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Greater Seattle Area

• Creating, administering, and supervising comprehensive 5S implementation program across 17 production cells for 150+ shop floor employees, resulting in 74% safety score improvement, 30+ completed improvement tasks, and implementation of daily 5S Gemba Walk. • Spear heading efforts to develop 20+ current state process flows by utilizing cross functional team to identify improvement opportunities. Facilitating engineering teams to produce SMART goals, resulting in attainable projected revenue savings of $1.2 million.

Greater Seattle Area

LEAN Responsibilities:• Championed and led LEAN initiatives at the Plant level.• Increased productivity on multiple production lines (value streams) by an average of 20-25 % • Ensured on-going education of all employees at the Plant in LEAN to promote a Continuous Improvement Learning environment.• Improved average 5S score throughout factory by 150% (6 work cells)Additional Role: Facilities/Environmental Coordinator• Work with Department of Ecology to adhere to state laws and regulations• Managed all MSDS and SDS Monitoring • Oversee all Hazardous Waste stream(s) activities • Identified 6 supplementary Hazardous Waste Streams significantly improving compliance per DOE regulations (75% improvement)• Documented and reported all Hazardous Waste Activities• Trained key personnel on improved Hazardous Waste procedures

Greater Seattle Area

Implemented all aspects of continuous improvement as the single point of contact at the branch level. • Worked with management teams to prioritize LEAN objectives. Creating a clear roadmap for improvement by identifying immediate and longer-term opportunities.• Led continuous improvement activities including Kaizen events resulting in the achievement of annual cost savings objectives.• Established LEAN guidelines to assure adherence to current and future process improvement activities.• Established LEAN communication metrics to aid in continuous growth of LEAN culture.• Conducted LEAN training classes for all personnel ranging from upper management to new hires. • Organized shop and office areas by implementation of visual controls. Identifying waste reduction opportunities.• Conducted regularly scheduled 5S assessments and audits in support of 5S program. • Facilitated continuous improvement workshop projects from inception to fruition

Greater Seattle Area

Integrated Lean Manufacturing process improvement methodologies into shop floor environment. • Focused on Training / Mentoring / Team Building.• Identified Quality Control and Process Improvements opportunities. • Led and facilitated process improvements (Kaizen) activities in a shop environment; concentrating on JIT vs. mass production, Kan Ban Flow system, and Value vs. Non-value added.• Designed and implemented JIT/PULL Kan-Ban flow system from vender through multiple work cells.

Bachelor'S Of Science, Business Management

Associate Of Arts - Aa, Associate Development Degree - Ad