Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area
Over eighteen years of demonstrated success leading teams in large-scale food product manufacturing and supply chain, developing team members and delivering sustainable results while coordinating between operations, maintenance, logistics, quality, and plant support teams. Passionate about team development, employee safety, reliable manufacturing, and sustainable improvement. Constantly working to drive company growth through high employee engagement, yielding improved production efficiency and sustainable improvement initiatives through team growth. My core competencies include: - Team Leadership, Coaching, and Development - Operational Excellence - Preventative Maintenance Strategy - Continuous Improvement / Lean Manufacturing - Process Creation and Implementation
Established process standards, technical understanding, and improvement priorities of Lebanon Plant, engaging with non-union employees within Production, Maintenance, Quality, Shipping/Receiving, Production Planning, and Human Resource departments to deliver against business targets.
Established strategic and tactical priorities of Elwood Plant, engaging with 385 non-union employees within Production, Packaging, Maintenance, Quality, Shipping/Receiving, Accounting, Materials Planning, and Human Resource departments to deliver annual production of 22.5 million cases across eight production systems.
Responsible for strategic and tactical priorities for annual production in Reddi Wip department across two high-speed production lines converting raw materials to finished saleable goods (processing & packaging), including team leaders, engineers, maintenance planners, union wage operators and mechanics, & supporting Supply Chain, Engineering, & Quality staff.
Manufacturing Manager, Cereal and Snacks Department Created and executed strategies to deliver sustainable results against plant and corporate executional targets, including the consolidation of work systems as production reduced and the decommissioning of systems in the final two phases of plant closure.
Manufacturing Manager, Meals Department Created and executed strategies against plant and corporate executional targets, including executing the consolidation of systems as production reduced and the decommissioning of systems in the first phase of plant closure.
Technical Coordinator, Cereal and Snacks Department Lead development and tactical direction for salary direct reports, salary support team, and union wage employees on processing and packaging systems converting raw materials into finished good boxed cereals and snack products.