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Downers Grove, IL

• Oversee and manage all daily activities of the company, including: sales, quoting, dispatch, service, customer service, accounting, human resources, supply chain and transportation areas
• Manage hiring, discipline, termination and performance reviews of all personnel
• Develop all standardized operating procedures, documents, and work instructions required to run daily operations; placed them in a central location and initiated the training required to put them into place, helping to.
• Begin weekly operations meetings to open channels of communication and to create transparency between departments which allows for more participation from the employees and for the company to review KPI data and to.
• Introduce continuous improvement methodology throughout the organization, which includes reviewing data to find ways to reduce costs and to increase growth and profitability, allowing better customer service and lower.
• Originate an inventory control system involving the creation of an inventory data base, cycle counting and reduction and consolidation of vendors, lowering inventory levels and reducing costs by 73%

Batavia, IL

• Buyer
• Maintain responsibility and leadership for assigned spend categories which include developing strategies and coordinating all related supply chain activities to ensure that all quality, delivery and cost requirements.
• Verify, manage and monitor supplier capability to meet all performance requirements including quality, delivery, cost, inventory, lead time and innovation/new product development
• Lead supplier quality improvement efforts using root cause analysis, auditing and statistical analysis
• Continuously perform strategic sourcing activities to achieve the lowest possible cost of materials and services
• Identify and implement cost reduction projects based upon value stream mapping and analysis

Blue Island, IL- Chicago, IL- Elgin, IL-Joliet, IL-South Bend, IN

• Led and maintained the Quality Management System (QMS) and Environmental Management System (EMS) for fourteen departments within the organization to ensure standards were implemented and sustained for the ISO 9001:2008.
• Orchestrated and completed the organization’s ISO 9001:2008 re-certification project
• Responsible for managing customer complaints, concerns and returns related to quality, as well as working with supervisors and operations personnel to proactively and reactively resolve quality issues
• Monitored and administrated all activities for customer’s warnings and rejections of delivered materials
• Directed all internal/external corrective and preventative actions along with continuous improvement and preventative action projects
• Worked with purchasing department to qualify and formulate quality standards for suppliers of raw materials, MRO, service and transportation

Blue Island, IL-Chicago, IL-Elgin, IL-Joliet, IL-South Bend, IN

• Analyzed department’s daily, weekly and monthly performance numbers to ensure shipping targets were being met and cash flow was consistent.
• Monitored GPS data to ensure drivers’ schedules were allowing for maximum shipping efficiency.
• Tracked, audited, and rectified, if necessary, outside freight costs to ensure company was not overpaying for material movement
• Validated outside trucking companies’ hauling reports to ensure that proper equipment was being utilized
• Managed all activities for broker related issues and requests for monthly contracted orders
• Negotiated pricing and length of all contracts for rail, barge and trucking companies for the movement of all delivered material

Blue Island, IL-Chicago, IL-Elgin, IL-Joliet, IL-Lake Bluff, IL- South Bend, IN

• Supervised six locations and managed their daily operations to ensure the daily operational workflow was performed in a timely and efficient fashion while monitoring the safety of personnel, the adherence to proper.
• Responsible for monitoring and managing all operational expenses in order to meet the requirements set forth by executive management
• Analyzed and reported operational statistics on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis
• Facilitated weekly communication activities to insure that all operational departments had a clear understanding of weekly goals and to allow communication between departments
• Ensured ongoing yard organizational adjustments and layouts were performed to allow for optimum usage of properties
• Continuously worked to reduce costs by streaming labor costs, processes and systems

North Aurora, IL

• Managed strategic procurement of all direct and indirect material
• Procured all raw materials, patterns, tooling, measuring and test equipment along with packaging, expendables and many MRO supplies
• Oversaw selection and approval of all suppliers
• Created and maintained a monthly “Approved supplier performance status program” in which all suppliers of production supplies had to meet strict quality, ppm, and delivery criteria in order to remain on an approved.
• Created and issued commercial contracts
• Directed all supplier cost reduction efforts