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Novi, MI

Responsible for the day to day operation of the Novi Michigan Service Center, including management of the office, production, scheduling, purchasing, shipping and receiving duties and personnel.

Responsibilities include Quality Assurance and continuous improvement through lean and six sigma implementation. Interface with suppliers, manufacturing and customers to improve customer satisfaction and build shareholder value.

Six Sigma Black Belt Instructor and Consultant in Business Improvement, Quality and Lean implementations. Teach Six Sigma certification courses in White, Green and Black Belts as well as work with companies to implement Six Sigma, Leand and Quality initiatives to reduce waste, improve process performance and profitability.

Member of senior management team with responsibility for Senco-owned manufacturing operations worldwide. Responsibilities included materials sourcing, raw & WIP inventories, planning and scheduling, manufacturing engineering, facilities/equipment maintenance, manufacturing operations and support.

Full time residence in Taicang, China will full P & L responsibility for this joint venture manufacturing operation.

Responsible for Product Engineering, Materials, Purchasing, Manufacturing Engineering, QA and Manufacturing operations.

Member of the senior management team reporting to the CEO with responsibility for all operations related to the manufacturing, assembly and testing of Senco tools. Responsibilities included Purchasing, Production Planning and Inventory Control, Machining and Fabrication, Assembly, QA, Manufacturing Engineering and Facilities Engineering and Maintenance.

Responsibilities included all corporate R & D, new product development activities, product engineering and product field support.

Directed all manufacturing and related processes required to produce precision collated nails for pneumatic fastening systems. Managed nine supervisor and 350+ factory hourly employees. Led a major quality improvement and scrap reduction effort which resulted in a savings of $1.2 million annually. Fastener Manufacturing (of which the Nail Department was.