Romario Lequay-Lopez

• Process and issue purchase orders for mechanical, HVAC, refrigeration, and other job-specific tasks.

- Responsible for sourcing and ordering the accurate materials and parts that are required for the jobs that are scheduled. Ensuring that the quantities and deliveries are handled in a timely fashion. Helps reduce delays and costly reorders.

• Coordinate with vendors, suppliers, and internal project and service managers.

- Communicate the pricing, lead times, availability, and substitutions between vendors and internal teams. This is to help with transparency, cost control, and quick decision-making for the active jobs, or the reopening of old ones.

• Track order status, confirm, and follow up for deliveries and backorders.

- Monitor shipments from order placement through receipt, resolving delays or discrepancies as they arise. This helps with preventing job site downtime and material shortages.

• Verify invoices, pricing, and confirm receipt of proper documentation for the different aspects of each job.

- Cross-check vendor invoices against purchase orders and receiving/updating records to ensure pricing and equipment accuracy. This helps in protecting the company from billing errors and ensures accurate accounting.

• Maintain organized purchasing records and equipment rentals.

-Keep detailed records of purchases, returns, warranties, and vendor information. Upload for inter-department cooperation and communication, along with long-term supplier and vendor relationships.

• Support project closeouts and cost tracking.

- Comparing parts and materials used in past jobs, track price increase or decrease from past completed jobs. This helps in tracking the accurate job costs and improves budgeting for future work.

• Planned efficient routes to ensure on-time deliveries across state lines

- Evaluated routes based on distance, fuel, effective routes, and delivery deadlines. This ensures on-time deliveries.

• Safely secured and transported flatbed cargo in compliance with DOT regulations.

- Properly strapped, balanced, and inspected loads to meet all safety and DOT regulations. This helps in preventing cargo damage and safety incidents

• Performed detailed pre-trip inspections to maintain safety regulations and to ensure reliability for on-time deliveries, or an early approach to a possible future problem that may cause a delay.

-Conducted inspections to identify mechanical or safety issues before operation. Early detection reduced breakdowns and ensured consistent reliability.

• Maintain delivery documentation and logs.

• Process control, compliance, and documentation management.

- Oversaw qualification and compliance documentation for over 80 personnel operating in high-risk, regulated environments. Ensured standardized process, traceability, and adherence to the operational safety requirements for supply chain integrity.

• Cross-functional coordination across operational departments

- Coordinated with aviation, medical, logistics, and deck departments to resolve qualification and readiness issues. This helps in collaboration across departments and ensures the procurement of the correct parts needed for operation.

• Workflow optimization and continuous improvement.

- Designed and implemented quality assurance workflows to streamline approvals and reduce bottlenecks, similar to lean supply chain process improvements.

• Risk mitigation and readiness assurance

- Identified gaps in qualifications, scheduling, and documentation that posed operational risks. Implemented corrective actions to prevent disruptions, supporting mission continuity and operational readiness.

• Executive Level reporting and decision-making

- Provided clear, data-driven status updates and risk assessments to senior leadership, enabling informed operational decisions. This mirrors the civilian side leadership, such as KPI reporting, exception management, and escalation resolution.