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Damien Kopf

Denton,TX

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Production Manager

Elite Materials and Logistic Solutions
Denton, Texas
01.2022 - Current
  • Managed a team of up to 40 hourly employees consisting of leads, production workers, material handlers and box truck drivers
  • Ensured that all employees are operating safely
  • Responsible for overseeing multiple production lines that operate on a JIT delivery system along with multiple assembly jobs
  • Experience operating in JIT environments with lead times of under 2 hours
  • Monitor KPIs to make sure company processes are being followed and employee’s performance is aligned with company standards
  • Communicating with the customer and planners to fulfill all the customers material needs
  • Ensured all products coming off my lines follow customers’ quality standards and making improvement initiatives as needed
  • Have successfully led projects with tight deadlines
  • Developed teams through coaching and mentoring
  • Developed a process for quarterly inventory audits to successfully keep a 98% inventory accuracy on 20 million dollars of inventory
  • Developed and implemented a process to hit quarterly KPI cycle counts for our customer
  • Working knowledge of WMS, picking systems, and inventory process
  • Improved efficiency and quality issues through observation and process improvement
  • Partnered with quality to resolve quality issues by using root cause analysis and implementing preventive actions
  • Reviewed employees Payroll through ADP
  • Partnered with Human Resource to resolve any issues with employees
  • Have implemented new processes and technology
  • Oversaw training for new employees

Production Lead

Elite Materials and Logistic Solutions
Denton, Texas
01.2020 - 01.2022
  • Lead production teams to meet daily goals and uphold quality standards
  • Investigate any missing BOH inventory
  • Supervised a team of up to 10 people
  • Communicated directly with the customer and planner to secure materials
  • Implemented cross-training and redirecting labor to better utilize employee’s skills
  • Diagnosed inventory discrepancies by reviewing scans
  • Trained teams in new process that the company implemented
  • Working side by side with management in implementing continuous improvement and resolving any problems with production or materials that arise
  • Reviewed scans of new employees to ensure they were following the process
  • Trained employees and team to be able to effectively handle any problems or obstacles that could arise by coaching them through problem solving situations

Quality Specialist

Elite Materials and Logistic Solutions
Denton, Texas
01.2019 - 01.2020
  • Auditing finished products for defects
  • Participating in root cause analyses for recurring quality issues
  • Working with management on quality projects and process improvement projects
  • Investigating NCM to see where the defects originated
  • Reviewed weekly quality issues with manager and would pareto out the highest offenders to work on
  • Used root cause analysis to diagnose quality issues and implement corrective actions
  • Worked with management on developing and training for several production lines in quality process to drastically improve quality issues
  • Training employees in quality standards and implementing quality procedures
  • Resolved multiple NCPs issued by customers by proving our company was not responsible for damages

Education

Bachelor of Business - Administrations-Management

Strayer University
09.2024

Skills

  • Leadership
  • KPI tracking
  • Team Building
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Lean
  • Communication
  • Problem Solving
  • Time Management
  • Management
  • Material planning
  • Manufacturing
  • Production line management

Certification

  • Certified Kaizen Facilitator, Management and Strategy Institute, 09/01/21
  • Project Management Essentials, Management and Strategy Institute, 10/01/20
  • Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification, Management and Strategy Institute, 10/01/20

Timeline

Production Manager

Elite Materials and Logistic Solutions
01.2022 - Current

Production Lead

Elite Materials and Logistic Solutions
01.2020 - 01.2022

Quality Specialist

Elite Materials and Logistic Solutions
01.2019 - 01.2020
  • Certified Kaizen Facilitator, Management and Strategy Institute, 09/01/21
  • Project Management Essentials, Management and Strategy Institute, 10/01/20
  • Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification, Management and Strategy Institute, 10/01/20

Bachelor of Business - Administrations-Management

Strayer University

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