Orwell Division makes cabinet doors. I am the buyer for the wood, panels and adhesives plus many shop supplies.

Shipping and Receiving Clerk for a strapping and packaging manufacturing company.

Department Head and Sales Associate for the plumbing, electrical, and kitchen and bath departments.

Supervised twelve to fifteen Material Handlers over five shifts on a fifteen-door dock. • Oversaw dock safety and managed recycling for the plant to recoup $6,000 - $12,000 monthly.• Led the charge to hold vendors accountable to a standard on paperwork.• Mobilized to level load incoming and outgoing deliveries across all shifts.• Department cost savings of over $90,000.

Safely managed ten to twelve employees in a coating department with four manufacturing assets. • Built and updated Lean Sigma tools for the managed asset.• Successfully ran multiple problem solving events, Kiazans, and Blitzes.• Collaborated with other assets and departments during the shift to hit service goals of over 98% on-time delivery.

Planned and scheduled raw material deliveries for three solvent based coaters, one hot melt coater and one hot melt extruder while scheduling one to four press type coaters. • Managed consignment inventory at remote warehouses to insure raw material availability and purchase order entry for JIT deliveries. • Orchestrated bulk compound tanker deliveries to ensure product availability and non-shortages. Efficiently managed a growing HVAC buy/resell tape and cable tie business, including planning incoming deliveries at a remote warehouse on a long lead-time item. • Reconciled raw material and other supplier invoicing issues that pertained to wrong pricing, quantity discrepancy, and returns and rebates. • Programmed schedules on coaters to cover customer orders.• Successfully ran obsolescence program with monthly savings of $5,000-$8,000

Managed a crew of five employees on multiple adhesive coating lines; increased yields, safety, performance, operating efficiencies, quality, and productivity within the adhesive line portion of the coating department, and sequenced adhesive coating lines to meet customer demands.