Chris Thomas Email & Phone Number

Spokane, Washington Area

Schedule large mining conveyor system projects (1-100m) from bid schedule through procurement, fabrication, logistics and construction, identifying when to release bill of material items to meet contract requirements and logistic concerns, track Engineering progress using Microsoft Project, S-curves, and Histograms. Increased schedule confidence from 40% to 90%.Initiated Document Control dept. with incoming and outgoing documents world wide.Lead Team to write a Project Process Manual for all departments. Including Sipoc document to ensure that all input and output flow of information was documented to accomplish project tasks.Internal ISO Auditor, Kaizen team member, also worked on Oracle ERP implementation.

Responsible for major grocery store accounts ensuring correct product placement.

Schedule Manufacturing, Assembly and Purchasing to meet business plan of 30m. Responsible for all aspects of the factory schedule.Manage all MRP functions, 98% on time parts percentage.Process owner of shop floor control, costing system and purchasing systems.ERP Core Software Team: wrote software specifications for shop costing process changes to save company 75k per year, also became standard functionality.Lean and Kaizen Team leader and member 6 different Kaizen events.Managed Service Part inventory through forecast Plan BOM and consumption.Started in Inventory for two years, worked in Purchasing, Capacity Planning, and Planning Supervisor.