Ron Burk Email & Phone Number

Wells, Me, Us

Scarborough Me

Generate purchase orders, requisitions and other purchasing documents for the purchase of material, tools, and equipment.Maintain positive relationships with suppliers and vendors.Monitor consumables to optimize inventory levels balancing capital investment objectives and service-level goals

Scarborough, Me

Manufacturer of customized solid fiber and corrugated partitions, folding cartons, sheet fed paperboard and die-cut paperboard components.Created training skills matrix to be used as a needs analysis tool to develop and manage cross trained production staff and to provide for professional development.Safety Team ChairmanLead waste reduction and efficiency efforts.Control the safety, quality, production, scrap, housekeeping, cost and customer service.Coordinate operations schedule with other supervisors and Production Planner. Ensure manufacturing capacity exists to achieve production build schedules. through proper staffing levels and training of team members.Supervision of 26 associates across 17 cost centers - Enforcing Plant Rules - Work Order Maintenance and Closure - Cycle Count Accuracy - Labor Efficiencies - Process Compliance - Controllable Spending Within Budget - Quality - New Employment Orientation - Timecard/Attendance - Safety Representative -- Employee Performance Evaluations

Portland, Maine Area

Implemented Professional Development training curriculum, course content & schedules.

Lewiston/Auburn, Maine Area

Geiger is the largest family owned and managed distributer of promotional products in the United States. The SunGraphix Division is the publisher of the Farmers Almanac and a leading manufacturer of promotional diaries, quality pocket & desk planners, calendars, notepads and journals.Managed multiple lean process improvements teams in the Graphics through printing departments where digital and offset printing technologies were used in support of the manufacturing build process.• Saved Sun Graphix’s top customer by using lean methods, driving down the order to ship cycle by 85%.• Created cellular work flow environments, reducing lead time and work-in-process inventory• Established a progressive skills matrix, encouraging individual growth and cross training.• Using Lean SMED methods, achieved a 40% reduction in the setup time on the costliest work center.• Reduced turn around time to proof art to customers by 50%• Established an aggressive repair and operator training process, restoring equipment to proper working condition, enabling the return of work that was previously outsourced.Print Services Manager Position was eliminated due to department consolidation and division work force reduction.www.sungraphix.com

Unemployed Professionals lending their expertise to growing Maine businesses to help create jobs.Work it UP is an entrepreneurial nonprofit organization with the objective of providing growth to Maine Enterprises by finding, coordinating and placing teams of Unemployed Professionals in client defined projects resulting in business growth and job creation, leading to employment opportunities for participants.Pro Bono position.Direct and advise the day-to-day operations of the organizations systems and procedures required to accomplish the company's mission and goals.

Strategic analysis and planning in determining long range schedules and appropriate use of assets and courses of action.Managed the production control staff in establishing the manufacturing operations schedule and key production indicators for 25 cost centers and over 300 production associates in a 24/7 shift cycle Daily and monthly reporting of manufacturing productivity, forecasts and capacityChosen as beta site and super user for deployment of EFI Print Flow MIS/scheduling systemSelected Achievements: • Implemented two MIS scheduling and Job planning and documentation systems, maintaining 95% on time deliveries and facilitating the functional changes in staff reporting and job assignments for a seamless flow of information. • Selected as the lead RR Donnelley beta site to deploy their new milestone scheduling system; developing new reports that became models for the division.• Personally acknowledged by customers for the rapid response and ease by which their scheduling delays and changes were handled.

Managed the doubling in manufacturing capacity from $50m to $100M in sales through two plant expansions and numerous capital equipment installations and retirements.Supervised Production control, scheduling & planning staff in the activities of a 500 plus employee commercial printing plant. Established production planning metrics, waste reduction analyses, and forecasts for over 25 manufacturing lines.

Prepare cost and manufacturing estimates for planning & sales departments.

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Project Management, Certificate

Activities and Societies: APICSUSM Professional Development Program Oct - Dec 2012

Logistics, Materials, And Supply Chain Management

Activities and Societies: APICSOn going - completed 4 of 5 modules of APICS CPIM certification

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Liberal Arts