Summary: I have several years of diversified manufacturing experience in food & dairy manufacturing, such as bread, bun, cakes, pies, donuts, aseptic dairy, ESL dairy, ice cream mixes, candy and confectionary manufacturing. I've managed both union and non-union facilities. From high speed to hand operated plant operations with responsibilities ranging from supervision, assistant engineer, through senior management. I am trained to be a LEEN instructor and Six Sigma Green belt certified. Skilled in design and implementation of capital planning, preventative maintenance programs, employee involvement programs, process controls, sanitation procedures, and continuous operation. I believe that business costs and operating efficiencies can be continuously improved only by engaging and empowering the work force. Watching people grow is so rewarding. I actively encourage team building and a participative management style, while utilizing LEAN / Six Sigma manufacturing techniques. I have worked with Auditing bodies such as AIB, SQF, BRC, & govt. auditors. * that produced bread and buns. The plant had not met budgetary goals for 3 years in a row. We improved it to where we exceeded budget by $1MM after the first year. This was accomplished by using the same team. We accomplished this with a business approach, which incorporated an aggressive mentoring and team based focus. I was then assigned to the Decatur plant where we turned the plant around by carefully analyzing all aspects of the P&L including but not limited to the following: Labor, spending, line efficiencies. While NEVER compromising on product quality, and customer satisfaction. * Took Lubbock plant from an overall plant ranking of 34th to 2nd out of 39 plants. The Decatur plant achieved overall plant ranking of 6th from 36th both within the first year of managing the plants. This was accomplished by significantly improving overall plant KPI performance in the following areas: Quality, OEE, Overuse, CVS, PPLH, Delivery, and Environmental. * Lead a team of 5 department heads, 16 supervisors, and 178 Hourly (162 union, 16 non-union), with a strong focus on team building and employee engagement. * Lowered safety DART rate of 2.24 prior years to .42, and achieved lost time to Zero for a year and won National Plant Safety award along with 2 other awards for the company in Lubbock. Worked with Union Leaders and was able to reduce head count by 20% while improving quality and maintaining AOP productivity levels. Responsible for Responsible for managing manufacturing and distribution results through control of operations, planning and technical resources to ensure service, cost and quality objectives are met in a large union bread and bun plant. * Responsible for the selection, staffing and development processes to ensure performance objectives were met. * Staff: 4 department Managers, 16 Supervisors, 260 Hourly (242 union, 18 non-union) * Improved Operational performance in the following areas: Quality, cost per/lb., lbs. Per labor hr., overuse managing all aspects of a manufacturing maintenance department of 9 processing lines which include frozen pies cakes fresh baked goods and laminated products. These items were ran on highly automated high speed PLC driven equipment such as blast freezers ovens depositors mixers batching systems and packaging systems. Within a plant of 1200 employees. * Developed a comprehensive electrical training program throughout the maintenance department which led to the team creating an electrical competition within the plant. * Managed parts budget in excess of $1MM and slashed parts room inventory that was recognized in MRO magazine. * Managed projects including installation of two additional process lines while working with engineering.

Highlights:

• Budgetary
• CVS
• Scheduling
• Troubleshooting
• Budgeting
• Capacity Planning
• Capital Budgeting
• Distribution
• Planning
• Hub