Ed West Email & Phone Number

United States

Lino Lakes Mn

Oversee all operations at the Minnesota facility.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Provide leadership and direction for the testing operation. Responsible for metrics, scheduling, productivity, staffing, quality and communication shift to shift.

Waseca, Mn

Accountable for business process improvements within operations. Merged and managed 5 businesses into one collaborative functioning unit. Responsibilities include budget, productivity, planning, quality, training, safety and staffing.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Manage the Fiber Optic connectorization department including new product introduction and legacy products and processes. Work closely with product management and design engineering to ensure customer commitments and expectations are met throughout the development phases. Support the roll out of these products and processes to facilities worldwide. Utilized SAP within the manufacturing environment. Facilitated a Kaizen event for a high volume product. Results: 75% reduction in WIP, 50% Reduction in cycle time.Initiated product transfers to other facilities. Results: Eliminated the OT at this facility while increasing utilization at other facilities.Improved scheduling processes, increasing customer service metrics from 90% to 98%.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Accountable for all aspects of manufacturing, warehouse, shipping and receiving, and facility maintenance departments of a specialized truck utility company. Custom truck service bodies built to customer's specifications. Responsible for developing metrics in order to track and improve production schedule, cost, quality, safety and customer satisfaction goals. Implemented lean manufacturing techniques. Result: Cycle time reduction of 15% in under 1 year.Initiated executive action tools designed to increase customer satisfaction. Result: Increased sales order visibility and increased ship to promise to 85%.Reorganized warehouse inventory, operating procedures and staffing. Result: Operating costs reduced by 40%.Instituted a preventive maintenance system to maximize safety and reduce down time

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Operations Leader for an aeronautical unit, comprising subsystems and final product teams. Responsible for departmental productivity, quality, scheduling and staffing.Leader of a Lean Manufacturing event which created a one piece mixed model flow. Result: 25% increase in output and a 60% reduction in WIP.Worked to ensure process proficiency for existing product as well as new product development initiatives. Result: 50% reduction in final inspection time.Served as core team leader on project designed to reduce parts shortages. Result: Reduced overdue by 86% from $1.4 Million to $200K. Set up cross training initiatives within the subsystems group. Result: Critical processes covered 100%.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Accountable for Fiber Optic connectorization department of 125 employees, comprising four product families, all built-to-order. During the last 18 months responsibilities moved to the sheet metal fabrication area. Responsible for departmental staffing, scheduling, quality and on-time delivery. Assisted in facilitating a team responsible for increasing test throughput. Result: Implemented cross functional teams, expanding daily output by 60% from 250 - 400 connectors per day.Launched and supported the ongoing development of KanBan. Result: Reduction in WIP by 40%Set up monthly communication between departments, designed to increase communication between engineering, production employees and management. Result: Decreased rework by 33% and increased employee participation. Served as a key contributor in developing the strategy and tactics to support moving processes to decentralized locations throughout the U.S. as well as locations in Mexico and Scotland. Result: Successful launch of program which decreased manufacturing cost by 50%.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Accountable for the performance of the imaging and shipping departments consisting of 60 employees across four shifts running 24x7. Responsible for department quality, budgets, staffing and inventory levels. Implemented weekly communication with plant management at related facilities to ensure the quality of our product quality. Benchmarked best practices and developed recommendation for implementing new imaging process. Result: Increased layer output by 300% with minimal incremental capital expenditure. Established data collection process designed to analyze detail and drive process improvements based on trends. Result: Increased yields from 60% to 90% on cutting edge products. Served as team leader and sponsor for ISO 9002 project. Result: Launched and established ISO 9002 certification for the imaging area on time and within budget.Initiated and executed a test vehicle to evaluate and identify best optical inspection equipment to satisfy expanding production quality and volume requirements. Result: The acquisition of equipment that was capable of inspecting cutting edge product with a 50% increase in efficiency.

Bachelors Degree, Business Administration & Management

Education record

Completed 2 years of Pre-Engineering requirements.