Ross Garrette

Ross Garrette is a seasoned quality engineering supervisor at Altec, where management of multi-year projects has achieved over $2 million in annual productivity savings. Ross’s expertise includes optimizing critical plant assets, troubleshooting SigmaNEST software, and leading continuous improvement initiatives that resulted in substantial cost reductions. Previous roles include serving as a teaching assistant and mentor at Virginia Tech, a production engineering intern at Southeastern Container, and quality engineering co-op at Altec, where achievements included significant savings through Kaizen events. Ross also has experience in reliability engineering from AdvanSix. Education includes a Master of Business Administration from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech.