Brian Harvey
Director
Pea Ridge,Arkansas
Summary
High-energy Leader prepared to bring leadership skills and knowledge developed over a long career and take on a challenging new role. Proficient in Oracle Netsuite, SAP, and Acctivate, monitoring and modifying processes as needed, and promoting efficient production within my team. Clear communicator with a decisive and well-organized nature. Background includes managing direct reports in multiple departments as a Unit Leader in a fast-paced production environment and directing multiple solar warehouse distribution centers in multiple states. Bringing many years of related experience and dedication to meeting and exceeding performance targets. Safety-driven and responsive to changing workflows and company demands.
Overview
34
34
years of professional experience
Work History
Director for Supply Chain and Inventory Management
Shine Solar
05.2023 - Current
- Developed and maintained excellent relationships with internal leaders, external suppliers, and external carriers
- Managed over $16 million in inventory and the distribution of products over five warehouse locations, supporting over $100 million in sales for the company
- Oversaw warehouse operations across five warehouses in three states, coordinating schedules to meet customer demands and daily deliveries
- Designed and implemented layouts for warehouse openings in multiple locations
- Responsible for the planning and implementation of warehouse openings from floor to ceiling, along with inventory stocking of each new warehouse location
- Developed and executed cycle counting procedures, resulting in lowering inventory variance discrepancies by99%
- Responsible for physical inventory counts and improved inventory count variance audits to under1% from2023 to2024
- Authored lowering on-hand inventory value down37% from2023 to2024 to improve inventory turns in all warehouses
Warehouse Manager
Shine Solar
05.2022 - 05.2023
- Responsible for the safety of my team
- Responsible for maintaining accurate inventory levels
- Assignment of daily tasks for warehouse employees
- Develop, implement, and maintain processes designed to help maintain warehouse effectiveness and efficiency
- Delegate work effectively to ensure jobs are being pulled in a timely manner
- Monitor employee production and efficiency and take necessary disciplinary actions as needed
- Monitor employee attendance and tardiness and take necessary disciplinary actions as needed
- Work in NetSuite efficiently and effectively: create shop orders, transfer orders, parts orders, fulfillment of orders by picking, packing and shipping of orders
- Direct traffic for materials needed at job sites or other warehouses within Shine Solar
- Scheduled delivery of promotional items that were backordered and needing delivered to the customer
Production Supervisor
Kennametal Inc
07.2019 - 01.2022
- Address employee and production issues to determine and implement optimal resolutions, preventing wasted resources and maintaining schedules
- Delegate tasks to employees and monitor the accurate and timely completion of tasks
- Plan and delegate work efficiently to meet daily, weekly, project or production goals
- Monitor manufacturing variances to achieve quality improvement while resolving product process and equipment problems
- Monitor employee performance and safety, conducting retraining to correct problems and optimize productivity
- Assign individual work assignments and review jobs to ensure work is accomplished in a safe and efficient manner
- Develop and implement process improvements to enhance department quality and throughput
- Establish and update production schedules to meet changing demands
- Coordinate with internal departments to maximize operational efficiency across all areas, including incoming and outgoing shipments and daily production
- Identify areas of improvement by conducting performance reviews
- Manage and supervise daily activities of50 team members to verify fulfillment of customer and stock orders
- Assign tasks to employees and monitor productivity, performance, and task completion
- Issue work orders for repairs to plan maintenance of equipment and machinery
Operations Manager
Nidec Motor Corporation
10.1990 - 01.2019
- Responsible for multiple departments: Machining, Fabrication, Rotor Cast, and Lamination Departments
- Tracked KPI’s in each department on departmental boards and monitors
- Managed incoming raw materials for each of the departments
- Managed Kan-Ban inventory levels
- Worked with engineering daily to improve processes and blueprint revisions to speed productivity and improve employee efficiency
- Attended Daily Production Meetings to cover and give updates on all production orders in process in each department
- Managed a Scheduling Team plus the departments they scheduled for
- Managed the Scheduling Team plus the raw material incoming and the finished product leaving the departments
- Managed the Kan Ban Inventory Levels in multiple departments and a finish product Kan Ban in the stock room
- Responsible for leading one hundred plus direct reports
- Responsible for leading multiple exempt salaried supervisors and leaders as the Unit Manager
- Monitored employee performance and safety, conducted retraining to correct problems and optimize productivity
- Responsible for creating electronic schedules throughout four departments to improve production and efficiency in those departments
Education
Bachelor of Science - Organizational Management
John Brown University
Siloam Springs, ARSkills
- Safety and Compliance
- Schedule oversight
- Performance reporting
- Staff retention
- Quality control
- Continuous improvements
- Production target management
- Proficient with Kronos and ADP time tracking
- Multi-unit operations management
- Incidents management
- Procurement, Receiving, Shipping
- Workflow Optimization
- Team Building Skills
- Proficient with Oracle, SAP, and Acctivate management systems
- Order Management
- Opened Multiple Warehouses
Timeline
Director for Supply Chain and Inventory Management
Shine Solar
05.2023 - Current
Warehouse Manager
Shine Solar
05.2022 - 05.2023
Production Supervisor
Kennametal Inc
07.2019 - 01.2022
Operations Manager
Nidec Motor Corporation
10.1990 - 01.2019
Bachelor of Science - Organizational Management
John Brown University
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