Paul Grochocinski Email & Phone Number

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Provide overall lifecycle oversight and coordinate part qualifications with cross-functional team of representatives from R&D, Component Engineering, Product Engineering and Global Sourcing.
• Responsible for implementing and managing the tools and processes necessary to successfully manage and minimize Last Time Buy purchase requirements.
• Lead Value Engineering Sessions with BL, Commodity Managers, and R&D Teams.
• Ensure supply continuity for EOL components impacting product by coordinating qualification builds at the factory and ensuring alignment of R&D resources to support qualification of replacements. Manage related ECO’s.
• Project manage factory implementation of Redesign product cost reduction projects to optimize savings timeline.
• Support environmental compliance requirements with Itron’s vendor base.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Project Management prime for over 20 product lines within Supply Chain Operations. Responsibility for full lifecycle management: New Product Introduction, Midlife changes, and End of Life phases. (Cradle to grave.)
• Created a cross functional team to manage over $2M worth of products being discontinued to minimize scrap of product/components prior to introduction of newer models. Included managing updates to tools/processes used.
• Managed cross functional team that tracked consumption of over 500 obsolete components and ensured Design and Supply Chain primes had plans in place to address key components shortages.
• Managed project to update purchasing agreements by consolidating vendor sourcing of installation materials for a cost reduction impact of 20%. Implemented stock management policies with procurement team.
• Hosted quarterly reviews with Product Line Managers to determine if products in their portfolios should still be offered based on actual customer demand and/or strategic sales opportunities.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Managed monthly creation / consolidation of material forecast for over 1000 products (system, spare and repair unit demands). Included reviewing with Supply Chain Operations stakeholders, challenging Sales as needed.
• Coordinated the disposition of materials returned by customers. Included coordinating repair, scrap, and resale activities.
• Reconciled with Finance the liability claims from suppliers for finished goods and components.
• Worked to determine root causes of inventory shrinkage, resolve cycle count issues, and set inventory planning measures.
• Automated multiple reports to save 5 hours of manual processing per week.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Managed allocation of products across multiple customer accounts and provided delivery dates to customer service teams.
• Developed creative methods to find material for emergency outages and urgent installation requests.
• Worked to disposition slow moving and damaged product in the distribution center.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Managed consolidation and distribution of material forecast from sales to contract manufacturers.
• Reported monthly order fill rates and other key metrics to management.
• Integrated new product forecasts into supply chain to phase in the new and phase out the old product(s).
• Served as technical representative for Raleigh Systems House to evaluate market modeling initiative.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Developed and maintained frame manufacturing models to be assembled, tested, and reconfigured to a customer specification efficiently, without increasing cost and without quality risk to the customer.
• Led cross functional team to implement production models and resolve any issues during production.
• Facilitated implementation of the model concept into upstream marketing/sales/ordering and engineering teams.
• Created first web pages for the supply chain organization: model configurations, bills of material, material issues, service metrics, cost reports.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Designed lab exercise for class which was also used as basis for final class project.
• Created web pages covering student grades, answer keys, and links to other on-line academic resources.
• Helped students with weekly labs and homework.

Lafayette, Indiana Area

• Created new routings for high volume parts to accommodate new manufacturing process designs.
• Estimated internal cost of manufacturing to compare with vendor estimates.

Bridgeview, IL

• Conducted reliability studies on Rice-a-Roni and Noodle-Roni packaging lines and presented Pareto analysis to management.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Redesigned manufacturing lines to allow for changes in volume and supervised their implementation.
• Completed study on Field Replacement Units: new times and processes.
• Designed and oversaw fabrication of product carriers for use on manufacturing assembly lines.
• Assessed the maximum utilization of floor space for various manufacturing areas to aid in capacity planning.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Industrial Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Industrial Engineering