Andrew Sheffield
Groton,CT
Summary
Seasoned Maintenance, Repair & Operations Stores Coordinator with 36 years of experience in the polystyrene production process. Proficient in supplying teams with necessary training and resources to meet production goals and ensure a safe work environment. Known for building and maintaining professional relationships while empowering employees through consistent feedback. Adept in problem solving and adapting to various environments, strategies, and technologies within the field.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Purchasing Coordinator
Americas Styrenics
04.2016 - Current
- Oversee purchase, inventory, and issue materials for day to day operations or maintenance
- Collaborate headquarters purchasing to resolve open purchase orders
- Investigate and implement ideas for quality improvement, increased productivity, and cost reduction
- Maintain accurate and organized records, documents and reports
- Monitor all purchase requisitions and orchestrate adjustments with vendors
- Liaise with internal and external customers and manage all pricing and availability of all products
- Assess areas of service concern and developed improvement plans
- Redesigned month-end closing process, reducing process from 3-day event to 6-7 hours
- Completed annual physical counts on over 1600 stock items
- Cataloged over 2400 items, reorganizing all stock for easy locating
- Partnered with headquarters purchasing to standardize materials across all sites
- Streamlined process for ordering materials to avoid incorrect SAP inventory status.
Planning Production Scheduling/Coordinator
American Styrenics
05.2013 - 01.2022
- Maintain raw material inventories based on continuously changing production schedules for early production of over 200 million pounds of polystyrene resin
- Provide necessary adjustments and perform root cause investigations if variances were outside acceptable variance limits
- Utilize SAP (Systems, Applications, and Products) daily to perform most aspects of role and successfully manage production activities to meet customer orders
- Maintain and communicate daily productivity and shipment reports for all departments, coordinating with quality manager to achieve proper segregation and recycling of all rework
- Plan, direct, coordinate, and assign manpower to meet aggressive production schedules and shipping of over 200 million pounds of product yearly
- Schedule shipments of over 1800 bulk trucks and 500 rail cars, shipping over 190mm pounds of product
- Planned production runs by product to reduce transitional off-grade material by as much as 45% on some products.
Production Shift Coordinator
Dow Chemical Company/Americas Styrenics
09.2006 - 05.2013
- Championed quality initiatives by verifying documentation and execution of correct process control parameters
- Addressed all personnel issues promptly and professionally
- Drove daily production activities with effective communication and leadership
- Supported development of plant operations staff to meet competency and performance expectations
- Successfully managed production activities for 200 million pounds of 16 products, ensuring quality prime product is produced to meet customer needs
- Investigated and implement ideas for quality improvement, increased productivity, and cost reduction, resulting in a 17% increase in production per day.
Training Coordinator
Dow Chemical Company/Americas Styrenics
07.2004 - 09.2006
- Oversaw all training and procedures
- Updated department work instructions and reports on regular basis
- Scheduled necessary training for 31 employee based on each role
- Managed documentation of training of over 400 production procedures and work instructions.
Skills
- Leadership and Management
- Purchasing
- Procurement
- SAP
- ERP
- MRP
- Quality improvement
- File-maker Pro Databases
- Production Planning/Scheduling
- Material Handling
- Practice Safety Standards
- Inventory Management
Accomplishments
- Streamlined the ordering process of materials through complete restructure of MRO warehouse, implementing material numbers and set up MRP for all inventory
- Completed Critical Spare Equipment Project to identify necessary equipment to ensure consistency
Certification
First Aid, CPR and AED trained
PIC (person in charge) required by Coast Guard for marine terminal
Licensed forklift operator and aerial lift operator
TWIC (Transportation worker identification credential) card issued by the TSA
Additional Information
Dow Chemical Company
United States Navy - Honorably Discharged
Timeline
Purchasing Coordinator
Americas Styrenics
04.2016 - Current
Planning Production Scheduling/Coordinator
American Styrenics
05.2013 - 01.2022
Production Shift Coordinator
Dow Chemical Company/Americas Styrenics
09.2006 - 05.2013
Training Coordinator
Dow Chemical Company/Americas Styrenics
07.2004 - 09.2006