Stephen Broe Email & Phone Number

County Meath, Ireland

County Meath, Ireland

Dublin 7

• Managed technical projects and process improvement projects, deploying lean manufacturing & lean six sigma strategies to achieve goals and successful outcomes. • I was responsible for the project management of capital projects within ITM.• Responsible for reporting monthly to the SMT on all projects including progress to time and budget highlighting unresolved risks and mitigation paths.• Created Syllabus for ECDL program which I was the Co-Ordinator and facilitator for. During the course I covered the full ECDL program with employees. • Completed Certified Training Professional course and ECDL certified training course to drive and improve education of staff. • Created OEE data sheets for OEP team which enables them to monitor OEE KPI and drive performance improvements in Operational Excellence program. This included pivot tablets, paretos and creation of MTBF and MTTR trend reporting. • Responsible for post project analysis with finance and production to quantify the improvements once a project is completed.• Monitor supplier performance, and make recommendations for improvement and cost savings.• Responsible for the management of all continuous improvement projects within the plant.• Management of outsourced ancillary support services and monthly reporting to SMT against KPIs . I was responsible for the overall maintenance and engineering strategy and budgetary management, energy and waste management.• Ensured that all customer quality expectations are understood and achieved through all managed services.• Identified/prepared SMEDs/FMEAs/VSMs to address engineering/process changes and OEE improvement opportunities.• Participated and contributed as a member of the OEP team to ensure all OEP milestones are achieved on schedule in Mullingar. • Managed the activities, costs, quality and compliance of facilities contractor/s on site.• Drove improvements through Operational Excellence Program.

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Managed a team of 30 to 35 Technical Support and Production Machine Operators on high speed FMCG machinery. Drive improvements through the facility and influence performance from end to end. • Managed overall production and process flow from day to day issues. Overall team of 40 employees on shift. • Improved KPI in both Quality and efficiency month on month. Achieved overall target at final milestone • Implemented operational excellence program in September 2015. This was a continuous improvement roadmap set over 4 millstones for 40weeks. • Achieved target on each milestone and overall target achieved for program. • Initiated change in all areas, from projects based on maintenance and process flow. • Improved file structures for all staff, creating new KPI files and Quality improvement file. • Create best breed data process via excel and sql databases. • Train staff on excel use and techniques for data mining and presentations. • Use of change management techniques to influence behavioural change • Conduct regular performance reviews and disciplinary meetings • Perform formal appraisals including the setting of SMART objectives • Carry out accident investigations using Kelvin Topset Method• Co-ordinate Planned Preventive and Reactive Maintenance• Streamline production line scheduling, Maintain staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees; developing personal growth opportunities.• Developing reporting procedures and systems. Training staff on QAD and internal metrics and OEE. • Facilitating corrections to malfunctions within process control points.• Initiating and fostering a spirit of cooperation within and between departments

• Led worldwide IBM i/pSeries Integrated Supply Chain Quality Engineering community. • Drove end to end supply chain commodity and product quality improvement initiatives for IBM i/pSeries server brands. • Managed quality performance reporting and quality improvement initiatives to meet aggressive continuous improvement goals. Managed worldwide commodity first pass yield review process for i/pSeries. Set agenda and tracked actions.• Analyzed and reviewed quality data from IBM Integrated Supply Chain (Suppliers, Manufacturing Plants and customer quality experience). • Coordinated supply chain stop-ship remediation activities to minimize financial impacts. • Designed the best of breed engineering process for the implementation of the IBM Quality Early Warning System (QEWS) and created a training program for new IBM Quality Engineers. Provided mentoring of junior members of global engineering teams in the use of analytics to manage supply chain quality.• Quality Engineering Focal Point for the bring-up of a new manufacturing facility in Guadalajara Mexico including infrastructure setup, staffing and process transition from facilities in the United States.• Quality Business Analyst and focal point for analytic, reporting and data mining projects. • Completed Audits for ISO4001. • KPI (Key Performance Indicator – FPY / DFI)Owner for Power Systems Global Team.

• Drive and support the commodity improvement initiatives related to the Server Quality performance to meet the Commodity Target• Analyze data from all Manufacturing sites and field using statistical process control techniques “Brio / Cognos / Statit / EWS”. • Provide Technical support to WW Stop Ship coordinator, WW Manufacturing, QE and PQE teams• Coordinate First Production Article runs WW for Memory. • Present to ISC executives the weekly and monthly commodity performance and actions developed to drive the commodity performance to target in Manufacturing• Lead Green Belt DOX projects as appropriate to address commodity performance• Lead annual commodity target setting with Program and Commodity Managers• Drive to improve the WW Commodity performance for Memory in Manufacturing• Chair the weekly Dublin Quality Review Meeting with Senior ManagementDublin First Pass Yield (FPY) owner – Collect and Analyze data for FPY defects, work closely with global commodity owners and present Dublin’s figures to the world wide Server Team including IBM senior managemet• Quality Engineer for the installation of High End (HE) Systems and managing the FPY for Dublin Manufacturing• Investigated install and quality line side issues impacting our DFI & FPY metrics and provide root cause and corrective actions • Worked with the failure analysis team to carry out tests on fail products and report findings to Commodity and Senior Management• Created and develop quality check sheets for HE Systems• Reported weekly the install quality and Manufacturing yield metrics to Senior Management• Drove MFG projects to improve overall yield performance in Dublin

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