Stéphanie SCHINDLER

(100 people, manufacturing of mattresses & bedbases) Managing staff of 3 people. Defined safety policy and trained employees. Ensured quality from raw materials to finished products. Supplier qualifications. Participated in new product development. Managed investment projects. Deployed lean manufacturing.

(420 people, manufacturing of Fisher control valves for different markets: Nuclear, Oil & Gas, chemistry, LNG, power, pulp & paper) Managed staff of 4 people. In charge of selection, cleansing, and preparing data for the 7 data migrations into Oracle. Complete process overview from quote to cash. Listing of plant product range. Decision making about 500000 items in legacy system. Analyzed technical information for Sales BOM’s, engineering modules, preconfigured items.

Managed staff of 90 people in 5 different departments: o Machining & welding o Sub-contracting & outsourcing o Manufacturing Engineering o Tooling & test bench (50 suppliers, 1,2M€) o Production & Facilities Maintenance (1M€) In charge of Capital Plan representing 1M€ annually, designing 5 years strategy. Drastically renovated the facility.

Managed staff of 40 people in 5 different departments: o Store & inventory management o Purchasing o Import / Export o Customer service & manufacturing project coordinators o Capacity analysis Analyzed, designed and drove strategy. Set up plant POR for production, inventory and sales. Worked directly with salespeople and customers to save key projects. Tracked production to guarantee OTD and ITO. Implemented materials forecasts.

Coordinated Lean enterprise programme in the plant. Trained office and shop floor staff in the philosophy and use of the different lean tools. Value stream mapping and kaizen events facilitator. Arranged Lean supplier programme. Training and improvement project facilitator for different key suppliers in France and abroad. In charge of the « Think customer » programme deployment. Responsible for training organization, action plan development, motivation and team meetings follow-up.

Provided support for European strategic purchasing projects. Selected the best suppliers using a worldwide database. Saved $500k/year. Created web-based reverse auctions. Used Parts analysis and price parity reports to identify cost savings and containments. In charge of the Inflation model software updating for Europe. Improved the reporting tools for the States.

Managed multi-plant projects. Streamlined process optimizations. Defined make or buy strategy. Supplied statistics.

Implemented new machines (numeric lathes, high-speed drilling machine, laser machine, hard-facing machine). Created routings. Designed programmes and necessary tooling, ran tests. Trained operators.