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Pewaukee, Wi, Us

Pewaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Directed the Operations and Engineering Services Business Leadership Development Rotational Program responsible for maintaining the early career talent pipeline.- Re-designed and re-branded the Leadership Development Program by simplifying the number of candidate entry tracks from 5 to 2 leading to simplified candidate experience and diversifying on program options for candidates.- Collaborated with Leaders and Associates to build individual 2-year program plans to ensure four challenging, developmental, value-added 6-month rotations. - Organized semi-annual forum weeks including associate readouts to leadership, a development day, and a community service day. Leadership readouts were attended by leaders across the business and provided a way to showcase the talent and value-added work of the associates. - Managed a $1.9M departmental budget.- Managed 19 associates globally. Annually recruited 4-6 program associates.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Collaborated with Rockwell Product Businesses and Operations Stakeholders to provide cross-functional program management.- Prepared a quarterly report synthesizing data from new product initiatives across Rockwell Automation for use by individual functions for resource planning and information sharing.- Realigned Engineering Services Policies and Procedures. Reduced the number of procedures by 30%.- Lead the Engineering Services Internal ISO Audit Program. Built a team of six auditors to complete ~ 18 audits per fiscal year. Monitored auditor findings and worked with owners to implement sustainable corrective actions and closure. Presented findings to leadership semi-annually.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Led Industrialization Team to support the new product introductions for the Push Button and Logic Components business units. Built strong international working relationships with the global Push Button design team in Shanghai to effectively launch several successful new product releases.- Provided day to day guidance, developed objectives, conducted reviews, and managed project workload for four Industrialization Engineers to successfully release new push buttons, terminal blocks, stack lights, circuit breakers, disconnects, and power supplies.- Utilizing a Common Product Development Process, collaborated with Development Engineers, Marketing, Supply Chain, Quality, Test Engineering, and Manufacturing to successfully release over 100+ Push Button and Logic Component products into manufacturing facilities.- Mentored two Shanghai Industrialization Engineers to improve effectiveness by sharing SAP and Rockwell's Common Product Development process training and experiences as related to project deliverables.- Obtained Green Belt Certification in 2010 for process mapping and identifying key input and outputs to improve the processing time for creating/changing MBOM's in SAP.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Developed and managed cost, delivery, safety, and quality objectives in a successful part-time job-sharing arrangement.- Implemented the Lean initiatives of Total Productive Maintenance, Continuous Improvement Process, 5S activities throughout departments. TPM activities on the automation line improved throughput, reduced rejects, and scrap by 63%.- Led the team responsible for transferring the Smart Motor Protector circuit board line to Mequon, WI improving delivery compliance to want from 42% at time of transfer, to 90%