Daniel Wachla

• Increased team productivity by implementing streamlined processes and effective communication strategies.
• Achieved departmental goals by developing and executing strategic plans and performance metrics.
• Reduced operational costs through comprehensive process improvement initiatives and resource management.
• Enhanced customer satisfaction by resolving disputes promptly, maintaining open lines of communication, and ensuring high-quality service delivery.

• Developed production schedules according to deadlines for existing orders and sales forecasting.
• Worked directly with production personnel to resolve production scheduling issues and conflicts.
• Coordinated material procurement efforts, ensuring on-time availability of components for uninterrupted production cycles.
• Planned and established production schedules and optimized control levels for diversified manufacturing operations.

• Streamlined estimation process for faster turnaround times with the implementation of new software tools.
• Finding new customers.
• Customer account management, both new and existing.
• Estimation and quoting various sheet metal projects large and small.
• Checking colleagues' quotations for errors.
• Following up quotations.
• Processing customer orders.
• Finding new suppliers of raw material to get the best price, availability and quality.
• Purchasing materials required to manufacture the various projects.
• Providing manufacturing updates to customers, whether it be changes to design, cost or lead time.
• Processing payments from customers.

• Providing updates for Sales staff information as to how each of their jobs were progressing.
• Ensuring all jobs are completed on time and within allowed nominated fabrication time.
• Creating and updating systems to track progress of jobs, using MS Excel, MS Project and ERP System.
• Creating Manufacturing Requisition forms and Procurement of all parts required to be assembled using ERP
  system.
• QA checks on all parts received to ensure parts are within tolerance.
• Occasional Drafting to supply concept drawings for quotation.
• Implemented strategic initiatives to improve overall departmental productivity and effectiveness.
• Optimized resource allocation for complex projects, resulting in timely completion and reduced costs.

I was given a new role within the company to take on the role of Production/QA Manager of General Fabrication
division of the company, duties including the following:

• Managing staff on factory floor ranging from 10-20 employees.
• Ensuring all jobs are completed on time and within allowed nominated fabrication time.
• Creating and updating systems to track progress of jobs.
• Drafting, reverse engineering, and creating dxfs for new parts.

I was promoted within the company to take on the role of Production Manager and QA Manager, my duties included
the following:

• Managing staff on factory floor 10-15 employees and some staff within the office to ensure projects were
  completed on time and at a high standard.
• Also performing all the duties of the Production Assistant at the same time until we hired one in 2015.
• Became a member of the Safety Committee and helped implement safety procedures throughout the
  workplace.
• Ensuring QA documents are up to date and are being adhered to.
• Ordering Materials & Transport and ensuring every part makes it to site.
• Implemented lean principles to improve efficiency.
• Ensuring all safety standards are adhered to.

The company decided to move me from the factory floor into the office so I could do drafting for them for the rest of my work experience, they also offered for me to work part time for them while I studied, which I did for the first half of 2007, then I decided to leave university and work full time with the company, my duties included the following:

• Administration work including: Purchasing materials, organising deliveries, organising documentation, following through ITPs, created stock transfers, creating stock jobs, and stock registers for stock parts within tanks.
• Studying and then implementing competitive manufacturing techniques and QA.
• Helped the company achieve the certification of ISO 9001-2008.
• Creating SOPs for machinery used in the factory.
• Design and detail drafting and also provided engineering support to the mechanical engineer, for designing new structural components for the tanks and updating old designs.
• Created master spreadsheet programs to create bills of materials and Quote sheets.
• Programming the turret punch machine and optimizing what parts we could get out of each sheet.

I took 6 months off University to do work experience in an engineering company.

My jobs included the following:

• Using various machinery including guillotines, Brake press, section rollers, Brobo Cold Saw, Mig Welder, Shrink Wrap gun and learnt how to basically run the turret punch.
• Packing tank components.

Worked in afternoon shift while I was studying at University.

My job was to clean up the parts from the laser bed once the laser had finished cutting the parts out of the steel sheets, then stacking them on pallets ready for dispatch.