Raul Ramirez III
Murrieta,CA
Summary
Dynamic Operations and Logistics Professional with over 20 years of proven expertise in production, administration, planning, logistics, embarkations, transportation, manufacturing, and distribution management. Strong managerial background complemented by extensive training in professional leadership, team building, information management systems, and supply chain management. Adept at driving efficiency and optimizing processes to enhance operational performance while fostering collaborative team environments. Committed to leveraging extensive experience to contribute to organizational success and streamline logistics operations.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Division/ Plant Manager
Alumawood Outdoor Living
Romoland, CA
09.2021 - Current
- Oversee all aspects of daily operations, ensuring efficient production, quality control, and employee safety.
- Planning and Scheduling customer/ intercompany orders with proper lead times.
- Create, document and implement streamlined procedures to create maximum efficiency for product flow and adhering to safety guidelines.
- Manage sales and budgets across four locations around the west coast on product distribution.
- Set goals, developing strategies, managing budgets, and coordinating operations to ensure the division meets its performance targets.
- Track invoices and communicate with vendors to insure prompt payments and any discrepancies.
- Conduct and prepare for QA audit, handle any QA issues that arise.
- Handle any CMAR activity by investigating all credit requests and memos regarding customer issues involving product.
- Conduct audits and safety checks for employees to ensure proper PPE and equipment are in regulations.
- Create metrics to help track and itemize material consumption, profit, loss, manpower, machine hours, daily progression.
- Manage and oversee all maintenance technicians at all locations to and from.
Delivery Assurance Specialist
SMS Solutions LLC
Temecula, CA
05.2019 - 08.2021
- Continually evaluate work performed by the supplier at all stages, including the supplier's procurement of materials and equipment, as well as the supplier's manufacturing, quality and delivery processes.
- Proactively work with the supplier to monitor all parts to support on-time customer deliveries; create daily status reports, develop and communicate actions and plans to customers.
- Drive actions to mitigate potential delivery delays by identifying risks, performing root cause analysis and development of recovery plans to bring shipments back in-line with customer requirements.
- Identify systemic causes for poor delivery performance and execute supplier improvement plans.
- Provide expert assessments and advice to suppliers and customers on suppliers' delivery performance, quality assurance, process improvements and expansion capabilities.
- Create daily status reports and communicate actions and plans to all stakeholders with our customers, prime aerospace manufacturers throughout the day
Production Control Manager
GKN Aerospace
El Cajon, CA
03.2017 - 05.2019
- Manage production control activities to reduce outages and incidents.
- Manage production planning and scheduling for on-time delivery.
- Recommend process improvements for high quality, cost effectiveness and excellent customer services.
- Evaluate system performance and recommend improvements.
- Supervise team members in their assigned job duties.
- Organize job training's to employees to achieve production objectives.
- Ensure that team follows security and safety policies.
- Review the job orders with customers and production team to determine pricings and schedules.
- Monitor execution of job orders and adjust job schedule to meet the deadlines.
- Communicate the status of job orders to customers on regular basis.
- Attend daily meetings to prioritize and plan production activities to maintain on-time delivery.
- Review daily reports to identify and address equipment malfunctions, material shortages and other factory problems.
- Determine equipment, materials and staff needs to meet production schedule.
- Manage and track all field technicians at the facility
- Coordinate with Department Manager to develop company policies and procedures.
- Perform inventory management for timely delivery and for minimizing transportation charges.
Inventory Control Manager
California TrusFrame LLC
Perris, CA
10.2016 - 02.2017
- Ensures adequate inventory of materials and products in accordance with inventory cycles and organizational philosophy.
- Conducts daily inventory analysis to solve inventory problems.
- Develops and implements inventory control procedures. Coordinates and manages bi-weekly physical cycle counts.
- Trains and manages an inventory team.
- Managed four facilities inventories, purchasing and receiving logistics operations.
Government Contractor: Warehouse / Inventory Manager
ICI Services, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NWSC) Corona CA Division
Corona, CA
10.2015 - 10.2016
- Receive and store product by designing and developing product movement and storage systems; improving operations; managing staff. Provide materials, equipment, and supplies by directing receiving, warehousing, and distribution services.
- Achieved warehouse operations operational objectives by contributing warehouse operations information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends.
- Complied with federal, Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Transportation (DOT), state, and local warehousing, material handling, and shipping requirements by studying existing and new legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements; advising management on needed actions.
- Maintained receiving, warehousing, and distribution operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing program, operational, and personnel policies and procedures.
- Achieved financial objectives by preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
- Met warehouse operations financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
- Developed warehouse operations systems by determining product handling and storage requirements; developing, implementing, enforcing, and evaluating policies and procedures; developing processes for receiving product, equipment utilization, inventory management, and shipping.
- Developed warehouse design by planning layout, product flow, and product handling systems, evaluating and recommending new equipment.
- Developed warehouse operations system improvements by analyzing process workflow, manning and space requirements, and equipment layout.
Logistics and Embarkation Specialist (MOS 0431)
U.S. Marine Corps
08.2006 - 08.2014
- Mobility Chiefs (formerly called Embarkation Chiefs) plan and execute unit movements of personnel, supplies and equipment using all modes of transportation. Moreover, they coordinate and conduct unit-level embarkation, mobility and distribution training. As subject matter experts, they provide interface and articulate the strategic mobility requirements both present and future to organizations such as U.S. Transportation Command and the three-transportation component commands, Surface Deployment Distribution Command, Military Sealift Command and Air Mobility Command.
- Directed activities of logistics department of various organizations within the Department of the Navy.
- Conferred and cooperated with management personnel in formulating administrative and operational policies and procedures.
- Coordinated activities of operations department to obtain optimum use of equipment, facilities and personnel.
- Trained and managed four subordinate satellite (S-4) offices and achieved significant improvements in their productivity.
- Trained multiple/various MOS billet holders in the preparation, marking, staging and movement of vehicles, supplies and equipment via vessels, aircraft and/or rail operations.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
University of Phoenix
Murrieta, CA07.2019
Skills
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system (Navy and Commercial)
- Trained on multiple SAP and Enterprise systems (To include Oracle, Syteline and S/4)
- Microsoft Office Suite ie, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Current Secret security clearance via Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) completed Aug 2006 and updated Jul 2016
- Plant and warehouse operations
- Operations management
- Logistics Management
- Aerospace Engineering/ Manufacturing
- Continuous improvement
- Compliance
- Team building, training and development
- Cost reporting
- Performance monitoring and Improvements
- Safety management
- Workflow management
- Quality control management
- Lean manufacturing principles
- Waste reduction
Certification
- OSHA 10 Industry Safety 2022
- Forklift Certified, Toyota lift I, IV, V, 2018
- Advance Personal Trainer, American Sports and Fitness Association, 2017
- Navy Enterprise Resource Planning, Naval Surface Warfare Center Corona CA, 2015
- AMC Affiliation, Airlift Load Planners Course, Camp Pendleton, CA, 2007, 2012
- Defense Packaging of Hazardous Materials for Transportation, Leesville, LA, 2010, Okinawa Japan, 2012
- Customs and Agriculture inspections, Camp Pendleton, CA, 2011
- The Logistics/Embarkation Specialist, Marine Corps Institute, by Correspondence, 2009
- Logistics and Embarkation Course, Camp Johnson, CA, 2007
- Basic Recruit Training, MCRD San Diego, 2006
Timeline
Division/ Plant Manager
Alumawood Outdoor Living
09.2021 - Current
Delivery Assurance Specialist
SMS Solutions LLC
05.2019 - 08.2021
Production Control Manager
GKN Aerospace
03.2017 - 05.2019
Inventory Control Manager
California TrusFrame LLC
10.2016 - 02.2017
Government Contractor: Warehouse / Inventory Manager
ICI Services, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NWSC) Corona CA Division
10.2015 - 10.2016
Logistics and Embarkation Specialist (MOS 0431)
U.S. Marine Corps
08.2006 - 08.2014
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
University of Phoenix