Randy Bertram

Randy Bertram, Senior Manufacturing Specialist

"As the director of WMEP's Profitable Sustainability Initiative, I have the opportunity to help manufacturers across Wisconsin discover how they can save money and benefit the environment and their employees."

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Skill Set:

• Operations Management
• Enterprise-wide Systemic Continuous Improvement (Kaizen)
• Strategic and operations improvement plans
• Facilities planning
• Corporate quality management
• Profitable sustainability

Experience:

• 30 years of manufacturing experience
• Plant Manager for a metal fabricator supplying major OEM’s in the automotive, recreational, defense, electronics and consumer product industries
• Industrial engineer, quality engineer, corporate quality manager, production manager and director of JIT/TQM.

Randy's experience spans a broad base of industries and processes including progressive tooling, stamping, forming, deep draw, assembly in higher volume synchronous flow and lower volume job shops. Randy led the Lean transformation of a major small appliance manufacturer, gaining national recognition for the company. He later adapted Lean in make-to-order applications. He is also Director of WMEP's Profitable Sustainability Initiative team.

Education:

AS in Industrial Engineering and Management from Moraine Park Technical College and BS in Management Cardinal Stritch University.