • Promoting safety daily as well as through monthly safety meetings.
  • Additionally, knowing and communicating company benefits and compensation policies to Team Members.
  • Providing encouragement to Team Members to build the best team possible.
  • Critical ability to perform the human relations functions such as training Retaining, and counseling on personal and professional problems.
  • Overseeing various processing operations and working with other supervisors in solving problems.
  • Keeping records of reworked or returned product.
  • Prioritize and manage production schedules based on optimized efficiencies, promised delivery, and equipment efficiency & materials supply.
  • Work with trainers to ensure employees are developed and accountable for their individual and team performance.

Production Supervisor

EPOC Enviro
01.2023 - 01.2024
  • Direct the production departments by regulating, coordinating, planning, assigning, resolving problems, disciplinary action, and assuring compliance with company safety, work procedures, housekeeping, and preventive maintenance.
  • Maintain and improve product quality.
  • Develop and maintain positive working relationships with internal and external customers.

Tubing/welding dept. manager

WANZL NORTH AMERICA
01.2022 - 01.2023
  • Ensure safe and issue free work environment.
  • Manage all manufacturing activities to ensures the quality of the product to meet or exceed customer requirements.
  • Maintains and Improves performance of production process.
  • Understands production process, requirements, prioritize, make decisions, and distribute work orders for machinery to meet production goals.
  • Directs the production departments by regulating, coordinating, planning, assigning, resolving problems, disciplinary action, and assuring compliance with company safety, work procedures, housekeeping, and preventive maintenance.
  • Monitor and Evaluate performance of associates, provide constructive feedback (incl. written reviews, and corrective counseling, etc.), support to meet expectations, maintain open door communication, and promote an issue free environment.
  • Represents the Team by reviewing important information with them, relays information, makes necessary inquires to expedite projects in areas (such as manpower, project status, process changes/problems, customer release complaints, etc.), manages, and assists team/department to achieve goals and process information (productivity, scrap work, accident reduction, etc.).
  • Runs meetings (communication, safety, etc.) using problem solving techniques, maintains minutes, and follows up on action plans to direct production operations and department to be in compliance with all company, division, and customer quality requirements.
  • Introduces efficient production line methods by assuring that work instructions, gages, and all required documentation are in place as well as initiates and directs procedures to increase company output.
  • Analyze operations, overseeing set ups for new jobs, analyze machine/equipment malfunctions, and making necessary adjustments where needed.
  • Prioritize, Direct, and Assist Supervisors to support production teams.
  • Owner of SFM (Shop Floor Management).

Production Facilitator

ZF Chassis Components
01.2010 - 01.2022
  • Understand production process, requirements, prioritize, make decisions, and distribute work orders for machinery to meet production goals.
  • Manage safe shipping and receiving activities.
  • Supervise and train production associates for growth and development. Ensuring associates are qualified and trained in assigned position.
  • Direct the production departments by regulating, coordinating, planning, assigning, resolving problems, disciplinary action, and assuring compliance with company safety, work procedures, housekeeping, and preventive maintenance.
  • Maintain and improve product quality and ensure proper handling of all nonconforming products.
  • Develop and maintain positive working relationships with internal and external customers.
  • Introduce efficient production line methods by assuring that work instructions, gauges, and all required documentations are in place as well as initiates and directs procedures to increase company output.
  • Prioritize, direct, and assist technicians to support production teams.

PRODUCTION Supervisor

Tube Specialties
01.2000 - 01.2010
  • Actively participate as a strategic member of the Facility Management team through the SOP process to ensure continuous improvement in facets of the business.
  • Manage all manufacturing activities to produce quality parts in a cost-efficient manner.
  • Manage all logistics activities to ensure on time delivery to all internal and external customers.
  • Plan, select, design, develop manufacturing methods and processes through continuous improvement and lean manufacturing techniques.
  • Direct/Supervise the activities of all exempt personnel and indirect functions.
  • Establish and maintain strategic relationships with internal and external customers and suppliers to meet common goals.
  • Manage the manufacturing and logistics functions within our quality systems, company policies and procedures.
  • Manage the development of all Associates (Exempt and Nonexempt).
  • Maintain and trained all Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma processes, implemented cellular manufacturing to create optimal productivity.
  • Maintained, ordered all tooling for all departments.
  • Maintained bill of materials for shop floor processes.
  • Reviewed all new products and created bill of material for shop floor.
  • Create basic drawings on Solid Works cad system.
  • Trainer for forklifts, overhead cranes.
  • Trainer for new department leads.

Education

mechatronics fundamentals -

Cvcc
01.2021

supervisor certification program -

cvcc
01.2012

Six sigma green belt trained and examination -

nc state
01.2008

High School Diploma -

West Mifflin Area High School
01.1986

Skills

  • 6-Sigma Trained
  • Create and maintain a work schedule
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Power Point
  • Assess situations and devise solutions
  • SAP
  • Internal Auditor Training
  • Lean Manufacturing Principles
  • DuPont's Safety Training Observation Program
  • Ability to elicit information from others
  • Synthesize information into a cohesive summary
  • Solid business judgment
  • Desire to tackle complex business problems
  • Strong listening skills
  • Process Improvement
  • Employee Evaluation
  • Kaizen
  • MRC Basic Programming
  • Operating Powered Industrial Trucks
  • Handle multiple tasks/multiple bosses

Timeline

Production Supervisor

TYSON FOODS
01.2024 - Current

Production Supervisor

EPOC Enviro
01.2023 - 01.2024

Tubing/welding dept. manager

WANZL NORTH AMERICA
01.2022 - 01.2023

Production Facilitator

ZF Chassis Components
01.2010 - 01.2022

PRODUCTION Supervisor

Tube Specialties
01.2000 - 01.2010

mechatronics fundamentals -

Cvcc

supervisor certification program -

cvcc

Six sigma green belt trained and examination -

nc state

High School Diploma -

West Mifflin Area High School

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