Sadmir Brkanovic

• Oversee the entire operations of the company, ensuring efficient processes and high-quality production standards.

• Develop and implement operational strategies that align with the company’s overall goals and objectives.

• Manage and optimize supply chain logistics, ensuring timely delivery of materials and products.

• Lead cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement initiatives, enhancing productivity and reducing costs.

• Foster a culture of safety, quality, and operational excellence throughout all departments.

• Collaborate with senior leadership to establish budgets and forecasts, ensuring financial targets are met.

• Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess operational effectiveness and implement corrective actions as necessary.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers, vendors, and customers to enhance operational performance.

• Ensure compliance with industry regulations, safety standards, and quality assurance procedures.

• Mentor and develop team members, promoting professional growth and enhancing team capabilities.

• Responsible for daily operation of the company by planning, directing, and coordinating all activities required to keep business profitable and competitive.
• Directs the overall manufacturing process to ensure optimized production by allocating budget resources, formulating policies, coordinating business operations, monitoring, and motivating staff, managing operational costs, ensuring good customer service, and improving administration processes.
• Responsible for relationships with clients, generating new business, staff development, productivity improvement, while improving service, ensuring sustainability, and meeting business objectives.
• High quality ductile and malleable iron foundry producing engineered castings in weights from ounces to twenty-five pounds. Complete raw material to final casting in-house manufacturing, heat treating, finishing and quality control capabilities. The facility covers almost 210,000 square feet and employs 150 people.

• As Director of a multi-department team, hired and trained supervisors, managers, and union employees. Mentored team members for daily company operations; planning, directing and coordinating all activities required to keep business profitable and competitive.
• Through subject-matter-expertise and relationship-building, positioned to create win-win solutions, designing improved business processes, driving for improved efficiencies, waste elimination, cost reductions, process simplifications, leading to improved company bottom-line.
• Lead Problem-Solving & Kaizen events that resulted in improved processes with greater efficiencies and reduced cost.
• Managed the entire organization's capital planning process. Designed, ran, and performed statistical studies on equipment to validate equipment and improve performance.
• Successfully led and managed cross-functional projects and deployments of new tools and services, including ERP systems and SAP integration.

• Oversee day-to-day manufacturing and processes of the plant, ensure safety and health of workers. Advise the Managing Director of any problems or potential problems which affect the ability of the operation to produce in a safe, timely, efficient manner.
• Daily Interactive work with supervisors to maintain proper scheduling and aligning resources with capacity.
• Effectively communicates any changes in scheduling, production, or procedures to all shifts. Leads cross-functional meetings with engineers to modify machines and equipment in order to improve production and quality of products.
• Responsible for implementation and maintenance of a 5S program throughout the plant in order to improve organizational layout and safety in facility.

• Manage Quality Management System (ISO Manager).
• Document internal audits and quality assurance activities.
• Develop and monitor corrective measures.
• Analyze data to find areas of growth and improvement.
• Focus on objectives to maximize profitability of the company.
• Identify training requirements and provide training.
• Make sure all ASTM standards are met and product testing is executed in a timely manner.
• Prepare reports by collecting and analyzing product data to meet deadlines for delivery of products or services.

• Assess design briefs to gauge the design requirements.
• Develop solutions that solve user problems.
• Conduct and/or research user experience, needs, current market trends and general functionality.
• Create multiple iterations of design prototypes using computer-aided design tools (SolidWorks).
• Conduct rigorous usability tests and modify the product based on the test results.
• Evaluate design solutions against industry standards and regulations.
• Document the design process and present progress reports to all relevant stakeholders.