Auteur: Anthony Manos

Chad Vincent is a lean manufacturing specialist and corporate operational excellence team member with Greif, Inc. in St. Louis, Missouri, where he provides professional guidance, facilitates implementation, and coaches and trains personnel at manufacturing facilities on lean enterprise and operational excellence. Prior to Greif, he worked as a quality engineer in the medical device field and as a project engineer in the construction industry; he also has worked in management in the logistics and transportation industry. Chad has served as a senior lead examiner and judge for the Governor’s Quality Award (Arkansas’ equivalent of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award) and is past president of the Leadership Arkansas Alumni Association Board of Directors. Chad is an advocate for ASQ’s Socially Responsible Organization (SRO) Initiative and a member of SME’s Lean to Green Committee. He has written articles, such as “Back in Circulation” for Quality Progress, on the utilizing of lean to achieve socially responsible and environmentally favorable results within organizations and on defining the 8 Green Wastes for environment, health, and safety (EHS) professionals to apply lean in their areas of expertise. He is a voting member of the US Technical Advisory Group (TAG) for the ISO 26000 Guidance for Social Responsibility. Chad earned a BS in engineering management, specializing in quality engineering, from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, in Rolla, Missouri He is a senior member of ASQ and SME, and is currently the ASQ Lean Enterprise treasurer and serves on the SME/AME/Shingo/ASQ Lean Certification Oversight and Appeals Committee. Chad is a CQE, CRE, CMQ/OE, and CSSBB, and he is Lean Bronze Certified.