Kristin Garau
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- Role
- Vice President, Operations at Gbf, Inc
- Location
- Winston-Salem, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kristin Garau
Experienced strategic, tactical, and operational leader with a demonstrated history of success globally across industries, including automotive parts manufacturing, automotive reconditioning, printing, and high-speed technology assembly. Strong operations professional skilled in DMAIC, Multi-Site Operations, Lean, Process standardization and documentation, Root Cause Analysis, Project Management, Strategic Governance, and Operations Management. Exceptional ability to coach operations managers and teams to build capability, culture, and mindset needed to implement sustainable, process-based improvement in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Productivity, and Cost (SQDPC). Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with senior leadership colleagues and shop floor employees.
Experience
Vice President, Operations
Jun 2023 — Present
Education
Wake Forest University
MA, English
1991 — 1997
University of South Florida
BA, English/Humanities
1988 — 1990
Skills
- Supply Chain Management
- Automotive
- Ts16949
- Quality System
- Green Belt
- Quality Management
- Root Cause Analysis
- Black Belt
- Operations Management
- Training
- Kanban
- Spc
- Toyota Production System
- Lean Manufacturing
- 5s
- Poka Yoke
- Six Sigma
- Change Management
- Manufacturing Operations Management
- Value Stream Mapping
- Process Improvement
- Strategy
- Coaching
- Apqp
- Ppap
- Manufacturing
- Troubleshooting
- Multi-Site Responsibility
- Fmea
- Dmaic
- Operational Excellence
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Operations Leadership
- Leadership
- Strategic Planning
- Iso
- Business Process Improvement
- Tqm
- Supply Chain
- Manufacturing Operations
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