William Frantz

Plant Manager

Avondale, Pennsylvania, United States

About

Experienced Maintenance/Production Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the chemicals industry. Strong operations professional skilled in Coaching, Team Building, Six Sigma, Root Cause Analysis, and Manufacturing. Proactive and energetic manager leveraging unique background in operations and maintenance to drive business goals. Adept at combining technical and people management skills to build strong teams. Effective in driving change by engaging staff to meet operational objectives. Expertise in: Preventive Maintenance | Six Sigma Green Belt | Work Management Process (WMP) Change Agent | Team Development | Production Planning [email protected]

Experience

  • The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (Full-time · 7 yrs 6 mos)
    • Plant Manager
      Jan 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

    • Production Supervisor
      Feb 2019 - Jan 2022 · 3 yrs

      Manage day to day operations, includes production, safety, maintenance, and shipping.

  • Warehouse Manager / Maintenance Systems Specialist at DuPont
    2015 - 2018 · 3 yrs

    Drive improvements in work management process. Manage MRO inventory of ~$1.3MM. Oversee maintenance planning and provide leadership and direction for warehouse personnel (11 total). • Built inventory for new MRO warehouse, reducing sub-stores and associated inventory. • Implemented reorder points, ensuring continuous operation with optimized inventory. • Improved daily start-up meeting for efficient operation, increasing wrench time by 10%.

  • Maintenance Systems Specialist / Planning Manager at The Chemours Company
    2013 - 2015 · 2 yrs

    Executed overall maintenance improvements, including use of kitting and daily instructions. Established work management processes of planning efficiency, schedule efficiency, and meetings to drive metrics. • Increased contractor maintenance efficiency from 66% to 81% by implementing daily meetings and schedule efficiency metric. • Served as store’s champion, reducing slow-moving inventory by establishing periodic review.

  • Maintenance Team Manager / Planning and Scheduling Manager at DuPont
    2009 - 2012 · 3 yrs

    Managed 25 skilled trade technicians to maintain manufacturing site. Led implementation of work management processes. Trained all skilled trades in CMMS system. • Enhanced work management processes by implementing time confirmation, work history, compliance to schedule, and preventive / predictive maintenance completion. • Led effort which increased percent planned work from 20% to 50% by collaborating with operations, engineering, and maintenance.

  • Maintenance Planner at DuPont
    2005 - 2008 · 3 yrs

    Planned and scheduled maintenance jobs for 28 skilled trades for paint manufacturing site. Educated manufacturing on inefficiencies of break-in work. • Served as part of maintenance leadership team that helped reduce area cost from $10.5MM in 2000 to $7.6MM in 2006. • Increased percent planned jobs, reducing break-in work from 56% to 18%.