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Responsible for all Manufacturing Operations, including Production, Material Management, Plant/ Facility Maintenance, and Enviornmental Health & Safety.Accomplishments:- Increased production output by 50% by implementing lean manufacturing, layout revisions, cross training, waste reduction, refined shop visibility, and housekeeping. - Raised the shop's proficiency level to secure two high end test chamber accounts which resulted in an additional million dollars in revenue.

Responsible for all plant operations including Manufacturing, Material Management, Maintenance and Environmental Health & Safety. - Played key strategic and operational role in growing Kairak from a $5 million to $34 million per year business unit and from an unknown to a key player in the commercial refrigeration industry:- Increased facility throughput from 1 to 70 units per week.- Reduced the average assembly labor content from 53 to 23 man-hours (56% reduction) through a variety of design modifications, revised assembly techniques, implementation of Lean Manufacturing and Product Line Simplification.- Improved shop safety from 12 to 1 recordable and zero lost-time injuries per year as a result of 5S, Visual Workplace and Kaizen activities.- Participated in a complete segmentation process of the Kairak business and took on the added role of Business Unit Manager with complete P&L responsibility for the newly created $8 Million per year segment.- Launched a new Production Division and designed a complete line of patented prep-tables in 96/97:- Transformed initial design prototypes into assembly line style production-friendly models.- Specified and sourced all standard and OEM components. Established partnerships with new vendor base:- Reduced material costs in excess of 30%.- Implemented Vendor Managed Inventory Systems for all welding, polishing, electrical, plumbing and hardware supplies.- Initiated and implemented outsourcing program for all non-core competency components, subassemblies and operations.

Complete responsibility for all plant operations including Production, Material Management, Maintenance and Quality Assurance. - Sustained program to continuously improve manufacturing process relative to cost reduction, enhanced product quality and increased productivity through greater efficiency:- Tripled facility throughput from 53 to 180 units per week.- Increased annual dollars produced from $6 to $26 million.- Reduced labor content from 8.1% to 5.8% of sales through the successful utilization of World Class Manufacturing concepts and methods.