Manager Six Sigma

LARRELL DE JONG

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SENIOR STRATEGIC OPERATIONS AND FACILITIES LEADER

Experienced Operational Leader with Invaluable Leadership Experience from a Mechanical

Engineering Background

Performance Profile

Successful operations leader with extensive experience in global operations, facility expansions, supply

chain development, employee relations, management team development, process control, quality system

management and deployment of operational excellence through lean and six sigma process improvement

programs. Strong skills in directing and motivating staff of over 250 members.

Focused on improving overall profitability by identifying the root cause of system and business process

issues, implementing sustainable process improvements. This has been done while strengthening

employee relations by engaging employees at all levels and using their involvement to help break down

complex processes into smaller actionable items. The result is a competitive business, an employee

healthy environment and strong employee relations.

Core Competencies

Strategic Leadership Results Driven Strong Safety Focus

Capital and Expense Budgeting Project Management Metric Focused

Strong Communication Skills Coordination of Resources Lean and Six Sigma

Excellent Presentation Skills Blueprints & Spec Sheets Ethical

Professional Experience

Chart Industries – Plant Facilities and Operations Manager

Managed $120M revenue plan with 250+ employees. Directed and provided daily

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oversight of multiple operations. This included Capital and Expense budgeting and

management of all products lines and assets across the different sites within the Chart

Minnesota production areas.

• Planning, Budgeting, Staffing, and Startup for two new facilities

• Routinely reported progress on Cost, Efficiency, Quality and Lead Time expectations

to Customers and key Sr. Corporate Stakeholders

• Added plant capacity within current infrastructure by improving product flow,

ensuring manufacturability at time of product release and enabled additional capacity

to be added to the site

• Improved site Safety by 60% by clearly establishing processes and procedures for high

risk areas and ensuring all stakeholders had resources required to meet clearly

established expectations

• Decreased throughput times by 40% by working directly with the Area managers,

contractors, engineers and other cross functional groups to ensure that all inputs were

being delivered as expected

• Developed Management Team through coaching, mentoring and creating

individualized development plans per individual skills and goals

2011 2015

Professional Experience

Emerson Process Management Rosemount Division

Global Product Approvals Manger

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Created the Budgets, Facility plans, Capacity plans and Staffing plans for the Global

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Approvals Engineering team. Worked directly with the Global Certifying bodies to

acquire and retain approvals for Rosemount products. Products required international

approvals such as UL, FM approvals, Canadian Standards Association, ATEX and IECEx.

• Reduced approval cycle time by over 30% which directly reduced Beta site start ups

times. This was achieved by working directly with international approval bodies and

controlling agencies

Emerson America’s Quality Assurance Manager

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Oversight of the America’s Quality Team. This included employees in 19 primary

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operations – Brazil, Boulder CO, Houston TX, and 2 Minnesota sites, Chanhassen and

Eden Prairie and 15 Service Centers

Decreased the overall company cost of quality with focus on scrap and rework, First

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Pass Yields, Inspection and Warranty

Initiated, developed and implemented Rosemount Total Quality Experience Program,

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including “Total Quality Experience,” “Quality Tools,” “5S+1,” “Six Sigma Yellow

Belt,” and “Intro to Lean”

Routinely visited, hosted and presented to marquee customers. Assisted the sales team

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by demonstrating Rosemount’s capability to ultimately upsell the customer on large

projects

1996 2012

2010 2012

2006 2012

Emerson Global Quality Labs Manager

2004 2006

Conceptualized, designed, developed and implemented Global Reliability labs in

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Europe and Asia – HALT & HASS testing, MTBF and Product audit testing.

• Reduced cycle time 50% and testing cost 30% by relaying out and relocating the labs to

a more appropriate space that allow us to remove Non Value added activities from the

overall process

• Replicated the newly designed Labs to Singapore and China to align the Global labs

with the long term vision and goals of Rosemount

Emerson Other Related Professional Experience

1996 2004

Global Final Assembly Engineering Manager

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Global Plant Start up Engineer

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Final Assembly Technician Supervisor

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Global Lean Manufacturing Engineer

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Operations Supervisor

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Certified Six Sigma Black Belt

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Education

M.B.A. University of St. Thomas St. Paul, MN

B.S. Mechanical Engineering Iowa State University

2003

1995

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