Kurt Voss

Business Development Manager @ Daifuku North America

About

My achievements have come from a foundation of good family, hard work, dedication, and a positive attitude. I accomplished my career by working hard and going to school during full-time employment; through a combination of on campus classes, and telecommuting courses. Determined, patient, devoted, respected as a leader and gain the teams loyalty to get results. A personable communicator, who sets high standards while leading by example. Dedicated to make the best of whatever there is to work with; a confident leader who stands accountable. A future minded manager setting goals and achieving healthy growth while maintaining positive employee morale. A manager who understands P & L and the necessity of managing cash flow in the operations. Quality orientated while understanding continuous improvement to increase efficiency and margin.

Country

United States

City

Greater St. Louis

Industry

Aviation & Aerospace

Skill

Quality Management, Production Managment, Operations Management, Sales Engineering, Continuous Improvement, 5S, Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, Manufacturing Operations Management, Manufacturing, Value Stream Mapping, ISO, Six Sigma, Supply Chain Management, Production Planning, Process Engineering, Leadership, Management, ISO Standards

Experience

Business Development Manager

Daifuku North America

2021-10 - Present · 5 yrs

Business Development Manager

Daifuku North America

2021-10 - Present · 5 yrs

United States

VP of Sales and Estimating

Metro Contract Services Corp

2011-8 - 2021-10 · 10 yrs 3 mos

Midwest

Sales in the miwest regeion - Direct customer contact and new customer devlopment. MCS provides construction service to the Food and Beverage, Grain and Industrial markets. We provide services from maintenance support to turn-key soltions on very large projects. Our talents include Millwright and rigging, Mechanical, Fabrication and Design Build Capabilites

Plant Manager

Faurecia

2018-10 - 2019-10 · 1 yr 1 mo

Wentzville MO

Responsible for all plant operations

Business Development - Airport Technoligies

Daifuku North America

2016-8 - 2017-5 · 10 mos

Greater St. Louis Area

Daifuku-Webb Provides many products and services to Airports in all of North America with divisions around the world. Baggage Handling, Controls, AGV (Automated Guided Vehicles), Turn-Key solutions, Engineering, and onsite services. www.daifuku.com/us

Operations Manager

Continental Manufacturing

2006-8 - 2011-7 · 5 yrs

As Oprations Manager I was in charge of Manufacturing, Engineering and Sales. Continental is a manufacture of industrial bulk handling conveyors and perform work globally. Continental is a leader in bulk handling equipment used in Mining, transportation and Heavy Industrial environment.

Operations Manager

Magna International

2000-9 - 2006-7 · 5 yrs 11 mos

My responsibilities include over seeing the Manufacturing plant consisting of 110 employees with 4 direct reports 1 Production Manager and 3 Production Supervisors - This plant was a JIT Foam Poly Urethanes operation.

Quality Assurance Supervisor

Magna International

1995 - 2000 · 5 yrs

Greater St. Louis Area

Responsibilities included direct reports of 3 Lab Technicians, and 9 Quality Auditors and 2 Quality Engineers; generated reports of all statistical process data in the seat complete assembly operations, all supplier quality audits, component inspections and customer returns in a three shift operation. The assembly plant employed 620 direct labor employees.

Supplier Quality Engineer

Magna International

1989 - 1995 · 6 yrs

Greater St. Louis Area

Responsibilities include site visits to all suppliers to perform a Quality assessment to the ISO 9000/14000 standard. Report on and resolve through communications all supplier quality issues by managing proper corrective actions and audits on corrective actions.