Northeast Tool & Manufacturing is a privately held, rapidly growing, certified AS9100D and ISO 9001:2015 supplier of precision machined parts and complex assemblies for the aerospace and defense industries.As the Director of People and Culture (Human Resources Director) and Head of Human Resources, I sit on the executive panel with the CEO and COO. I create and revise policies, practices, and procedures to lay the foundation and build the organizational structure for sustainability and scalability to align with strategic business growth plans at 3x current capacity in 3 years.• Perform full life cycle recruiting for all positions, including background screening to onboarding and orientation.• Created standardized job hierarchies for the manufacturing, quality, and engineering departments.• Implemented succession planning and supported growth plans through organizational design.• Standardized performance reviews and performance management, and individual development plans.• Implemented new time and labor management system and processes, including biometrics time clock.• Spearheaded transition from a discretionary matching 401k plan to a safe harbor 401k plan through a larger scale administrator.• Assisted in upgrading and implementing new medical plan through hero health/med cost.

$1 billion global leader in motion control solutions.Regional HR Manager overseeing three manufacturing facilities (1 non-union and 2 union) in two states supporting 500+ total employees; lead a 4-member HR team comprising an HRBP, a Generalist, and a Supervisor overseeing a Coordinator.• Spearheaded the successful exit of an underperforming plant manager and top-graded the talent pool to align with the company's future growth objectives. • Introduced HR metrics for overtime, time to fill, and training effectiveness, leading to increased productivity, enhanced morale, and actionable insights for continuous improvement; results included a reduction in OT by 8%.• Identified inconsistent application of union attendance policy and worked with the leadership team to create a standard approach to improve operations efficiencies, resulting in a reduction of unpaid time off by 52%.• Created hourly production job family hierarchy to standardize job titles, training matrices, and pay scales; reduced 40+ unique titles to 8 with step progressions, resulting in improved efficiency and employee morale.• Perform analysis of HRIS, recruiting, and employee opinion survey feedback data to identify actionable and measurable plans for improvement, resulted in an increase of retention by 5% and satisfaction increase of 7%.

Provided executive HR support to a $100M+ fabrication and hoist assembly business while managing the day-to-day tactical administration of the HR department.• Re-designed the organizational structure to support a transformational period of focusing on improving plant layout, efficiencies, and processes by temporarily flattening the organization and top-grading leadership talent.• Developed and implemented a pioneering apprenticeship program for machinists in collaboration with a local community college, resulting in a diverse talent pool (80%) that addressed critical technical skill gaps.• Helped drive creation of an employee handbook, a standardized attendance policy for U.S. hourly associates, and standardized progressive disciplinary action policy and performance management process for all U.S. employees.

$4.9 billion global leader in water technologies that designs and manufactures engineered products and solutions.Provided strategic HR support for a vertical turbine pump manufacturing business over two non-union facilities with an employee population of 250+. Also provided corporate executive HR support to global Sr. VP of Innovation, Technology & Products and functional team.• Provided HR strategy and support that resulted in a $10M increase in operational income from 2019 to 2021.• Managed changes through COVID and remote work, reductions in force, creation of 2 additional engineering departments, and customer support organization restructuring.• Represented U.S. on a Global Remote Work Policy development committee and lead a sub-team to create supplementary documents: FAQ’s, Playbooks for HR and Managers, and Employee Eligibility.

$2.1 billion global innovative manufacturer of automation and commercial & residential solutions.Provided HR support to VP’s in Finance & Sales while providing HR support to 800+ non-union on-site employees. • Created, implemented, and managed a shared services function including the 3 HR team member operators.• Created automated solution through Visual Basic (VBA) to record data for metric tracking and predictive analysis to monitor productivity.• Supported corporate Engineers In Leadership development program.

$6.2 billion global healthcare company and industry leader in plasma-derived and transfusion medicines.Managed donation center daily operations and performed onsite HR functions for 50+ direct reports.• Increased weekly production from 800 donations to 1,350 by increased recruitment and retention of donors.• Reduced donor processing times by 50 minutes.• HR responsibilities included: employee relations, recruitment, compensation planning and business strategy.

Transformed the quality profile of a struggling plasma donation center with over 60 employees.• Improved the corporate internal quality audit score for the center from the worst rating (1) to the highest (5). • Managed the quality department of 3 direct reports.• Conducted internal audits, managed process control and documentation review, and ensured cGMP and Standard Operation Procedure (SOP) adherence for regulatory compliance with FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) and EMA (European Medicines Agency) standards.

Performed incoming raw material inspections, in-process product testing, environmental cleanliness testing, and defective component disposition. • Reported metrics to senior management.• Responsible for the Bio Process portion of the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) design and implementation, created test methods and output results.• Performed environmental monitoring of the clean room and organized statistical trending data.• Created, revised, and maintained controlled work instruction documents.

Responsible for the 2nd shift assembly production activities of 55 employees. HR coordinator for 2nd shift.• Improved 2nd shift efficiency by creating a tracker spreadsheet with macros to calculate throughput.• Standardized training advancements tracking system.• Developed documented procedures and training programs to improve the workflow and performance of the operations team.

Assembled BioProcess Containers in a clean room environment according to cGMP standards.• Participated in lean manufacturing training and teams: gemba walks, 5S workshops, kaizen events, and Practical Process Improvement (PPI).