Lean process management

Kevin Lawrence

**************@*****.*** 336-***-****

**** ******* ****, ******, ** 27326

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Passionate about my strong people skills and doing everything right the first time. With over 17 years in Ops Managing And Supervising. I have a strong skill set that I would love to bring to your team. We together committed to safety and quality. And being professional can make something great together. With 100 percent professionalism and dedicated to mentoring everyone and running a 450,000 facility while maintaining safety and 99.9 percent efficiency, and keeping retention ratio low. The goal is to be 100 percent profitable and generate efficiency with your business by holding everyone accountable and owing your business. And always focused on continuous improvements.

SKILLS

Dependable

Detail oriented

Communication abilities

Professional

Lean

Outstanding people skills

5s

Problem-solving abilities

CI Champion

EXPERIENCE

Value stream manager/production manager

Radial / August 2020-current

Doing monthly goals for budget and uph. Holding everyone accountable for production

Do daily Gamba walks and implement 5s, and hold kaizen events

Oversee 450,000 warehouse and all employees and management.

Mentor and build up all shift leads and supervisors

Doing daily safety kaizen events and moving people throughout the 15 departments

Have daily meetings about uph and peak season

Hiring and disciplinary action positive or negative

Hold safety team meetings to discussing How to get better and be more efficient.

Approve all time off and assist the IT department and ci team.

Work with resolution to help get all products and slots inventoried correctly to maintain sla.

The open and close of each day of building.

Daily safety walks while pointing out near misses.

Interviewing new employees and supervision.

Hold daily conference calls discussing budget and needs of the facility.

Display and implement lean six sigma with supervising trying to get better everyday and the challenges each day presents.

Travel some to other facilities for training and corporate meetings.

Use lean manufacturing to implement processes to better run the lines

Organize the entire outbound including logistics and and trailers coming and going and a safety brigade.

Help the the fulfillment part of the facility track uph on each shift and the proper blend and all direct and indirect codes and making sure we are not over using vas time as well.

Doing the budgeting for direct labor and indirect labor costs.

Working with potential clients and current clients to make sure they are getting the services levels they need.

Production Manager

Pella windows August 2019-August 2020

Maintain all positions on the 250-assembly line

Make sure all employees following SOP.

Worked on 5s and Toyota lean system on all lines

Conduct meetings everyday telling the employees what to expect and stretching

Assigning rotations with all employees

Serving the employees with anything they may need and management staff.

Expressing the importance of Pella passion and worked in warehouse layout

Quality checks on everything making communicating with managers what is going on

Attended a mentoring class and got certificate for the class

Quality meetings and budget meetings weekly, with workers and management.

Work on Gamba walks and Kazan events, and lean manufacturing training.

Monitor all supervisors in all areas and they report to be daily and production goals and issues that limit them in cycle times and line issues.

Ci improvement team brigade weekly attendance.

Directly have 10-18 hourly supervisors reporting to me daily.

Helped in quality control. Checking prints and making sure everyone knows there sop's

Helped establish a safety team and try to cut down on injuries and costs of injuries.

Operations manager/ Production Manager

Old Dominion Freight Line September 2004 – August 2019

Setup Local operations and made sure everything was ready for the next shift to come in and start up.

Redesigning the training program and take the new employees through the process we have developed with the new system.

Assist many employees with problems they are having with the job and trying to help them fully understand the system and how it works and so of the things they are missing.

Helped establish the yard layout and dock layout and assignments

Went to Martinsville terminal to help with day to day operations.

Did many dock pickups and had insure the 2.0 quality to our customers.

Currently on night time and I am helping with OS&D and insuring the training program is on the right track. I help all employees with anything they have going on with the job, freight, or at home.

Ensure trailer cube and we are utilizing all trailer space

Make sure all equipment is up to date on sservicing.

Held quarterly meetings to let employees know where we stood as a business.

Helped establish employee engagement and bring them into being a part if safety.

Doing studies on freight making sure we are loading the most effective ways, and going back and fourth with corporate trying different measures to get freight from a to b without damages in transit.

Floor Supervisor/ Production Manager

Teknor Apex, NC –July 2002 - September 2004

Accepted and processed customer payments in cash, credit cards and checks.

Evaluated the customers’ needs and provided service options to meet their requirements.

Evaluate current employees and help them understand the job and what we are trying to accomplish.

I ran the loading dock and advised drivers where to park the employees and orders and what to do.

Supervised the daytime shift of employees on the current production goals and what is expected each day and how to achieve these goals each day.

I was the Lead compounder and I made plastic compound. In addition I also made sure each compounder had all their products they needed each day and anything they needed.

Serve the workers with all information with job and details on all procedures

Managed 4 supervisors all times and overseen all floor production issues.

Worked with supervisors to get them lean efficient and worked on ci team.

Worked in quality for 1 yr. and helped in warehouse and logistics

Helped with 5s and standard of work

Freezer Supervisor/ Warehouse Supervisor

Dan Valley Foods Inc. March 2000 – May 2002

I had to tell the employees that were working, where various items were located.

I also controlled the entire night time operation in the freezer with taking pallets of racks and filling the slots with the product the pullers needed to fill their orders.

The produce cooler was also my area I was in control of on night time operations.

I had to do nightly inventories at the end of the shift to reorder anything we was low on and make sure employees was not stealing.

Had to add up the personals productions each night and turn it in to the office.

I also had to attend meetings on training and leadership and policies the office wanted carried out on the night time shift.

Setup the warehouse and implement a system of inventory and structure.

Bagger and Cashier

Food Lion January 1999 – March 2000

I bagged customer’s groceries and helped with various jobs including cleaning the bathroom, sidewalks and floors.

Also worked my way up to stocking shelves on night time for extra money on weekends.

I ran the cash register and scanned the customer’s groceries.

Maintain good customer relationships and helped with the upfront responsibilities.

Made schedules for the daytime cashiers and baggers when they needed me to.

EDUCATION

Business Management – August 2004

Rockingham College Wentworth, NC

High School Diploma

Rockingham County High School Reidsville, NC June 2002

Two courses of lean manufacturing

Leadership and personal development training.

Continuous improvement champion

References available upon requests.

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