David Chavez
Rockford
Summary
A results-driven professional with strong communication and problem-solving skills. Dedicated to delivering exceptional solutions that support business objectives and drive overall success. Skilled in leading teams, implementing process improvements (sustainably), and optimizing machinery to achieve customer demand. Also experienced in managing budgets and vendor relationships for innovative cost savings.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
PACKAGING MANAGER
SNAK KING
12.2024 - Current
- Optimize production floor. Key points I work on include training execution, quarterly routing review, centerlines, work with R&D to design / in and capital cost savings projects.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure packaging materials met quality standards and run rate requirements.
- Lead a team of packaging technicians and packaging operator masters. Providing training and guidance to improve performance and productivity.
- Implemented packaging automation technology to streamline production processes and improve overall efficiency.
- Coordinate schedules, resources, and logistics for training sessions and workshops.
- Presented research findings and recommendations to Executives to support decision-making processes and drive innovation.
PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
FERRARA
02.2021 - 12.2024
- Win the daily operation. Execute action items and meet attainment and adherence. Use KPI and data to develop and implement processes for my dedicated cluster(lines).
- Conducted regular performance evaluations and provided coaching to improve employee performance and morale.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams including engineering and quality control to troubleshoot issues and drive continuous improvement efforts.
- Utilized Lean Six Sigma methodologies to analyze data and streamline operations, reducing waste.
- Maintained a culture of continuous improvement by facilitating regular kaizen events and encouraging employee participation.
- Utilized advanced statistical techniques to analyze and interpret complex data sets, providing valuable insights and recommendations to improve business strategies.
Education
High School Diploma - General Studies
West Leyden High
Northlake05-2018
Skills
- Production Department
- Warehouse Systems
- Quality and Food safety
- Continuous Improvement
- Data analysis
- Lean & Six Sigma methodologies
- Statistical process control
- People Development
- Documents and reports
Languages
Spanish
Professional Working
Timeline
PACKAGING MANAGER
SNAK KING
12.2024 - Current
PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
FERRARA
02.2021 - 12.2024
High School Diploma - General Studies
West Leyden High
Milestones
- $1 Million MUV Savings | Ferrara, MUV project created a process and conducted training and SOP. Prior to my project every facility would have a negative variance of 1.7 million dollars. After reviewing the bill of materials we developed zero based BOMs and SKU specific scrap and process for material variability. The company earned 180k yield.
- $1 Million Labor Overhead Savings | Ferrara, First I optimized bagger output. Then conducted a time study and cycle time analysis to identify the exact number of employees needed to complete a production run by bag size.
- 42% Historical EFF - 71% Average Line Efficiency Improvement | Snak King, Developed routing reviews and centerlines for the Packaging equipment. Took inventory of all parts and completed a program rationalization. Removed all obsolete and unnecessary parts from the production floor. Simultaneously eliminated and locking out adjustment points. Utilizing centerline data as a leading metric for scheduled predictive maintenance.
- Improvements on Startup | Snak King, Developed shutdown program and staffed my team of specialists to verify/inspect machinery after shutdown. Inclusive of documenting deviations to have a 1on1 training for these observations. After implementation we average 90%-95% scheduled attainment.
- AM on Packaging equipment | Snak King, created and implemented a list of tasks to complete (daily, C/O, Weekly, PM monthly). Inclusive of procedure, cleaning method, failure mode, and detection method. Setting priority inspections from a criticality matrix (Severity of damage, Possibility of deviation, OEE impact, MTBF, Cost, Lead Time, and FG Quality) After the first year we dropped from a historical 73min average unscheduled downtime to 10min average.
- Quality Assurance | Snak King, Developed and implemented scheduled quality verification for packaging operators. Customer complaints. Dropping CRM from 3.4 to 0.8. (Historically packaging holds would be > 150 after 100% implementation that number dropped to 24 the following year.