Eric Satterfield, Clssmbb Email & Phone Number

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Responsible for creating and executing a lean transformational strategy to reduce inventory, lead-time and waste.

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

• Responsible for transforming Engineering requirements / change process to enterprise-wide holistic, closed-loop change management process as company transitions from development to production.
• Reason for leaving: Company loss of first two sales contracts, resulting in 30% workforce reduction

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

• Directed team of Lean Sigma Black Belts, Robotics Process Automation professionals, and Quality professionals delivering large scale revenue generation, productivity improvement, and business process transformation.
• Led strategic collaboration with Enterprise business unit leaders and key stakeholders to define, prioritize, resource, and deliver multi-year plan strategic initiatives.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Served as Interim Vice President Process Excellence and Quality (12/20 – 03/22).
• Promoted to Head of Enterprise Quality accountable for architecting, launching and evolving Quality System to include centralized policy and process documentation management, role definition, and service delivery model.
• Led cross-functional Enterprise efforts with program governance, risk and compliance, internal controls, and internal audit teams to identify and mitigate priority Enterprise risk.
• Developed innovative solutions, implemented mitigating corrective actions, and ensured continuity of operational and service excellence.
• Engaged and coached business leaders and associates to implement risk-based, critical to customer quality / control assurance, standardize and chronicle processes, and activate advancements in quality workstreams.
• Nominated by executives and peers for ASPIRE Outstanding Leadership Award - 2020

Indianapolis, IN

• Partnered with Claim and Individual Life and Financial Services organizations to deploy OneAmerica Way for Operations operating system, coached leadership and associates to improve performance and embed delivery.
• Designed and delivered Enterprise Lean Sigma GB/BB certification and Root Cause Analysis programs and supplementary training courses, advised instructors, mentored candidates, harmonized certification projects, and.
• Received COO Excellence in Delivery award – 2018.

Indianapolis, IN

• Global Aerospace, Industrial and Energy Specialty Surface CoatingsDirector - Operational Excellence & Productivity (07/11 – 03/17)
• Led Global Operational Excellence and Productivity program for thirty-five facilities in twelve. Reversed hard savings declining trend to exceed Global plan with annualized hard savings of $34M in 2016.
• Directed ACE-style audit-based certification program to advance facilities and work cells from Ground to Gold levels, increasing first pass quality to 99.7% and on-time delivery to 98%.Associate Director, Lean Sigma.
• Chaired Global OpEx governance council and reinvigorated stalled program by engaging corporate and plant leadership, deploying multi-year plans and targets, and executing key program/projects.
• Advanced to global responsibilities within first 4 months of employment.

Indianapolis, IN

• Global Aerospace, Marine, and Industrial gas turbine engine manufacture and assemblyLean Sigma Master Black Belt (04/04 – 02/08)
• Selected as Rolls-Royce’s first internally trained and certified Master Black Belt, completing 18 month on-boarding certification requirement. Piloted Rapid DMAIC process reducing project cycle time from over 6 months.
• Received multiple awards for project delivery including Global runner-up for Chief Executive’s Quality Award - 2005.Business Improvement Manager (04/00 – 04/04)
• Led Indianapolis Operations 40-Day Engine Program, achieved total response time target for AE3007 engine, 1 of 2 engine programs globally to achieve the 40-Day target.
• Served as North America coach for Rolls-Royce Production System – Performance Management and Foundation (Program Management) modules.
• Led Kaizen events to redesign and relocate manufacturing departments to improve material and people flow.

Anderson, Indiana, United States

• High volume manufacture and assembly of Tier 1 automotive starting motorsArea Leader / Continuous Improvement Engineer (08/99 – 04/00)
• Implemented Lean Manufacturing production system: Value Stream Mapping, One-Piece Flow Product Cells, Standardized Work, Walk Patterns, Ergonomics, Material Delivery Systems, Pull Systems, and 5S.
• Prepared, evaluated, and submitted PPAP and APQP to primary customer, General Motors.Area Leader / Continuous Improvement Engineer (02/96 – 10/98)
• Reported to the Plant Manager, consistently exceeded safety, quality, cost, and delivery goals while leading three production departments, with over sixty associates. Responsible for first line of defense quality risk.
• Led team that reduced cost of major sub-assembly by more than 30% by engaging associates to identify and eliminate waste, increase productivity, and improve process capability.