Experience

Weiss McNair

• United States
• Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Materials Manager

  • Feb 2009 - Present

  Management Duties: Manage 7 departments that comprise 27 staff members including 3 supervisors – 4 purchasing, 3 production planning, 12 warehouse, 2 counter sales, 3 shipping, 2 manufacturing engineers and 1 order administrator. All management duties including directing, coordinating and guiding workloads to meet company goals and objectives. Review employee performance on annual basis and provide performance feedback, approve vacation request and other HR duties. General Duties: Implement company directives from the General Manager. Research and implement cost reduction opportunities both internally and externally. Review and publish product price sheet on an annual basis. Interface with Production Manager and Engineering Manager to resolve production quality problems. Work with purchasing to resolve supply chain issues. Coordinate with Sales Manager on annual sales forecast for whole goods plan. Plan Parts Counter and Service Department parts forecast. Coordinate with the Manufacturing Engineers to resolve production problems. Coordinate with Warehouse and Shipping Supervisors to develop SOP’s. to support best business practices. Selected Achievements: -Implemented supplier purchase price discounts and rebate program as a standard policy for top tier suppliers resulting in >$300K in annual savings. -Project Manager on a 10,000 ft2 powder coat facility. Coordinated all aspect of construction from permitting to final inspection of building site utilizing sub-contractors. -Project manager on Amada 3015 CNC laser cutting system with full automation. Implemented that largest laser cutting system North of Sacramento to Medford OR with a capacity that exceeded 60,000 Lbs. of storage and 24/7 lights out operation. In-sourced laser cut parts that resulted in a 30% cost reduction while reducing shear cut material waste by over 80% when converted to laser. Show less



Norfield LLC

• United States
• Investment Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Logistics Supervisor

  • 2005 - 2009

  Supervisory Duties: Supervise 3 departments that comprised 5 staff members, 2 purchasing, 1 planning and 2 warehouse. All supervisor duties of directing, coordinating and guiding day to day department operations. Prioritizing workloads and ensuring production needs are met. General Duties: Implement company directives from Operations Manager. Work with accounting on monthly stock reports and purchase part cost variance analysis. Work with Sales, Engineering, Production Manager to resolve supply chain issues. Selected Achievements: -Implemented work cell inventory management system that allowed parts to be stocked directly in the work cell reducing lead time to the customer by 30%. -Implemented new process and procedures that eliminated $21,000 in “lost” inventory. Reorganized the warehouse that resulted in a more streamline system that reduced job kitting time by 40% Show less



Veeco Metrology LLC

• Sales Order Administrator

  • 2001 - 2002

  General Duties: Enter sales order and maintain customer information in ERP system. Work directly with both domestic and international sales staff. Write various reports for the Sales Manager and corporate headquarters. Work directly with the Master Production Scheduler to maintain the production schedule and sales forecast

• Manufacturing Engineering Technician

  • 1998 - 2001

  General Duties: Assist and support Engineering, production, purchasing, R&D and customer support departments for new and existing products. Process engineering change orders, maintain bills of materials. Reverse engineer legacy products as required. Work directly with Engineering and R&D on new product design. Build prototypes and pre-production units, function and cycle testing. Create production documentation in the form of integrated parts break-down (IPB's) or step-by-step assembly documentation. Sourced new components or raw material and created testing procedures to validate performance standards. Document various results from experiments and performance of new products and options. Show less

• Inventory Coordinator

  • 1997 - 1998

  General Duties: Manage and maintain all aspects of warehouse inventory, Train new staff on procedures and company policy. Receive and verify shipments against packing slips. Maintain QC inspection records. Pull production kits to deliver to work centers.