Manager Operational Excellence Pmo resume example

• Simultaneously led numerous cross-functional teams to evaluate and improve performance in transactional environments.
• Implemented single-day Kaizen events to map and create a more robust procurement system for the company, and to enhance communication between related production departments.
• Renewed previously lifeless 4DX initiative across the process to encourage incremental improvement
• Provide mentoring and support to all production leads, managers, and supervisors to bring about necessary cultural change within the company.
• Mentored a junior process improvement engineer to enable the spread of the continuous improvement culture across the company.
• Developed and documented functional requirements based on production data and observation to enable software developers to design technology to improve the process.
• Led a team of administrative professionals who contacted professional drivers and in-house employees by telephone to conduct surveys based on technology, morale, benefits, improvement efforts, and compensation.
• Provided analysis of data provided by survey professionals and created a formal reporting cadence. The effort resulted in a reduction in turnover and improvements in technology.
• Enacted a behavior based safety effort in the Chattanooga maintenance shops to prevent accidents by studying previous incidents. This resulted in a reduction in eye injuries by 50% in 2017.
• Justified and implemented large capital projects across three asset companies.
• Presented project status and results to executive management regularly.

Turf Evolutions, Inc. Is a vertically integrated distributor of landscape and sports turf which is sold, exclusively, through The Home Depot.

• Responsible for ordering and distribution to more than 400 Home Depot retail stores: $7M in-store sales volume in 2015.
• Developed and maintained relationships with Home Depot flooring merchants to increase sales by 72% YTD 2016 versus 2015.
• Development of reporting strategies to assist in sales and process improvement.
• Implement and maintain EDI communication between Turf Evolutions and The Home Depot.
• Extensive cost and sales analysis to determine areas of improvement to maximize margins.
• Strategic planning and forecasting to determine future yarn and tufting needs.

• Executed Six Sigma black belt methodology to implement cost savings projects.
• Led projects for reductions in consumable supplies spending and labor variances that resulted in annual savings of $177,000 and $237,000, respectively.
• Calculate savings, and serve as financial representative on all projects.
• Create and utilize LEAN Entitlement to determine the direction of future efforts.
• Lead a waste reduction Six Sigma Team which reduced extrusion process waste by 17% and saved in excess of $850,000.
• Assume responsibility and apply LEAN and 5S principles to $2.5M supply inventory.
• Enabled inventory integrity of less than 0.0020% variance by eliminating redundancy and optimizing organizational efficiency.
• Reduced plant landfill waste by 65%.
• Prepare and maintain operating budgets, cost sheets, weekly/monthly profit and loss statements, raw material usage, and inventory.
• Though product cost and statistical variance analysis, recommend methods for cost reductions in raw materials, labor, and controllable variable spending.
• Prepare capital projects and budgets.
• Provide written justification for proposed projects.
• Trained corporate cost accounting personnel on specific month-end closing procedures to prevent redundancy and to build a more efficient month-end closing procedures.