Brad Snyder

About Brad Snyder

COO / GM skilled in building, leading, and growing mid-sized industrial manufacturing establishments. Strategic visionary with record of mining new markets and streamlining operations to influence dramatic turnarounds and growth. Aggressively achieves goals in M & As and organic growth.Builds positive team dynamic that enables maximum effectiveness. Earns trust within existing cultures and respectfully challenges change for future sustainability and growth. Uses experiences from wide-range of manufacturing businesses to quickly identify opportunities for improvements in processes, waste reduction, and added revenue.Impressive Achievements:• Transformed $20M machining company to fully auditable GAAP standards by licensed, independent auditor, enabling company to secure capital equipment loans, increase production efficiencies, and gain new business.• Secured $3M in YOY recurring business yielding 39% profit margin; new power generation industry business was integral in diversifying customer base heavily weighted in wire & cable industry.• Merged 2 organizations with separate P & Ls; created cohesive team culture, integrated business systems, and eliminated SG & A while gaining efficiencies/economies of scale.• Attained continual YOY improvement of safety record, quality cost, and on-time shipments. • Established ‘best practices’ to satisfy most difficult customer while improving quality and cost.• Improved overall safety by reducing TRIR from 10.7 to 1.48 and DART from 3.04 to 0.• Negotiated major improvements in employee healthcare benefits with minimal cost increase.• Maintained positive employee morale and low turnover during business downturn through low- cost incentives.• Increased on-time delivery from 62.6% to 83.3%; reduced cost of quality from 1.96% to.98% of sales.• Created inventory traceability of raw materials that improved purchasing accuracy and eliminated obsolescence.• Established community outreach focusing on vocational education.

Experience

1. Director Value Added Services

   Chicago Tube & Iron

   Oct 2020 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US

Education

• University of Dayton

  Bachelor of Science (BS)

Skills

• Manufacturing
• Engineering
• Strategic Planning
• Continuous Improvement
• Lean Manufacturing
• Six Sigma
• Management
• Customer Service
• Project Management
• Negotiation
• Sales Management
• Product Development
• Change Management
• Quality Management
• Leadership
• Mergers
• Divestitures
• Safety Management
• Managerial Finance
• Business Development