Steven Jensen
Frisco,TX
Summary
Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Regional Continuous Improvement Manager
Jensen Precast
Frisco, TX
12.2023 - Current
- Coach/train OpEx leaders to utilize scorecards, countermeasures, kaizen events, work cell design, lean tools
- Develop, coach and mentor team members on continuous improvement and lean methods
- Develop and deliver training material
- Foster continuous improvement and lean culture
- Promote employee engagement and ownership
- Lead focused improvement teams, facilitate lean activities and events
- Architect and implement Lean Operating System for plant operations teams
- Develop regional strategies to drive YoY performance improvements in operations and critical business metrics
- Develop and monitor key performance indicators for operational targets and success
General Manager
Jensen Precast
Orland, CA
06.2021 - Current
- Forecasting, budget, P&L, business improvements, operating costs and sales, manage capital improvement for site
- Develop and review branch KPI's in sales, staff, production, P&L, safety and quality in accordance with company goals
- Manage inventory and manufacturing compared to market trends, capacity, sales, and growth.
- Responsible for sales activities with current sales team: quotes, estimates, bids, orders, and project management
- Review, maintain, and develop Standard Operating Procedures for safety, production, quality, sales,and administration.
- Ensure manufacturing complies with production drawings, calculations and project/products specifications
- Grow sales pipeline by bidding new projects, and aligning manufacturing with specifications from government agencies, customer, local utility agencies, etc.
Product Manager
Jensen Precast
Reno, NV
10.2019 - 05.2022
- - Product lines: Agricultural, Redi-Rock, StoneTree, Gravix, light poles and bases, bridges, buildings,cemetery products, irrigation water control.
- Review plans, specifications, build submittals, prepare and send quotations, project manage throughdelivery of the products to project location.
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- Develop product line strategy for sales, production, and marketing to align with business goals.
- Analyze and implement, through product development and research, the growing needs of thecustomer in Above Ground products.
- Market research to understand market trends, needs, and issues.
- Formulate pricing, product enhancements, and analyze competitive products.
- Product forecasting to estimate production, inventory, resource allocation, and return on investment.
- Market strategy for product lines within the Jensen Precast territories.
- Team collaboration with production, sales, marketing, and accounting to formulate product lineprocesses
- Develop sales tools
- Promote business growth through trade shows, association meetings, and communicate with endusers, government agencies, etc.
- Assist with Lean Manufacturing projects both in the office, and production.
Production Coordinator
Wilbert Precast
Spokane, WA
11.2017 - 09.2019
- - Implement Lean Manufacturing: 5S, 7 Sources of Waste, Value Stream, etc.
*Projects: Reinforcing bar efficiency project, septic/water tank defect reduction, retaining wall efficiency, light pole base waste reduction, inventory kanban, defect/root cause/improvement project. - Prepare and review previous day production/product report to ensure project completion.
- Schedule products and associated labor.
- Schedule form changeover, review production capacity, schedule products, allocate manpower.
- Work with Production Management to ensure production schedule is updated and products are complete.
- Coordinate with sales, fabrication and material purchasing to provide an accurate schedule.
- Calculate yardage per product, compare with batch reports to determine, and reduce waste.
- Track and schedule missed products. Review root causes to improve processes to reduce daily missed products.
- Work with all production staff to improve efficiency in production and reduce defects.
- Safety Committee Chair- review previous meeting action items, discuss new safety goals and measures, lead general plant safety discussions, review claims and solutions.
Continuous Improvement Manager
Jensen Precast
Sparks, NV
11.2016 - 10.2017
- - Introduce lean and six sigma concepts to departments. Concepts include: 5S, 8 Sources of Waste, Work flow diagrams, etc.
- Implement Kaizen events: Process improvement, tool improvement, work flow improvements.
- Analyze Processes: Value-stream mapping, process flow re-engineering, Design for Excellence, SIPOC, Critical to Quality Analysis, Ishikawa Root Cause diagrams, Solution Selection Matrix, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Data Point / Scatter Plot diagrams, Pareto charts.
- Track and analyze improvement gains
Agricultural Product Manager
Jensen Precast
Sparks, NV
06.2015 - 10.2017
- Design and develop precast concrete agriculture products for dairies, cattle operations and agriculture industries.
- Work with end users to make products that suit their needs.
- Manage product development, marketing, trade shows, sales, and assist with product production.
- Maintain profit and loss, budget, and overall financial performance of product line.
- Develop sales forecast, plan future projects, oversee current projects, and train sales members at Jensen Precast facilities.
- Maintain contacts, accounts, opportunities, leads, and projects in CRM (salesforce).
Marketing Assistant
Jensen Precast
Sparks, NV
07.2014 - 07.2015
- Marketing campaign execution, web lead processing, managing CRM database, trade show management and coordination, collateral and promotional item coordination, meeting & presentation materials coordination, trade association membership management.
Education
Master of Science - Lean Manufacturing
Kettering University
Flint, MI01-2018
Bachelor of Arts - History
University of Nevada - Reno
Reno, NV01-2013
Skills
- Workflow Optimization
- Training Employees
- Operations Management
- P&L Management
- Business Development
- Schedule Management
- Sales
- Quality Management
- Customer Relationship Management
- Project Management
- Market Analysis
- Team Leadership
- Budget Analysis
- Product Development
Certification
- Concrete Field Testing Technician (American Concrete Institute) Cert ID: 2239522. Exp: Nov 2028
- Master Precaster (National Precast Concrete Association) Exp: Feb 2027
- OSHA 30-Hour Construction Industry (Certus, American Safety Council). Cert ID: OEC-7057096
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (Six Sigma Global Institute). Cert ID: 10645846
- Project Management Certification (Six Sigma Global Institute). Cert ID: 10766483
Affiliations
- National Precast Concrete Association Committee Member (Outreach) - 2023/2024
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Regional Continuous Improvement Manager
Jensen Precast
12.2023 - Current
General Manager
Jensen Precast
06.2021 - Current
Product Manager
Jensen Precast
10.2019 - 05.2022
Production Coordinator
Wilbert Precast
11.2017 - 09.2019
Continuous Improvement Manager
Jensen Precast
11.2016 - 10.2017
Agricultural Product Manager
Jensen Precast
06.2015 - 10.2017
Marketing Assistant
Jensen Precast
07.2014 - 07.2015
Master of Science - Lean Manufacturing
Kettering University
Bachelor of Arts - History
University of Nevada - Reno
- Concrete Field Testing Technician (American Concrete Institute) Cert ID: 2239522. Exp: Nov 2028
- Master Precaster (National Precast Concrete Association) Exp: Feb 2027
- OSHA 30-Hour Construction Industry (Certus, American Safety Council). Cert ID: OEC-7057096
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (Six Sigma Global Institute). Cert ID: 10645846
- Project Management Certification (Six Sigma Global Institute). Cert ID: 10766483
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