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Manufacturing, Operations, Lean & General Management Leader
Location: Greater Chicago Area, United States 11 work roles 1 school
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Dan Greffe previously worked as Vice President of Operations / GM - Aftermarket at Flowserve Corporation and Director of Operations / GM - Aftermarket Parts at Flowserve Corporation. Dan Greffe holds Bachelar Of Science, Industrial Engineering from Northern Illinois University.

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Accomplished professional Operations Leader with demonstrated ability to Champion a Continuous Improvement Culture resulting in sales growth, enhanced operations performance, and improved profitability.

11 roles · 29 years

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Vice President Of Operations / Gm - Aftermarket

Irving, Texas, Us

P&L responsibilities for Aftermarket Services & Solutions for North & South America. Booking $400M+, 32 Locations & 1,300 Associates• Strategic Deployment of a 5-Year Plan to Double Capture rate by enhancing the customer experience by leveraging the suite of products, services and network capacity; resulted in record bookings levels in 2022.• Monthly Management Cadence resulting in measured improvements in business performance metrics and forecast accuracy.• Introduction of “Grow our Own Talent” Initiative, focusing on our Invest & Grow Talent development; 75% identified associated moved into expanded role within the first year.• AMSS Leadership Team Member responsible for Global Parts Initiative, resulting in Booking, Order Margin, Absorption and Gross Profit expansion three consecutive years.• Regional Leadership Team includes – Finance, Human Resources, Pump Repair, Parts, Field Service, Equipment Monitoring, On-site Applications & Engineering

2021 - 2023 ~2 yrs

Director Of Operations / Gm - Aftermarket Parts

Irving, Texas, Us

P&L responsibilities for North America Parts Manufacturing and Large Duplicate Assemblies and Rotors. Revenues $130M, 5 Locations & 250 Associates• Leader of the North American Parts Initiative which reinvigorated the Parts business by implementation of a “Speed Wins” business model. Resulted in improvement to customer experience, bookings and profitability.• Introduction of Centralized Capacity Planning, Lean Activities, deployment of Production Control across Network, multi-year Capital Investment Plan and employee engagement strategies.• Increased Foundry-Casting first pass yield from 72 to 96% by a multi-step improvement strategy we call “Stairway to Casting Heaven”. Strategies around data accuracy, solidification modeling, supplier performance & capacity planning, utilization of 3D model, sand molds & additive / printed casting technology.

2020 - 2021 ~1 yr

Director Of Operations / Gm – Service & Repair

Irving, Texas, Us

P&L responsibilities for Pump & Seal Quick Response Repair Centers in North / East USA & Canada. Revenues $50M, 10 Locations & 130 Associates• Introduced Process Control throughout business allowing for utilize of manufacturing capabilities of the entire network.• Introduced a Lean Tools used during forecasting process to predict the product that would book and ship within a period. The output of this tool was used in labor scheduling and staffing plans.• Liaison with 2 other GMs within the Region to leverage Best Practices Sharing and standardize business processes.

2019 - 2020 ~1 yr

Regional Service Center Mgr

Houston, Texas, Us

P&L responsibility for 5 Service Centers in the Gulf Coast West Region. • Introduction of Daily Accountability Process focused on Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost & People• Transformed leadership structure from Departmental to Value Stream Alignment• Implemented Capacity Share Philosophy across 5 Gulf Coast Service Centers • Deployment of Tiger Team philosophy to save $8mm of new business. Within 3-months improved OTD from 50% to 95%, PPM from 50,000 to 7,000; while reducing labor cost by 30%• Kaizen Event Champion resulted in +286% thru put increase in Hose Assembly• Developed Integration Plan to combine 4 sites into a Regional Hub Service Center

2017 - 2019 ~2 yrs

Vice President Of Operations

Hydrotex, Inc.

Implemented Lean manufacturing processes in Service Center environment that resulted in measurable improvements in customer on-time, employee productivity and job close-out margins. • On-Time Delivery improved to over 95% by the Project Milestone Visual Management Tracker. • Direct Labor Productivity improved from 68% to 82% by deployment of Lean Principles.• Formulated Employee Engagement Action Plan resulted in Favorable Rating from 60% to 90%.• Reintroduction of Milled Vane Technology to resulted in $1mm annualized revenue improvement.• Orchestrated ERP System Implementation and best practice sharing across 3 Gulf Coast Sites.

2015 - 2017 ~2 yrs

Operations Director

Winterthur, Ch

Utilizing the Goal Deployment Process developed a 3-year improvement plan which resulted in business profitability improvement from ($9mm) to +$1mm. Actions focused on revenue growth, cost management and order execution.• Globalized the low volume and high mix of pressure boundary casting identifying and qualifying suppliers in Mexico, China and India. • Instituted Milestone Management Philosophy resulting in customer on-time delivery improvements for 25% to above 90%. • Introduced Single Minute Exchange of Dies resulted in Test Stand Set-up time reduction from on average of 90 minutes to a demonstrated best of 9 minutes.• Partnered with VP of Vertical pumps to implement a "Win Order" strategy resulting in sales increase from $32mm to $65mm.

2011 - 2015 ~4 yrs

Plant Director

Textron - Union Pumps

Responsible for the P&L and Legal Entity Statuary Accounting for a manufacture of reciprocating and pump packages servicing the API & Nuclear Power Plants. • Lead Spokesperson for three labor contract negations with two different unions (IAM & IATC)• Re-energized Site EHS Committee resulting in 65% reduction in TRIR.• Established a Pump Training School which allowed us to train the global sales and engineering team on Reciprocating Pumps resulting in global sales increase from $26mm to $65mm.• Introduced Lean resulting in Productivity improvements - SMED, Standard Work & Work Stands

2006 - 2011 ~5 yrs

Plant Manager

Textron - Greenlee
2003 - 2006 ~3 yrs

Six Sigma Black Belt

Textron - Greenlee
2002 - 2003 ~1 yr

Plant Quality & Engineering Manager

Textron - Greenlee
2000 - 2002 ~2 yrs

Sr. Industrial Engineer

Textron - Greenlee
1998 - 2000 ~2 yrs
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Dan Greffe education

  • Northern Illinois University
    Northern Illinois University
    Industrial Engineering
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Dan Greffe is listed as Manufacturing, Operations, Lean & General Management Leader.

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Dan Greffe is based in Greater Chicago Area, United States.

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Dan Greffe has worked for Flowserve Corporation, Ghx Industrial, Llc, Hydrotex, Inc., Sulzer, and Textron - Union Pumps.

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Dan Greffe holds Bachelar Of Science, Industrial Engineering from Northern Illinois University.

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