Responsible for Management of all Project Schedules and Deliverables.• Hold Kick-off meeting after receiving the Purchase Order• Documentation of the exact scope of the project with all stake holders or their designees present• Establish project schedule including all mile stones and obtain buy in from all stake holders including German supplied equipment• Hold weekly project review meetings with all stake holders insuring project is on schedule and scope is being met• Elevate all off track project issues to appropriate level to insure project stays on schedule• Update customer on project progress on a regular basis• Coordination all technical and commercial clarifications as needed working with Regional Sales Managers and Application Engineers• Coordinate customer visits• Coordinate trucking with logistics and Regional support• Insure all milestone payments are made on time per the contract• Document and follow through with all issues identified during review meetings• Hold post mortem on all projects after the installation is complete• Communicate lessons learned to stake holders and executive management to insure process corrections and improvements are made

Planning and scheduling of all production work orders through SAP for all Machine Projects and Spare Parts Orders• Creation of all Production Orders, Printing and Distribution of Orders• Reviewing Material Availability, Requesting of Material Staging, and Consumption of all Materials• Resolve Production Orders with Good Movement Errors• Ensure all Materials were delivered on time; daily follow-up• Inventory adjustments, root cause analysis of loss/gain• Manage daily communication pertaining through all departments involved• Review Open Issues and Action Item Logs

Implementing and controlling an internal and external Kanban system reducing on hand inventory for internal customers and suppliers using i-Supply/i-Kanban order methodology.Review Supplier demand for accuracy, processing MRP, exporting release schedules to the supply base, while maintaining minimum inventory levels, and FIFO of Inventory.Processing Purchase Orders, Receiving Spot Buy Orders, and evaluating Supplier Invoices.Supplier Parameter Reviews, Process DMR's, Evaluate Supplier Corrective Actions, Issuing of Debit Memos, Quarantine Non-Conforming Material and Transactions.Reviewing Part Shortages, Maintain Cycle Count Internal Systems, Record Inventory Adjustments, Root Cause Analysis and processing of NCM Scrap entries.Organize and manage Physical Inventory events, Review Supplier Cums, Establish and maintain Standard Supplier Shipping Matrix/Supplier Delivery Schedules.Daily Reviews of ASN Reports, Process Shippers/Receivers, Manage dock appointments, Process Supplier Returns.Daily interactions with the unionized facility, providing excellent communication skills with all associate levels.Organize cross functional teams to support critical milestones, remove roadblocks and mitigate potential risk.Reduced average on hand steel inventory by 15%, resulting in an $82,000 inventory save by implementing a new order process.Create and maintain daily schedule for 57 stampings on three presses supporting internal and external requirements.Lead daily schedule attainment review and collaborate with press room operations team to manage bank builds and repairs on 37 stamping dies.Influential in maintaining zero charters to customers over six years scheduling at Battle Creek.Build BOM structures for new products and maintain accuracy by leading BOM reviews with Engineering and Operations.Instrumental at achieving best in class days on hand for FY2009 at 8.51 including multiple international suppliers.

• Implementation and completion of Production Schedules while maintaining Supplier and Customer relations• Utilized Lean Manufacturing concepts to reduce set-up times and merge machine compatibility with part relativity• Coordinated all Manufacturing Engineering changes to allow for on time delivery with excellent quality• Active Team member for implementation of QS9000, Waste, 5S, Set-up Reduction Kaizen Team events• Releasing and expediting of all Purchased Parts/Production Manufactured Components and managing Inventory Levels, Contacting Suppliers, Evaluating Supplier Performances• Created and maintained program documents and part files• Managed the inventory levels of all MRO Items for the office and the production floor, processed all requisitions and purchase orders and consolidated vendor invoices• Assisted commodity managers, and engineers in sourcing new parts