Marcus T. Delgado

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Senior Production Manager with 11 years directing high-volume manufacturing operations in consumer packaged goods and industrial components. Specializes in lean transformation, cross-shift workforce planning, and capital project execution. Reduced plant-wide scrap rate by 34% and delivered a $2.1M annual cost savings initiative across two facilities.

Work Experience

Senior Production ManagerMar 2019 - Present

Hartwell Consumer Products, Cincinnati, OH

Led a 5S and value-stream mapping overhaul across three production lines, cutting cycle time by 22% and increasing throughput from 18,400 to 22,500 units per shift within 14 months.
Managed a 74-person workforce across two shifts, reducing voluntary turnover from 31% to 14% by redesigning onboarding and implementing a structured skills-progression ladder.
Owned a $6.8M annual operating budget; renegotiated three supplier contracts and consolidated preventive-maintenance scheduling to deliver $870K in year-over-year savings.

Production ManagerJun 2015 - Feb 2019

Meridian Industrial Components, Dayton, OH

Launched a Six Sigma DMAIC project targeting injection-molding defect rates, achieving a 34% reduction in scrap and avoiding $1.3M in annual rework costs.
Coordinated capital equipment installation for a $4.2M press-line upgrade, keeping the project 11 days ahead of schedule and 4% under budget while maintaining 97% line uptime.
Developed and rolled out standardized SOPs for 28 production cells, cutting new-operator ramp-up time from 6 weeks to 3.5 weeks and reducing safety incidents by 41%.

Production SupervisorAug 2012 - May 2015

Crestline Packaging Solutions, Columbus, OH

Supervised 22 line operators across corrugated-board converting and finishing, consistently achieving OEE scores above 83% against a plant benchmark of 74%.
Introduced a real-time production-tracking dashboard using SAP ME, giving shift leads visibility that reduced unplanned downtime by 18% in the first quarter of deployment.
Mentored four operators into team-lead roles; two were promoted to shift supervisor within 18 months of program launch.

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Lean Manufacturing / 5S / Kaizen · Six Sigma Green Belt (ASQ Certified) · SAP ERP & SAP ME · OEE Analysis & KPI Reporting · Capital Project Management · Workforce Planning & Labor Scheduling · OSHA 30-Hour General Industry · Value Stream Mapping (VSM) · Root Cause Analysis (8D / Fishbone)

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