Kori Parrish

Senior Manufacturing Engineering Specialist

Cook Inc.

06.2016 - Current

Evaluate, plan, and execute supplier-initiated product/process changes to ensure no adverse downstream impact to products or processes.
Manage approximately 270 incoming supplier change requests per year, ensuring accurate project information and prompt notification to appropriate teams and stakeholders.
Routinely collaborate cross-functionally throughout internal and external levels of organizations, both domestically and internationally.
Created request system in SharePoint to provide greater efficiency and visibility of impact assessments for all supplier-initiated change projects.
Manage all impact assessment requests and utilize priority-based evaluation to assign to contractors.
Train contractors to create impact assessment reports and oversee their outputs and workload.
Create impact assessments for Supplier Engineering projects resulting in accurate and timely data delivered to project leads.
Utilize continuous improvement mindset and system knowledge to develop tools via SharePoint and Power BI that aid in greater efficiency and productivity.
Identified and lead effort to streamline processes and eliminate approximately forty change orders per year, saving roughly 320 working hours per year.
Collaborated with cross-functional team to address gaps in current Supplier process and lead or contributed to recent and ongoing quality system updates to address identified gaps.
Developed team metrics in Power BI that are used for daily tracking by team members, and by management for team report outs to executive leadership.
Trained new technicians to execute duties associated with support of Supplier Engineering projects, with particular focus on building impact assessment reports for project leads.
Mentored engineering co-op, which included training them to Cook data systems and quality systems, supervised and managed their workload and supported development of both technical and soft skills.
Supported Supplier Engineering and cross-functional teams with specialized system, process, and data knowledge to support projects or reporting as requested by team leadership and other Cook functions.
Ensure safe and effective products are delivered in compliance with quality standards 21CFR820.50(b) and ISO 13485.
Documentation specialist and backroom support staff for audit response team during Spencer audits.
Promoted from Technician to Specialist in 2018, and then to Senior Specialist in 2022 by displaying competency in project completion, engineering principles, and proven results.