Customer Service Supply Chain

Rina Patel Avon, CT ***** 860-***-**** ************.****@*****.***

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rinapatel1/

Site Director of Operations and Manufacturing

Strategic Leadership & Planning / Six Sigma / Process Improvement / Contracts / Budgets / Lean / Training / R&D / Negotiations / Team Development / Cost Control / QA / Compliance / Analysis / Matrix Management / Supply Chain

High performance and award winning senior level operations and manufacturing professional with documented ability to boost team performance, increase production and cut costs in global environments. Able to build inclusive teams that do more with available resources than others. Exceptionally adept in analyzing business needs, protecting market share and partnering with internal and external resources to secure world-class outcomes.

Executive strengths include:

Hiring, mentoring and leading large teams that are strategic, dependable and high energy

Handling rapidly changing business demand requirements to continue to gain revenue increases

Providing change management processes that work

Controlling productivity and quality to lower costs and boost P&L results

Education: MS, Biomedical Engineering, courses, Columbia University. BS, Chemical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology.

Selected Accomplishments

Boosted bottom line profitability by $2M. Eliminated business slowdown by rebuilding site controls, raw material handling and by setting new standards. Modernized production steps and grew site profits.

Introduced Lean processes, allowing for a 33% increase in business. Increased capacity through standard work and Lean applications. Set the stage for the business to sell 33% more product that was worth millions.

Improved delivery time by 41%. Partnered with operations, customer service, supply chain, logistics and suppliers to improve goal attainment. Introduced demand scheduling and aligned production and delivery.

Saved business from catastrophic shutdown. Raw material source ceased deliveries. Validated suppliers and secured new contracts. Alleviated sourcing that would have impacted 65% of total company business.

Accelerated product speed to market from two years to three months. Reduced product development evaluation time. Introducing business changes and lowered the evaluation time from 54 to 12 days.

Secured $50M cost reduction windfall. Transformed culture and business philosophy by securing 100% associate concurrence. Set best practice process improvements for year after year performance.

Conserved energy, saving $19M. Used hands-on leadership to design, implement and manage worldwide conservation production savings. Set stage for more Green initiatives. Earned Outstanding Leadership Award.

Career History

Director of Operations, Dyno Nobel, 2012 to Present. Multi-site manager responsible for P&L. Lead 250 union associates. Oversee manufacturing, facility, maintenance, distribution, logistics, CapEx, safety, inventory, security, environmental control and quality processes. Control strategic initatives.

Assistant Director of Engineering, Reflexite Corporation, 2011 to 2012. Key member of the leadership team. Managed technical functions for a multi-site enterprise, including engineering, manufacturing, quality, support operations, facilities and maintenance. Negotiated sourcing contracts and improved partnership processes.

Operations Engineering Manager, General Cable, 2007 to 2011. Responsible for day-to-day operation of a $200M wire and cable plant. Provided strategic direction to up to 225 employees. Improved production and efficiencies.

Earlier Employment: Total Cost-out Leader, Global Energy, General Electric Plastics. Reengineering Coordinator, FMC Corporation. Process Engineer, BASF Corporation. Research Scientist, Block Drug Company (GlaxoSmithKline).

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