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Roeselare, Be

Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, Us

Manage daily maintenance activities, PM schedules, Capital Projects and facility upgrades and regular maintenance, ensure compliance to all local, state and federal regulations concerning safety, environmental.★ Manage departmental daily activities to ensure KPI’s and budgets are met by maintaining spending. ★ Implement, train and maintain new CMMS preventive and predictive maintenance programs for equipment and facilities.★ When needed hands on assistance in troubleshooting and problem-solving problems in the areas of pneumatics, mechanical and electronic/ electrical issues.★ Work with Manufacturing Engineer regarding equipment upgrades and modifications.★ Reduce safety incidents through training and assist in implementing STOP safety program providing solutions for safer equipment.★ Project management capital projects: Maintenance of all Plant Systems; Upgrades to Compressed Air System & Electrical, Fire Monitoring System, HVAC systems, building updates, and cost-saving projects such as Plant wide LED Lighting to reduce energy consumption and recycling program.★ Manage instrument calibration per ISO requirements.

Norwalk, Ct, Us

Managed daily production activities such as, kaizen, 5 "S", safety programs, quality objectives, and production output that allow achievement of company goals. ★ Participated in Lean events improving operations, product quality and safety. ★ Manage multiple product lines daily production activities, safety, quality and projects.★ Successfully lead, implement and reduce process changes reducing total cycle time by 20%. ★ Led and Co-Lead on several Kaizen events improving and validating new manufacturing processes and product design changes. ★ Development and implementation Standard work and 5 “S” practices improving processes increasing productivity and reducing line stop time by 10%.★ Led cultural change in the production environment from traditional manufacturing to employee empowerment using a new manufacturing asset, Andon system, team leader and team member training.★ Reduce safety incidents through training and safety programs from one per month to and of average 2 per year.

Pawtucket, Ri, Us

Managed all shipping, receiving and inventory control.★ Established a second shift to improve shipping and inventory management★ Managed daily activities of Shipping, Receiving and finished goods inventory control.★ Implemented companywide changes to shipping & receiving through the use process mapping of current state and future state.★ Recommend and implement 5“S” practices, document and process mapping of shipping using lean manufacturing process eliminating non-value-added activities in shipping and finished goods warehouse. ★ Reduced and controlled finished goods inventories through the implementation of a structured and regular cycle program.

Delaware, Ohio, Us

Directed and coordinated project activities to satisfy project milestones, optimized short-term and long-term company profit by effectively managing and facilitating project and company resources. Provided technical leadership/project management in the design, development, training, performance, and delivery of products and services. ★ Effectively defined, implemented, and drove successful completion of ERP upgrade. Configuration system parameters, employee data, production, purchasing, shipping and planning modules within system.★ Configuration and setup of network switches, workstations and wireless devices.★ Business processes model and suggested changes to improve business practices. ★ Recommend and implemented 5“S” practices, document and process mapping of shipping using lean manufacturing process eliminating non-value-added activities in shipping and finished goods warehouse. ★ Project Management – Developed and conducted end-user training of employees in the new ERP system while successfully installing an ERP system upgrade in 10 facilities throughout North America, serving as Site Team Lead on 7 of the 10 implementations.

Maintained and controlled daily manufacturing operations through evaluation and monitoring direct and indirect labor cost, employee relations, gross profits, budget control, process improvements, safety, and environmental compliance. Direct reports include Plant Superintendent, Human Resources, and Maintenance Manager while working with all departments to achieve company goals.★ Grew revenue, gross profit 4% and reduced indirect labor 3% by implementing new plant processes and controls, team training and creating measurement metrics★ Eliminated 30% of workstation cycle time by assessing and then eliminating non-valued activities.★ Reduced machine downtime by 2% by working with the maintenance manager to develop proactive preventive maintenance schedules.★ Evaluated and recommend Quality system updates to the current ISO9000 standard.★ Reduced indirect labor costs by 3% by reorganizing the plant and product flow using Demand Flow Technologies, Value Stream Mapping and eliminating non-value-added activities. ★ Redesign tooling to extend the usage and overall life, reducing tooling cost by 50% per year.★ Managed tubular shaft manufacturing for air conditioning/roller conveyor production, safety, product quality, budgets and process improvements★ Reduced setup times by 10% utilizing 5 “S” practices and lean concepts leading to tight plant organization and cleanliness

Hanau, De

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Business Administration And Management

Associate'S Degree In Applied Sciences Engineering, Electronic Technology