Keith Olivarez
Denver,CO
Summary
Warehouse/Material/Parts management professional with 20 plus years' experience working in the Commuter/Railroad industry. Oversees warehouse operations to meet continuous internal and customer needs. Well-coordinated and decisive leader with expertise in program management, team building and performance optimization. Solid history of success in developing and maintaining best practices for successful high-volume fulfillment and supply chain management.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Warehouse Manager
Denver Transit Operators
01.2017 - Current
- Successfully directing the activities Six warehouse clerks/ materials associates
- Managing all aspects of a multimillion dollar parts and shop supply warehouse, including fulfillment, transaction, quality and inventory accuracy
- Supplying all company employees and departments with their needs
- Utilize Lean principles to drive improvement in warehouse and material management
- Assuring Warehouse clerks are complying with DTO policies, DTO safety policies and warehouse SOP's
- Compile and maintain computerized records such as material inventory and status and location of materials using computer-based inventory management functions
- Revamped warehouse training manual
- Reducing training time from six weeks to three weeks
- Develop and implement SOP's to maintain safety, reliability, and operational standards
- Assistant all DTO departments in closures in NCR's
- Monitor warehouse labor assuring not to exceed budget
- Monitor and control movement of material and parts
- Assisting in establishing yearly budget for supplies and tools for the warehouse
- Assisting in establishing yearly budgets for all parts and tools for repairs and calibration for all departments within DTO
- Create requisitions providing part and tool failure reasons for procurement department to proceed with creation of purchase orders
- Working directly with procurement to assure repairable and calibration parts are turned in a timely manner
- Direct working relationship with several DTO vendors and transportation carriers
Materials Manager /Parts Manager
General Electric Transportation
01.2000 - 01.2016
- Company Overview: Material management professional with fifteen years' experience working for a fortune 500 company
- Successfully directing the activities of 5 materials associates
- Managing all aspects of a $30 million parts and shop supply warehouse, including sourcing, purchase orders, warranty, fulfillment, transaction, quality, and inventory accuracy to support our customer (Union Pacific Railroad)
- Utilize Lean principles to drive improvement in warehouse and material management
- Reduced excess Inventory cost by 10% on a $30 Million inventory
- Implemented process changes to drive physical inventory accuracy from 80.00% to 94.4%
- Maintained inventory availability of 97.98% by forecasting parts usage and on time delivery
- Redesign of parts/supply warehouse using LEAN concept
- Calculated min/max based on part usage, part availability and in transit time
- Confirmed and approved all cycle counts
- Worked with suppliers to reduce individual cost of consumable/shop supply items as much as 46%, saving $130,200
- Projected and managed annual budget for all shop consumables saving 3.75 % of $500k budget
- Ensured safety compliance utilizing risk assessments and GEMBA walks resulting zero injuries
- Ensured warehouse compliance with all GE, UPRR, Federal, State and local regulations
- Identified and drove improvement opportunities including but not limited to: design/implementation of the two-bin system, point of use and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), using Lean, 5s and 8 Step Problem Solving
- Material management professional with fifteen years' experience working for a fortune 500 company
Technical Director
General Electric Transportation
01.2008 - 01.2012
- Directly managed Union Pacific Railroad supervisors and indirectly directed Union Pacific Railroad craft to repair GE locomotives at the Union Pacific service site in Denver, Co
- Confirmed correct amount of manpower was assigned for shift and locomotive
- Engaged Railroad Union Craft and supervisors in daily safety meetings
- Assured all FRA, UPRR and GE rules, guidelines and Process where being followed
- Assured SOP where being followed on GE Locomotives during maintenance and heavy repair
- Assisted in technical aspects to confirm locomotive was being repaired correctly
Education
High School Diploma -
Iver C Ranum
Westminster, CO05.1993
Skills
Six Sigma Certified
Lean principles
Waste Reduction
Worker Supervision
Quality Control
Materials Management
Warehouse Organization
Budget Adherence
Contract Negotiation
Critical Thinking
Certification
- [Area of certification], [Company Name] - [Timeframe]
Timeline
Warehouse Manager
Denver Transit Operators
01.2017 - Current
Technical Director
General Electric Transportation
01.2008 - 01.2012
Materials Manager /Parts Manager
General Electric Transportation
01.2000 - 01.2016
High School Diploma -
Iver C Ranum
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