-GEORGE PATTERSON-
2412 Hall Street
Marysville,CA
95901.USA
Cell(530) 990-6606
Email : judd1850[at]yahoo.ca
PROFILE
Senior manufacturing specialist with extensive operations, plant management and engineering expertise. Successful execution of small to large scale, turn key projects related to manufacturing, plant, electromechanical engineering, and aerospace equipment. Thoroughly conversant with all aspects of project and technology intensive management and operation protocols of 5S, Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, Kanban, (JIT).
Extensive experience in heavy manufacturing both engineering and plant management fields with strong facilitative contributions with respect to communication and coordination between different project departments, disciplines and specialists within the context of time-critical, milestone scheduling.
Reputation for being a high impact leader. Excellence and consistency in senior management, and extensive history of manufacturing/operations management completion consistently achieving under-budget results and highest efficiency labour regimes.
CAREER HISTORY
2008-2009General Manager
Technia GmbH
Steel Manufacturing Facility
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Manufacturer of Structural Steel and Concrete Components for the Construction and heavy engineered Industry
Total bottom line accountability and responsibility for all operations, which included
International, Transportation, Operations and logistics.
All sales, administration, accounting and manufacturing departments.
Aggressively introduced and drove ERP, LEAN protocols.
Led by example, which resulted in a marked improvement in bottom line profit.
Increased throughput by 15% in the first 3 months of tenure.
2004 - 2008 Superintendent of Manufacturing
Hitachi Construction Truck Manufacturing Ltd.
Manufacturers of Construction, Quarry and Mining rigid off road trucks
Capacity ranging from 40-320 tones.
Led the internal capacity from 120 to 350 trucks per year.
Accountable for Manufacturing, Assembly, Materials, Paint Shop and Shipping of a $300+M.
Introduced leading edge manufacturing systems directly impacting the bottom line.
Developed and maintained manufacturing strategies
Supervised, lead and coached 200+ employees
Implementation of manufacturing methods, lean manufacturing, six sigma, kaizen, kanban, JIT
Maintained or exceeded production and financial targets to meet company goals
Maintained quality standards, environmental and heath and safety laws.
Capital machinery purchases to include all CNC and Welding
Equipment
Thermal Spraying equipment and material. Bore & Shaft Resizing.
Operations and Logistics
All the above and more were achieved within the constraints of a strong CAW Union environment.
1999 - 2003
Director of Manufacturing
Mark IV Cobourg Facility
Manufacturer of Electronic Display Systems
Responsible for Manufacturing, Operations, Assembly, and Shipping Developed and maintained manufacturing strategies
Operations and Logistics.
Accountable for purchase of all injection molding machines and related equipment.
Responsible for Injection molding manufacturing lines.
All tool room manufacturing and maintenance requirements.
Supervised, lead and coached 100+ employees
Implementation of manufacturing methods, lean manufacturing
Maintained or exceeded production and financial targets to meet company goals and directly impacting bottom line numbers by 15%
Maintained quality standards, environmental and health and safety laws
1997 - 1999Director of Manufacturing & Maintenance
Patlon Aircraft & Industries, Mississauga
Manufacture, Repair & Overhaul of Military and Aerospace Components
Direct responsibility for all plant operations
Further Information is Government Restricted.
1991 - 1997Plant Manager
Godfrey Aerospace Inc., Markham
Manufacture, Repair & Overhaul of Military and Aerospace Components
Successfully led improvements in productivity and turn around time in a strong union environment.
Specialist in constant speed drive, integrated drive generators and Military ground support generators both standard combustion and gas Turbine
Manufacture of precision aircraft parts.
Tenure span featured revenues doubling for annual operation. Introduced advanced manufacturing resource planning methodologies
Responsible for the evaluation and purchase of all manufacturing, repair and overhaul equipment and machinery.
Previous British Aerospace England
Manager of Operations (Locke Lift Engineering Div., from 1980)
Tool Room Engineering Manager (Chellingworth & Singer div.)
Fiat Heavy Equipment Lifting Services Birmingham, England
Airborne Brigade & Special Air Service
Languages English, Polish, German
Software Expertise
>Microsoft>Windows Applications
>Unix data base>Telemagic (Linix)
> Novell>BAAN 4C4
>Macintosh>AutoCAD
>SAP>ERP
Education and Professional Upgrading
Since 1990Participated in numerous professional development courses, symposia and workshops on an array of topics including, injection molding, plastics extrusion, ISO & QS 9000 standards, Thermal Spraying and related techniques, hydraulic application and dynamics, high speed die casting aluminum alloys, air quality systems, Industrial Accidental Prevention Association, hydro/electronic governing systems (Woodward Governors, Colorado), High speed Packaging machinery Industrial Safety Coordination, WHMIS protocols management. All C.W.B. welding disciplines. Electronic Trouble shooting. Produce processing protocols
Prior to 1990Army School of Education
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Awarded a degree in Mechanical Engineering (Loughborough University) and attained the Higher National Certificate (electro/mechanical engineering).
Cannock Engineering Polytechnical College, England
Awarded an Electrical Engineering Diploma (Mining).
Excellent references available upon request
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