Gabriel Poulino
Windsor,Canada
Summary
Highly experienced Production & Maintenance Supervisor with over 5 years of leadership expertise. Known for delivering tailored solutions to manufacturing challenges within a unionized environment. Proficient in standard manufacturing processes and lean procedures, consistently achieving daily production targets. Demonstrates exceptional critical thinking, adaptability, and sound judgment in leading teams, ensuring quality assurance, implementing lean practices, optimizing production efficiency, facilitating effective communication, reducing downtime, developing and coaching teams, enforcing health and safety protocols, and operating heavy machinery and tools.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Manufacturing Supervisor
Central Stampings Limited
01.2021 - Current
- Oversee a team of 23 hourly employees including maintenance and production operators, ensuring production needs are met along with troubleshooting and resolving mechanical/electrical break downs with millwrights/ electricians in a steel stamping facility
- Daily line ups for employees in their respective jobs, adhering to their cell picks
- Overseen three tandem press lines, three feeder presses, fifteen SUB assembly cells and two rail lines
- Completing changeovers as production needs were required
- Conducted performance evaluations, disciplinary actions, and coaching sessions
- Diligently wrote out mid shift and final shift reports for communication
- Input daily production in CMS for inventory records
Production Maintenance Supervisor
Nemak Canada
01.2018 - 01.2019
- Oversaw a team of 30 hourly employees and tradespersons to ensure daily production targets were met for an aluminium automotive parts manufacturer
- Adhered to strict health and safety policies, manufacturing standards, collective agreements, government environmental regulations and corporate processes
- Conducted performance evaluations and communicated with employees to identify effective training
- Performed root cause analysis and troubleshooting to resolve manufacturing problems
- Accurately recorded employee attendance and updated hourly records and payroll into Kronos software
- Supported lean manufacturing procedures including 5S to enhance workplace safety
- Conducted weekly employee schedules, assigned fill-ins and developed recognition programs
- Performed duties including training, disciplinary actions and terminations in accordance with Ministry of Labour regulations and collective agreement stipulations
- Held cross-over meetings with Shift Supervisors for production concerns
- Completed daily safety walks and held pre-shift meetings with operators for daily targets
- Initiated quality alerts to prevent defective product from being shipped
Core Operator, Material Handler, Inspector, Quality Tig Welder
Nemak Canada
01.2017 - 01.2018
- Assumed multiple day to day responsibilities and received cross training to assist in meeting production requirements in multiple departments
- Adhered to health and safety policies and wore PPE while operating Tig welders, core machines and driving forklifts
Union Representative Chairman & Acting Business Agent (Concurrent)
MAGNA Windsor Modules
01.2015 - 01.2017
- Represented employees during disciplinary and grievance meetings with HR, protecting the interests of hundreds of employee’s rights across Ontario for a union with over 120K members throughout North America
- Asked by CS Wind’s senior management to assume the role of acting business agent to coordinate collective agreement negotiations and official communication between corporate head office and the union
- Negotiated with business representatives to rewrite collective agreements
Fitter
CS Wind Canada
01.2014 - 01.2017
- Followed mathematical formulas to efficiently measure and fit skirts while adhering to customer specifications and to industry standards for a wind turbine manufacturer
- Safely operated heavy machinery and power tools including an in-house rigger and base flipper, pick-up skirts, dry-rollers, welding and overhead cranes
- Uphold 5S processes by maintaining a clean, safe and organized workspace
Education
Diploma - Criminology, Sociology & Psychology
St. Clair College Windsor
Windsor, ON01-2014
Skills
- Lean manufacturing principles
- Safety audits
- Assembly line supervision
- Safety oversight
Accomplishments
- Improved employee morale by formally recognizing employees for going above and beyond duties.
- Conducting performance evaluations to identify strengths and weaknesses, offering ways to enhance an employee’s professional development.
- Recommended new cut path of the ABB robots to minimize blockage and reduce cutter replacement.
- Implemented new processes that required all forklift drivers to complete pre-inspection sheets to minimize risks and hazards.
- Reduced the rate of hand injuries at Nemak by initiating a safety sign-off sheet for production line employees to ensure personal protective equipment (PPE) was always worn and safety policies followed.
- Instrumental in rewriting over 14 collective agreements across Ontario on behalf of the Ironworkers union while acting as Chairman between 2015 and 2017., Swiftly resolved production downtime by efficiently delegating employees across multiple areas while tradespersons performed emergency repairs., Promoted by Nemak management to Production Supervisor for consistently demonstrating strong goal oriented work ethics and superior quality control practises while achieving production targets.
Professional Development
- Canadian Welding Bureau (CWB) Qualified Worker
- Lean Certification in 5S Program
- Resolving Conflict (Development Dimensions International)
- Leadership Success Training (Development Dimensions International)
Languages
English
Full Professional
Timeline
Manufacturing Supervisor
Central Stampings Limited
01.2021 - Current
Production Maintenance Supervisor
Nemak Canada
01.2018 - 01.2019
Core Operator, Material Handler, Inspector, Quality Tig Welder
Nemak Canada
01.2017 - 01.2018
Union Representative Chairman & Acting Business Agent (Concurrent)
MAGNA Windsor Modules
01.2015 - 01.2017
Fitter
CS Wind Canada
01.2014 - 01.2017
Diploma - Criminology, Sociology & Psychology
St. Clair College Windsor
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