Bruce Bator

WORK HISTORY

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ABOUT BRUCE BATOR

Experienced engineering and manufacturing professional with strong leadership and relationship-building skills. Over a career spanning 30 years, I have demonstrated accomplishments that show versatility, innovation, and talented team building skills. Coupling such accomplishments with educational background, including a BSME and MBA, the result is a performance driven, improvement focused manager with strong interpersonal skills.Key Skills• Lean Manufacturing • Process Improvement • Capital Expenditure Management• Budget Development & Execution • Cost Reduction • Design Innovation• Team Building • Effective Communications • Personnel DevelopmentCAREER HIGHLIGHTS• Upon acquisition of OKIN America by Phoenix Mecano, I served as interim site manager during transitional phase. In this role, I was able to sustain a failed company site; put in place basic manufacturing policies; establish production metrics and communications methods; and introduce lean manufacturing techniques to the site. Upon appointment of permanent site manager, I became responsible for implementation of manufacturing module of ERP system at OKIN site.• At CertainTeed Corporation, I commissioned idle equipment used for the development and manufacture of form tooling. This reduced new tool manufacture lead time by 45%. As part of this project, the tooling shop layout was redeveloped to improve work flow, ergonomics, and implement 5S principles.• At ERICO, I developed and commissioned two new ground rod manufacturing lines, One line utilized equipment was salvaged from obsolete equipment, upgraded under my guidance, allowing for introduction of product that accounted for 11% of sales for less than capital investment. The other was developed under my supervision utilizing sub-contractors and internal resources for capital investment, realizing at 25% increase in capacity.