Manager, Production Maintenance
Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area
Manage 170+ hourly union employees and 20 salary employeesResponsible for $40MM annual budgetAccountable for 24/5 operations and weekend maintenanceMaintain 36 packaging complexes with robotic palletizers and AGVsAccountable for manufacturing goals in safety, quality, productivity and in compliance with governmental regulatory agencies, OSHA, FDA, EPAResponsible for outlining training needs of both salary and hourly workforceMember of facility leadership team and continuous improvement steering committee Member of equipment migration team responsible for spare parts and equipment removal and installation, PM optimization of the new equipment and spare parts rationalization as a result of the $27B merger/acquisition between Lorillard Tobacco, Reynolds American Tobacco, and Imperial Tobacco.Leader in installation of WCOM (World Class Operational Management)/TPM as a platform for Continuous Improvement (CI) working through and with people as our most valuable assets to achieve operational KPIs and financial expectations using lean tools to achieve: Waste reduction, Energy reduction, 6S, OEE improvement, PM and spare parts optimization and standard work/ OPLs, root cause analysisDrove results in all areas of the business: Safety leadership led to 0 recordable accidents in 2015 and 1 in 2016 which was a 200% improvement over any prior yearMaintenance teams worked to reduce quality defects in product and packaging resulting in a 25% reduction year over yearLed PM optimization teams that generated savings of $1M in spare parts and $200k savings in overtimeWorked with operations teammates to identify machine and training issues that were impacting our OEE resulting in an OEE improvement of 17% in 2014 and an additional 5% in 2015 prior to the merger.