Cornelius is a Materials Area Supervisor for Fiat Chrysler in Ohio. Working on the Jeep Gladiator line, Cornelius ensures that both the automotive materials necessary for assembly as well as the workforce is operating smoothly. Utilizing lean methodologies to minimize waste, both material and talent, is the key to successful manufacturing on the line.
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My name is Cornelius Crawford. I'm a MLM materials aerial supervisor at Chrysler. I'm in control of all the materials coming into the plant and making sure they get delivered to the line, utilizing WCM LEM manufacturing. Materials as far as body harnesses, dash harnesses, IPs, front end mods, tires, chassis, engines, ensuring that all those materials get in. And not only just get in, but managing people to make sure they get to the production lines. So I monitor a lot of screens at my job, and all these screens that I'm monitoring, I'm looking at parts that we utilize, but ensuring that we're not below the reorder quantity, verifying control storage with the suppliers, making sure the accounts and inventory in the book is correct on our end, so that we can have a continuous daily material flow in house. Lean with my manpower, not having extra people, you know, working under me that I don't need. Lean as far as not having extra material on the lines. Lean in not having route drivers... having a route where they can take where they not having to go through multiple obstacles just to deliver something. So getting rid of waste, saving time, and being able to utilize that time for other things, and activities. I do work on the JT, the Gladiator side, where they build the Jeep Gladiator. You work on two shifts, first and second. First shift, 5:30 to 4:00 p.m. And second shift, 5:00 p.m. to 3:30 a.m.
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