Kevin Walkey
Senior Commodity Manager, Global Purchasing- Machinery & Equipment, Construction & Facilities, Tooling, Engineering Services
- Role
- Senior Procurement Commodity Global Purchasing at Allison Transmission
- Location
- Carmel, IN, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kevin Walkey
Senior Procurement commodity manager for capital equipment,Facilities, construction materials, commodity management, purchasing, tooling, and Gage management. Large automotive, manufacturing, operations background. Sourcing, negotiating purchases up to $28m. Before going into Purchasing, was in Operations management at Allison Transmission. Management of 15-45 hourly employees in large operations. Purchasing experience with our military as well. Worked for Detroit Diesel, Allison Transmission INC, and Subaru/Toyota. Graduated from Purdue University in Organizational Leadership & Supervision. Organizational Leadership is my specialty. Planning, trouble shooting, leading groups.
Experience
Senior Procurement Commodity Global Purchasing
Jul 2014 — Present · Indianapolis, IN, US
Senior buyer, Global Purchasing, capital equipment, commodity management, tooling, gauges.
Education
Purdue University
Bachelor of Science (BS), Organizational Leadership/Management
1993 — 1997
Skills
- Manufacturing Operations
- Six Sigma
- Spc
- Management
- Team Building
- Purchase Planning
- Machine Tools
- Operations Management
- Production Planning
- Project Management
- Purchase Orders
- Capital Equipment
- Ppap
- Continuous Improvement
- Troubleshooting
- Purchase Requisitions
- Cnc
- Quality Management
- Tool Management Systems
- Manufacturing
- Microsoft Excel
- Product Development
- Preventive Maintenance
- 5s
- Sap
- Contract Negotiation
- Manufacturing Operations Management
- Purchasing
- Quality System
- Process Improvement
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Leadership
- Microsoft Word
- Root Cause Analysis
- Kaizen
- Strategic Planning
- Jit
- Lean Manufacturing
- Automotive
- Process Scheduler
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