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St. Louis, Mo, Us

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Lucas Milhaupt is a global leader and one of the most prolific suppliers in the brazing industry. Since 1942, Lucas Milhaupt has leveraged its deep material science proficiency to produce innovative metal joining solutions that enhance process efficiencies, improve quality, and promote safety for all our valued customers.Our unparalleled product portfolio also means we're the one stop shop for all your brazing needs. Lucas Milhaupt’s vertically integrated structure ensures complete process control from cast to fabrication. This means supply chain and quality risk mitigation, bringing you the product when you need it with the quality you deserve.

Houston, Texas, Us

Directed manufacturing and distribution operations groups in North America. Led Lean transformation efforts to drive operational performance improvements in safety, quality, delivery, and cost. Guided improvements in company-owned distributions operations with on-time delivery, shipping accuracy, and labor productivity.

Worked with companies, teaching and leading Lean transformation efforts to deliver results to P&L.

O'Fallon, Mo, Us

Oversaw four manufacturing operations, distribution operation, logistics, supply chain, demand planning, EHS, quality, and corporate manufacturing engineering groups. Managed 2,500 employees in North America. Integrated acquisition of two commercial manufacturing facilities. Guided Lean transformation efforts to drive business process improvements in sales, supply chain, finance, demand planning, manufacturing, product development, logistics, and technical service to increase profitability and performance.

O'Fallon, Mo, Us

Oversaw three manufacturing operations, three distribution operations, logistics, EHS, and corporate manufacturing engineering group.

O'Fallon, Mo, Us

Guided start-up of 445,000-square-foot Lean and Demand Flow Technology (DFT) manufacturing and distribution operation, with operational responsibility for 1,100 plant employees. Led facility preparation, transfer, installation, and start-up of eight product lines in a seven-month period. Directly managed plant financial, human resources, material, engineering, quality, production, and facilities functions. Directed distribution of company residential and light-commercial products.

O'Fallon, Mo, Us

Led plant-wide turnaround of manufacturing operations and implementation of Lean and DFT. Oversaw 700 plant employees at primary and satellite plant facilities supporting $300 million in sales. Directly managed assembly production and engineering, producing over 1 million primary and accessory units annually. Developed and managed all production, engineering, and financial and capital plans, as well as new product introduction. Designed and implemented Lean and DFT mixed-model flow lines factory-wide, which increased productivity 25%. Increased assembly-line capacity that ranged from 25% to 100% with no additional floor space.

Richardson, Tx, Us

Served as manufacturing member of Commercial Configure-To-Order (CTO) team and led manufacturing initiatives in reengineering of all processes and systems to support CTO order management and production for new commercial products. Managed in-house training, design, and implementation of Lean and DFT mixed-model assembly lines.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Industrial Engineering

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)