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Education
Skills
Military Service
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Elena Graham
Open To Work

Elena Graham

Louisville

Work Preference

Job Search Status

Open to work
Desired start date: 2 weeks notice

Desired Job Title

Production CoordinatorMaster Production SchedulerSupply Chain ManagerSupply Chain Coordinator

Work Type

Full Time

Location Preference

RemoteHybrid
Location: Louisville, United States
Open to relocation: No

Important To Me

Company CultureWork-life balancePersonal development programsWork from home option

Summary

Dynamic, results-oriented professional with extensive experience in coordinating production schedules and optimizing resources for timely project completion. Proven ability to leverage exceptional communication and organizational skills for effective team task management and issue resolution. Demonstrated history of upholding high-quality standards in fast-paced environments, ensuring projects meet deadlines and exceed expectations. Committed to driving efficiency and fostering collaboration within teams to deliver outstanding results.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience

Work History

Production Coordinator

Multi-Color Corporation
2024.05 - Current
  • Develop and maintain production schedules that meet customer demand and deadlines while maintaining optimization for production for 25 assets.
  • Coordinate with other departments to get raw materials and components on time
  • Analyze production data for any bottlenecks, backlog imbalance, and areas of improvement.
  • Interaction with the sales and customer service department to respond to any production-related queries from these areas
  • Participate in planning for all new work coming into the plant
  • Direct reporting manager for Shipping and Receiving Manager, Tooling Coordinator, and Production Scheduler
  • Monitor OTIF and MSI scheduled vs monthly targets, transfer work to other plants and/or adjust production schedule to ensure targets are met.
  • Participate in monthly supply planning meetings to set targets for the following month.

Operations Manager

Multi-Color Corporation
2023.11 - 2024.05
  • Analyze and improve processes to increase efficiency, productivity, and quality.
  • Inspire and guide a team towards shared goals, and create a positive work environment. This includes encouraging open communication and providing support.
  • Assist the Human Resources department in the recruiting process.
  • Quality control: Perform quality controls and monitor production KPIs.
  • Directly supervising and evaluating the performance of 3 managers and indirectly 100 production personnel across 3 shifts, from onboarding to termination.
  • Strategic involvement with driving continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Continuous interactions with direct and indirect reports to cultivate a culture of engagement and set the strategic direction for the team.
  • Monitor and maintain production standards for efficiencies, material waste, and quality.
  • Ensuring employee productivity, facility safety, and equipment operations are meeting goals while working in conjunction with other department managers.
  • Ensuring all employees follow the quality procedures set forth by the organization and drive change in processes to improve customer satisfaction.

Production Manager

Multi-Color Corporation
2021.12 - 2023.11
  • Collaborating daily with the Production Scheduler, Customer Service Manager, and the Logistics Manager to plan production schedules and ensure ship dates and customer needs are met on time.
  • Directly supervising and evaluating the performance of 3 supervisors and 70 production personnel across 3 shifts, from onboarding to termination.
  • Strategic involvement with driving continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Continuous interactions with direct and indirect reports to cultivate a culture of engagement and set the strategic direction for the team.
  • Monitor and maintain production standards for efficiencies, material waste, and quality.
  • Ensuring employee productivity, facility safety, and equipment operations are meeting goals while working in conjunction with other department managers.
  • Ensuring all employees follow the quality procedures set forth by the organization and drive change in processes to improve customer satisfaction.
  • Advanced knowledge of EFI Radius ERP system. I provide support as needed to other plants and have assisted with transitioning plants onto the Radius system.
  • Maintain and collect data to provide weekly reporting of production KPIs and overall plant performance to goal to plant personnel and divisional leadership.

Finishing Department Supervisor and Continuous Improvement Leader

Multi-Color Corporation
2020.11 - 2021.12
  • Responsibilities included providing the required day to day technical assistance to the finishing team, enforcing and ensuring compliance of procedures and policies, monitoring the finishing process from start to finish and ensuring on time delivery, and analyzing and improving organizational performance.

Operations Analyst

Multi-Color Corporation
2019.06 - 2020.11
  • Responsibilities included interpreting data, analyzing results using statistical techniques, communicating production performance KPI's to plant leadership, and maintaining databases.

Finishing Department Trainer

Multi-Color Corporation
2016.02 - 2019.06
  • Responsibilities include rewinding orders to customer specifications, visual inspection, packing finished rolls, preparing orders by shipping deadlines, reworking rolls as needed, and training new finishing employees.

Finisher/Rewinder

Multi-Color Corporation
2015.04 - 2016.02
  • Responsibilities include rewinding orders to customer specifications, visual inspection, packing finished rolls, preparing orders by shipping deadlines, and reworking rolls as needed.

Co-Owner

Spirit of the Pacific Islands
2001.01 - 2018.03
  • Responsibilities include office administration, customer service, event bookings, stage prop design and construction, costume design and creation, cultural display creation, cultural education, studio instruction, new student orientation, all aspects of the company finances, and marketing.

Education

High School Diploma -

Northwest High School
Cincinnati, OH
1993-01

Skills

  • Project management
  • Schedule coordination
  • Workflow coordination
  • Efficiency optimization
  • Workflow management
  • Production scheduling
  • Deadline management
  • Materials management
  • Logistics planning
  • Scheduling expertise
  • Customer service

Military Service

  • Branch: US Army - Military Police
  • Service Country: United States
  • Rank: E3
  • September 1993 to September 2001

Timeline

Production Coordinator

Multi-Color Corporation
2024.05 - Current

Operations Manager

Multi-Color Corporation
2023.11 - 2024.05

Production Manager

Multi-Color Corporation
2021.12 - 2023.11

Finishing Department Supervisor and Continuous Improvement Leader

Multi-Color Corporation
2020.11 - 2021.12

Operations Analyst

Multi-Color Corporation
2019.06 - 2020.11

Finishing Department Trainer

Multi-Color Corporation
2016.02 - 2019.06

Finisher/Rewinder

Multi-Color Corporation
2015.04 - 2016.02

Co-Owner

Spirit of the Pacific Islands
2001.01 - 2018.03

High School Diploma -

Northwest High School