Industrial Engineer - Lean Six Sigma Expert - $ ROI Leader

Profile

Trained and Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Industrial Engineer with 30+ years in manufacturing. Degrees in both Industrial Engineering and Computer Science. Good team builder and leader (Kaizen, PDCA, DMAIC). Able to communicate with executive, middle management, and floor associates. Specializing in 24/7 multi-stage operations but adept at constrained operations as well. Accounting background and experience in all roles.

Goal

Apply skills across an expanding range of business processes (Manufacturing, Logistics, Service, Retail, Healthcare) with a minimum ROI of 10X in first year of statistically verified results. Willing to travel on short term contract opportunities.

Skills Summary

Lean SS Black Belt Trained and Certified

Time Studies

Written/Oral skills

JSS development

CPM

Kaizen Lead

Product Cost

Scheduling

Excel spreadsheets

Budgeting

P&L Review

TPM/CMMS

Supply Chain Logistics

Project Proposals/ROI development

Professional Presentations

Accounting

Professional Experience

August 2021 – Present – Comprehensive Logistics- Industrial Engineer

Lead Process Improvement Engineer for 3PL serving a major automotive plant in Chattanooga

Corporate Engineering assistance with LEAN, 6 Sigma, Time SKaizans. (Currently working on $1.2M project at sister plant)

Manage Maintenance Technician and Process Engineer

Identify opportunities (Downtime, Lost Cars, Materials Variance, Standard Process, Retention, Training)

Quality management and response

Developed KPI’s for Downtime, Lost Cars, Turnover, Manning, Productivity, Material Losses

Some line operations management, but not preferred

Signage and inventory MHE

Billing, P&L analysis, P&L development, Budgeting, cost analysis for claims

MTM standard analysis versus and company engineered standards

Absorption, billing rates, accounting, etcetera

August 2019 – July 2021 – Big Time Products – Warehouse Industrial Engineer

Central Warehouse Process Improvement

Develop improved handling systems for efficient staging and storage (Receiving, Pick lines, Production)

Slotting and Resupply optimization

TIHI development and implementation

Database analysis for metrics, reporting KPI’s

Develop Safety programs and safety team including development and implementation of new corporate JHA

February 2019 – July 2019 – Process Improvement Consulting

Independent Consultant/Contractor

Operations Management information development for improve process controls

Operations Analysis to stratify for largest impact opportunities

Value Stream analysis as well as General Lean/Six Sigma toolkit uses

June 2014 – February 2019 - TARKETT – Industrial/Process Engineer

●Responsible for Yarn, Extrusion, Distribution, and Sample facilities

●Associated with @ $8M (Verified) savings in 5 years

●Focus on Six Sigma cost reduction projects, Budgets, labor standards, lot size analysis (Lean tools and goals), Capital budgets, team building and leading, waste reduction, etcetera.

February 2012-May 2014 – TEXTILE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES – UTT/STR

1/14-5/14 – INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER –

●Synthetic Tuft Resources facility

●Product - Synthetic turf tufting and extrusion

●Business analysis of $12MM entitlement

●Focused on Tufting efficiency, project proposal for tufting monitoring, reduction in old inventory, waste reduction, labor report monitoring and productivity, turnover, etcetera.

3/13-12/13 – PROCESS ENGINEER

Universal Textile Technologies facility

Products – Polyurethane Coating plant and artificial turf recycling

Wrote most of an ISO 9000 system (program not implemented)

Authored Artificial Turf Life Cycle Analysis (Part of major marketing campaign for TRS)

Research, analysis, Process Improvement

Helped in development of a new company, Tri-Polymer Recycling, specializing in co-polymer processing.

Lean/6 Sigma analysis and process improvement in artificial turf manufacturing facility, 28 million entitlement identified over 13 specific project areas.

3/12-2/13 – PLANT MANAGER

Soy polyol facility – Chatsworth Ga, Division of UTT

Product – Bio-based polyol production

Responsible for Production, Safety, Quality, and Raw Material Purchasing

Managed 2 salary and 8 hourly associates

o1 Production supervisor

o2 Lab Technicians

o6 Production operators

o1 Maintenance Supervisor

Identified production and quality problems in process to improve quality and throughput

1987-2000; 2001-2011 SHAW INDUSTRIES

2010 – 2011 PROCESS IMPROVEMENT MANAGER, PLANT 80

Product: Tufting/Dying/Coating

Responsible for all Process Improvement efforts in the facility

Managed 2 salary and 4 office hourly associates

o2 Salaried engineers; Process Improvement & Six Sigma

o1 P&L clerk

o1 Front office clerk

o2 Manufacturing order clerks

Responsible for Budgets, production standards, and P&L reporting/analysis

Submitted 15 capital projects with $4,000,000+ in approvals in 2011

Slashed waste by 25% in 2011 and achieved 120% of cost reduction/Six Sigma goals in 9 months vs. 12 month goal

Second hat as Plant Accountant.

2009-2010 PLANT ACCOUNTANT, PLANT 80

Product: Tufting/Dying/Coating

Responsible for all P&L reporting and analysis

Managed 4 office hourly associates

o1 P&L clerk

o3 Manufacturing Order clerks (1/shift)

Responsible for budget preparation for 5 departments

oGL historical analysis and weekly cost standards

oDepartmental production rate bases

oProduct specific rates and standards

2001-2009 PLANT INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER, PLANT 7

Product: Spun Yarn (60 Million #/yr)

Responsible for process improvement efforts and financial accountability

Managed 4 associates

o1 P&L clerk

o2 Supply room clerks

o1 TPM coordinator

Responsible for P&L reporting, analysis, and investigations

Managed Supply Room

Time studies, JSS development, Plant/Process flow layouts, SMED/OMED, LEAN, Six Sigma Black Belt, CPM, Product costing, and TPM.

1988 - 2000 PLANT INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER, PLANT 6, SHAW

Spun Yarn – High count yarns

Responsible for process improvement efforts and financial accountability

Managed 4 associates

o1 P&L clerk

o2 Supply room clerks

o1 Frequency checker

Responsible for P&L reporting, analysis, and investigations

Managed Supply Room

Time studies, JSS development, Plant/Process flow layouts, SMED/OMED, CPM, Product costing, and TPM, and budgets

2000-2001 GENERAL MANAGER, MSS SERVICES, INC.

Product: Sales: Yarn manufacturing support equipment

Responsible for cost savings/justification of products to customers

Responsible for product development, testing, and applications

Responsible for cost accounting/analysis

Employment History

COMPREHENSIVE LOGISTICS

2021 -Present

BIG TIME PRODUCTS

2019 – 2021

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT CONSULTING

2019

TANDUS CENTIVA

2014-2019

UNIVERSAL TEXTILE TECHNOLOGIES

2012-2014

SHAW INDUSTRIES, INC.

2001 -2011, 1987 – 2000

MSS SERVICES, INC.

2000-2001

Education

SOUTHERN POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY

Bachelors, Industrial Engineering, 1987

Bachelors, Computer Science, 1987

Certifications

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Professional

Contact Information

Email – *****************@*****.***

Cell – 706-***-****

Website – BlankenshipPIC.com

References on request

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