James Lanier Email & Phone Number

Adairsville, Ga, Us

Roswell, Ga, Us

Cartersville, Georgia, Us

Roswell, Georgia, Us

Muscatine, Iowa, Us

Calhoun, Ga, Us

Longview, Tx, Us

•Managed pricing, discounts, demand forecasts, marketing collateral and specialized rebate structure for products produced and distributed by STEMCO Rome location comprising $50MM in annual sales. •Drove profit increases through product management and cost improvement initiatives. •Provided guidance for strategic inventory levels and production planning based on forecasting through collaboration with customers and production facility.

Longview, Tx, Us

•Provided operational leadership for $50MM facility with 9 direct reports and 150 total employees. •Supplied strategic guidance for safety, quality, customer service, operations and engineering. •Established leadership team to collaboratively work together to drive improvements to processes, work environment and atmosphere while improving site profitability.

Longview, Tx, Us

•Managed production support team with 4 direct reports and 25 total employees •Established procedures to empower production department to focus solely on producing parts through demand forecasting, production planning, customer support and timely shipment of products. •Organized the movement of products from purchasing of raw materials through the delivery of finished goods to the customer.

Longview, Tx, Us

•Led a production team with 4 direct reports and 100 total employees. •Established and integrated EnPro and STEMCO operations strategy and metrics into the Rome facility. •Headed process improvements to reduce costs and lead times.

•Headed site operations team with 5 direct reports and 120 total employees. •Provided overall leadership and guidance for the improvement of operations through implementation of lean initiatives and process improvement.•Led company from $100K in losses in 1st half of 2009 to $3.9MM in profits in 2010 via improving productivity by 20% and reducing turnover by 25% through establishments of metrics and increased employee involvement.

•Directed Quality, Engineering, Human Resources and Safety departments. •Collaborated with VP Manufacturing and VP Sales to ensure customer expectations were exceeded. •Provided support to manufacturing for quality and engineering services.•Served as site ISO 9001 Management Representative.

Rome, Ga, Us

•Managed engineering team through prioritization of projects and utilization of available resources. •Performed research and development engineering to design new products and create product enhancements.•Implemented process improvements in production facility to establish consistency and cost reduction.

Mba, Operations

Bs, Mechanical Engineering