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California And Nevada

Sacramento, California, United States

• Oversee day-to-day company operations.• Establishes, implements, and communicates the strategic direction of the organizations operations division.• Management of all personnel, equipment, inventory, and for the overall material condition of the facility.• Maximizing efficiency, productivity, and expense management. Closely monitor, manage, and approve expenses (labor, equipment, fuel, repairs, supplies, and utilities).• Recruiting, supervising, developing, and cross-training employees on an ongoing basis. Managing work schedules and overtime and approving weekly time cards.• Develop and maintain a team work oriented environment while preserving employee morale and providing a safe and efficient work environment.• Monitoring employee productivity, conducting documented employee reviews and constructively disciplining and documenting unsatisfactory employee performance and/or inappropriate conduct.• Ensuring that all material is received, stored, pulled and loaded safely and accurately.• Minimizing and investigating product damage and handling customer and vendor returns.• Managing the physical condition of the entire facility and maintaining a relationship with the local property manager.• Managing safety programs to confirm training is scheduled, conducted and documented for all employees.

Marysville, California

▪ Increased sales from 22M to 50M in first year of management.▪ Responsible with installing cultural change to increase productivity and efficiency to effectively meet increasing customer needs while reducing costs. ▪ Defined and implemented intelligent KPI’s to analyze manufacturing performance standards that drastically increased operational efficiency and reduced downtime.▪ Employed inventory control standards to increase visibility and reduce loss. ▪ Implemented lean manufacturing techniques ▪ Created a cultural change through effective leadership and management to improve employee morale and meet business objectives.

Stockton, California Area

▪ Launched and managed a new state of the art facility and grew it to 140M annually ▪ Managed over 300 employees and 100 truckloads per day. ▪ Implemented lean manufacturing and improved inventory management resulting in reduction of warehouse utilization by 40 acres and WIP costs of $250,000 annually.▪ Created specific reports utilizing intelligent KPI’s to track, analyze and improve overall employee performance resulting in increased employee productivity by over 30%.▪ Synthesized Operations and Sales to meet customer needs while achieving high-level operational efficiency and productivity. ▪ Executed waste reduction practices and reengineered certain products to utilize inventory by-product. This reduced inventory costs, while lowering waste expenses.▪ Created in-house training programs designed to reducing costs by $500 per employee every 3 years.

Woodland Ca

▪ Strategic in planning and launching opening of the facility in Woodland, CA in 1990. ▪ Received Employee of the Year Honors (1995)▪ Lumber Buyer

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