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Led the LSS Black Belt and Quality teams for the Health, Hygiene & Specialties North America division. Managed the regional project portfolio supporting productivity, customer satisfaction, cost excellence and volume growth goals. Support of sixteen manufacturing sites to meet EBITDA and quality targets by leading the identification and implementation of project pipelines and quality plans. Standardized business systems, process controls and improvement methodologies for increased effectiveness. Responsible for continued development, coaching and mentoring of Business Excellence and other leaders of product/process improvement projects across the division.

Drove global strategic initiatives to improve internal quality and process engineering capabilities. Identified operational best practices, validated them and developed an implementation plan to improve standardization within and across global regions. Collaborated with the regional and global quality teams to meet and exceed internal and external customer expectations.

Partnered with operational site leaders to develop a culture of business excellence through Lean Six Sigma deployment. Led regional and site-level improvement projects driving operations, supply chain and business process performance improvement. Mentored and coached regional Black and Green Belts.

Management of Process, Quality, Reliability and Project Engineering staff. Acted as a change agent to drive improvement of business performance metrics. Provided guidance and coaching to the organization and the process engineering/reliability teams on continual improvement methodologies.

Drove supplier performance by establishing supplier relationships and emphasizing continuous improvement and quality methodologies. Led supplier quality engineering team in the creation and implementation of best practices. Performed supplier assessments for business analysis, identification of improvement opportunities and developmental training. Compiled, monitored and distributed supplier performance metrics. Collaborated with marketing, engineering, operations and suppliers to ensure validation of product and capability of processes.

Primary quality contact for both customers and suppliers. Managed final inspection and shipping departments including color grading and finished goods inventory control. Led continuous improvement and process engineering efforts.

Designed and executed projects for quality improvement, cost reduction and new product development. Collaborated throughout production departments to achieve internal and voice of the customer goals. Performed extensive material analysis and development of manufacturing processes.