Laura Rivas Email & Phone Number

Bend, OR, US

• I work with the product management and purchasing teams to coordinate the procurement of products from Asia. I developed a supplier scorecard to objectively track the performance of suppliers and use the data to help.
• Ensured quality and consistency by developing strong relations with Asia Pacific sourcing team.
• Improved recovery dates from Legrand-owned factory in Asia by tracking output and building capacity plan to match sales forecast
• Developed process for managing 500+ new product introductions per year and ensuring that key milestones are achieved on time.

Concord, North Carolina

When the plant was reorganized into value streams, I was the first manager over the wiremold department. I was responsible for the safety, quality, delivery, inventory, and productivity for a section of the plant that produced $35 million annual revenue. I started by spending a lot of time on the production floor and listening to the people who worked in.

Hickory, NC

I had responsibility for the fiber optic cable assembly operations in the plant including supervision, scheduling and procurement. I engaged my team to implement lean tools such as 5S, daily gemba walks, developing meaningful KPIs that we discussed at a daily production meeting, and more to improve the productivity and output of the operation to better.

Various

• I completed a leadership development program that brought me to relocate 4 times in 3 years. I learned an incredible amount from each rotation and was able to see many facets of manufacturing. My biggest.
• Coordinated the international relocation of manufacturing. Took leadership roles in documenting, deploying and training standard work for every step of the manufacturing process, specifying required investments, having.
• Redesigned a raw material warehouse to match the use cases - improved productivity and visibility, reduced safety risks and quality risks associated with moving product through a warehouse
• Rolled out ISO14001 including deploying proper waste stream collections, developing and training on required activities to comply with ISO14001 standards
• Redesigned the material flow and structure of a fabrication department and decreased lead time by 50% Locations:Pensacola, FL & Toronto, Ontario - QMotionHickory, NC - Quiktron/ OrtronicsWest Hartford, CT - Wiremold

Nairobi, Kenya

• I supported the engineering needs of the facilities department that oversaw the fabrication and construction of waterless latrines, and facility and equipment used to process waste into fertilizer. I worked from the.
• Designed system of platforms and lifting dolly to reduce handling and improve ease of waste transfer from collection bins to processing hopper
• Created 3D models of container transportation to gain political approval
• Designed safe, durable, low cost structures to use in waste processing

Zarrentin Am Schaalsee, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

I worked from the office in Zarrentin am Schaalsee to design a mechanical lift system used in the molding process of a thermoforming machine. I performed patent research and theoretical calculations to understand the possible methods for lifting and lowering the mold tray to the plastic film.

Pawtucket, RI

• I worked on Play-Doh and Mr. Potato Head toys to coordinate the needs of the artistic designer, marketing representative, and cost engineer within the product launch timeline. I communicated the company's needs to.
• Developed and prototyped new toy concept with favorable profit margin and acceptable safety compliance appropriate to the target age range
• Prepared design for manufacturing by choosing appropriate plastic material, considering feasibility and simplifying assembly while preserving the effect of the design concept
• Debugged product samples from factory by deconstructing the toy. Created PowerPoints to clearly communicate comments and desired changes to Hasbro Far East concerning mold design, manufacturing method and toy function

Boston, MA

• I supported the transportation engineering department in completing a range of project functions. I started off by correcting the redlines on the draft drawings from the full time engineers, and ended up putting my own.
• Created an inventory of Boston intersections: Visited sites to measure field conditions, take pictures and record the features of each intersection
• Analyzed traffic, compiled crash data, developed diagrams, figures and theories for functional design reports of intersections to increase safety and effectiveness of an intersection

Boston, MA

• High Performance Materials and Structures Lab
• Developed a new sample preparation method for creating consistent samples to be used in compression tests
• Conducted tests with Instron to analyze if foam has an effect on the compressive strength of a structure
• Organized large volumes of data in Excel, and prepared graphs to convey test results for the academic article “Producing and optimizing novel materials and structures”
• Discovered that beams filled with foam had proportional limits that were 1.8 times greater than hollow beams