1. D E N N I S L E V E T T
42 Tanager Drive, Guelph ON
Home 519-836-6836
OBJECTIVE
To obtain a challenging position in the field of manufacturing.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
April 2015- Present Lear Corporation (plant is closing)
Quality Manager
 Stamped and welded seat assemblies
 Supervision of 4 salaried and 6 hourly direct reports (UNIFOR)
 Customers Ford and GM
March 2011- Feb 2015 Linamar Corporation
Quality Manager
 Machined and assembled camshafts-35,000 per day
 Supervision of 15 salaried and 50 hourly direct reports
 Customers Ford, Cummins and GM
 Achieved Ford Q1 and GM QSB plus awards
 Scrap costs reduced from 8% of sales to 2% through pareto analysis
and team approach to improvements
 PPM reduced from triple to single digit
 Containment costs reduced from $500k per month to less than $40k
per month
May 2005- June 2010 PWO Canada Kitchener ON
Quality Manager
 Stamped and welded automotive components
 Supervision of four salaried and 10 hourly direct reports
 Customers:Ford, GM, Mercedes, BMW, Brose, Keiper
 Quality costs reduced from 1.7% of sales to 0.5% through pareto
analysis and team approach to improvements
 PPM reduced from 500 to consistently single digit through improved
customer relations

2.  Sorting department reduced from 14 to 4 persons by working with
production and engineering to target and eliminate issues that lead to
sorting. Run and sort mentality removed from culture.
 Develop and implement lean activities in conjunction with PWO
Germany
 Perform production system training, 5S, kaizen, organize and direct
red tag events
 Participate in international quality audit team
Oct 2004- Mar 2005 Polytainers, Toronto ON, Lees Summit,
Missouri, Manager logistics
 Thin walled plastic food containers, 7.5 million units per day, 800
employees
 Supervision of two managers, six supervisors, two production schedulers
and thirty hourly personnel, two facilities, one in TO, one in Missouri.
 Assist VP of operations and company president in implementing Lean
 Work with VP of ops to restructure organization into a more automotive
type model
 Implemented replenishment/ pull system in printing plant
 Changed layout of warehouse, installed signs and painted floors in order
to increase inventory accuracy
 Introduced E-mail shift reports for three plants
 Initiated daily operations meetings with plant managers, HR and VP ops
and defined the metrics to be reported
 Reduced WIP inventory by 13 million units in one month
 Moved from injection molding out one month to forecast to two weeks
by placing quick mold change teams on all three shifts
Aug 2002–Oct 2004 Stackpole Engineered Products Mississauga,
ON
Production Manager
 Customers: GM, DaimlerChrysler
 Tier one engine and transmission pump machining and assembly, 14000
pumps per day, three shifts
 Supervision and development of seventeen salaried, including production
supervisors and material planning/ handling dept, and one hundred
twenty hourly personnel.
 Monitored productivity and worked with supervisors on productivity
improvement projects for various lines or specific machines
 Monitor customer releases, schedule daily production activities
accordingly
 Schedule supplier releases, coordinate supplier shipping activities
 Purchase shop supplies
 Monitor and control raw material, WIP and finished goods levels
 Implement and coordinate Lean activities, 5S, visual factory
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3.  Management rep for JHSC
 Management rep for environmental issues
 Maintain facility interior and exterior, i.e.: structural repair, compressors,
plumbing, snow removal, paving, etc.
 Chair of employee council
Jan 2001 – Aug 2002 Oxford Automotive Cambridge, ON
Quality Manager
 Customers: Saturn, GM, CAMI, DaimlerChrysler and Tower.
 Tier one, tier two quality management activities, stamped automotive parts
manufacturing.
 Supervision and development of four salaried and eight hourly (CAW)
personnel.
 Historical four digit PPM levels reduced to several months consecutive at
zero PPM.
 Introduced Red/ Yellow/ Green boards for quality issues in cells and shift
start meetings to review them
 Reduced regular departmental grievances to zero through talking to
employees
 Implemented cross shift communication with production supervision
 Scrap costs reduced by 40% through creation of a material review board
 Functioned as corporate trouble-shooter for U.S. facilities
 Performed quality system audits in U.S. facilities
 Shared containment and customer relations techniques with U.S. facilities
by traveling to their customer locations with them
 Participated in new product launch meetings with corporate sales and
engineering team
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4. Jan 2000-Dec 2000 Oxford Automotive Cambridge, ON
QA Engineer
 Tier one, tier two quality management activities, stamped automotive parts
manufacturing.
 Primary customer quality contact, 8D problem solving, PPM control,
supplier quality
 Cost control starting at APQP.
 PPAP, FMEA, control plans, gauging systems (selection and acquisition),
destructive / non-destructive testing.
1999–2000 Quadrad Mfg. - Linamar Corporation Guelph, ON
Quality Assurance Manager
 Extensive experience in tier one, tier two quality management activities,
automotive parts manufacturing.
 Achieved QS 9000 and Q1 status.
 Reduced a 300-page quality manual to 85 pages.
 Primary customer quality contact, 8D problem solving, PPM control.
 Quality department development, succession planning and cross training.
 Cost control starting at APQP.
 PPAP, FMEA, control plans, gauging systems (selection and acquisition),
destructive / non-destructive testing.
 Implemented scrap control/reduction measures.
1986-1999 Spinic Mfg. – Linamar Corporation Guelph, ON
 Quality Inspector 1986 - 1996.
 Quality Supervisor 1996 - 1999.
 350 hours per year as a production supervisor.
EDUCATION
1981-1985 Guelph CVI Guelph, ON
 Graduated Grade 12
 See education (attached) for detailed outline of training experience.
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5. EDUCATION
 Kepner Tregoe problem solving
 Lean manufacturing
 Error Proof Training
 Advanced Product Quality Planning
 Production Part Approval Process
 Measurement Systems Analysis
 Failure Mode Effects Analysis -
 8D Problem Solving
 Employee Relations -
 Lockout / Tagout
 Supervisory Mgt. Program
 Module I – Developing Employees
 Module V – Leadership Action
 Module IV – Team Management & Empowering Techniques
 Module III – Interaction Skills
 Module II – Performance Management
 IAPA – Certified Worker
 Accident Investigation
 Workplace Inspection
 Manufacturing Tooling Jigs and Fixtures
 Intro to Personal Computers
 Metallurgy – Heat treating
 Metallurgy for the non-metallurgist
 Level I Mag Testing
 Statistical Quality Control
 Dimensional Metrology
 Blue print reading
 Fundamentals of QA
 Principles of QA
 Metrology
 Non destructive testing of materials
 Mechanical testing of materials
 Co-ordinate Measuring Machines
 Geometric Dimensions & Tolerancing
 Total Quality Management
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6. EDUCATION
 Kepner Tregoe problem solving
 Lean manufacturing
 Error Proof Training
 Advanced Product Quality Planning
 Production Part Approval Process
 Measurement Systems Analysis
 Failure Mode Effects Analysis -
 8D Problem Solving
 Employee Relations -
 Lockout / Tagout
 Supervisory Mgt. Program
 Module I – Developing Employees
 Module V – Leadership Action
 Module IV – Team Management & Empowering Techniques
 Module III – Interaction Skills
 Module II – Performance Management
 IAPA – Certified Worker
 Accident Investigation
 Workplace Inspection
 Manufacturing Tooling Jigs and Fixtures
 Intro to Personal Computers
 Metallurgy – Heat treating
 Metallurgy for the non-metallurgist
 Level I Mag Testing
 Statistical Quality Control
 Dimensional Metrology
 Blue print reading
 Fundamentals of QA
 Principles of QA
 Metrology
 Non destructive testing of materials
 Mechanical testing of materials
 Co-ordinate Measuring Machines
 Geometric Dimensions & Tolerancing
 Total Quality Management
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