Manager Engineer

Connie Shaughnessy

Assistant Terminal Manager - KINDER MORGAN - TERMINALS Midwest Region

Hometown, IL

acqmri@r.postjobfree.com - 708-***-****

WORK EXPERIENCE

Assistant Terminal Manager

KINDER MORGAN - TERMINALS Midwest Region - 2014 to Present Kinder Morgan is the largest independent terminal operator in North America, with more than 180 terminals that store petroleum products and chemicals, and handle bulk materials like coal, petroleum coke and steel products.

Petroleum Coke Bulk Terminal

• Manage and responsible for the daily operational and customer communications. Regional Quality Manager

KINDER MORGAN - TERMINALS Midwest Region - 2011 to 2014 Regional development of Dual Verification ensuring consistency of procedures, guiding its implementation, leading to the Right Product, Right Path, Right Destination and Right Paperwork!

• Responsible for Quality Program at the Chicago & Argo Liquid Terminals, incorporating existing KPI and core principles programs throughout Terminal.

Regional Laboratory Manager

KINDER MORGAN - TERMINALS Midwest Region - 2009 to July 2011 Responsible for the Argo, IL & Chicago IL laboratories, supporting the operational and customer driven requirements to ensure quality products utilizing ASTM Standards

• Increased lab profitability through reduced cycle time, inventory reduction and increased customer confidence translating to more lab business

• Managed lab team using lean principles to help the Laboratory transition from a support function to a profit center for Kinder Morgan.

• Guided the upgrading of all Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). Production/Quality/Logistic Manager

SURFACE SHIELDS, INC - 2007 to 2009

Managed a team of non-union employees using lean manufacturing principles to help lead the transition to a medium size company.

• Transformed small production facility into a lean principled organization. Reduced inventory and focused production to one piece flow while maintaining 48 hours shipping goals.

• Implemented Quality program and guided employees to establish a vendor return policy, RMA program, incoming inspection process, as well as, new product development testing.

• Developed system to monitor production metrics for efficiencies, production variances, quality inspections. Increased production efficiencies 23% while eliminating third shift head count 10%. Operations Manager

Federal Signal Corporation - 2006 to 2007

Led team of union and non-union employees through a lean manufacturing transformation.

• Planned and implemented an automatic order process. Reduced inventory on the production floor by 25%.

• Guided production teams through the one-piece flow transformation. Results included a 50% floor space reduction, a 40% inventory reduction and 25% cycle time improvements.

• Created the company strategy to prepare for new governmental regulation. Establish a written proposal outlining the requirements and estimated the cost of $150,000 capital expense. Production Supervisor/Manufacturing Engineer

Federal Signal Corporation - 2000 to 2006

Efficiently managed production objectives while implementing lean manufacturing techniques and ISO2000 continual improvements.

Manufacturing Engineer

Federal Signal Corporation - 1998 to 2000

Determined, specified and implemented necessary tooling, facilities, fixturing processes and production equipment, collaborating with design engineers to ensure proper design for manufacturability (DFM).

• A Contributing member of a strategic alliance team dedicated to partnering with key suppliers. After 11 months, successfully negotiated 3 vendor contracts that realized 30 to 70 percent cost savings over 1300 purchased items, $1.5 million annually.

• Initiated and researched the capital equipment needed to upgrade the production line. The negotiation resulted in a 17% saving and 60% production savings.

• Identified and justified improvements of the chemical application process which improved quality and reliability 20%. Return on investment was realized 6 month ahead of schedule with 70% cost of operation savings.

• Managed 6 departments and 60 union employees toward a new quantifiable process. Reorganized and established quantifiable procedures to measure the business unit efficiencies; achieved 60% inventory reduction, 4% quality improvement.

EDUCATION

Bachelors in Chemistry

North Central College - Naperville, IL

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