Matthew Wells Named Starrett Director of Operations

Matthew Wells has been named director of operations and continuous improvement at the L.S. Starrett Co. Photo Credit: The L.S. Starrett Co.

The L.S. Starrett Co. has appointed Matthew Wells its director of operations and continuous improvement. In this new position, Wells is responsible for production, planning, production control and purchasing, inventory management, warehouse and shipping, quality, manufacturing engineering, facility, ehs, maintenance and continuous improvement.

The company says Wells will report directly to Emerson Leme, vice president, Starrett Industrial Products, North America. “We are very pleased to have Matt join the Starrett team,” Leme says. “He brings to Starrett a broad range of manufacturing and production expertise that will be vital for the company’s operations.”

Wells is a western Massachusetts native and has over 25 years of manufacturing experience in the U.S. and Canada, including experience with Toyota Production Systems, Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma during his tenure at a Toyota motor manufacturing company and The Schaeffler Bearing Group, among other manufacturing enterprises. He has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA, both earned at Western New England University. He resides with his family in central Massachusetts.

He will be based at Starrett headquarters in Athol, Massachusetts. Starrett is a global manufacturer of precision measuring tools and gages, metrology systems and more.