James Cavanagh Email & Phone Number

Galway, County Galway, Ireland

Material VIP Lead within site Supplier Engineering group

Brescia Area, Italy

Brescia Area, Italy

County Cork, Ireland

• Responsible for delivering year-on-year direct material savings through identification and implementation of Value Improvement Projects (Design/Material/Process/Supplier changes). Delivered $1M+ savings to date• Tasked with growing project pipeline through identification of candidate projects using creativity skills, Supplier lean process reviews and knowledge across multiple commodities (Metals, Plastics, Packaging)• Interface with product R&D and Marketing to campaign for project resourcing • Project Management via creation of Project Charter, project planning and stakeholder management• Developed best practices Project Feasibility tool to identify financial return, project stakeholders and validation effort to implement prior to budget commitment. Tool is constructed in such a way as to fail unfeasible projects quickly to allow focus of efforts on viable opportunities• Demonstrate strong financial acumen in the areas of Capital Request process for project investments, and linking VIP performance to site Finance metrics

County Cork, Ireland

• Resolution of Supply Chain Risk to prevent production line interruption• Supplier Engineer on Product Transfer team to identify supply chain risk and VIP’s prior to integration into BSC quality system• First Article Qualification and quality inspection setup of incoming components, applying statistical analysis to determine process capability and variation of measurement systems• Responsible for gathering eCMA (Regulatory material data) from Suppliers, and offering support where necessary

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Biomedical And Advanced Materials

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