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Customer Relationship Management: Built and maintained strong relationships with GE Healthcare, serving as the primary point of contact and ensuring customer satisfaction and retention.Production Management: Oversaw daily production activities across four locations, optimizing workflows and ensuring timely delivery of products.Process Improvement: Co facilitate regular Kaizen events with GE Healthcare Lean Leader, Saunders Ansingh, to improve production quality; then teaching group-wide standards for identifying and responding to abnormal conditions.Labor Efficiency Utilization: Collaborated with production teams to enhance labor efficiency, reducing downtime and increasing productivity.Value Add/Value Engineering: Led value-added and value-engineering initiatives, improving product quality and reducing costs.Vendor Management Inventory: Managed vendor relationships and inventory, ensuring timely procurement of materials and reducing stockouts.Safety Management: Ensured adherence to safety protocols and regulations, promoting a safe working environment for all employees.Building a Lean Culture: Over a decade of experience applying lean manufacturing and 5S principles, acting as a key resource for continuous improvement, and promoting Kaizen methodologies.

Managed assembly activities during a complete reorganization, ensuring no delivery dates were missed.Maintained direct communication with key customers, serving as an escalation point for priority items.Led 5S improvement team activities to enhance work cells and layouts.Increased versatility through cross-training, reducing overtime hours.Introduced rework procedures, reducing scrap rates by nearly 30%.Led inventory and build plans for all products.

White Bear Lake, Minnesota, United States