Arthur C. Wright

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Coraopolis, PA 15108

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acfmj3@r.postjobfree.com

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Extensive experience in various areas of production, manufacturing, contract administration, cost control, plant management, project management, purchasing and purchasing management.

1 A seasoned professional with over 17 years of international and domestic purchasing experience.

2 Diverse management experience including over 11 years in corporate purchasing management.

3 Over 10 years of purchasing experience in metal products fabrication and production including a wide variety of steel products including: aircraft quality, 10-40, coil, rolled, high and low carbon content steel.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

METAL PRODUCTS PURCHASING

Siemens Energy & Automation – Steel Mill Equipment Manufacturer

Responsible for developing and evaluating inquiries and placing orders for new plant capital equipment

* Placed orders based on vendor’s financial, technical qualification and competitive pricing.

1 Placed and administered all major orders, change orders and expedited per project requirements.

Remington Arms Co. Inc. – Sporting Firearms Manufacturer

1 Responsible for $64,000,000 of yearly purchases and the daily administration and supervision of a five member purchasing group that supports an 1100 person facility for manufacture of sporting firearms.

2 Resolved purchased parts quality problems and on-time delivery problems so these items are no longer issues that affect the daily production activities.

3 Created metrics to measure vendor performance in the areas of quality, delivery, and price.

4 Developed alternate sources of supply for many key parts used in daily production of sporting firearms.

Bliss- Salem, Inc. – Rolling Mill Manufacturer

5 Oversaw daily administration and supervision of five buyers that supported the manufacture of rolling mills.

6 Developed purchasing strategies and techniques to enable the organization to grow from $40 million annual revenue to $100 million annual revenue by the year 2000.

7 Implemented cash flow schedules, engineering, procurement, and material delivery schedules for customer's projects.

8 Provided BI-weekly project management reports for management review of profit or loss on each contract.

Krupp Industries (a division of ThyssenKrupp) – a global leader in solids bulk material handling equipment and systems

9 Formulated purchasing inquiries on major domestic and international material handling projects such as petroleum coke handling facilities, overland conveying systems and ship loading facilities; received and evaluated quotes and negotiated with perspective vendors and placed purchase orders based on vendor's financial and technical qualifications as well as competitive pricing

Rust International

10 Formulated purchasing inquiries on continuous bloom casting machines, multiple year refractory contracts, slag-raking stations, ladle and slag pot transfer cars.

11 Received and evaluated quotes and negotiated with perspective vendors; placed orders based vendors financial and technical qualifications and competitive pricing.

INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION PURCHASING

Scott Papers/ S.D. Warren Company & Dravo – Paper Products Manufacturing

12 Responsible for new plant construction, equipment and installation purchasing activities for a new sheeting and distribution facility in Allentown, PA. as well as set-up and administration of a bar code inventory and MRP management system for Scott Paper at this facility.

13 Formulated purchasing inquiries on major fabrication and construction packages and major commodity items such as electrical switch gear, transformers, bearings, reducers and castings for material handling systems.

14 Assigned in a consultant capacity to organize and direct purchasing for Scott Paper's S. D. Warren Pulp Mill Rebuild Project in Westbrook, ME including oversight of purchasing function for all major capital expenditures such as recovery boilers and digesters to the bolts and nuts required for the project.

15 Worked with the Pulp Mill Rebuild Management Team to develop and implement terms and conditions for commodity vendors and fabrication and construction contracts.

16 Worked closely with legal, financial and risk management groups of Scott Paper/S. D. Warren.

17 Managed the effort in back charge negotiations with Beloit, Foxboro and Combustion Engineering that resulted in recovery of $1,200,000 for S. D. Warren.

CAREER HISTORY

2007-2008 Siemens Energy & Automation – Project Purchasing Manager

2002-2006 Remington Arms Co., Inc. – Purchasing Manager

2000-2002 Service Link – Planning & Scheduling Manager

1998-2000 Chelsea Building Products, Inc. - Purchasing Manager

1996-1998 Bliss-Salem, Inc. - Purchasing Manager / Project Manager

1995-1996 Cornell School District – Project Manager

1993-1995 Scott Papers / S.D. Warren Company - Purchasing Manager

1991-1993 Krupp Industries, Inc. – Corporate Purchasing Agent

1990-1991 Rust International – Project Purchasing Agent

1987-1990 Dravo Corporation - Senior Buyer (1989-1990)

Purchasing Agent / Contract Administrator (1987-1989)

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration - Robert Morris College, Coraopolis, PA

Certified Purchasing Management Course - Penn State-Completion 1991

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