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Versailles, Ohio, United States

Plans complex equipment and millwork deliveries and installations to health systems, clinics, physician practices, and animal health facilities.• Serves as project manager on commercial construction projects to integrate Midmark products into human and animal healthcare facilities.• Coordinates, coaches, supervises, and leads all personnel associated with the equipment and casework delivery, setup, installation, and testing. Serves as the on-site project coordinator for all significant, complex deliveries.• Works with sub-contractors to ensure quality installations are completed on time and within budget. • Works effectively among customer departments, including biomedical engineering, facilities management, purchasing, clinical, and project management.• Coordinates with sales, customer service, and logistics to ensure on-time, high-quality equipment and casework installations.• Investigate and resolve service, product, and process quality issues. Also, supporting customer satisfaction measurements.• Liaises with the internal project design team and customer facilities personnel.• Communicates product specifications to customers.

Portland, Oregon Area

Develop, plan, and manage the implementation of construction projects for selected hospitals and clinics across the US. Oversee teams of 10+ people, including Banfield, Contractor, and outside tech teams—project scopes of $8 - $10 million annually with 30% travel on average. • Analyze work plans to implement multiple construction, rebrand, and remodel project schedules simultaneously from initiation through closing; consistently come in on time and under budget. • Coordinate 350+ surgery computer workstation roll-out with a $600,000 budget and six-month timeline. • Manage end-to-end implementation of project solutions: o Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders (Hospital, PetSmart, Field Leadership, CTS associates) to manage internal and external resources throughout the project. o Build cross-functional teams to ensure stakeholder and project expectations are met. o Oversee all aspects of the pre and planning stages, including site evaluations, budgets, tracking expenses, and invoice approval to stay within budget and delivery timeline. o Employ appropriate usage and scheduling of resources, labour, travel, travel schedules, and contractor efficiencies, resulting in savings to Banfield. o Develop communication plans, risk analysis, and mitigation strategies as needed. o Perform pre-and post-walk-through inspections, addressing and rectifying deficiencies to ensure customer satisfaction. • Oversee the purchase order, invoice, and credit process for accepted bids and track all project material orders. • Review project status reports and adjust tasks and resources as required. • Develop systems and procedures for an internal program build-out incorporating the MARS Five Principles - Quality, Freedom, Responsibility, Efficiency, and Mutuality. • Able to complete full, on-site pre-designs, measurements, photos, and discussions with hospital leadership to determine specific needs for individual locations.

Portland, Or

Managed veterinary hospital facilities and repairs with approximately $250,000 planned annual costs. • Coordinated all repairs, maintenance, and minor facility upgrade projects following Banfield practice standards. • Determined each repair's course of action and correct approach and process. • Interview, evaluate, select, and procure contractors for all repairs and maintenance; managed outside vendors and Banfield hospital maintenance technicians, ensuring the completion of all assigned repairs. • Coordinated and completed repairs with PetSmart counterparts, ensuring they were on time and to practice standards. • Spec out building materials, parts, and equipment for on-site repairs: millwork, plumbing, electrical, flooring, medical equipment, and other miscellaneous facility repairs. • Provided call support for the Medical Equipment team and created and assigned work orders to four medical equipment coordinators. • Traveled to Banfield vet hospital markets across the US to assess facility conditions and perform vendor quality control. • Approved and tracked all expenditures for existing hospital facility repair projects.

Ensured the proper stock levels of a high-performing national electrical distributor. • Responsible for maintaining the supply chain of goods to produce increased customer fill rates and inventory turns. • Purchased daily stock lines of material from multiple vendors accurately and quickly, with an eye toward cost. • Tracked stagnant and low-performing products; assessed whether those products should be returned to vendors, sold at a discounted rate, or disposed of safely. • Resolved incoming shipping errors, damaged goods, non-conforming goods, and vendor pricing issues. • Developed and ran reports needed to maintain inventory goals set for the Portland branch and five other branches in the district. • Loaded and maintained branch product and price files in the local and district databases. • Reviewed monthly stock/non-stock reports and made necessary adjustments to inventory to confirm branch policies. • Maintained the purchasing schedule and reviewed it periodically to ensure an even flow of goods to maintain costs. • Expedited all orders, making changes required to purchase order ship dates and informing appropriate departments.

Kelowna, Bc Canada

Kelowna, Bc Canada

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Grade 12 / Graduation / Diploma

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