David Lorang

About David Lorang

Expertise in engineering and operations leadership gained across career with hands-on experience in every aspect of plant operations – from staff engineer to Director of Operations. Implement lean principles to optimize continuous improvement throughout plant operations. Embrace collaborative leadership style with focus on developing strategic plans to produce meaningful business results. Seasoned project management skills honed through extensive problem-solving experience using exceptional written and verbal communication skills.Career Highlights:IMPROVE PLANT OPERATIONS: Selected to turn around a struggling plant to improve performance in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost (productivity) and Morale (SQDCM).• Developed a plan to instill structure into the plant, with focus on following standards, visual management, problem solving, process discipline, escalation, leader standard work and coaching leadership team on required culture change.• First pass yield improved by 54%, lost time injury rate improved by 40%, on time delivery improved to 98% and productivity improved by 14%.LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: Mentored several team members over the years to support individual career goals.• Assisted in creating individualized IDPs to challenge individuals to think more strategically leading to eventual promotions. Established a 3-year vision and action plan for departments, developing a team charter, and following through with regular meetings to discuss progress to plan. CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Empowered team to shrink manufacturing footprint of the Z45 value stream by sponsoring several lean improvement (kaizen) events simultaneously. This resulted in a complete re-layout of assembly line by combining work stations and shrinking from 6 to 5 mainline stations.• Reduced assembly footprint by 1800 sq-ft. • Flow was improved in fabrication by combining weld cells and reducing SWIP inventory. Reduced fabrication footprint by sq-ft.

Experience

1. Director of Manufacturing

   Newell Corporation

   Oct 2025 — Present · Arlington, WA, US

Education

• University of Washington

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, (BSME)

  1990 — 1993

• Shoreline Community College

  Associate of Arts - AA, Business Administration and Management (3 years) and Engineering (2 years)

  1985 — 1990

Skills

• Jit
• Design for Manufacturing
• Operations Management
• 5s
• Kanban
• Toyota Production System
• Continuous Improvement
• Manufacturing
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Value Stream Mapping
• Process Improvement
• Manufacturing Operations Management
• Business Process Improvement
• Kaizen
• Smed
• Root Cause Analysis
• Manufacturing Operations
• Lean Manufacturing
• Poka Yoke