Washington Hardwoods Work Values

Daily Duties at Washington Hardwoods:

Initiated a change-management process that emphasized the sense-of-urgency for the business to return to profitability or closure was unfortunately a possibility. The entire team (45 personnel) needed to "know the numbers" of the business for a commitment to improve the performance of the company. The process of change consisted of four primary elements: 1) Setting the stage for acceptance to do things differently 2) present the turn-around plan and their roles to succeed 3) manage the optimism of a new culture of team-work and empowerment while remaining focused on the plan execution and 4) manage supervisors and staff to embrace the required culture and be bold on criticism when disruptive behavior was exhibited. This defined structure had never existed in this company from it's inception in 1983!! It was a major culture shift. Managed daily oversight of operations with by developing an exception-based reporting system monitor activity to the plan for; daily production, sales quotes/bookings, inventory changes, cash-flow, reruns and invoicing. Initiated in inventory policy changes in raw material and FGI for monthly rather than quarterly physical counts. Initiated lean-manufacturing principles to supervisory staff for identified any capital equipment changes, waste reductions necessary for efficiency gains. Initiated changes to include a more comprehensive information system especially to improve the detail of sales order-entry, inventory, job-costing and centralization with the parent accounting department for financial statements. Initiated training program to upgrade skills of sales and project management staff to achieve LEED certification. Employed Sales and Operations Material Planning principles to establish new procedures to sell all jobs to an newly established manufacturing lead-time rather than shipping everything ASAP. The practice of selling all jobs ASAP caused chaos in the manufacturing plant and customer service.

What they like about Washington Hardwoods:

Organizations with strong, centralized leadership are particularly attractive to you. You require a work environment with leadership that aggressively seeks to expand and grow the business and does so in a visible and decisive manner. In general you prefer to work in an environment in which there is a strong link between leadership, its actions, and a strong set of company-wide values.

Tags

Financial , Accounting, Operations , Sales , Six Sigma Lean-Professional, Executive Manager, Change Management Specialist, Strategic Plans, Management Consulting

Skills

Financial Accounting , Job Cost Accounting, Product Cost Accounting, Working Capital Management, Sales Management, Business Management, Business Leadership, Strategic Planning, Team Building, Change Management Programs, Lean-Manufacturing Programs, Operations Management, Sales and Operations Planning, Business Performance Analyst, Executive Managment, Human Relations , Operational Turn-Arounds

These are some of the questions we asked our climbers about their experiences with Washington Hardwoods: