Rich

11/15/2014
Fort Smith, AR

Position Desired

Industrial Engineering
Mobile, AL; Anywhere in CA; Anywhere in FL; Newport News, VA
Yes

Resume

Career Summary:
Thought leader with an analytic background and management experience that delivers next level performance and effective continuous improvement.

Experience:
Mars Pet care, Fort Smith, AR, 2011-Present
Development and management of continuous improvement process
-Integration of quality, cost, and safety metrics to site objectives to prioritize projects
-Creation of electronic data collection software to identify areas of opportunity and quantify associate ideas
-Direct management of projects and other project managers to drive $1.3 million in labor cost reductions
-Worked within a cross functional team to generate both equipment and process solutions to reduce downtime

Quality Management System
-Metric driven quality improvements, achieved both process and functional results
-Related production quality issues to cost metrics to realize “cost of quality” and justify action to eliminate non-conformances
-Policy and software creation to adhere to FSSC 22000 qualification and eliminate root causes of production issues
-Training and software creation to drive root cause analysis
-Lead Change Management program to bring new equipment and products into facility and integrate into current production

Leader for global integration between North American and European sites, consistent metrics and 5 year capital budget planning
Work with engineering to adjust future line designs to improve efficiencies over current designs

Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, MS, 2008-2011
Labor Resource Analysis
-Developed short term metrics to provide 2-5 week view of current labor use across multiple shipyards and its effect on cost and schedule on each ship under construction
-Creation of automated software to relate long term construction schedules to labor force and provide long range (1-20 year) projections on hiring and staffing movements

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