Ron C. McKoy

• Managed four Carolina DC locations, overseeing 3 supervisors and 52 employees.

Focused on leadership development, fostering promotions and advancement for team members.

Maintained strict adherence to safety protocols, ensuring operational accuracy and efficiency.

• Executed warehouse optimization strategy, completing project two months early and under budget.
• Safely transitioned over $380M in inventory, repurposing facilities to save additional costs.
• Established new bulk storage facility, designing layout and managing installation of racking.
• Developed strategic plan for material storage, handling over $200M in inventory management.

Implemented inventory control procedures, enhancing accuracy of stock levels across multiple warehouses.

• Experience includes opportunities to lead at each of the three Distribution Centers in the Carolinas. Responsibilities included managing up to 32 Duke FTE and contract employees through daily warehouse functions. Provided leadership and support to team members during storm response and critical outages for the Carolinas as well as Florida. Directed teams through mandatory Supply Chain initiatives, such as, Progress Energy and Duke merger, Maximo and Enable implementation, material kitting implementation and warehouse redesign. Management of inventory, resources and employees have been the primary focus of my daily activities.
• Currently leading the Fairfax DC in Greensboro NC.
• The Fairfax team includes 27 Duke craft and exempt employees as well as 962 Union and contract employees.
• Control and manage Transmission and Distribution inventory totaling $54M.
• Lead the team through technology upgrades and process development to improve accuracy and efficiency.
• Lead the Fairfax team in supporting 47 Ops Center and Transmission locations in the DEC region.
• Lead the Toddville DC for over a year
• Improved Toddville’s material labeling, inventory management as well as worked with Project Managers on material management to reduce and control the amount of returns from completed projects.
• Lead Garner through the merger of Progress Energy and Duke Energy.
• Implement change management from Passport to Maximo systems.
• Lead the team in supporting 43 Ops Center and Transmission locations in the DEP region.
• Transition the team from bulk material shipping to kitting material for the Business Unit.
• Worked with Transmission to improve material deliveries as well as worked on the transmission development team.
• Schedule, coordinate and execute storm response plans for both Transmission and Distribution for DEC, DEP and DEF regions.
• Tracked and monitored efficiencies at all DC locations, which has led to changes with trucking and warehouse deliveries.

• Rigger duties include working in a team environment to move oversized transformers, circuit breakers, regulators, mobile transformers, and other power equipment to substations throughout North and South Carolina during normal operation and storm response. Other responsibilities include recording, documenting, and reporting monthly and quarterly fuel reports on all vehicles assigned to the Heavy Moving and Pool Equipment. This requires keeping accurate records for DOT Regulations and Fuel Tax reporting. Duties also include assisting Substation Construction Crews and the Test Crew as needed. I have also taken on the responsibilities of training all incoming employees in Human Performance techniques. I am also a team leader for the RCA committee which investigates all incidents for route causes and solutions to help improve safety and performance within our company.

• This position is responsible for coordinating the on-time procurement, selection and delivery of materials in support of TOP-Carolinas capital projects. Working as a liaison between Engineering, Maintenance, Construction and the Supply Chain organizations, this position provides materials related expertise and assistance to project teams in support of the goals and schedules of the overall project. Duties include: initiating the procurement and fulfillment of Bills of Material specified for each assigned project, tracking the project construction and maintenance schedules and driving materials to meet those schedules, coordinating material deliveries with multiple vendors and crews at remote work locations, assisting in providing analytical support for the development of procurement strategies, and expediting critical material deliveries in support of emergent project activities and schedule changes. In addition, provides support of inventory management and achieving inventory goals, and is required to provide material support to on-call, emergency and storm response situations.

• Warehouse Transport Truck Driver duties included delivering materials to all regional Operation Centers and Substations. Schedule delivery and order cranes for transformer delivery. Managed operation material yards also filled in for the regional MSR representative by ordering material for all regional warehouses using Passport programming. I also served on the Safety Committee in the Western Region.

• Duties included delivering material to all Operation Centers and Substations in North and South Carolina. I participated in scheduled outages and storm responses in the Carolinas and Florida. I also delivered transformers and heavy equipment for Progress Energy and Nortel.