Don Petty Email & Phone Number

Charleston, Sc, Us

Charleston, South Carolina Area

As the Director of Operations at AHT Cooling I am responsible for designing, directing, and implementing streamlined process, procedures, local R&D, facilities and product transfer plans for the company while building a strong team applying appropriate standards to maintain compliance with ETL / UL, OSHA, and ISO standards.Responsible for the development and implementation of first AHT North American production system. Establishing the production / logistic strategy to support company growth, the development of a strong empowered team, and expected performance results.AHT Cooling Systems is a Member of the Daikin Group and a leading global manufacturer of industrial refrigeration and deep freezers. The primary areas of business are refrigeration and deep freezers for supermarkets, ice cream freezers, and drink cooling. AHT takes quality seriously with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standards as the cornerstone of the quality system, this ensures superior quality of all products.

Charleston, Sc

Site lead for acquisition integration, manufacturing transfer and site consolidation project . Reduced costs >3% annually while the top line grew >11% annually and maintained high quality levels. Coordinated continuous improvement and best practice initiatives involving US and international (Germany) sites on global and domestic process improvements and harmonization for both products and processes. Maintain appropriate product availability levels and first pass yields while increasing capacity, thus ensuring no customer interruption during the integration and transfer projects. Develop and present communication and engagement plans to all levels of the organization. Set overall operations strategy and targets for the Charleston manufacturing site to attain alignment with other sites in the network on corporate goals and strategies.

Charleston, South Carolina Area

• Developed, implemented, and monitored management operations systems.• Transferred or established numerous products and assembly lines for domestic NPD or transfers from Europe.• Established an agile, cost effective approach to support a high mix / low volume assembly process for customer configured products with quality and safety as foundational principals.• Streamlined assembly process by utilizing Lean Manufacturing and Visual Management tools, while improving throughput and quality by establishing standard process and redeploying the quality team.• Coordinated various continuous improvement actives at all levels of the business involving varying skilled levels (Operations, Sales, Service, Project Mgt, Executives, etc...). • Operations lead in the implantation of a new ERP system (SAP), which allowed me to become a power user of the system.• Responsible for all facilities actives including maintenance, safety, and security. • Responsible for an annual operations budget >$32 million, and $1 million facilities budget.

Charleston, South Carolina Area

• Project managed and completed various hospital installation, renovations, PM and repair schedules.• Operated as an independent agent under corporate guidelines and direction for a territory ≈ 300-mile radius.• Responsible for a regional budget, managing all fixed costs at job sites.• Sold product upgrades and service contracts to drive increased revenue in region.• Serviced, trouble shoot, repaired, and installed electromechanical capital medical equipment at customer facility. • Maintained a superior customer service rating• Assist other regions as required to solve complex service issue and support large installation projects

Charleston, South Carolina Area

• Supervised up to 18 employees in the assembly of electrical / mechanical medical equipment.• Worked in an integral role with IT on an ERP system implementation (Mapics software) by setting up material master information, BOMs and establishing a physical kanban inventory control system based on the Toyota just-in-time technique.• Oversaw the construction of the first USA based operations and two site expansions, each budget >$1.5 million.• Increased production capabilities to support and average growth rate of 19% annually.• Played a key role in transferring an acquired product line from Sweden to the USA and Germany sites.

North Charleston Sc

• Setup and operated milling, turning, and grinding machines per engineering drawings• Preformed welding and cutting tasks on a limited basics• Read various drawings to layout material for machining and fabrication work

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Organizational Management

Machine Tool Program, Machine Tool Technology/Machinist