1. Ed Johnson
2256 Xavier Place
Clarinda, Iowa 51632
Telephone: 712/585-3550
Cell Phone: 402/306-2481
Email: EdwardLJohnson@eaton.com
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Professional Experience:
January 2011- Present Eaton Corporation, Shenandoah, Iowa
Heat Treat Supervisor
• Currently lead 3 shifts of Heat Treat to meet Safety/Quality/Delivery goals.
o Developed capacity model, daily flow spreadsheet and weekend shift
strategy for department.
• Led 5S initiative for department which includes:
o Kings Mountain bench mark trip.
o Repaint and labeling of furnaces. (Best Practice)
o 5S cleaning standards: schedule for focused cleaning events and
combustible dust.
• Developed alloy strategy for department which includes:
o Spreadsheet for alloy tracking; redesign of racks; consolidation of racks
which will lower alloy costs.
• Developed a consumables strategy for department which includes:
o Permanent PO for Nitrogen and Ammonia; set up of everyday items in
Bruckner; KanBan systems for Shot/Wire/Test coupons/Almen strips.
• Led Safety improvements in department which includes:
o Safety board at start up meetings.
o Focus on STOP as a proactive driver of safety improvements.
o HT cart improvements; latches, chains, pneumatic latch system.
o Catwalks on each furnace.
o Outside roll off for alloy moved inside.
o Remote breaker system for Furnaces.
o Removal of marking parts at peener. ( Division improvement)
• Led project to replace Heat Treat Management system.
• Led project to Combined B & BH cycles. Worked with lab tech and Division
metallurgist to lower carbon levels in furnace to reach an optimal carbon profile
to maximize hardenability. The next step was to combine 2 of our cycles to
decrease changeover empties and improve through put. (230K)

2. • Led Standard shot project. Shot cost per piece has lowered to $.095 vs. $.1322 in
2014. Shot usage has lowered to 15.8 tons per month vs. 20.25 tons per month in
2014. (211K)
• Led Labor hour per piece project. Currently averaging .02385 labor hours per
piece since restructure vs. .02806 labor hours per piece in 2014. This is a 15%
improvement. (166K)
• Led All CQI9 activities
o CQI9 evidence book. (Best Practice)
May 2004 – January 2011 Eaton Corporation, Shenandoah, Iowa
Steel Production Supervisor
• Manage all 1st
shift steel Departments (2011)
• Manage department budget (6.8 M/yr). 22% favorable budget variance (2010).
o Input gear, Reduction Gear, Front Countershaft Gear, Front
Countershafts, Aux Countershafts, Aux Countershaft gears, Main Shaft
Gears, Splitter Gears, Aux Drive Gears, Welders, and Hard Finish
departments. (45 employees)
• Lead Flow Line/Commodity teams (cross functional) to meet
Safety/Quality/Delivery goals.
• Manage the report out process of my department with leadership to streamline the
process to make the presentations more effective.
• Honing project- Worked with the Flow line Team and Galesburg Team to deploy
honing equipment and convert parts from Hard Finish. (2 M/ 06’-07’)
• Post Heat Treat Reflow- Kaizen Team Leader.
o Through use of the lean tools made the following improvements:
throughput increases (15%), labor savings (251K/annually), reduced
forklift travel (41%), safety improvements (14’ aisles, pedestrian only
aisles, and rerouted forklift paths), and eliminated missed operation risks.
• Lead cross functional team to improve throughput in MSG 6.
o The project lead to various production changes which increased
throughput by 35%.
• Have lead Flow Line Team in various other continuous improvement activities
which include:
o Reduction gear layout, Single side turning, elimination of parallel in
Reduction gears, Input gear layout, 5S kaizens.
• Completed OSHA 10 hour Industry outreach training.
• Manage employee engagement practices. I have been successful at engaging my
employees to drive continuous improvement. This is evidenced in above
improvements and a 20% increase in survey results.
Feb1993 -May 2004Eaton Corporation, Shenandoah, Iowa
Production employee
Education:

3. 1993 Northwest Missouri State University- Maryville, Missouri
BS in Accounting
2014 ASM- Materials Park, Ohio 44073
Certificate of Achievement- Heat Treating& Applied General Metallurgy