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Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

• Responsible for management of manufacturing operations for facility with $15MM in Cost of Production. Direct oversight for 6 direct reports including human resource manager, buyer planners, maintenance superintendent, quality manager, plant controller and manufacturing engineering resource. Indirect management of 110+ hourly employees.• Develop and execute an operating plan aligned with division, business, and manufacturing strategies to meet key performance objectives, reduce waste and implement Lean systems.• Developed an aggressive plan to attack customer service issues in excess of $180K for top volume SKU's within organization. Eliminated service issues within four months.• Developed and led efforts to track plant OEE across key lines. Top three lines within the facility moved from 62% OEE to 75% OEE for 2019.• Developed and administered first ever UME Employee Engagement Survey. Addressed results with staff led initiatives to improve overall employee engagement, employee communications and plant morale. Over 35 employee engagement items addressed within the first six months after survey.• Systematically lead the identification and elimination of losses resulting in improvements in costs, inventory, time and quality. Multiple cost reduction projects executed within first 12 months for effective savings of $100K in annualized cost savings.• Asked to help develop and lead S&OP process for Medicom corporate.• Conducted value stream exercise for Taipei, Tawain facility. Identified $300K in potential cost savings. Also identified critical operational bottleneck.• Lead plant safety committee activities to include weekly meetings, audits and hazard eliminations. Zero lost time accidents for 2019 and zero recordables for 2019.

Dublin, Oh, Us

• Responsible for management of manufacturing operations for facility with $145MM in Cost of Production. Direct oversight for 11 direct reports including production superintendents, buyer planners, maintenance superintendent, sterilization engineers and manufacturing engineering resources. Indirect management of 450+ hourly employees.• Helped to drive plant Fiscal Year 2017 Annual Operating Plan performance to exceed budget for the first time in three years by $400K.• Offset $4.0M of overhead from incoming business through reduction in plant depreciation, headcount, MRO Spend and Indirect Labor.• Developed manufacturing plans that included site capacity expansion and equipment layout optimization. Plans included evaluation of under-utilized assets and consolidation of volume across under-utilized assets which drove cost savings in direct labor & maintenance spend.• Develop the manufacturing plan and establishes procedures for maintaining high standards of manufacturing operations to ensure that products conform to established customer and company quality standards.

Dublin, Oh, Us

• Developed and established high standards of manufacturing operations to ensure that products conform to established customer and company quality standards.• Exceeded 2015 schedule attainment metric goal of 97% with an annual performance of 97.5%.• Reduced service level issues with key private label customer. Backorder reduction from $1MM+ to less than $200K in less than 6 months. Worked closely with business unit manager to ensure service levels were maintained and quality levels were not impacted.

Dublin, Oh, Us

• Developed an Augusta specific X-Matrix and Annual Deployment Plan yearly to align plant targets to the business unit. Used COS standard work to drive continuous improvement.• Led/organized training classes for supervisors focused on financials and root cause analysis(5 Why, Fishbone and 6M).• Developed and implemented continuous improvement cadence that led to successful completion of 40 Kaizen events and 80 plant wide 5S events.• Successful implementation of plant wide TPM program that led to an average OEE increase of 14% on key production lines.• Completed analysis of plant 425 SKU's and developed plan to eliminate $1M in raw material spend through rationalization of SKU's that represented less than 1% of total plant volume.• Worked to improve plant safety performance by eliminating unsafe conditions and holding personnel accountable for unsafe behaviors. Ensured safety training was conducted for applicable safety requirements. Conducted weekly safety audits of focus factory. Reduced TRIR rate from 1.2 to 0.82 for fiscal year 2013.• Improved Woven Focus Factory material variance by $455K from 2011 to 2012 through improved reject gauze procedure, IPM 4X4 cartoner improvement project and various other material related projects.• Worked with factory engineers and supervisors to improve direct labor variance by $225K from 2011 to 2012 through machine layout projects, process consolidation projects, labor reduction/automation projects and downtime elimination projects.• Exceeded Fiscal Year 2012 effective cost savings target of $281K through management of four manufacturing engineers.• Achieved fill rate (95% target versus actual of 96.2%), schedule attainment (97% target versus actual of 99%) and backorder targets for Fiscal Year 2012.

Dublin, Oh, Us

• Coordinated and supervised the daily activities of operations for shift personnel of 35-40 employees.• Administered and executed policies and procedures.• Ensure employees operate within guidelines.• Direct oversight for plant safety committee. Largely responsible for driving a culture of safety across the entire facility. 30% reduction in first aid events for 2006. • Led safety efforts to help drive a reduction in TRIR from 1.1 in 2005 to 0.75 in 2006.• Frequently interacted with subordinates, customers and peer groups at various management levels.• Helped to create and maintain an environment of continuous improvement throughout the facility. Led a total of 8 successful kaizen events while in the production supervisor role.

Columbia, South Carolina, Us

Develop annual training plans for platoon size element consisting of 50-60 soldiers.Set-up, troubleshoot and monitor Mobile Subscriber Equipment for wireless communication capabilities.Completed combat deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from Jan. 2004-May 2005 Balad, IraqSuccessfully completed numerous leadership course.Recipient of several combat service awards.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business Administration And Management, General

Associate'S Degree, Accounting