Tom Bastian

On-boarding and Process Improvement Manager at Cooper-Booth Wholesale Company

Mountville, Pennsylvania, United States

About

I have spent my carreer in manufacturing and have held many different roles including apprentice machine operator, manufacturing supervisor, process engineer, group continuous improvement manager and operations manager. I have extensive training in continuous improvement initiatives and I'm a certified trainer and process auditor. I've been trained in Green Belt methodolgy and I enjoy working with people at all levels to improve processes in both manufacturing anf transactional environments. I have trained over 75 teams in various process improvement methodologies within RR Donnelley/Banta alone and have also done training and auditing overseas in China and England. I am a process focused professional that strives to get all the right infromation needed to the right people so that a process is as efficient and customer satisfying as possible.

Experience

  • Process Manager at Cooper-Booth Wholesale Company
    Jul 2015 - Present · 11 yrs

    I work with all levels of the organization to identify and facilitate process improvements and capabilities.

  • Plant Supervisor at RotaDyne Roller Group
    Sep 2010 - Jul 2015 · 4 yrs 11 mos

    Manage production, inventory, customer inquiries and quality

  • Process and Quality Manager at Standard Register
    Jun 2007 - Jun 2009 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Maintain quality levels to engineering standards, calibrate and maintain testing equipment, implement process improvement, customer education

  • Supervisr/Operations Manager at Banta/RR Donnelley
    Feb 1998 - Jun 2007 · 9 yrs 5 mos

    Production, staffing, shipping, quality, process improvement and inventory