2013 -2017 Vice President and Director, Quality, Continuous Improvement and Facility Engineering @
2008 -2012 Vice President and Director - Quality and Continuous Improvement @ WCI Steel / Severstal Warren, Inc / RG Steel, LLC
1999 -2007 Director - Process and Continuous Improvement and Operations Manager and Plant Manager @
1982 -1999 Vice President - Melting and Engineering @ Axel Johnson Metals & Titanium Hearth Technologies
Joseph Knecht Education
Smarter Solutions, Inc
Black Belt / Master Black Belt (Six Sigma)
2000-2002
University of Virginia
Certificates (Darden School of Business - Executive Education)
1990-1994
Indiana Institute of Technology
BSEE (Engineering)
1974-1980
Joseph Knecht Skills
Continuous Improvement
Six Sigma
Steel
Titanium
Kaizen
Leadership
Strategic Planning
Change Management
Theory of Constraints
Quality Management
Operations Management
Process Improvement
Forging
Rolling
VAR Melting
Electron Beam Melting
Team Leadership
Lean Manufacturing
Melting
Process Engineering
Operational Excellence
Value Stream Mapping
Root Cause Analysis
ISO
Manufacturing
SPC
5S
Metals
Manufacturing Operations Management
DMAIC
Metallurgy
Engineering
Project Management
Quality System
Maintenance Management
Supply Chain Management
TPM
Minitab
TQM
FMEA
Manufacturing Operations
Iso 9000
Materials
Manufacturing Engineering
Supply Chain
Alloys
Kanban
Engineering Management
Toyota Production System
Management
Java
Joseph Knecht Summary
Joseph Knecht, based in Youngstown, OH, US, is currently a Owner and Consultant at Knecht ManTech & CI, LLC. Joseph Knecht brings experience from previous roles at VSMPO-Tirus, US, WCI Steel / Severstal Warren, Inc / RG Steel, LLC and Titanium Metals Corporation. Joseph Knecht holds a 2000 - 2002 Black Belt / Master Black Belt in Six Sigma @ Smarter Solutions, Inc. With a robust skill set that includes Continuous Improvement, Six Sigma, Steel, Titanium, Kaizen and more. Joseph Knecht has 1 emails and 2 mobile phone numbers on RocketReach.
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