SCOTT F. GARRISON
Fort Worth,TX
Summary
Industrial Engineer focused of improvements in Productivity, Cost, Safety, and Quality through the use of engineering and lean tools.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineer II, Industrial
Saddle Creek Logistics
04.2023 - Current
- Responsible for providing engineering support for 6 3PL warehouses consisting of 10+ customers across the Fort Worth area
- Consistently conduct A3s cross-functionally with warehouse operations, engineering, solutions, IT, and lean teams
- Responsible for a minimum of $250k in savings annually
- Implemented a seal dispenser tool with annual savings of $120k and rolled out to 2 other sites totaling ~$360k annual savings
- Support new customer start ups, CAD layouts, slotting plans, labor planning, vendor selection for new equipment, operations reviews for under-performing accounts, and various levels of operation support
Continuous Improvement Engineer
Ryder Logistics
11.2021 - 11.2022
- Responsible for facilitating process improvement throughout the warehousing environment
- Participated regionally in all efforts regarding continuous improvement
- Main projects included developing optimal racking positions for inbound and outbound products based on product flow volumes, developed an entire slotting plan with rack barcoding for a 700,000+ square foot facility and oversaw the installation of all barcodes, developed CAD layouts for several facilities to meet customer requirements, supported startup for cold storage warehouse, implemented/validated KPI reporting throughout multiple startups
- Worked with several different customers to achieve goals
- Maintained relationships with process owners in order to seek out projects and reach goals with little to no supervision and received exemplary feedback
Operations Excellence Engineer
Forterra Pipe & Precast
03.2021 - 11.2021
- Responsible for leading and facilitating OpEx activities both in the production environment and the administrative environment throughout the facility
- All improvements made had lean training woven throughout in order to drive cultural change and provide ownership to stakeholders
- Kaizen events that lead to productivity, quality, and safety improvements were consistently conducted
- Formal lean trainings were conducted regularly to further drive cultural change and provide ownership
- Conducted an improvement in data collection and analytics that was deemed best practice and rolled out nationwide. Savings of $175k annually at Grand Prairie plant
- Participated in inventory control reform that was also deemed best practice and rolled out nationwide
- Heavily involved in the rollout of both events, including traveling to other plants nationwide
- Implemented and managed MDI process across the plant
Continuous Improvement Manager
Universal Forest Products
01.2020 - 03.2021
- Responsible for identifying and facilitating process improvement projects and initiatives to drive cultural change
- Focused on shifting production mindset from schedule attainment for short-term benefit to continuous improvement for long-term benefit
- Work directly under Regional CI Manger who focuses on several plants to achieve these goals at the Grandview plant individually
- Conducted a Six Sigma Black Belt project focused on improving company IRA and completed Six Sigma Black belt training, Project savings were ~$130k anually
- Responsible for Identifying and leading several ongoing process improvement projects along with maintaining quality and safety standards
- Responsible for monitoring the performance of each department via weekly reports from supervisors and identifying root cause of any decrease in performance in each area
Industrial Engineering Intern
Daikin/Goodman
05.2019 - 08.2019
- Analyzed 40 processes across 6 assembly lines to update an inaccurate, out of date yamazumi
- All cycles from the yamazumi were implemented as standard
- Utilized line balancing to create multiple yamazumis for different takt times due to varying seasonal demand
- All 40 processes were broken down into their base steps, agreed upon and signed off on by supervisors, and time studied.
Industrial Engineering Intern
Northrop Grumman (Formerly Orbital ATK)
05.2017 - 08.2017
- Participated in Lean initiatives to improve production efficiencies for the manufacture of custom carbon fiber parts for aerospace industry components
- Utilized IE and Lean tools to analyze labor processes, factory flow, determine baselines, and identify wastes
- Total savings projections of improvements were $238,000 (extended through the product life cycle).
Education
Bachelor of Science - Industrial Engineering
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX12.2019
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification -
Six Sigma Global Institute
Boston, MA2020
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification -
Institute of Industrial & System Engineers
Peachtree Corners, GA2017
Certified SolidWorks Associate -
Dassault Systemes
Tokyo, Japan2018
Skills
- Experienced with Lean tools (Examples: 5S, Line balancing, Value Stream Mapping, Spaghetti Diagrams, A3s, RCA, SOPs)
- Six Sigma project experience
- Project identification and management
- Excel data analytics and VBA programming
- CAD software (AutoCad and SolidWorks)
- KPI management and analysis
- Process planning
- System simulation software (Simio)
- Java programming
- Effective presentation skills (PowerPoint, Excel, Project report out documents)
Timeline
Engineer II, Industrial
Saddle Creek Logistics
04.2023 - Current
Continuous Improvement Engineer
Ryder Logistics
11.2021 - 11.2022
Operations Excellence Engineer
Forterra Pipe & Precast
03.2021 - 11.2021
Continuous Improvement Manager
Universal Forest Products
01.2020 - 03.2021
Industrial Engineering Intern
Daikin/Goodman
05.2019 - 08.2019
Industrial Engineering Intern
Northrop Grumman (Formerly Orbital ATK)
05.2017 - 08.2017
Bachelor of Science - Industrial Engineering
Texas A&M University
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification -
Six Sigma Global Institute
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification -
Institute of Industrial & System Engineers
Certified SolidWorks Associate -
Dassault Systemes
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