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Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States

Fort Smith, Arkansas

• Worked on value stream mapping in the cabinet integration bench area of the cabinet shop. • Created orders, conducted time studies, identified and eliminated non-value-added work, implemented improvement actions, completed and led team debriefings and began developing a flow map of newly agreed upon process structures and times.

Van Buren, Arkansas

• Responsible for the development and implementation of a scrap tracking system throughout the plant. Scrap costs the plant an estimated $1,000,000 per 1% scrap on the year. This system recorded and tracked all scrap by its cause and determined the plants high drivers so they could be examined and addressed.• Trained over 400 operators, engineers, and supervisors on the scrap tracking system.• Assisted with ongoing quality engineering projects where I wrote procedures, collected data, preformed audits, etc.

Fort Smith, Arkansas

Responsible for the distribution and merchandising of retail food products. Maintain exceptional costumer service to all clients and provide delivers in a timely manner. Serve as a back up manager when necessary. Assist with unloading inventory in warehouse and verifying it against invoices.