Senior Materials Management Leader with Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Resume:
Richard Neely
Bowmanville, ON
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With over 30 years of dedicated experience in the materials management industry, I am a seasoned professional looking for a stable role where my expertise, reliability and strong interpersonal skills can drive continued success and growth.
Summary of Skills
Operations Management Diploma, Durham College - 3 year program
30 years work experience in the materials management field
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Leadership and interpersonal skills used to successfully lead teams to reach desired goals
Excellent numeric skills and a knowledge of statistics
Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Work Experience
Production Manager
Marbel Industries - Whitby, ON
May 2022 to Present
Responsible for purchase of all supplies and equipment for production/warehouse.
Negotiate contracts and terms for purchase of supplies and equipment e.g. lumber, paint, forklifts.
Monitor inventory levels for finished goods and purchased components.
Experience dealing with local, national and international vendors, and maintaining good relationships with them.
Conduct employee training on the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
Maintain safe work practices according to regulations under the OHSA (i.e., workplace inspections, training of new employees)
Direct the utilization of all machinery and equipment involved in assembly production activities.
Work in compliance with the standard Organizational Health and Safety policies and procedures, WSIB and all other applicable legislated environmental, health & safety regulations.
Follow through with Engineering changes in Production.
Senior Operations Manager
PC350 - Markham, ON
February 2020 to May 2022
Manage a team consisting of a Purchasing Manager, Production Manager, Program Managers, Administration, and Production staff.
Oversee all material movement from purchasing, receiving, production, warehousing and shipping.
Develop SOPs for the purchasing, and shipping/receiving departments.
Develop KPI's for various departments within the company.
Manage employee relations.
Materials Manager
Teknion - Toronto, ON
June 2016 to February 2020
Manage a team consisting of Buyers, Purchasing Coordinators, Inventory Control and Receiving totaling 13 directs and five additional indirect subordinates.
Assisted with the negotiation and preparation of vendor contracts of metal and aluminum.
Ensure supply chain availability of material to assist in achieving company on time delivery objective.
Manage biannual physical inventory process.
Collaborate with internal departments and external companies to continuously improve delivery and pricing of manufacturing components.
Escalate and negotiate with suppliers on short lead-time orders.
Monitor new product launches and existing product lines with declining sales.
Materials Supervisor
Woodbridge Foam - Whitby, ON
2012 to June 2015
Prepare master production schedule for all facets of the production process.
Conduct daily production meeting to ensure all departments are aware of the status of production and the day's hot parts.
Maintain an eight-week rolling production schedule.
Create weekly MPS; develop short and long-term capacity planning.
Utilize MRP to coordinate daily/weekly/monthly deliveries from supply base.
Manage all Customer shipments to ensure adherence to JIT/Kanban releases.
Supervise 15 associates in Shipping, Receiving, Inventory and Procurement departments.
Coordinate logistics for all incoming component deliveries.
Manage cycle counting and month end inventories.
Materials Manager
Kobay Enstel Inc - Scarborough, ON
2007 to 2011
Develop a strong Materials department through skilled hires and mentoring existing Materials employees.
Managed the launch of new programs within the plant.
Champion continuous improvement activities for the department.
Train shipping and receiving personnel in Lean philosophies and empower the team to organize and remove waste from their processes.
Reduce expedites and improve delivery rating through improved processes and enforced employee accountability to meet and exceed departmental objectives.
Increased inventory turns from 8 to 29 within fifteen months.
Developed and acted to achieve an aggressive cost and expense improvement program.
Managed inventory assets to minimize investment and maximize utilization.
Manage human, equipment and systems resources to effectively carry out shipping, warehousing, receiving, material handling and other supply related functions.
Acting Plant Manager (Six-month medical leave)
Kobay Enstel Limited - Toronto, ON
October 2009 to March 2010
Lean Systems Six Sigma Blackbelt
Rimply - Newmarket, ON
2005 to 2007
Monitor Key Production Indicators for potential BB projects.
Put underachieving processes through Six Sigma methodologies to achieve targets.
Successful completion of three Blackbelt projects with a total hard dollar savings of $850000.
Train Green Belt candidates in Six Sigma methodologies.
Train and lead teams through successful Kaizen blitzes, and one-day focus 5S sessions.
Promote various Lean philosophies and sustain 5S throughout the plant.
Promote Continuous Improvement through team meetings.
Master Scheduler
Rimply - Newmarket, ON
1997 to 2005
Buyer
Rimply
1994 to 1997
Production Scheduler
Rimply
1989 - 1994
Education
2005 - 2006 Six Sigma Black Belt Certification
CPIM 2002 Attained designation
OMDP 1999 Ontario Management Development Program certificate
1986 - 1989 Operations Management, Durham College
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