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Caitlin Starrs

Long Beach,CA

Summary

Experienced manufacturing professional in the aerospace industry specializing in supply chain and operations management. Demonstrated track record of leading teams, driving efficiency, reducing costs, and optimizing processes to meet organizational goals. Committed to self-growth, strong communication, and teamwork to achieve success.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Supply Chain Operations- Buyer/Planner

Novaria Group- Space-Lok Inc.
01.2023 - Current
  • Established 3 new strategic partnerships with raw material suppliers focused on improved availability, established quality standards, and cost reductions
  • Managed all raw material and sub-component procurement with strategic partners
  • Reduced procurement costs through strategic sourcing, competitive bidding, and effective negotiations
  • Created and implemented the use of the daily dispatch report throughout all manufacturing departments
  • Collaborated with production and sales to create monthly ship plans
  • Established a 96% on time job start percentage
  • Improved and maintained strong relationships with key raw material suppliers through better forecasting, prompt & accurate communication on status and expectations
  • Built and maintained functional raw material lead time Excel tool to provide accurate and up-to-date information for the sales team to reference when quoting new work
  • Aid sales and production teams in daily scheduling of machines to meet customer service goals
  • Manage daily MRP messages and on time work order release

Operations Area Manager

TransDigm Group- Kirkhill, Inc.
05.2022 - 12.2022
  • Managed three production departments with3 supervisors and78 operators across two shifts
  • Focused on departmental and individual safety, quality, and sales targets
  • Improved department sales to reach record $1 million sales in a month
  • Implemented labor tracking system to effectively track individual productivity
  • Reduced total delinquencies by $800k
  • Improved total on-time delivery to 88%
  • Hired and trained 2 new supervisors
  • Promoted 5S culture within departments
  • Coordinated with cross-functional departments to improve production-sales, engineering, quality
  • Assisted in duplicate-manufacturing project with sister facility in Tijuana, Mexico

Backend Operations Manager

PCC- PB Fasteners
01.2018 - 01.2022
  • Managed Grind and Thread Roll departments with 46 operators across two shifts
  • Focused on department and individual safety, productivity, and TOC goals
  • Improved Grind department productivity from 83% to 94% in CY20
  • Improved Thread Roll department productivity from 75% to 85% in CY20
  • Increased grind department cross training and flexibility across conventional and CNC machines
  • Oversaw the installation and implementation of 4 new CNC grind machines
  • Improved department 6S score from 61% and 67% to 84% and 82% in Thread Roll and Grind respectively
  • Reduced delinquencies from $2m and $400k to $220k an $61k in Grind and Thread Roll respectively
  • Supported daily and weekly shipping goals
  • Managed middle machining departments with 4 operators across 2 shifts
  • Hired & implemented training records for new operators
  • Maintained low inventory & supported cross-training functions
  • Familiar with centerless grind machines (CNC & conventional), thread roll & fillet roll machines, Traub machines, Brown & Sharp machines
  • Participated in Zero Defects Training Program in Oct. 2020

Production Engineer

PCC- Large Parts Campus(Management Development Program)
01.2019 - 01.2020
  • Improved backend manufacturing operations
  • Implemented a50% reduction in targeting set-up time
  • Improved CMM first time yield by5.2 percentage points and heat treat first time yield by3 percentage points
  • Onboarded new parts washing machine
  • Reduced cleaning time of parts by3 hours per piece
  • Relieved inventory from etch/FPI service center across the campus

Manufacturing Engineer

PCC- Andrews LaserWorks (Management Development Program)
01.2018 - 01.2019
  • Created and maintained Kanban system of bracket sub-components
  • Developed supply chain with4 external suppliers
  • Reduced and managed excess and obsolete raw material inventory
  • Leveraged a working relationship with Ingersoll
  • Reduced the cost of tooling/ESH by $1.53 or $1,539 total
  • Assisted in the IMC tooling crossover project and improved upon total IMC tooling spend by40 percentage points from July to January (21% to61%)

Men’s and Women’s Assistant Coach

King University, Bristol, TN
08.2016 - 04.2017
  • Golf program operations – which included: Recruiting, Managing Team transportation, Fundraising, and Scheduling/ Conducting practice
  • Achieved significant improvement in Women’s team performance culminating in first Conference Championship win in2017

Education

Master of Business Administration - Project Management Specialization

King University
Bristol, TN

Bachelor of Science - Business Management

Wingate University
Wingate, NC

Skills

  • Results Driven
  • ERP System Proficient
  • Leadership
  • APICS- CPIM Completion
  • AS9100 Rev D Auditor
  • 5S
  • Problem Solving
  • Project Management
  • Inventory Management & Sourcing
  • Manufacturing Planning and Control
  • Operations Management
  • Relationship building

Interests

American Sign Language, Golf, Marathon Running, Community, Self Growth

Timeline

Supply Chain Operations- Buyer/Planner

Novaria Group- Space-Lok Inc.
01.2023 - Current

Operations Area Manager

TransDigm Group- Kirkhill, Inc.
05.2022 - 12.2022

Production Engineer

PCC- Large Parts Campus(Management Development Program)
01.2019 - 01.2020

Backend Operations Manager

PCC- PB Fasteners
01.2018 - 01.2022

Manufacturing Engineer

PCC- Andrews LaserWorks (Management Development Program)
01.2018 - 01.2019

Men’s and Women’s Assistant Coach

King University, Bristol, TN
08.2016 - 04.2017

Master of Business Administration - Project Management Specialization

King University

Bachelor of Science - Business Management

Wingate University

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