David Donahue
Business & Operations Leadership - Triathlete
- Role
- Operations Manager at Composiflex
- Location
- Erie, PA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About David Donahue
Driven business leader with a heart for continuous improvement: Spearheading bottom line…
Experience
Operations Manager
Nov 2021 — Present · Erie, PA, US
Composiflex is certified to AS9100 Revision D with ISO9001:2015, and now has obtained Nadcap Accreditations with composites. Composiflex has been designing and manufacturing advanced, high-performance composites for more than 37 years. Composiflex’s strong suits are a knowledgeable engineering staff, “art-to-part” projects, cost-effective rapid prototyping of parts, a range of modern manufacturing technologies, and material selection expertise – all of which contribute to the company’s reputation for producing composites yielding consistent quality and reliability.As the Operations Manager, my role is focused on driving continuous improvement efforts within the company to reduce costs and increase efficiency while overseeing Production, Material Control, Scheduling, Quality Control and Facilities.Senior manager of business operations.• Responsible for all key operational KPI\'s and company wide capital expense budgets.• Reconstruction of organizational structure to agree with desired organizational culture and goalsincluding KPI/structure alignment and significant staff retention improvement.• Driver of extensive company wide kaizen event that improved end to end physical and ERP processes.• Improvement leader for all transactional process accuracy/efficiency.• Analyze and implement processes and infrastructure to achieve reduced paper transactions.• Manager of planning and implementation for LEAN facility improvement plan that included a 50% facility expansion followed by a redesign of the existing facility to achieve optimal flow.• Continuous monitoring and improvements to companywide 6S initiatives.• Improvement of OTD from 35% to >90% in >1 year• Leader of company wide initiative to synchronize all process and systems through custom software development.
Education
Harvard Business School Online
Certificate in Leading With Finance
Slippery Rock University
Education
Penn State University
Mechanical Engineering
Skills
- Export-Import
- Program Management
- Scheduling
- Microsoft Office
- Sales
- Online Advertising
- Promotions
- Public Speaking
- E-Commerce
- Time Management
- Leadership
- Business Development
- Professional Mentoring
- Microsoft Excel
- Powerpoint
- Social Media
- Sales Presentations
- Customer Service
- Social Networking
- Endorsements
- Microsoft Word
- Networking
- Training
- Logistics
- New Business Development
- Event Planning
- Marketing
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