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Houston, Texas, Us

Irving, Texas, Us

Aftermarket Services and Solutions-Houston Parts Manufacturing Center• Lead business operations for manufacturing, performance test, and assembly. • Cross functional team across manufacturing, production control, quality, supply chain, safety.• Hoshin planning strategy execution in high mix, high volume environment• Critical KPI's: Safety Maturity rating from Beginning to High Performing, OTD from 45% to 90%+, FPY from 85% to 92%+, Employee Engagement scores from 70th percentile to 94th percentile.• Doubled sales in 3 year span.

Irving, Texas, Us

Aftermarket Services and Solutions- North America Pump Parts• Champion for Transformational Lean Deployment; focus on front end processes.• Support of NA Parts Initiative centered on total lead time reduction; focus on overall network optimization.•Major CIP activities include Capacity tools, routing standard estimation, SMED, spindle utilization implementation.

Houston, Tx, Us

•Implementation of Lean/Six Sigma to promote Continuous Improvement in SQDC metrics.•Define/Rollout Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) as corporate KPI. Development of performance dashboards.•Develop Gemba process routine to promote daily shop floor driven improvement.•Identification and Prioritization of projects based on OEE/Yield improvement and Cost Savings potential.•Define/Implement standards for Continuous Improvement programs such as 6S, Visual Management, SMED to be utilized within company.•Project Champion for RFID Barcoding Track and Trace Project.•Recognized with 3rd place award in Horizons competition 2016 for Lean implementation project.•Represented IPSCO in first Universal Lean Day Conference, Q4 2018.•Living our Values award recipient. Q1 2016, Q2 2016, Q1 2017•Support of Slitting, ERW, Threading, Pipe Coating, NDT Inspection, Heat Treating, Upsetting, Seamless Pipe Production Process improvement and facilitated benchmarking projects.•100% travel supporting United States facilities.

Houston, Texas, Us

•Manage production, repair, and maintenance activities of GeoTap and IDS Tool lines.•Lead cross functional Tactical Response Team (TRT) consisting of members from engineering, planning, procurement, and quality.•Develop and maintain high-performing team while addressing financial/resource constraints to deliver measurable results with direct impact on Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost.•Ensure alignment of KPI's with Hoshin goals and identify areas for improvement.•Drive operational excellence at the frontline level through foundational process improvement principles such as 5S, Visual Management, and Kaizen blitz.•Maintain a focus on development of personnel through establishment of skills matrix to identify and allow opportunities for growth. •Promote the continual refinement of R&D procedures and policies to ensure safety and quality compliance.

Meudon, Île-De-France, Fr

•Resident champion for Vallourec Management System (VMS).•Perform Value Stream Mapping (VSM) of bottleneck processes to identify opportunities for improvement (safety, quality, delivery, cost reduction).•Utilize Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) as key metric for identifying and eliminating sources of waste in Availability, Performance, and Quality.•Coach Continuous Improvement Teams (CIT's) to identify key projects while utilizing DMAIC methodology to solve complex problems.•Establish Frontline Supervisor Team (Line CIT) to empower shopfloor management/operators and drive continuous improvement spirit to the Gemba.•Create work standards and develop training material on relevant subject matter to train key change agents on new methodologies.•Specific focus of Kaizens on Safety (Risk Assessment, Hands Free) and Quality (Defect-Free, FMEA).

Houston, Texas, Us

•Value Analysis- Perform value stream mapping of key processes to identify non-value add cost drivers in server and rack process flows.•Participate in rollout of Lean manufacturing and 5S methodologies to kit, assembly, test, and ship processes.• Ergonomics: Apply human factors engineering to improve ergonomics of Assembly workstations and material transfer vehicles.• Plant Layout & Design: Factory layout modification to create flow and improve capacity.• Capacity & Materials Planning: Utilize analytic models to identify capacity constraints against short term order patterns and forecasts.• Labor Standards: DFMA time standard estimation and validation by analyzing work samples and assessing operator performance ratings.