CHAD LAY
Summary
Customer-oriented General Manager with 12 years of experience focused on increasing revenues and expanding margin. Adaptive and deadline-oriented consistently executes and completes multiple projects in high-stress environments.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
General Manager
Builders First Source
01.2011 - 01.2022
- Job included managing all aspects of a production milling facility
- Monthly vision financial budget, Payroll, managing yard cost, labor, and minimizing the inventory shrinkage
- Completing a daily stock report
- Purchasing materials.
Superintendent / Dispatcher
Stock Building Supply
01.2008 - 01.2011
- Managing all aspects of the operations side of a production lumber yard
- Payroll, yard cost, budgeting labor, and minimizing the inventory shrinkage
- Scheduling trucks to make deliveries to the customers
- Getting the loads built by the load builder, making sure the orders are filled completely, getting the load checked on the ground by a load checker to assure the load is correct
- Keeping the fleet in a good and safe working condition.
Operations Manager
Hayward Lumber Company
01.2008 - 01.2009
- I was hired to manage the location in the same way I did while employed at Blue Ox, because after Blue Ox closed in February, all our accounts and current jobs were transferred to Hayward Lumber.
Project Manager
Blue Ox Lumber Company
01.2007 - 01.2008
- Job included managing all aspects of a production lumber yard
- Monthly vision financial budget, Payroll, managing yard cost, labor, and minimizing the inventory shrinkage
- Completing a daily stock report
- Purchasing materials needed to fill the jobs
- Expediting the larger jobs and being in communication with the job superintendents with their needs daily.
Superintendent / Dispatcher
Stock Building Supply
01.2006 - 01.2007
- Managing all aspects of the operations side of a production yard
- Payroll, yard cost, budgeting labor, and minimizing the inventory shrinkage
- Scheduling trucks to make deliveries to the customers
- Getting the loads built by the load builder, making sure the orders are filled completely, getting the load checked on the ground by a load checker to assure the load is correct
- Keeping the fleet in a good and safe working condition.
Lumber Coordinator / Project Manager
Weslar Framing Inc
01.2004 - 01.2006
- Monitoring and essentially owned the lumber aspect of the company
- Creating a budget for the job and monitored it as the job progressed
- Inventory control, and shipments to job sites
- Creating job reference books for the foreman of the job containing all the information needed to run the job on the site
- This included a most recent copy of the lumber list, layout sheets, and the medical information for the area, in case of an accident
- On jobs that we were cutting our own material on, I provided cut sheets for each lot per lot, unit, or building
- Generating purchase orders for any extra materials ordered
- At the end of the projects, gathered revisions and information that can be used to make the next phase more productive
- Completed a full audit at the end of each job.
Skills
- Strategic Vision
- Corrective Actions
- Operational Efficiency
- Workload Planning
- Maintaining Clean Work Areas
- Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)
Timeline
General Manager
Builders First Source
01.2011 - 01.2022
Superintendent / Dispatcher
Stock Building Supply
01.2008 - 01.2011
Operations Manager
Hayward Lumber Company
01.2008 - 01.2009
Project Manager
Blue Ox Lumber Company
01.2007 - 01.2008
Superintendent / Dispatcher
Stock Building Supply
01.2006 - 01.2007
Lumber Coordinator / Project Manager
Weslar Framing Inc
01.2004 - 01.2006
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