Rita C Wolfe Confidential Resume

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Hockley, TX 77447

+1-832-***-**** cell (primary contact)

Email: ad3jin@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rita-wolfe-lean-certified-advisor-77b14510a Leader, high performance professional whose experience and values leads oneself to meet employer and customer expectations, proven process improvements, managed capital expenditures, projected logistics resource procurement, import and export logistics plus supply chain management.

• 15 plus years supply chain experience, procurement, resource and materials management, energy business development, customer service, oil & gas, farm equipment, flour blending facility and industrial distribution. Background in metallurgy and machining.

• Strong cost savings facility solutions, improvement of employee training and low turnover

• Strong finance experience. Cost estimations, formulating & negotiation of quotations.

• Strong team management skills and lost time injuries by 40% oversee up to 450 employees.

• Languages: Fluent English & Spanish; Conversational Portuguese

• USCG Captain, STCW, TWICS, American Passport

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Buyer, Daikin Comfort Technologies L.P. (Waller, Texas) ISO certified facility 06/2022 – present

Responsible for acquiring raw aluminum coil & tubing materials, supplies, services, and placing purchase orders for goods that have a fluctuating LME raw material costs, fabricated costs, fuel surcharge costs & transportation cost plus quoted discounts. Review requisitions and proposals from domestic and international vendors to negotiate contracts. Reviews opportunities for new supply sources and suitability of materials offered. Retains records pertaining to cost, delivery, performance, and inventory levels. Quality Initiatives (DPPM, CAN’S, SO’S, FAI’S, DOS, inventory goals, long lead time supplier programs, obsolescence). Manager of New Product Introductions and Engineering deviations. Monitor sales demand, supplier mill capacity for raw materials, LME, fab, fuel surcharge, transportation costs for the demand of aluminum coils and tubing. Monitory incoming inventory and storage warehousing capacity plus inventory control. Monitor new vendor trials, reliability and testing posted updates both internally and from the vendor. Approx purchasing power is $248,000,000.00. Daikin is a worldwide manufacture of air conditioning units for residential and commercial use. This location in Waller is a one story 4.1 million square foot manufacturing facility. Lean 5S Advisor. Veritiv Corp (Katy Texas)

01/02/2019 to 3/2020

Provider of industry changing Facility Solutions eliminating waste for industrial distributors and manufacturers in the Houston area. Provider of MRO, PPE, Safety and health product lines from KC, GP, 3M, Diversity, Tork, GoJo, Clorox, Purell, and various MRO manufactures. Export Logistics Account Manager REPCO (Salina Kansas) ISO 17025/FSSC 22000/HACCP 02/15/2016 to 12/21/2018

Manager of Export Sales to Latin America, S. Africa, Kenya Nigeria. Managed supply chain and production control for Kansas based flour milling/baking/vitamins & enzyme additives blending facility consisting of 100 employees. Exporter preparation of process improvement packaging/cost savings for bulk container shipments via Ocean/tariff and process improvement of packaging/cost savings for air freight shipments. Reduced damaged product during shipment process to zero damage after first 6 months. Management negotiations, storage & demurrage plus payables. Import Manager of bulk raw ingredients from outside of the USA via container or airfreight shipments. Expert user of Government Export Regulations. Due Diligence/Record keeping in the event of OSHA/Hazmat audits. Compile weekly reports of open to closed status of shipments, inventory levels of finished goods and raw materials for blending facility. Process improvements provided, tested and implemented for supply chain management of raw and finished goods inventory levels, made to order and specialty items from production to shipment process. FSM Site Manager Industrial Distribution Group – IDG – AGCO Sunflower (Beloit Kansas) 6/11/12 to 12/31/2015

Management reporting, managed Inventory and Warehouse storeroom, preventative maintenance process improvements for Facility solutions, daily monitor/adjustment of inventory, and processed daily improvements of service levels, identify tooling areas for all departments related to manufacturing of farm equipment for cost saving through proven process improvement, documented cost savings to customer, manage customer relationship, manage forecasts, dead stock, obsolete inventory and excess inventory. Manage team of stockers, purchasing and inventory site operations successfully to Customer and IDG expectations. Increased IDG projected revenue by 50% within the first six months of employment. Reduced lost time injuries in 40% increments based on behavior safety strategies exceeding goals within first 6 months. Managed 100 to 450 employees at site.

Regional Sales Manager Dixie Pipe Sales. 9/2/10 – 9/30/11 (Houston Texas) Developed a territory of potential sales of $15m by sourcing new customers/contacts/relations and also maintain existing customers connected to Oil & Gas Exploration & Development – Midstream and Upstream in East Texas, North/Panhandle Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Ensured & established a long term relationship to ensure levels of confidence. Ensured & Established high expectations of customer service between Dixie Pipe Sales insides sales group by utilizing my prior experience of customer relations through ISO 9000 conformance requirements for Continuous improvements. This position reported directly to the owner of Dixie Pipe Sales. Strategic Sourcing Buyer RTI Energy Systems, Inc 2006 – 2010 (Spring Texas) Provided overall management and direction of Supply Chain performance to achieve or exceed stated goals. Ensured that supply chain risks mitigation were identified and documented in the risk register, and proactively ensure that risks were mitigated. Lead the supply chain transition from design and development into production. Lead cross functional teams or suppliers in Lean supplier processes, procedures, and/or manufacturing flow. Lead program for QA supplier approval and QA vendor audits. Lead production planner/buyers within supply chain group through training compliant ISO 9001 standard.

Importer and Export management of specific requirements for customs clearance. Rail/Air/Ocean/tariff management/negotiations, storage & demurrage plus payables. Import Manager of raw materials from outside of the USA. Manager of Export Regulations. Due Diligence/Record keeping in the event of audits. Compile weekly reports of open to closed status of shipments. Process improvements for supply chain management of inventory, made to order and specialty items from production to shipment processes. EDUCATION

School of Seamanship, Kemah Texas

University of Houston Downtown – Industrial Engineering St. Pius X High School - Houston

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

• LEAN 5S

• SOX

• OSHA

• HAZMAT/HACCP

• ISO 17025

• API, ASTM, AWWA, NACE

• SAP

• INCO TERMS

• CBP Regulations

• Microsoft Pro Office

• SALESFORCE

CERTIFICATION

• LEAN 5S

• APICS/CPIM

• STCW95

• TQM

• TQP

• USCG 100 Ton Masters

• ASA Certified Sailing Instruction

AFFILIATIONS

• STCW

• APICS

• Internal Auditor

• Power User SAP

• SALESFORCE

• ASA

• USS

• USCG

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