1. JAMES WRIGHT
1817 Creekpark Trail, Arlington, TX 76018 | C: 972-896-0142 | jameswright455@gmail.com
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Over 18 years of Plant and Facility Management in ever changing and cost reduction environments
in the Automotive Industry. Successful in building and motivating dynamic teams to advance
improvement and project completion is key to my success. Cultivating a company culture of
continuous improvement, promoting individual responsibility as well as their “ownership” of
projects promotes individual success and fulfillment. Setting and ensuring standard work and
utilizing best practices through out the production process reducing quality cases and improves
profitability. Utilizing investigative tools such as 5 whys, fish bone, A3’s and kaizen to find the
root cause and putting in place corrective actions is key to eliminating/reducing the occurrences.
Promoting 5s activities which uncovers waste and inefficiencies.
CORE QUALIFICATIONS
Operations Management Warehouse Management
Facility Management Quality & Safety Orientated
Manage multiple projects Cross Functional Team
Lean Manufacturing JIT
Project Management TS16949/ISO9001, APQP,
PPAP
Manufacturing and Facility
Maintenance
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
8/2015-11/12/2015 Dallas Plant Manager
Tubelite Inc – Dallas, TX (Store Fronts and Curtain Walls)
 Continue Lean Journey
 Align staffing with KPI’s
 Improve Hour by Hour and Leader Standard Work
 Raise awareness and investigate quality cases
 Investigate expansion options
 Improve efficiencies
 Build stronger team and shared work
05/1997 to 06/2015 Director, Manufacturing (2007-2015)
Fujikoki America, Inc - Dallas, TX (Thermostatic Expansion Valve
manufacturing for the automotive industry)
 Build team of 200+
Managers, Supervisors and Operators.
 Efficiency improvement 5% year over year.
 Improve tact by 10% and reduce operators by 30% manual lines.
 Reduce finish good inventory by $2M.
 Reduce HVAC repairs by 50%.
 Consolidate manufacturing improving maintenance response time
by 30%.
 Close customer complaints within specified time.
 Improve quality from 6.3 ppm to 1.6 ppm.
 Utilize automation to improve output and reduce operators by
60%.
 Increase capacity from 7M to 11M.
 Contract and purchase order review to reduce cost by 60%.
 5s
Plant Manager, Plants 2 & 3 (1997-2007)
 Increase capacity from 2M to 7M.
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2. JAMES WRIGHT
1817 Creekpark Trail, Arlington, TX 76018 | C: 972-896-0142 | jameswright455@gmail.com
 Increase automation on new rotary transfer machines reducing
changeover time 50% and increasing tact time by 20%.
 Build maintenance team to handle all major and minor repairs,
reducing the need for Japanese machine manufacture visit ($15K
minimum/visit).
 Instigate processes and procedures to secure ISO9001, QS9001 and
TS16949 certifications.
05/1990 to 05/1997 Director Safety, Director HR, Safety Engineer
Virginia KMP Corp - Dallas, TX
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science: Mechanical Engineering
Texas Tech University - Lubbock, TX, USA
AFFILIATIONS
Board Managers, Oak Cliff YMCA
Asset Renewal and Expansion Chair
Prison Fellowship Member
Sanders Estes Correctional Facility Volunteer (8 years)
EXPANDED PROFESSIONAL EXPERENCE
Fujikoki America:
Supervised:
1 – Plant Manager 1 – Assistant Plant Manager
1 – Materials Manager 1 – Warehouse Supervisor
8 - Production Supervisor’s (4 days, 4 nights) 2 – Maintenance Supervisor’s
2 – Process Engineers 2 – Manufacturing Engineers
1 – Automation Specialist 6 – Facility Team Members (3 – HVAC, air
compressors and general maintenance. 2 –
Janitors (1 day, 1 night), 1 - Grounds
2 – Purchasing/Spare Parts members
 Set goals and KPI’s with expectations
 Review of production schedules (12 lines), preventative maintenance,
samples and PPAP production.
 Continuous Improvement – reduce tact time, combine operations, reduce
operators, improve changeover times.
 Write and approve standard operating procedures.
 Planning for capital equipment, purchase and installation.
 Reduce cost by searching and qualifying new vendors including bringing
production in-house.
 Lead and work with team on Customer and Internal ‘Corrective Action
Reports’ utilizing 5 Why’s, 8D and custom reports.
 Work with Quality, Sales, Sales Engineering, Accounting, Technical
Center and Administration on new products (APQP) and personnel issues.
 Prepare weekly and monthly management reports including efficiency,
minutes per piece and cost of quality.
 Approve all blanket and daily purchase orders. Reduced cost by
purchasing from on-line vendors.
 Review contracts and approve (gases, waste and recycling).
 Audit processes utilizing PFMEA’s, PCP’s and work instructions.
 Maintain Vendor database.
 Maintain 5s standards
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