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Oregon, United States

Responsibility for establishment and leadership of key account programs for complex custom automation & test systems, serving various industry sectors with a leaning towards FDA regulated manufacturing. Supported the executive team in developing companywide strategic direction by identifying industry opportunities and a targeted growth approach. Champion.

Corvallis, Oregon Area

Responsible for sustainable, healthy growth of relationships with new and existing Clients. Leads project teams in supporting Client missions from initial conception through delivery.

Corvallis, Oregon Area

Andrews-Cooper is a growing 80+person engineering services firm that specializes in solving theoutsourced automation and design needs of our clients. We work with Fortune 100 companiesas well as innovative and nimble start-ups in automation, consumer and medical products. Ourdesign teams are located in Oregon, Washington, and Massachusetts.We are known for.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Sole responsibility for the development and implementation of over $14 million of capex projects. Managing cross functional teams both with and without direct lines of responsibility, I have successfully delivered a range of both greenfield and brownfield projects within the confines of FDA regulated industry. Full scope project management from the.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Site lead for process and system maintenance and improvement. Acted as trouble shooter to address specific issue within the production environment and work with production leads to define and implement solutions. Key achievements: Worked with CFO to rationalize financial reporting structure to allow for direct metric correlation between departmental.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Manufacturing engineer for a factory producing gas furnaces for the RV industry. Site responsible for cost reduction, production systems maintenance and development, Metrics development and monitoring, manufacturing methods and efficiency improvements, production issue resolution & project manager for a $3.5million investment for complete product line.

• Description of Responsibilities:Responsible for a diverse workforce including 80 hourly workers, production planning, and quality control in a product finishing production environment. Responsibilities include managing.
• Increase in throughput from €5.5 million to €7 million ($7.6 million – $9.7 million) per month over an 8 month period
• Successful rapid adjustment in workforce numbers and reallocation of labor to react to the global financial crisis
• Specification, purchase, installation, commissioning and operation of new automated powder paint line
• 19% reduction in external PPM’s ‘07 average vs. ‘09 1st 6month average.
• Managed a team of 80 unionized hourly pay workers in a non-native language (Italian)

• Site responsible for continuous improvement activities as typified by the Toyota Production Systems. Identified key improvement areas using value stream mapping and business process mapping, developed lean solutions.
• Successful graduation from the 48 week GKN SCIL training program
• Created 3 “Model Cells” – examples of production excellence
• Developed supplier and customer lean interaction solutions
• Created standard operation procedures through various functions; quality, customer service, business reporting, production.
• Managed and developed onsite network-based production monitoring system “Shopware”

6 Month Project - GKN FAD S.p.A., Carpenedolo, Italy.Project to reduce stock variance and improve supply chain stabilityAchieved 95% reduction in annual site stock take value variance6 month Project - GKN Transparency Systems, Luton, UKTornado fighter jet composite repair cell optimization and relocationWorked with the development team for the Boeing 787.