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•Create Master Production Schedule and capacity plan for mill operations to align with current and forecasted demand volume.•Relay Supply Chain metrics for Monthly Operational Reviews and S&OE•Management of raw materials and inventory control on site.•Purchase and procurement of raw materials.•Lead and standardize process for inventory audits, inventory control, and maintenance of supply chain systems.•Implement and manage TIB process for cost savings on raw material.•Coordinate and align events to convert raw materials and service inputs into finished goods for end-consumers in a timely and cost-effective manner.•Lead MRP process for strategic sourcing and planning.•Analyze inventory turns and execute action plans to hit key metrics.•Assist in forecasting and planning reviews.•Establish information workflow for key supply chain processes.•Quoting of raw material and mill lead times.•Lead and execute management of value add projects through continuous improvement events.•Develop Line of Balances for customers to ensure open communication and visibility for the current and future state of orders.

• Implementing an effective production plan throughout the mill.• Control raw material management from daily operations, month end reconciliations, and year end audits.• Communicate to outside sales representatives’ current raw material lead time and pricing.• Implementation of continuous improvement processes to improve scheduling and production flow of WIP through the plant.• Identify bottle necks and create capacity plans to ensure flow of production and eliminate late orders.• Maintain Kanban systems and MOQs.• Lead Kaizen event increasing output while reducing labor costs.• Implemented bar code scanning system with raw material inventory to allow visual tracking of material throughout process. • Create workforce and labor plans and compare to budgeted operations plan.• Participate in continuous improvement projects and events. • Built master cycle time database to increase productivity by identifying part specific cycle times to efficiently maximize machine capacity to increase sales dollars per month based of S&OP meetings.

• Lead and direct a team of seven process managers and one lead process manager for extrusion die casting operations.• Manage the budget for the labor, materials, and logistics cost while analyzing potential budget increases due to various volumes of different titanium and commercial business requirements.• Create a demand capacity sheet to utilize and allocate workforce to attack bottlenecks which resulted to being the only operation in the mill that runs to TAKT.• Reduced overtime in the area while maintaining production demand.• Implement a Kanban system to ensure raw materials are always on hand for ceramic coating booth process and phoenix melter pot.• Evaluate time studies on processes to ensure cycle times reflect accurate takt sheet production goals.• Create master sheet evaluating individual employee performance based on operation and downtime.

• Monitor daily production operations to ensure smooth production flow.• Create/Monitor/Communicate the daily production schedule to the production supervisors for assigned production areas to ensure that production plans occur as planned.• Maintain schedule adherence and stability metrics and consult with related departments to identify root cause.• Conduct overtime meetings with production management and production control while determining which production processes need to work as well as calculating the labor needed to fulfill the demand.• Creation and modification of the Master Schedule.• Compile and report on relevant operational readiness and schedule adherence KPI’s.• Oversee the line personnel calculation requirement to support the production schedule.• Participate in all pre-launch activities as they relate to scheduling requirement which includes line capacity as well as the upstream operations capacity which feed into the line. Determine labor, equipment, and shift utilization.• Work with Customer Account Managers, Projects Managers to schedule capacity, equipment, and line personnel.• Communicate decisions to the individual teams affected by the schedule changes.• Assist in facilitation of daily operations review meeting.• Maintain all master planning data.• MRP execution