Arik Smith Email & Phone Number

United States

Saginaw, Michigan

Midland, Mi

Business operations support including budget planning, cost tracking, cost analysis, revenue/EBITDA reporting and analysis, capital project portfolio management, P&L reporting/analysis, revenue/EBITDA forecasting and Say-Do analysis" Improved revenue by 4% over previous year by analyzing financial data to determine root causes for negative trends and making recommendations for mitigation" Maximized value of capital budget by analyzing product financials and working with business leaders to prioritize capital projects to foster the most growth" Enabled my business to reduce spending by 7% vs previous year by creating and tracking internal/external cost flows and ensuring that recharges and allocations flowed according to services used and agreement made" Lead the training team by working with global operations group to identify gaps and working with SME's to develop training content to address those gaps and administering pertinent training

Midland, Mi

Managed all aspects of day to day facility operations for North American Research & Development Labs and Offices. This included leading the process of facilities management vendor selections, working with clients to create scopes of work, cost analysis, cost tracking and cost reduction activities. Worked with clients to prioritize and execute expense projects, lead the planning process for facilities budgets." Led team that traced facility and business needs and used this data to plan capital and expense project plans/budget for multiple years. This provided a high level view of the business, facilitating the strategic planning and execution of projects to address critical needs while staying within budget" Garnered $245K of additional revenue for Dow by analyzing external cost flows to find and correct errors in how we charged the customer for fixed and on-demand services" Managed spend to 98% of "run the business" budget by tracking actual monthly costs against budget and adjusting projections/monthly budgets" Supervised a multi-matrixed organization of individuals to best leverage their technical strengths in concert with their geographic availability to reduce lease and IT costs by $750K over 3 years" Reduced North American provider contract costs by $1.5M vs previous contract by leading the sourcing project to identify a facilities vendor to perform services

Saginaw, Michigan Area

" Lead engineer and project manager on a project to design and supply halfshafts to a customer from request for quote through PPAP to production utilizing a global value stream and an international project team. Duties include setting budgets, coordinating all engineering efforts as well as managing project timelines, tracking spending and making adjustments to meet budgetary and timing requirements. Overseeing product design and analysis for quality and reliability were large portions of my role" Set up and managed global supply chain, including anticipation and mitigation of upstream supplier issues to reduce/eliminate impact on manufacturing " Managed pre-production and early production runs to ensure quality of the product as well as the manufacturing process" Utilized DFMEA throughout design projects to anticipate and design for known failure modes and causes. Managed project with operations to address production concerns as a results of PFMEA analysis" Lowered the overall manufacturing and material costs, increasing the profitability of the program and made Delphi more competitive from a pricing perspective by redesigning components and managing suppliers resulting in lower cost (roughly 5%), higher quality components " Managed post-production projects which successfully reduced component, logistic and production costs by 15% while improving product quality " Reduced post production costs by $0.50/part by leading cost savings and continuous improvement initiatives

Master Of Science - Ms, Operations Management And Supervision, 3.5

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering