Chemical Engineer, Manufacturing Supervisor, Manufacturing Manager

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November 18, 2015

Nicholas Roger Kamerath

Vancouver WA, 98662 *********@*****.***

Employment

Master Production and Capacity Manager

Feb 2013-Present Leatherman Tool Group Portland, OR

Created and maintained plant KANBAN material flow methodology for three different plant systems

Populated, implemented and integrated new ERP system within the manufacturing department

Set targets and schedule for start center, FIFO, bottleneck and assembly to meet MPS demand

Developed tracking tools and metrics that led to unplanned outages decreasing by 90%

Adopted new stocking methodologies to reduce on hand floor stock by over $150k

Directed daily production meetings and facilitated prioritization plans with supervisors

Value Stream Supervisor III

May 2012-Feb 2013 Leatherman Tool Group Portland, OR

Developed and implemented key metrics for throughput, quality, and efficiency

Responsible for all staffing duties including quantity needed, hiring, training, coaching and discipline

Initiated pareto scrap tracking and inventory tracking for value stream

Implemented problem solving techniques to reduce scrap, annualized scrap savings of over $25k on a single part number

Supervising Production Engineer II

June 2008-May 2012 WaferTech Vancouver, WA

Oversaw and made independent dispatching decisions to maintain line balance and throughput

Improved shift throughput performance from lowest to highest in eight-month period across four shifts

Led plant wide ‘Standardization’ effort for 6S program as part of automotive qualification

Created a new position to reduce redundancies and downtime on bottleneck equipment

Engineer Intern

Dec 2006-March 2008 Frontier Scientific Logan, UT

Launched a pilot-scale production plant from ground up with all supporting SOP documentation

Decreased raw material consumption by 15% and increased purity by 6%

Ordered, tested and installed machinery and equipment for over a dozen different processes

Independently performed daily production tasks, equipment maintenance, and troubleshooting

Education

MBA - Taking Business Core Classes (4.0 GPA) Washington State Univ. Ongoing

BS/MS - Chemical Engineering (UG GPA 3.82, Grad GPA 3.80) University of Utah 2003-2008