Brad Staats

Background

About Brad Staats

MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL High performance, results-driven Manager/Consultant with a career demonstrating visionary leadership, expertise and distinguished performance in the operations, strategic planning and business development support of domestic and international operations. Energized by business challenges and committed to organizational success. Experienced in start-up and turnaround. SELECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS * Oversaw the growth in revenues of 500% that resulted in positive operating profit with a start-up company after only three years of operation by utilizing lean thinking and creating an employee centric culture.* Freed up $1.5 million in working capital, reduced excess inventory by 47%, increased operating profits by 5% through the reengineering of the organization’s overall production strategy.* Decreased defect rate by 20% via the implementation of Kaizen process improvements. Created and utilized Tiger Team to identify root causes, implement troubleshooting approach and develop corrective actions.* Reduced floor inventory by 25%, and eliminated inventory storage requirements by after conducting a 360-degree process analysis and determining the best-practice solution to be a visual inventory-control methodology.* Participated in multiple Greenfield plant projects, including an innovative new plant startup to become the first facility of its kind in the world, and an accelerated startup of a $600M industrial plant.* Removed 90% of third-party IT costs and reduced scheduling labor by 50% through engineering and in-housing a new production planning/scheduling system for manufacturing based upon a constraint-based model. Breakeven for project was achieved within nine-months.* Lead the supply side integration in post-acquisition integration of seven steel plants producing billions of dollars in annual output which included directing a seamless integration of all production-related IT platforms.