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Orchard Park, Ny, Us

Orchard Park, Ny, Us

Orchard Park, Ny, Us

Serve as a strategic operational leader providing direction and support to warehouse management within the region. Oversee four locations with custom fabrication operations and distribution of raw plastic materials. Lead, develop, and manage four direct reports with a span of control for 20 indirect reports.✦ Defined and executed effective warehouse management policies, processes, and customer service standards to improve operational processes and meet the needs of all internal and external customers. ✦ Developed and drove operational process improvement projects and initiatives to enhance productivity, minimize downtime, and deliver consistent operating execution and sustainability within the region. ✦ Fostered a culture focused on data-driven strategies to analyze operational performance measures for individual plants, including assessing OTD, Inventory Accuracy, and Cost to Fulfill. ✦ Built a high-performing leadership management team by developing region leaders to think beyond the tactical and physical operations and shift focus to forward thinking and strategic planning for their sites.

Farmington Hills, Mi, Us

Led strategies to drive operational process improvements for a 262,800 sq. ft. warehouse with a staff of 180 Bosch/contract associates. Oversaw a $16.2M operational budget and eight operational support direct reports.✦ Decreased overall headcount expenditures and reduced overtime for all associates by analyzing the 2019 payroll to understand the current workforce, resulting in adding 34 full-time Bosch associates.✦ Oversaw inventory capacity for 25K SKUs, 15K pallet locations, and 60K shelf locations, as well as the 3PL Storage relationship for offsite storage of replenishment inventory with 12K additional pallet locations.✦ Strengthened the safety and security of the warehouse by collaborating with the local HSE representative to ensure compliance with Bosch and government EHS regulations.✦ Improved performance by communicating current performance and gaps with clear metrics and standardized methods, driving accountability to resolve errors, and identifying operational deviations using the 8D method.

Farmington Hills, Mi, Us

Supervised operations at a 114,000 sq. ft. warehouse and managed 17 Bosch/contract associates. Oversaw a $3.3M operational budget to achieve annual business plan targets. Managed three business units under in one facility: Automotive Aftermarket, OEM wheel speed sensor units, and eBikes.✦ Saved $259K in operational costs by reducing the headcount from 18 to 15 HC, supplementing temp labor in times of high volume, negotiating service/maintenance contracts, and rebidding work for lower contract pricing.✦ Minimized downtime by performing time studies to determine the best course of action to keep pickers on equipment picking.✦ Increased floor capacity by strategizing and implementing packing process improvements and designing floor layout improvements in inbound and outbound.

Farmington Hills, Mi, Us

Oversaw floor operations for a 231,000 sq. ft. warehouse and managed 60+ Bosch/contract associates. Managed 40% or $2.4M+ budget related to floor associate head count.✦ Saved $82K in costs by implementing a corrugated recycle/reclaim program to reduce dunnage and waste services cost.✦ Reduced overtime 31.8% resulting in a $170K cost savings by monitoring productivity and performance metrics, improving the picking/packing process, and optimizing storage locations for quicker picking/put away.✦ Increased daily output 13.2% by reviewing productivity and implementing a process change to increase overall picking and packing productivity targets.✦ Boosted OTD from 25.40% to 91.18% in one year by manipulating the production schedule to print early and complete the parts for sales orders to enable on-time shipment.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Plymouth, Michigan, Us

Elgin, Illinois, Us

Elgin, Illinois, Us

Bachelor Of Science In Management, Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management

Associate Of Science In Kinesiology And Exercise Science