Tony Spielvogel
Wampum
Summary
With a strong foundation in manufacturing, I have successfully managed multimillion dollar accounts while driving strategic alignment between customer demand and production capabilities. My experience spans sales growth, capacity planning and operational improvement through lean manufacturing methodologies. By integrating market insight with disciplined operational strategy, I focus on maximizing throughput, improving efficiency, and delivering sustainable value across the manufacturing value chain.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Manager of Operations and Material Planning
Ellwood City Forge Group
Ellwood City, PA
08.2022 - Current
- Responsible for developing and managing $25M + monthly shipment schedules, aligning production planning, customer demand and operational capacities
- Applied lean manufacturing principals, including Theory of Constraints to optimize scheduling.
- Collaborated daily with executive leadership (VP of Operations and VP of Sales) to improve throughput, and prioritize production flow.
- Led consistent and effective communication with direct reports to clarify expectations, reinforce accountability and support the execution of our operational priorities.
- Key contributor to initiatives that improved due date performance to over 85% on time delivery across critical customer programs.
Operations Planning Coordinator
Ellwood City Forge Group
Ellwood City, PA
03.2017 - 08.2022
- Work cross-functionally with sales, quality, production planning, and metallurgical engineers to ensure product integrity and to consistently meet stringent customer specifications across aerospace, oil & gas, and other high-performance industries.
- Utilized and managed ERP systems (Symphony/OneBeat) to coordinate production scheduling, monitor workflow, and manage capacities at critical work centers to support delivery performance.
- Evaluated customer drawings and specifications to determine manufacturing feasibility, define product routing, assign appropriate work centers and establish achievable, yet efficiency driven processing times.
Strategic Account Manager
Ellwood City Forge Group
Ellwood City, PA
07.2012 - 03.2017
- Managed the reliability sales process from raising interest meeting/presentation to “client” achievement, including accountability reviews.
- Work collaboratively with various internal and external staff members and departments to meet customers’ expectations and to provide value add sales opportunities.
- Developed and maintained strategic customer relationships supporting annual net new orders exceeding $20M.
- Develop and present concepts, solutions and programs to customers and prospects utilizing Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Syteline.
- Provide leadership training to Product Specialist’s in the Sales Department.
Product Specialist
Ellwood City Forge Group
Ellwood City, PA
10.2009 - 07.2012
- Customer service oriented aimed at providing quick responses to customer requests for information and account services.
- Work collaboratively with various internal and external staff members and departments to meet customer expectations and to provide value add sales opportunities.
- Manage sales process of several key ECFG customer accounts.
- Analyze and translate customer specifications, applications and drawings.
- **ECFG layout and saw operator from November 2008-October 2009.
Education
Associate of Science - Business Management
Butler County Community College
Butler, PA12-2008
Skills
- Proficient Manufacturing Practices; TOC, POOGI, Five Focusing Steps
- Capacity Planning and Load balancing
- Demand Forecast Alignment
- Continuous Improvement
- Team leadership
- Problem-solving
- Operations management
Certification
- Human Behavior
- Skills of Supervision
- Managing Time & Stress
- Problem Solving, Decision making, and Creativity
- Motivating Employees
- Supervisor as a Leader
- Managing Conflict & Change
- Ethics/Appraising & Rewarding Performance
- OSHA - 10 Hour Safety Training
Timeline
Manager of Operations and Material Planning
Ellwood City Forge Group
08.2022 - Current
Operations Planning Coordinator
Ellwood City Forge Group
03.2017 - 08.2022
Strategic Account Manager
Ellwood City Forge Group
07.2012 - 03.2017
Product Specialist
Ellwood City Forge Group
10.2009 - 07.2012
Associate of Science - Business Management
Butler County Community College