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CESAR MONTAÑA

Pleasant Hill

Summary

Experienced manager with proven track record in team leadership and operational oversight. Expertise in process improvement and staff development, resulting in enhanced workflow efficiency. Strong problem-solving skills and effective communication contribute to increased team productivity.

Overview

36
36
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

ISC Supervisor

Honeywell Kansas City National Security Campus
01.2024 - Current
  • Assures associates are trained and assigned to perform necessary operations including conformance to specifications.
  • Coordinates production and inspection schedules and documenting changes to meet priorities; arranging disposition of material.
  • Assures compliance to and encourages associate involvement in HS&E activities, security policies, good housekeeping, cost effectiveness, company policies, and the collective bargaining agreement.

Cass County Commercial and Residential Real Estate Appraiser

Cass County
10.2021 - 01.2024
  • Gather, verify, and analyze data on residential and commercial properties including measuring structures, physically inspecting the exterior and interior of buildings, photographing property, analysis of market sales, and noting architectural quality and intended use of the property.
  • Responsible for data management including collection, verification, and analysis of sales, as well as maintaining other information required for the valuation process.
  • Maintains property records indicating any changes in the property.

Manufacturing Manager

Burger and Brown Engineering
Grandview
06.2020 - 05.2021
  • Company Overview: Burger & Brown Engineering, Inc. is an ISO 9001:2015 certified company providing expertise, experience, and meticulous attention to detail.
  • Schedule production and monitor job costs for thirty-seven machining centers, to include CNC mills, lathes, swiss lathes and micro mills and one assembly department.
  • Supervise, train, and manage thirty-five direct reports over five different departments.
  • Create and maintain an open line of communication across all departments while supporting a positive work environment and helping meet production goals.
  • Burger & Brown Engineering, Inc. is an ISO 9001:2015 certified company providing expertise, experience, and meticulous attention to detail.

Assembly Department Manager

Labconco
Kansas City
03.2018 - 07.2019
  • Company Overview: Labconco is committed to making the best laboratory equipment in the world.
  • Supervise, train, and coordinate union personnel to meet required production schedules with high quality on-time parts and achieve optimum productivity of available resources.
  • Create and maintain an open line of communication across all departments while supporting a positive work environment and helping meet production goals. Sustained an average of 107% efficiency rate across three different product lines and twenty-two direct report assembly line associates.
  • Ensured department production activities were completed safely and complied with regulatory agencies. Conducted weekly training to maintain a safe working environment to assembly line associates.
  • Labconco is committed to making the best laboratory equipment in the world.

Manufacturing Production Manager

Shick Esteve
Kansas City
12.2011 - 02.2018
  • Company Overview: Shick Esteve is a growing manufacturing company and an industry leader in providing Integrated Solutions for Ingredient Automation.
  • Lead all facets of manufacturing facilities encompassing seventy personnel utilized for manufacturing $55 million annually of material handling equipment on custom engineered design projects. The facilities were fully integrated with processes for welding, machining, fabricating, painting, and complex assembly from engineered drawings.
  • Implemented new safety training program to ensure adherence to OSHA directives for all Shick associates working at local Shick Esteve facilities and customer sites. Maintaining a zero lost workday record.
  • Tracked key performance indicators of operations including quality, productivity, efficiency, service, safety, and cost. Shared operational goals and guidelines for achieving the goals with facility leadership.
  • Facilitated the acquisition of $3.5 million of capital equipment with a tested and proven ROI payback tracking process.
  • Shick Esteve is a growing manufacturing company and an industry leader in providing Integrated Solutions for Ingredient Automation.

Hull Technician

UNITED STATES NAVY
07.1989 - 04.2011
  • Demonstrated superior organizational skills in the preparation and processing of over one thousand pieces of correspondence.
  • Superb leadership, managerial abilities and training of subordinates allowed the Repair Division to maintain seven SEAL Delivery Vehicles (SDV) and auxiliary equipment worth more than $20M ready for rapid deployment.
  • Meticulously reviewed and organized divisional Maintenance and Material Management System (3M) records and schedules for eight work centers, maintaining an accountability rate of 99%.
  • Monitored the execution of two SDV Restricted Availability (RAV) periods and four Retrofit Availability periods, resulting in the successful installation and testing of numerous classified SDV modification projects.
  • Designed and constructed a new state of the art educational Hull Maintenance welding shop saving the Navy over $25K in material and labor costs with no training time lost during construction.
  • Chosen for deployment to four different countries to provide high quality training to over 150 international military students achieving outstanding results and accolades from U.S. Embassy staff.
  • Responsible for the purchasing and shipping of more than $175K in equipment and course material to respective countries to assist in training.
  • Qualified as Master Training Specialist and Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist.
  • Planned and implemented three Quality Assurance drill scenarios which significantly increased the effectiveness of the Quality Assurance training program.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Business Management

Avila University
Kansas City, MO
01.2024

AA - Business Designation

Metropolitan Community College
Kansas City, MO
01.2022

Skills

  • Management and supervision
  • Training and facilitation
  • Team building
  • Project management
  • Organizational skills
  • Leadership
  • Scheduling and coordination
  • OSHA compliance
  • Performance management
  • Manufacturing processes
  • Effective communication
  • Process improvement
  • Cost control

Certification

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

Languages

  • English, Fluent, read and write
  • Spanish, Fluent, read and write

Languages

Spanish
Professional

Timeline

ISC Supervisor

Honeywell Kansas City National Security Campus
01.2024 - Current

Cass County Commercial and Residential Real Estate Appraiser

Cass County
10.2021 - 01.2024

Manufacturing Manager

Burger and Brown Engineering
06.2020 - 05.2021

Assembly Department Manager

Labconco
03.2018 - 07.2019

Manufacturing Production Manager

Shick Esteve
12.2011 - 02.2018

Hull Technician

UNITED STATES NAVY
07.1989 - 04.2011

Bachelor of Arts - Business Management

Avila University

AA - Business Designation

Metropolitan Community College
CESAR MONTAÑA