Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
Operations and people leader with 10+ years of experience supporting manufacturing and logistics operations. Proven ability to lead teams, manage performance, and drive results across safety, quality, productivity, and customer delivery. Experienced in supervising hourly and salaried employees, coordinating labor planning, and executing daily operations in high-volume environments. Strong background in process improvement, data analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives. Known for building engaged teams through coaching, accountability, and clear expectations. Comfortable partnering with Safety, HR, Quality, Engineering, and Operations leadership to meet business objectives. Actively interested in Operations Manager, Area Manager, Manufacturing Manager, and Logistics Leadership opportunities.
Flow Area Manager: Perform administrative and analytical tasks. Provide analysis and reporting on project performance metrics with several safety, quality, and throughput projects that were implemented network wide. Mentored and promoted 3 tier 1 to tier 3 associates, 2 tier 3 to Area manager roles, and 1 intern to Area manager role. Implement quality assurance by understanding where defects are being created and eliminate them by using metric and data driven solutions. Point of contact for workplace of choice Maintain staffing. Daily status meetings, along with weekly maintenance production planning meetings Extensive understanding of expense and time keeping management, process, and policies Outbound/ Sort/ Fluid load Area Manager Audits and document results for safety equipment, safety practices, wall audits, manual palatize Defects per million opportunities audits, and kick out % metrics and audits. Consulting and coaching/mentoring process assistants and Area Managers Management of Change SME Launch Outbound Area Manager Safety, Quality, and responsiveness metrics Manage 100+ people, utilize several databases to make accurate and time changes needed to ensure the success of the department and Amazon. Maintain 5’S and LMS standards to improve cost while performing these tasks through a standardized process. 7/2013- 11/2020 Gener
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