Charles Sargent

Leadership / Continuous Improvement/ Manufacturing Operations Mastery / Consumer Goods Packaging.

St Charles, Missouri, United States

About

Expertise in leading and directing large manufacturing sites with complex technologies and work processes. Consummate professional with tremendous experience managing large supply chain organizations including people, technical and cost/budget management.Strong results in all positions and all key factor areas - safety, quality, cost management, people development, customer service and overall Supply Chain Synchronization. Strong demonstrated eceipt experience leveraging TPM Methodologies to enable loss elimination and overall operational excellence. Visionary and accomplished supply chain and operations professional with a proven track record of delivering world-class manufacturing operations and leading end-to-end supply chain transformation in a fast-paced and complex global and multi-functional environment. Experience in fully leveraging state-of-the-art continuous improvement work processes and lean operational strategies to shape high performing cultures, accelerating revenue growth to propel organizations to be top tier in industry

Experience

  • Plant Manager at Campbell's
    Apr 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Plant Manager at 8th Avenue Food & Provisions
    Aug 2021 - Feb 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Senior Operations Manager at McCormick & Company
    Apr 2019 - Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Regional TPM Manager at Nestlé Waters North America
    Mar 2017 - Feb 2019 · 2 yrs

  • Procter & Gamble (15 yrs 4 mos)
    • Supply Chain Manager
      Aug 2013 - Feb 2017 · 3 yrs 7 mos

      Leader of the 3rd largest Supply Chain in Proctor & Gamble globally. Producing greater than 54 million stat units annually and delivering ~3 billion dollars in NOS (Net Outside Sales).I manage >130 people SC recognized as top tier in P&G manufacturing for operational excellence and End to End (E2E) Supply Chain Synchronization.

    • Operations Manager
      Aug 2008 - Aug 2013 · 5 yrs 1 mo

      Managing the Augusta LDL (PQCDSM). This includes production of 34 million cases of Dry Laundry Powder (Tide Cheer Era Gain) and 170kMT of activated surfactant paste per year. My organization included 78 people (70 technicians, 8 Managers). o Supply Chain Leadership Team Leader – Supply Chain Strategy Development and Deployment System Owner:  Lead the Supply Chain through development of Vision, Zero-Loss Journey, Compelling Business Need and action planning  Organized and facilitated the annual deployment  Lead the quarterly deployment to the Supply Chain o Lead North America Household Care GBU Centerline Systems o Improved all SQPCDM Metrics, including  0 Integrated Incident Rate (IRR)/Total Incident Rate (TIR) for 2 years  0 Significant Quality Incidents (SQI); via Process Control Strategy (PCS): 80% reduction in QI’s & holds, & 0% over-pack >$100M annualized savings, <600 ppm defects  % Process Reliability (PR) • Dry Laundry 86% PR with unplanned at 6% • DAFC 87% with PR with unplanned at 2% Processed Reliability  >$13MM Savings vs. $6MM (2X business request) via Loss Elimination/Productivity strategy  100% ISU; CFR >99.4%  >98% W&DPs & 100% TEO o Delivered Dry Laundry Compaction, largest 1-day national hard conversion for the company with $22MM Capital Spend; projected $90MM Net Present Value (NPV); set global standard for formula simplification and moved towards global equipment standardization. IWS Leader o Site RTT DDS DMS Owner o Site Autonomous Maintenance Leader (AM) o Developed plans and strategies to move the site from IWS Phase 2 to IWS Phase 3 o Trained, coached, and qualified the site on critical TPM/IWS methodologies Quality Assurance Capability Leader (QA) o Responsible for the overall QA status of the plant o Qualified on 19 QA key element systems o Trained, coached, and qualified the site on critical QA key element system

    • Surfactant Operations Manager
      Nov 2001 - Aug 2008 · 6 yrs 10 mos

      Managing the Kansas City LDL (PQCDSM). This includes production of 98 million metric tons of activated surfactant for the KC, Iowa City, and Lima, including packing and shipping of 30MM cases of Dawn Dish detergent. My organization includes 66 people (60 technicians, 2 Managers, and 4 lab analysts). o Responsible to deliver the Firm/Forecasted business results for Production, Quality, Cost, Delivery, Safety and Morale for the surfactant making supply chain. o Site Preventive Maintenance (PM) leader o Site Education and Training pillar leader o LDL Department Reliability leader o LDL Team Manager