Kenneth V. Meagher

*** ***** ***** **. ** Cell Phone: 205-***-****

Madison, AL 35757 Email: aczgvr@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE: Find a challenging career opportunity as the Plant Manager for a world Class Company.

SUMMARY: Highly qualified results-oriented Leader with over 30 years’ progressive responsibility and leadership. Customer focused and profit driven. Proven ability to improve business processes using Lean concepts. Proven Team Builder and Strategic/Tactical Leader with extensive experience in Lean, Change Management, Continuous Improvement and Employee Engagement. Assertive team player who performs well in fast-paced environments.

HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS:

Expert (Champion) with the use of Lean Manufacturing Principles (5S, Visual Factory, Kanban, Kaizen, Pull, Flow, TPM, Value Streams, SMED, Built-in Quality, TPS, Policy Deployment Performance Management, and KPIs).

Expert coach / mentor with cross-functional staffs and teams. Utilize a partnership approach in raising performance.

Experienced in work cells, plant layout, and workflow through Sales, office transactions, warehouses and production.

Experienced with implementing ISO 9000, ISO 14001, and ISO 31000.

Tactically proficient with SAP, Syteline, Oracle, Sage, Mas 90, and EPICOR ERPs

Expert briefer, comfortable in preparing and delivering presentations to employees as well as top management.

JOB HISTORY:

EBSCO Industries, Lean Operations Team

09/15 to 01/17 Continuous Improvement Manager Birmingham, AL

Responsible for the execution of EBSCO Way Continuous Improvement Journey. Mentoring Leaders, Managers, and Associates in Principle based Leadership. Conduct Lean Assessments, Kaizens, Lean Transformations, and Continuing Education and Maintenance of Lean Principle, Concepts, and Tools for all EBSCO Employees.

Partnered with Cincinnati Lean Consortium to provide Executive benchmarking tour for EBSCO’s senior executives.

Executed the first holistic Lean Implementation plan with 2 manufacturing facilities, 2 Sales Offices and Corp HQ. Encompassing manufacturing, supply chain, order entry/edit, art, and finance. Improved gross profit by 20%.

Reduced Scrap by over 70% by engaging employees in principles of Lean; total saving of $350,000.

Developed and taught Lean 101 three one week long class for over 50 EBSCO Leaders.

Was featured in 3 different BUGLE (EBSCO’s internal Magazine) on Lean Transformations.

EBSCO Industries, Manufacturing Division

02/15 to 09/15 Continuous Improvement Manager Birmingham, AL

Responsible for educating and training all manufacturing personnel in Lean Principles, Concepts, and Tools. Worked with 5 manufacturing facilities, providing leadership guidance and mentoring. Trained Lean Leaders in Lean Implementation methodology and Kaizen events.

Executed a Lean Implementation plan at Vulcan Information Packaging (VIP). Improved gross profit by 400%. VIP had their best performance ever noted in its 70-year history. Transitioned VIP from a made to stock to a Just in Time manufacturing saving over $333K in third party storage

Executed Lean Implementation plan at EBSCO Sign Group (ESG) Improved gross profit by 80%. ESG had their best performance ever noted in its history. Improved Internal and External quality by 200%, saving $200K annual savings.

Spear Headed the Inaugural EBSCO Quarterly Plant Tour; leveraging ideas across all of EBSCO.

Created the Corporate Lean Operations Team with 2 piers to assist in the Lean Transformation across all 24 EBSCO Business Units.

Developed and Presented Lean Operations overview for EBSCO’s Executives at first EBSCO Way Summit.

EBSCO Industries, Corporate IT Division

04/14 to 02/15 Solution Architect Birmingham, AL

Combine project leadership, system design, requirements analysis, a strong customer focus, and technical skills along with a lean mindset to craft solutions that deliver value within prescribed time and budget constraints. Impacting several business domains, deeply immersed in a limited number of high gain efforts at a time, seeing them through to completion.

Created Lean Implementation plan for the EBSCO Corporation IT Department. Incorporating a Training for EBSCO Corporate IT on Lean Kanban.

Trained, developed and mentored 10 IT Div. in “Kanban”, improved on time delivery, SLA’s customer satisfactions.

Value Streamed IT Purchasing process; Improve the lead time, SLA breach rates and savings of $110,000.00 annually.

Value Streamed the IT Business Office process; improved capacity by 75% and reduce admin processes by 50%.

Created ERP Implementation Plan for VIP based on Lean Principles and Value Stream Mapping.

Lead first successful ERP implementation within EBSCO in 5 years. Finish project 30 days early and 1/3 under cost.

DefTec Corporation

07/13 to 04/14 Lead Contract and Talent Management Consultant Huntsville, AL

DefTec Corporation Lead Contract and Talent Management Consultant in the areas of defense contracts. Specialized in negotiating contracts with prime defense contractors and defense agencies. Prepared and reviewed contracts, bids, proposals, and vendor agreements for legal correctness, price, and acceptability to US and foreign government defense of items to specifications and contractual requirements.

Have established 4 major defense subcontracts.

Researched, recruited and hired 37 defense contractors.

Revised long range strategy, mission and vision for the DefTec

Steelcase Athens

08/10 to 01/13 Steelcase Operations Manager Athens, AL

Lead over 700 people in the Athens Facility. I improved quality, cost, speed, and quality of life. Established and oversaw the direction and maintained performance of the operational teams consisting of scheduling, planning, purchasing, production, quality, process engineering, facilities and maintenance. Defined, implemented and balanced resource deployment in conjunction with production, customer, and managerial requirements. Integrated people and equipment to meet production schedules. Controlled costs using budgets and cost reduction programs. Ensured the divisions meet and exceeded corporate goals and expectations. Ensured site compliance with Company health, safety and environmental policies.

Handpicked to create the cultural changes for this plant. Athens is now best performing facility in Steelcase.

Created the Model Operation’s Manager Lean Management System that was became the corporate standard.

Had 7 separate Value Streams (VS) and reduced the Defective Parts Per Million (DPPM) by 50% in all 5 VS

Led over 25 Supplier Extended Value Stream Projects with that resulted in 5.7 million dollars savings

Completed over 100 Kaizen events with a total annual savings of 7.2 million dollars

Cleared over 200,000 square feet of manufacturing space for new product.

Successfully launched 6 new product lines with zero customer interruption.

Launched first effective scrap program; exceeded that goal by quarter 3 with $3,000,000.00 savings.

Reduced on hand inventory as well as work in process from 4-5 days to 1 to improve flow and material reliability.

Steelcase High Point

09/08 to 08/10 Steelcase Production System Leader High Point, NC

Guided the implementation of Steelcase Production System (SPS). Coached plant leadership on the implementation process, project management, and on SPS principles and tools. Developed methods, approaches and toolkits for use by production management in the implementation process. Develop and deliver training on those approaches and tools.

Reduced inventory from $2,843,000 to $1,107,000 a 50% reduction which exceeded plant goal of 20%.

Created Lean tools in fabrication areas; improving efficiency 99% against a 81% goal in February 2010.

Reduceded over 150,000 squarefeet of production space to bring in more new product.

Led over 15 Supplier Extended Value Stream Projects with that resulted in 5.7 million dollars savings

Created the front line leaders information board with key metrics that became the company standard.

United States Navy –

07/86 to 09/08 Junior Enlisted to Naval Officer Various

Executive Officer of Great Lakes Technical Apprentice Schools

Assistant Operations Officer onboard the USS BATAAN LHD 5

Flag Aide for Navy Region Hawaii

Operations Analyst and Editor at Surface Warfare Development Group

Air Defense Officer onboard the USS NORMANDY CG 60

Senior Enlisted, Leading Chief Petty Officer onboard the USS LABOON DDG 58

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

B.S., Education (Workforce Education) Southern Illinois University with a GPA of 3.85, Expected grad date 12/1/17.

Completed University of Michigan’s Lean manufacturing class of instruction with a 3.9.

Completed Learning Leadership Strategy and the People Side of Lean

Completed Discovering Excellence taught through Shingo

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