David Rhode Email & Phone Number

Crookston, Minnesota

Imlay City, Michigan

Hibbing, Minnesota

•Direct 3 crew operation consisting 50 production employees. •Lean Champion accountable for training in lean concepts and the project management of opportunities identified during kaizan activities.•China manufacturing project coordinator accountable for 2.9 million dollars in overseas manufacturing.

•Directed team of three buyers, scheduler, maintenance and 14 production employees. Developed operations budgets including purchasing, manufacturing and labor costs.•Created multi-disciplined “continuous improvement” team to track progress on large-scale projects, better tighten production controls and timely respond to manufacturing issues.•Reduced annual labor costs $280,000 and headcount 50% by championing 5S lean manufacturing concepts and better leveraging role of outsourced vendors.•Saved $130,000 annually and reduced lead-time 90% by utilizing value stream mapping and point of use inventory activities in manufacturing cells. •Increased employee productivity 25% by instituting labor tracking and control system.•Improved on-time shipping performance from 72% to 94% by managing inventory levels and coordinating efforts of scheduler, warehouse and catalog sales call center. •Planned parameters and managed 95% in-stock inventory levels for distributed products.

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