CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT & LEAN MANUFACTURING PROFESSIONAL
Cross-functional team leader committed to improve processes, enhance system performance, and drive customer satisfaction.

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Industrial engineer with 10 years of food industry experience collaborating with plant and corporate level operations teams to implement cost reduction and revenue enhancement strategies in a large-scale manufacturing environment. Exemplified skills developing, managing, and driving sustainable change for end-to-end process improvements by increasing value-added activities and eliminating waste. Cross- functional liaison easily interfaces with high-profile management, frontline team members, and customers.

Core competencies and professional strengths include:
* Cross-Functional Leadership
* Kaizen / PDCA Practitioner
* Value Stream Mapping
* Root Cause Analysis
* Motion-Based Time Studies
* Capital Project Management
* Lean Manufacturing
* Standardized Work
* Process Improvement
* Cost Reduction Management
* Restricted Duty Job Analysis
* Budget Development
* Supply Chain
* 5S
* Ergonomic Studies
* Process Flow
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Tyson Foods, Inc. -- Pasco, WA
Senior Industrial Engineer
November 2006 - Present
* Manage the active cross-functional and collaborative participation of managers and employees in manufacturing safety and ergonomic job analyses, tool design reviews, workspace layout assessments, and illness/injury prevention strategies; directly supervise the ergonomics department.
* Execute process improvement solutions through the application of Lean manufacturing principles and Kaizen events for a beef processing complex. Identify and eliminate waste via the reduction of value- added and non-value added activities through continuous improvement and metric attainment.
* Formulate and analyze key performance metrics for plant and senior corporate managerial decision- making including labor utilization, yield attainment, and capacity realization opportunities.
* Deliver innovation value and cost reduction solutions totaling over $32MM by analyzing current processes and implementing labor, efficiency, and quality improvement projects across multiple units.
* Transitioned facility from 2 shifts to a single-shift operation. Evaluated crewing requirements and coordinated with operations management to optimize throughput and output capacities.
* Research, identify, initiate, and install cost reduction projects; provide technical assistance to plant management with the development of cost reduction capital improvement requests.
Tyson Foods, Inc. -- Amarillo, TX
Junior Industrial Engineer
February 2005 - November 2006
* Developed strategies to initiate and implement cost reduction and revenue enhancement projects for the Company’s second largest beef processing complex.
* Developed and maintained engineered labor standards to maximize labor resource effectiveness via job combinations, equipment layout...
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