Michael Walsh

Experience

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  Ford Motor Company- Chicago Stamping Plant

  Sept 1991 - Nov 2006

  Coordinated engineering improvement (EI) changes to existing parts/dies. Determined/submitted cost quotes of EI change requests for Chgo. Stamping parts. Tracked all changes while ensuring the completion timing was met, and funding was transferred. Managed the multi-million dollar T&D budget, including department employee hourly wages.-Directed projects for several New Model Builds, including the new 2006 Ford 500/Freestyle Launch.-Coordinated rework, production runs, and timely shipment of over 3000 Parts prior to Job 1 to support the Build. Coordinated all necessary engineering change work during Launch, which resulted in $415,000 in plant revenue. Show less Began Material Control assignment as an Inventory Control/Scheduling Coordinator, ensuring stock availability and scheduling production in all 3 Plant areas of Blankers, Press, and Assembly. Moved over to Distribution then Traffic Coordinator, responsible for coordinating production and shipping of service and export auto parts to meet weekly requirements. As Traffic Coord., responsible for ordering in 70 rail-cars per day based on the Plant's empty container needs and ensuring the re-loaded outbound destinations were reached JIT. Show less

  • New Model Project Manager / Engr. Change Coordinator

    Feb 2003 - Nov 2006

  • Consumer Driven 6-Sigma Black Belt Program

    Feb 2001 - Nov 2006

  • Senior Material Control Specialist

    Nov 1993 - Feb 2001

  • Material Handling Supervisor

    Sept 1991 - Nov 1993
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  Itw Tekfast

  Nov 2006 - Oct 2010

  Project Engineer

  Managed engineering and design development activities from concept stage through production release including: material selection, FMEA, all functional evaluation through lab testing, and quality assurance.-Achieved (GM) approval of a European expandable adhesive for use on a global TekFast plug in response to a GM Test Work Order. Managed all aspects of the testing, from interpreting all GM test requirements, sample preparation and trial testing to directing the efforts of independent test lab.-Adhesive approval resulted in launch of global TekFast plug across all GM platforms, volume of 20 million plugs per year.-Designed over 20 injection molded plastic components and fastener concepts (in 1.5 yrs.) for Ford, GM, and Nissan applications.-Launched over 10 new designed TekFast products to GM, Ford, and Nissan. Show less

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  Tower International

  Oct 2010 - now

  As Senior Matl. Analyst, responsible for using MRP and sending weekly JIT releases to our 4 largest suppliers, in support of Ford Chicago Assy. Plant's Explorer/Aviator daily requirements. Ensure over 100 Actual purchased component plant inventory levels are in agreement with our SAP-ERP system inventory BOH's via cycle program, and manage their JIT deliveries into the Plant. -Reduced in-plant inventory of my assigned suppliers product by 15% after 2 months.-Manage our E. Chicago, IN warehouse. Responsibilities include coordinating all deliveries into and out of the warehouse, along with inventory control of all service components, containers, and equipment located there.-Ford Customer Service Division (Lead). Daily/weekly responsibilities (below). Show less -Launched new Tower Chicago U625/611 Ford Explorer/Lincoln Aviator, Ford Customer Service Division (FCSD) program, April 2019. Identified all 23 Service components Tower Chicago. responsible to supply, ensuring our capability of producing these levels and rolled out to Operations. -Concurrent role since 2014. Identify weekly FCSD requirements for current and past model service parts and responsible for parts being produced, packaged, audited, and shipped on time.-Average of 95% Monthly FCSD Delivery Rating since Sept. 2014. Show less Assigned project of clearing out all (now) obsolete automotive parts from former D258-385/U502 Program, stored in 50K sq.ft. area of our East Chicago, IN warehouse.-Responsible for hiring, right-sizing, and managing the Temporary staff along with analyzing/procuring required equipment necessary to scrap out and recycle all parts and containers from the warehouse.-Concurrent role with my daily Material Analyst and FCSD daily/weekly responsibilities. Over the length of the Project, spent 2-3 early morning hours daily at the Plant and then headed to warehouse for balance of the day, working hands on with Temp. staff.-Half of the old program parts in the 50K sq.ft. area over time had collapsed and spilled due to non-temperature regulated warehouse. Staff and I were able to completely clean out the warehouse in 2.5 months (over 2 weeks ahead of the required completion date), coming in 40% Under budget in equipment expenditure. Show less Manager of temporary 105K sq. ft. start-up warehouse used to house a one-month bank build of all Tower Chgo. produced U502 Explorer and D258/385 Taurus components to fully support end of the Program (daily) requirements from 2/1/2019 - 3/1/2019 at Ford Chgo. Assy. Tower Chgo. was being converted over to new U625/611 Explorer/Lincoln Aviator model during this month of February.-Responsible for full FIFO layout of multiple Explorer/Taurus Finish Good (FG) component groups between 10K-17K parts of each, and their production racks. Extreme attention paid to daily inventory counts to meet pre-set Bank Build requirements needed to cover Program balance out.-Daily responsibilities included hiring, right-sizing, and managing the 15 member Temporary staff and procuring equipment necessary to complete the bank build. All facility issues, time-keeping, managing the inventory, ensuring the loaded FG material for the bank was unloaded and correctly stored per layout.-Concurrent role managing Export operations which was transferred to the same off-site warehouse. Show less

  • Senior Material Analyst / FCSD Lead / Warehouse Manager

    Apr 2019 - now

  • Ford Customer Service Division (FCSD) Lead

    Sept 2014 - now

  • Warehouse Project Manager (Concurrent Role)

    May 2020 - Jul 2020

  • Offsite Warehouse Manager

    Aug 2018 - Apr 2019

  • Export Project Manager

    Jul 2011 - Apr 2019

  • Market Place Supervisor

    Jul 2012 - Sept 2014

  • Material Analyst/Shipping Supervisor

    Oct 2010 - Jul 2011