Christopher Kaye Email & Phone Number

Dedham, Massachusetts, US

Operations Leader for Alimed, a privately owned manufacturer and global distributor of specialty healthcare products designed to improve patient outcomes and experience. Responsible for building and leading change through investment in and deployment of best practices to drive predictable, scalable and efficient execution through the supply chain to.

Chelmsford, MA, US

Multi-Site Operations Leader for Brooks Automation, a leading worldwide provider of automation and cryogenic solutions for multiple markets including semiconductor manufacturing and life sciences. Responsible for leading, driving and transforming the Operations and Supply Chain to support $160m revenue in the cryogenic solutions business unit with major.

San Clemente, California, US

• Established as the leader for a Global Engineering Project Management function aligned to Product Management with responsibility for sourcing, manufacturing and process improvements to reduce cost and quality.
• Designed, implemented and embedded Value Engineering program
• Built a high performance team of 10 professional Program Mangers aligned with Engineering
• Achieved $100m in variable cost savings over 5 years used to fund NPI investment and price concessions
• Established ‘Best Practice’ sharing with Smiths group and extending workshops into supply base
• Drove simplification of Manufacturing strategy, portfolio simplification and execution of global foot print strategy

San Clemente, California, US

• Strategic Manufacturing leader of business integration team, managing 6 professional project managers with teams numbering over 100 people throughout the project providing direction to project teams and operations.
• Managed successful closure of 5 sites including establishing a new location in Mexico low cost manufacturing with minimal disruption to customer service and quality
• Delivered $40m of cost benefit
• Expanded training programs for new sites
• Coordinated collaborative implementation of Oracle ERP from manufacturing point of view
• Maintained full compliance with FDA throughout the three year project

San Clemente, California, US

• Relocated from UK to become the Senior business leader for the Rockland site. Responsible for manufacturing and delivery performance, maintaining health & safety and operating in compliance with FDA GMP and the Quality.
• Implemented Oracle ERP system
• Designed and implemented a Lean manufacturing program for electromechanical hardware operation
• Reduced manufacturing Overhead through a much simplified manufacturing model of make to order
• Reduced inventory by $2.5M (22%), improved productivity by 20%
• Reduced foot print of factory by 15,000 square feet and renegotiated lease saving $100K per year

San Clemente, California, US

• Responsible for manufacturing and delivery performance, maintaining health and safety and operating in compliance with FDA GMP and the Quality Management System
• Achieved a 15% reduction ($3m) in manufacturing costs and implemented a focused KPI management system
• Benchmarked the site against world class manufacturing metrics – similar process to Shingo Prize and implemented a Kaizen approach to re-shape and refocus the manufacturing operation
• Managed a multi-million dollar, multi-national transfer project to set-up clean rooms, manufacturing systems and move the supply chain to Tijuana, Mexico resulting in over $6m in realized savings

Project Engineering

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Master Of Science (Msc), Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Honors, Mechanical Engineering