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Carbondale, Il, Us

United States

Carbondale, Illinois

St. Charles, Missouri

Reported to President and CEO; Member of Business Unit Executive Team. Accountable for Operations, Global EH&S, Global Engineering, Global Quality Assurance, Food Safety, and Quality Control functions for manufacturing at 2 food processing factories in the U.S. Matrix responsibilities for functions at 3 food processing factories outside the U.S.

St. Charles, Missouri

Accountable for Operations, Procurement, EH&S, Quality Control, and Continuous Improvement functions, including full P&L responsibility for North American operations and associated capital projects.Reported to President and CEO; member of the Executive Team.Served on the Executive Team during acquisition and successful merger of former competitor, including integration of workforce and production at facility that later successfully obtained its first AIB Food Safety “Excellent” Certification.Sponsored and introduced Lean Six Sigma continuous improvement methodology.

O'Fallon, Missouri

Led operations team to deliver product, meeting demand and customer service expectations. Successfully obtained facility’s first AIB Food Safety “Superior” Certification.

O'Fallon, Missouri

HR oversight for multiple facilities within the Ensign-Bickford Industries family of companies, including employee relations, recruiting, safety, workers’ compensation, employee benefits, performance management, talent development, and payroll.

Implemented early return-to-work program and successfully managed all aspects of workers’ compensation and safety activity, including medical management, legal coordination, reserve setting, and legal settlement.Managed employee relations, safety and workers’ compensation throughout a 1,300 union (IAM) employee facility involved in the manufacturing of household washers and dryers.

Responsible for human resources and labor relations activities on second shift. Supervised and managed plant wide safety activities.

Developed and implemented Environmental Health & Safety Involvement Process. Implemented self-directed safety teams addressing ergonomics, personal protective equipment, accident investigation, and at-home safety/wellness; teams consisted of hourly employees and were facilitated by manufacturing supervisors.Developed and implemented an ergonomics improvement program focusing on workstation analysis, hazard prevention and control, early medical management, and training. Managed and coordinated Behavior Based Safety program implementation utilizing Behavioral Science Technologies (BST) Behavioral Accident Prevention Process (BAPP). Developed and facilitated plant wide industrial hygiene sampling strategy.

Responsible for the safety and health of 400 union (Steel Workers) employees involved in research and development, production, and ballistics testing of medium and large caliber ammunition. Served as facility industrial hygienist.

Executive Mba

Master Of Science - Ms, Occupational Safety And Health

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Occupational Safety And Health