Chris Benjamin Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Senior leadership role with a broad portfolio of business activities.- Leadership over health and safety activities leading to material decreases in TRIR- Work on cost of quality reductions with a multidisciplinary team resulting in consistent improvement in quality performance- Overhauled preventative maintenance process resulting in >90% on-time completion of PM activities, reduced total downtime, and the tracking of key maintenance data- Facilitated strategic planning activities and setting of three-year vision for business plan as a part of ongoing strategic planning leadership- Preliminary work on structure for digital integrated management system with built in business data, knowledge-base, document control, and training components (ISO 9001, 45001, and 14001)- Lead team to full recertification of ISO 9001, 45001, 14001 standards

Design leadership role covering product ideation through to production integration using lean methodologies.- Redesigned development process resulting in more effective integration of final products and consistent communication across functional areas- Created new product development financial analysis tools for both product prioritization and long term analysis- Lead team through switch to 100% remote work from 100% in office

Toronto, Canada Area

Product designer in the contract furniture industry working on products for the healthcare, behavioural health, office, and education markets.- Products worked on won awards for excellence in healthcare seating- Performed and advised on product/market sales and distribution modelling post acquisition- Reworked engineering change process taking it from a paper to a digital-first process

Rotman School Of Management

Helped to design and build an international case competition focused on next generation, sustainable businesses, and the financial models which would support them.

Learned to build websites from scratch with CSS, HTML, PHP, and JQuery (javascript).Built the site One over Au as a portfolio for projects which were simultaneously being designed and built including a robot which can be controlled directly from the site (www.oneoverau.com).

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Activities and Societies: A4S International Case Competition, Rotman Net ImpactDeans List, Bregman Scholar Harvey Botting Scholarship

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: McGill Engineering Competition - Consulting Quebec Engineering Competition - Consulting SSMU Sustainability.