Chris Cranfill

• Worked closely with our inside sales team in Garner and Charlotte to coordinate quotes, pricing, fabrication schedules, and orders.
• Collaborated with Sales Manager to close deals with large Fire Sprinkler Contractors and meet targets set by our Sales Manager.
• Spent a large amount of time with old customers and was successful on many levels with helping to drive business back to Ferguson Fire in Fabrication, Victaulic, Fire Pumps, and other materials.
• Worked closely with Victaulic to get current API pricing for Sunland Fire Protection to order all grooved through Ferguson Fire, and the model is currently being used in other regions of Ferguson Fire.

-Call on Contractors to find their needs for fabrication and material.

-Create quotes in Eclipse system. Delivery material to jobsites or offices when needed.

-Pulled material needed in warehouse to complete jobs before being delivered to jobs.

-Keep up with upcoming jobs that

- Order all material needed for the fabrication shop.

- Order all material needed for service jobs and deficiency jobs in both the High Point and Wilmington office.

- Keep good relationships with all outside vendors and maintain up to date cost of material to insure estimate sheet for bidding work was accurate.

- Maintain payroll weekly for fabrication shop

- Maintain weekly fabrication and delivery schedules for all Sunland jobs.

- Part of Traction team which was based off of a book that we used to help drive Sunland to be more successful.

- Help establish new work scope and schedules for both 1st and 2nd shift.

- Help identify issues that were causing low moral and make changes needed to increase.

- Work with President of company to identify new opportunities for business and travel to see new customers when available.

- Acted with President of company in meeting where tough conversations were needed.

- Resolve issues between employees to keep President from having to deal with those matters.

- Responsible for getting 30 employees raises for the first time in 3 years.

- Came up with monthly lunch and dinner for all employees to raise moral where we would pay outside catering to come in and we would all eat as a group to spend more time together.

- Learned all the machines and how to work with all of them in fabrication shop.

- Learned how purchasing worked with Computerease system.

- Learned to schedule work based on delivery dates and material availability.

- Learned who our suppliers and salesmen were for each. Started meeting with them to learn their role in our business.

- Worked in Wilmington office once a month to make sure inventory was correct at all times and we kept good communication.

- Scheduled all fabrication and deliveries once named Fabrication Manager in 2004.