Chad Bauer Email & Phone Number

Brookfield, WI, US

Brookfield, Wisconsin, United States

• Manages over 50 highly complex new product development projects
• Leads 10 plus improvement projects to address existing Service standards and procedures
• Provides mentorship to Associate Project Leaders on team
• Communicates, both verbal and written, to assure all groups are working toward the goal of timely project completion
• Accountable for technical elements of project execution including integration of complicated components and assemblies
• Schedules, develops agendas, facilitates, and documents project meetings

Brookfield, Wisconsin

• Provided Leadership over 100 complex new product development projects
• Communicated, both verbally and written, to assure all groups are working toward the goal of timely project completion
• Accountable for technical elements of project execution including integration of complicated components and assemblies
• Continually looked at improvement opportunities to existing standards and procedures
• Scheduled, developed agendas, facilitated, and documented project meetings
• Consistently visualized entire scope of a project with very little guidance

Oak Creek, WI

• Directly managed materials for seven Global Repair Site transfers that accumulated $25M in annual revenue
• Lead a team of 9 employees both on-site and at remote locations
• Partnered with the Global Sourcing team to optimize supplier forecast for all Global repair sites
• Developed operating documents and work instructions to facilitate standard processes
• Collaborated with transfer leaders to accelerate the procurement of material to meet repair site start up timelines
• Implemented strategic initiatives such as vendor managed inventory, supplier consolidation, and lead time reductions

Waukesha, WI

• Owned new part set up, BOM set up, WIP job set up, and cost requests
• Transformed the way cables were bought from a packaging standpoint totaling $15K in annual savings
• Controlled Phase in/Phase out of parts to minimize obsolete material
• Connected with vendors on all communications and changes to current parts
• Coordinated daily with Sourcing, Material, Manufacturing, and Fulfillment teams
• Maintained essential to safety configurations and incoming inspection flags for parts

Wauwatosa, WI

• Effectively communicated the status of orders to all regions around the globe
• Reduced past due orders from 70 per day to 0 in Q1 2015 and maintained < 5 consistently in Q2-Q3 2015
• Initiated conversation in daily meetings and calls directly involving production matters
• Obtained and filled priority lists for items we were short to demand on
• Ran the backlog report daily on orders with a known shortage and filled accordingly
• Worked with Inventory Analysis on cycle counts to reflect inventory accuracy

Wauwatosa, WI

• Managed over 1000 GE Ultrasound components that were sourced globally
• Drove non-conforming material inventory down to all time low of under $50K in Q4 2013
• Converted $146K of aged non-conforming material inventory into $0 in Q4 2013
• Enforced the on-time delivery and expediting of material to meet Marketing forecasts
• Accountable for new part integration’s and item phase outs with all GE Ultrasound Segments

Fond Du Lac, WI

• Audited, analyzed, ordered, and expedited material daily to satisfy production/service requirements in a Lean environment
• Developed, coordinated, and maintained strategies for 780 non-metallic production components of $8 million in demand
• Achieved team goals for cost reduction, inventory reduction, on-time delivery improvement, and quality improvement
• Guided in the merging of two business operations through the practice of Lean Six Sigma projects
• Evaluated inventory records utilizing MRP systems for facilities in Fond du Lac, WI; Stillwater, OK; and Juarez, MX

Oshkosh, WI

• Recorded information from over 20 clients to prepare jobs for production meetings and project team assignment
• Compiled project and resource management solutions to improve production scheduling and resource allocation
• Interviewed staff and University clients to ensure timely production of marketing materials
• Diagnosed status of jobs internally and when jobs are completed