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Decatur, Al, Us

Decatur, Al, Us

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Decatur, Alabama, United States

Drive improvements in material flow throughout the plant by using Lean concepts and waste elimination.Job Duties/Achievements• Designed and implemented the construction of small lot and bulk supermarkets for purchased andinternal parts using PFEP and Lean tools.• Established station setup and material supply/presentation for multiple product assembly lines withthe aid of Yamazumi charts and time studies for a new model product line.• Established and maintained pull system based small part and bulk tugger routes for new model productlines with standard work and cycle times established. Bulk process later improved to remove two drivers.Lean events conducted on 6 tugger routes to remove waste and improve cycle times by an average of15.4min.• Revised and maintained Plan for Every Part (PFEP) through Excel and Access programs with additionalnew product line parts. Graded 5/5 World Class system by company Lean assessment.• Designed and purchased returnable packaging for current and new parts.• Implemented the use of autonomous robots or Intelligent Guided Vehicles to deliver bulk materialto production lines. This including working with 3 different robot manufacturers and learning theprogramming for each.• Participated on 18 Lean events and led 12 of them.• Filled in for MCS role for 9 months. Streamlined ordering processes and developed Excel tools withstandard work to help drive up to $250k in inventory reduction and minimize part outages. MonitoredBOM issues to drive root cause inventory usage corrections.

Decatur, Alabama, United States

Job Duties/Achievements – Material Flow Leader-New Product• Promoted to Material Flow Leader – New Product – 7/1/18 to 4/1/19• Responsible for developing and implementing delivery and storage plans for 250 new product parts,which included pack design, returnable container procurement, internal storage plans, and labor plansfor lineside delivery with station setups.• Developed obsolete part tracking system to monitor and reduce inventory of 230 obsolete partsresulting in being 20% under the obsolescence budget. This method was then used as a benchmark byother plants.

Decatur, Alabama, United States

ob Duties/Achievements – Materials Value Stream Leader• Promoted to Materials Value Stream Leader on 11/18/14 to 5/26/15• Responsible for over 56 employees across 3 shifts dealing with receiving and material deliverythroughout the plant.• Coordinated receipt and inventory tracking of overseas parts direct ship due to corporate warehousefire with only 1 production day lost.• Developed receiving and materials daily metric tracking charts.• Implemented receiving paperwork verification process.• Created On-the-Job Training matrix to promote cross-training and eliminate labor bottlenecks

Florence, Alabama

Responsible for up to $1.7 million in inventory along with managing the Shipping, Scheduling, Receivingand Procurement departments.Job Duties/Achievements – Procurement Manager• Started 1/2/2007 as a Continuous Improvement Engineer and promoted to Procurement Manager on7/2/2007.• Stabilized and trained a Procurement department with 100% turnover by recruiting and training threeProcurement Analysts after learning and improving the ordering process for every purchased part in theplant.• Implemented demand driven and Kanban level replenishment systems with visual factory cues forreordering variable demand stock.• Achieved a 1st year inventory turn improvement of 15% and reduced inventory dollars by $205k.• Achieved $253k in 2009 annualized cost savings.Job Duties/Achievements – Supply Chain Manager• Promoted to Supply Chain Manager on 6/20/2010 adding the responsibilities of the Shipping, Receiving,and Scheduling departments along with Procurement in order to drive overall material flow savings. (15direct report members)• Reduced the “Cost of Material Flow” by 10% in 2010 and 8.6% in 2011 through reductions in materialhandling labor, inbound freight cost, and inventory.• Inventory turns, as of the end of 2010, improved 28% since 2006 to 27.3.• Achieved $627k in annualized cost savings in 2010 with $302k led directly by Procurement. In 2011,$727k in savings related to 31 cost savings projects was implemented.• Complete and on-time customer shipments sustained at just over 99%.• Reduced expedited inbound freight costs by 43% in 2011 versus 2010.Job Duties/Achievements – Engineering and Skilled Trades Manager• Promoted to Engineering Manager on 8/13/2012 with the responsibility of managing the Engineering,Maintenance, and Safety/Environmental departments.

Birmingham, Alabama

Led and facilitated Continuous Improvement event teams in the areas of Quality, Safety, and Productionfor two plants.Job Duties/Achievements• Led or facilitated over 20 Continuous Improvement events in 2 union plants, including consultant drivenevents by Simpler Consulting.• Gathered process data using Excel and PowerPoint to present improvement results to management.• Promoted to Quality Supervisor in 2006 with 3 direct reports.• Supervised production workers in the areas of fabrication, paint, and quality.• Directed, filmed, and voiced a training DVD on body work and paint finishing systems.• Interviewed candidates for engineering, co-op, and production worker positions on a regular basis.

Birmingham, Alabama

Managed plant quality for a specialty, made-to-order wrought iron furniture producer through a Leanteam oriented environment. Won Casual Industry’s Wrought Iron Manufacturer of the year award in 2004and 2005.Job Duties/Achievements• Supervised up to 36 union labor and salaried members involved with cleaning and inspecting productin the areas of receiving, fabrication, welding, paint, pack, and shipping.• Developed statistical quality data based on customer complaints and presented to management dailyand monthly with corrective action plans. Pareto charts in Excel used to focus on top issues based onwarranty data in SAP

Muscle Shoals, Alabama