Christopher Biedermann Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

• In-sourced new blisterforming/thermoforming production line which will produce ~50% of site volume with estimated cost savings of $6MM/year - Delivered 1 month early for additional cost savings• Leading team selection, area assignments, and training plans for incoming technicians• Multiple trips to vendors to accept or reject incoming equipment through induced failure testing and reliability engineering• Summer Intern Coordinator – organized summer internship program; coached and delivered critical feedback to summer interns• Developed DDS (Daily Direction Setting) tool for tracking and reporting results – now used across the site; developed multiple VBA tools for analyzing process reliability results• Leveraging Design of Experiments (DOX) and other Statistical Process Control (SPC) tools to eliminate losses

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

• Managed production results and schedule of bottling (liquids) production line. Presented and reviewed results daily with Operations Manager and Plant Manager along with action plan to operate at target; periodically reviewed results with Director during plant visits• First line to lead all teams in next phase progression of Autonomous Maintenance program• Managed teams and performance reviews of 15 production line technicians. Production line ran 24 hours/day, 5 days/week. Served as primary contact for any mechanical or personnel issues• Reduced unplanned downtime from 13% to < 8%. Cost savings valued at $55,000 over 2 months• Reached or exceeded changeover target time at 86% rate - increased from 50%• 0 recordable safety or quality incidents among teams during tenure

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

• Owned (and currently own) site Centerline DMS (Daily Management System), results, and tracking • Qualified in Loss Elimination work process and conducted training sessions to assist in onboarding new hires• Stops reduction effort (19 → 14 unplanned constraint stops/day). Cost savings valued at $30,000 over 3 months• Qualified to validate in FDA/GMP compliant environment

Summer Intern in 2013, 2014, and 2015