State Operations Manager
Current- Leadership of the receiving, Maintenance, Production, Despatch teams. During me leadership of Operations, I was also responsible for the Customer Service and Costings teams.- Responsible for 75 staff on the Dunlop Foams site with 6 Direct reports and for a period of time was responsible for 100 staff on the Sleepmaker site with 7 direct reports.- Responsible for the Site profit and loss.- During the last 12 month, managed a sudden increase in production on the Dunlop Foams QLD site. The site doubled in volume from both a foam production and foam conversion perspective.- As a QLD team, we took the leadership on Lean Manufacturing and Competitive Edge in the business and took the QLD site to the highest rated site in 5S and house keeping in the business. We sent some of our staff to other sites to steer them in the right direction to be able to achieve the same result.- Maintain an on time delivery performance of 95% or higher on a monthly basis.- Implement and maintain WHS standards on site.- Setting up and maintain performance measures for staff.- Invest time in continues improvement projects for the site. - Started a Quality system for the Dunlop Foam site (still in progress)