Travis Walker Email & Phone Number

Attendorn, North Rhine Westphalia, De

• Overseeing Mubea’s North America Automotive Coil Spring division including defining & executing the strategy for Coil Spring North America, ensuring regional sales and profitability target achievement.• Leading North American activities for 2 sites in the U.S. and 1 in Mexico with 550+ full time employees, within 3 facilities. Full P&L responsibility and accountable for growing sales, as a subsidiary of a global innovation leading German family owned company of 14,000 associates

Attendorn, North Rhine Westphalia, De

• Responsible for overall operations for both Stabilizer Bar & Coil Spring business units including manufacturing automotive coil springs and stabilizer bars for all major North American automotive OEMS and many tier 1 suppliers. • Led all operational activities for 3 sites in the U.S. and 3 in Mexico – managing more than $350 million annual sales and 1000+ full time employees within 6 facilities.• Developed Chassis North America Supply Chain Management and Quality teams, and focused on driving standardized processes founded upon the principles of lean manufacturing, which enabled us to reduce inventory by $4 million and eliminate $1 million in annual failure cost.• Successfully launched $70 million dollar Greenfield site in Mexico; from land & building cost negotiations to launching new customer projects inside the new facility.

Attendorn, North Rhine Westphalia, De

• Responsible for 2 automotive coil spring manufacturing plants with $150 million in annual sales.• Developed a management team who was repeatedly recognized by our customers with several OEM supplier of the year awards, including Ford, GM and Nissan, while selling over 18 million units annually.• Implemented standardized processes and best practices, guided by the principles of lean manufacturing, eliminating waste/ failure cost and reducing operating cost by 12%

Attendorn, North Rhine Westphalia, De

• Managed all aspects of global supply chain including procurement, production control and warehousing/ shipping for the Chassis Division, with annual sales of $300 million• Developed and implemented processes that reduced inventories by 20% while improving on time delivery from 85 to 96%.