Patrick Bowers Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, US

Responsible for site Operations including manufacturing, planning, order fulfillment, HSE, and facilities

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

Responsible for all of the America’s Integrated Supply Chain Operations including manufacturing, planning, order fulfillment, HSE, facilities, logistics and trade compliance

Responsible for all Global Product Marketing for Cooper Capacitor Products. Product Strategy, Market Strategy, Pricing, Margin, Orders & Sales Attainment, Budgeting, New Product Development, Life Cycle Management.

Responsible for P&L and Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost at Cooper Power Systems Capacitor manufacturing facility.

Responsible for manufacturing process. Process includes equipment (maintenance of existing, and introduction of new capital). Management of six Manufacturing Engineers, Maintenance Supervisor and Maintenance Department. Also lead the plant in implementation of Lean Manufacturing tools and practices.

• Department Head charged with daily product output, Safety, Service, Productivity, and Quality.
• Production Manager over a three shift, high speed, automated assembly process, high speed stamping process, and a plating process (5 supervisors, 120 hourly)
• Worked with Lean Manager to implement Lean processes resulting in $700K in savings in 2005
• Worked with union contract team resulting in 25% reduction in labor costs over 3 years

US

• Department Head charged with improving processes to reduce variable cost by a minimum of 20% ($6M) and inventory by 50% using lean techniques over 2 years.
• Reduced Switchboard business hourly head count by 26% in 6 months ($1.1M savings) at same volume using lean process improvements
• Reduced inventory by $707K in 6 months by reducing kanban levels and lowering lead times

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