• Drive a culture that prioritizes safety and quality that rewards continuous improvement activities to improve productivity and efficiency• Research, justify, and implement new equipment and technologies to help drive efficiency improvements• Monitor staffing levels and equipment capacity to meet customer demand while developing staff and implementing systems and new technology• Establish a budget and annual plan for the department and review costs and variances for the department by evaluating buy versus make and what resources are used• Work closely with design and marketing to identify process and component changes to improve the quality, value and performance for the customer

• Collaborate with suppliers, engineering, accounting, manufacturing, marketing and sales to drive additional value creation throughout the supply chain• Create a sourcing strategy for the electronics group which includes both short and long-term opportunities and weaknesses in the current supply base, and identify emerging technologies to prepare for future challenges

• Locate, analyze and evaluate sources for electrical components, cables, assemblies and motors• Maintain open purchase orders to ensure that pricing and delivery are sufficient to allow manufacturing to operate efficiently • Support cost reduction, lead time reduction and improve inventory turns through supplier negotiation and supply agreements• Communicate through multiple departments to resolve billing, freight, quality, design, and system issues

• Schedule and plan items in oracle from raw materials state to finished inventory by purchasing raw material as necessary and managing the flow of material through manufacturing work centers• Direct and schedule assemblers and machinist to meet customer requirements and inform management of capacity issues• Involved in preproduction projects with design and purchasing from introductory stage to product launch to evaluate manufacturing impact for new products• Communicate with marketing to analyze sales history and forecast future demand while meeting planned inventory levels

• Set safety stock levels and entered monthly forecasts • Supported internal customers by transferring inventory to locations worldwide and identifying expedites based on government contract deadlines• Maintained critical expedite list to support sales and purchasing activities

• Manage materials to meet production and service needs for sidecars and windshields using JIT, lean techniques, and MRP• Analyze supplier performance and communicate with suppliers to work on continuous improvement projects involving quality and shipping• Use AS400 to view pricing, daily and weekly forecasts, BOM, inventory levels, make shipping transactions, and enter releases through EDI• Prepare monthly materials presentation on financials, safety, inventory DOH, and supplier performance

• Involved in multiple projects identifying aging claim balances, ceded premium balances due and prepared support to supervisors for monthly billing• Clearing received monthly wire transfers from account receivable balances• Interpreted insurance certificates in order to set up loss packages• Ran reports and presented materials to support management in general ledger account reconciliations• Used MS Excel to analyze data spreadsheets, create pivot tables, and design formulas • Mentored by fellow employees to constantly learn and adjust to new concepts and processes