Stephen Bergquist Email & Phone Number

United States

Hillsboro, OR

Hillsboro, Oregon

• Fully responsible for all operations, staffing, facility and safety aspects of a 25 person manufacturing plant.
• Responsible for all financial justifications of the plant for sales, freight, production, personnel, and inventory.
• Managed complete monthly cycle counts and reduced the time it took from two days to one and a half.
• Spearheaded efforts to reduce backorders at the plant by 75%, by developing better communication, tracking, and analytics within purchasing, scheduling, and logistics departments.
• Worked with suppliers to create better dialog and forecast analysis to meet needs.
• Managed shipping fleet, as well as negotiations with outside carriers to optimize freight cost.

• Analyze and monitor workflow, schedules and production efficiencies between all shifts, with all departments and managers.
• Developed a check and balance system for orders that reduced errors and prioritized orders,
• Turned a shipping department’s on-time percentage from 65% to 95% within three months.
• Balanced a wide variety of projects with conflicting deadlines to ensure timely completion.
• Worked on budget setting and monitoring, while spearheading capital need assessments.
• Reduced department size and eliminated overtime for an entire division.

Milwaukie, OR

• Streamlined the company’s shipping department, while achieving a quick turnaround with a 98% fill rate.
• Handled the company’s hiring, training, promotion, discipline, payroll, and safety needs.
• Implemented proper staffing strategies to ensure flexibility with the proper mix of FT and PT employees.
• Provided facilities management, overseeing upkeep, housekeeping, maintenance, upgrades, and safety.
• Developed a labeling system to create efficient pull flow, and to create easier inventory cycle counts.
• Created efficient warehouse layout and flow patterns for incoming, production, and outgoing material.

Interdisciplinary Studies, Elementary Education And Geography

Associate Of Science - As, General Studies

Deploma, Electric