Chuck Kenney

Background

About Chuck Kenney

SENIOR-LEVEL OPERATIONS AND PRODUCTION MANAGER A results-oriented Operations/Production Manager with Lean Manufacturing skills and certification, experienced in many areas of manufacturing including Medical Device, heavy industrial, PCBA Assembly, SMT, Final Assembly, Test and Packaging of various industry markets. Excellent people skills that both reward and focus team members to excel in all areas of production. Bottom line approaches to budgetary and financial goals along with a driven desire for process efficiencies and effectiveness. Continuous improvement driven for highest Quality outcomes of processes and products. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS: Managed full production floor with 20% growth year over year. Moved full factory from one location to another ahead of target plan. Converted batch build production to lean manufacturing one piece flow process and increased factory capacity by 300%. Annual cost savings of Trained and certified all production operators in 5S and orange belt lean manufacturing, which produced 10 CI projects and reduced annual cost total of Modified factory layout to accommodate build- to-box process, reducing flow time and increasing line capacity. Managed full recall and software upgrade for major customer product. Hired, trained, and managed all personnel upgrading over field units on time and under budget. Wrote new production process instructions to allow inspection at each production step rather than at the end of the line, reducing process time and increasing product quality from 86% to 97.5%. Developed quality data feedback to production process steps for root cause and corrections of quality issues with VST. Supported factory changes to move to overseas facility, including inventory and equipment validations.