Stephen Wilkinson, MBA

Lean Coach & Consultant

Process Improvement Educator & Certified Lean Practitioner

“I will personally lead your team through the training and the on the floor application to make immediate tangible results."

I am always attracted and impassioned about things that are large projects to accomplish. I had a passion for scuba diving, I got my Real Estate Broker License in NC. I even got my private pilot license while serving at Fort Bragg, NC. As an Army Engineer Officer, I passed jump school (despite a dislocated shoulder) and joined an Airborne Combat Engineer Battalion. So, it was no surprise to me that after doing standard Industrial Engineering projects for several years, I took an assignment to help introduce Gillette to the Lean way of thinking and that has made all the difference for me and my customers.

Since then, my career has been focused on helping organizations learn how to achieve tangible performance improvement. My employers and clients have always appreciated my ability to help individuals to see the improvement opportunities around them and how to accomplish major improvements in work flow.

I am very proud of what my internal and external customers have said about how I helped them to accomplish more than what they thought was possible and I would be glad to share some of those amazing stories with you.

Experience

Years of Duty

1985 - 2007

Senior Industrial Engineer - Lean

Site Industrial Engineer of facility with eight production lines, plastic component assembly, batching, filling, and packaging operations. Performed 5S and identified layouts which significantly reduce motion and waiting waste. Achieved management buy-in to making lean improvements and training all factory levels on lean tools. Project managed engineering team for line layouts, staffing, equipment strategies and equipment placement. Optimized three new line layouts through simulating the filling and packaging of three new production lines.

2007 - 2017

Lean Coordinator & Site Project Industrial Engineer

Performed implementation of lean tools across three sites from scratch. Education and training employees lead directly to staff skills being developed enough to meet KPI goals. Performed large projects including constraint analysis, developing education materials on Lean, and leading an effort on eliminating 200 work force interrupters.

- Achieved a reduction of approximately 50,000 annual hours of non-value add work through the coaching 18 managers on lean tools.
- Used Work Center Team to create a 97% reduction in material waiting disposition over 24 hours and 60% reduction in release time.
- Developed the Amgen resources for Corporate Standard Work, Observe Analyze Improve, and Kaizen Leader playbooks.

Certifications

Lean Practitioner Certification

Spanish Intermediate

Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Microsoft Office & Visio

Previous experiences with Pareto, Scatter Diagrams, SIPOC, and Change Management

Skills

Implementing and sustaining continuous improvement is a science. It took years of challenging experiences at Fortune 500 companies to develop the coaching skills and strategies that lead to delivering the highest quality in the shortest lead time at the lowest costs. I will coach your team to develop these skills and to navigate resistance to change.

Observe Analyze Improve - Facilitation

100%

Kaizen Events - Facilitation and Teaching

100%

Lean Coaching

95%

Elimination of "7 Deadly Wastes"

95%

Kanban Solutioning

90%