Dave Kladivko, Mba Email & Phone Number

St. Joseph, Michigan

Athens Ga

Managed production team performance in a continuous production environment for a fiberglass insulation manufacturing division of Saint-Gobain. As Interim Manager, led a team of three supervisors, two maintenance engineers, and 34 hourly maintenance technicians. • Led production team in problem solving, troubleshooting and continuous improvement projects to improve process reliability and reduce process-caused downtime. • Used wireless camera systems to troubleshoot high frequency jam ups in two production line locations, and frequent transfer belt breakage in another location. Visual data led to modifications of equipment to reduce jam ups by 40%, and to implement a laser monitoring system to reduce the transfer belt breakage by 100%.• Spearheaded Reliability Pillar effort for World Class Manufacturing (WCM) for continuous improvement, with focused projects on highest downtime key equipment components, including twice-weekly detailed project audits. • Reduced critical bagger downtime on loose fill production line by 90% by implementing automatic alternate bagger changeover controls to allow for bagger repairs on the fly, sourcing an improved transfer belt, and implementing both AM and PM tasks.

Athens, Georgia Area

Managed a team of four shift managers, two process engineers, and 105 hourly production personnel to improve plant performance in the areas of safety, environmental impact, quality, service and efficiency. • Led plant as Acting Plant Manager for almost five months during time of high staff turnover (50% of plant management team), severe equipment and infrastructure unreliability, customer dissatisfaction and unprecedented two-week delays in finished goods availability. • Implemented temporary measures for equipment repair, increased maintenance and contractor support, on-shift support by process and project engineers on nights and weekends, and targeted production speed adjustments to improve manufacturing results and get the plant back on track.• Received a corporate personal performance award for commitment to leadership for this time.• In 2017, improved operational efficiency by 4.9%, improved production order compliance from 69% to 85% and increased recycled scrap production and sales by 171%, thereby reducing landfill needs by 1.4M pounds..

Bristol, Pa

Directed all aspects of operations of the remote manufacturing facility, including safety, quality, productivity, customer satisfaction, employee relations and bottom-line financial results for a quick-turn digital printing and converting facility.• Consistently delivered outstanding and personalized levels of service to customers, achieving 100% compliance with SLAs (Service Level Agreements).• Led plant team in the safe, efficient, cost effective and timely production of high-quality digital signage to meet all short-turnaround customer schedules. • Achieved 99.98% accuracy for weekly shipments of 2 million printed sheets of price stickers and signs.• Reduced labor hours per unit by 24% in first year through improved labor planning and control, planning and organization of workflow, training, implementation of multi-skilled workforce and process improvements. • Established 5S and Point Kaizens in manufacturing areas and used employee engagement to reorganize and streamline the workflow, and improve the housekeeping, safety and efficiency of the operation. Change for process improvement became ingrained in the operation.• Implemented total plant recycling initiative reducing landfill costs by 65% while generating modest recycling revenue.• Reduced printed waste by 80% in first year by identifying and displaying all waste streams, and focusing on reducing inadvertent double printing of files, printing on incorrect stock and defective printing.• Turned the plant from an inefficient, high cost operation into a clean, well-organized, cost-effective and efficient operation that excelled at execution, by focusing on procedures, employee development and team building, systems, training and continuous improvement. Prepared the plant for the addition of sixteen new pieces of production equipment, two new product lines, and multiple new high-profile customers. Deployed additional new product line and production equipment in 4Q 2014, and again in Q2 2015.

Led, trained, directed, coached and mentored teams within the Customer Service, Scheduling and Distribution departments in a commercial printing environment producing magazine, catalogs and retail inserts.

Promoted to lead the high-volume rotogravure printing pressroom producing 1 billion impressions annually within a 24/7 operating department – leading a team of 8 salaried supervisors and 209 hourly employees. Equipment included six KBA presses, with three of them being 3-meter presses.• Accountable for Safety, Quality, Cost-Control, Efficiency, Productivity, Customer Satisfaction, Employee Relations plus budget development / management and hiring and training.• Prepared documentation and procedures for ISO 9000 certification process. • Implemented 5S, SMED and LEAN programs, reducing machine changeover time from 5 hours to 3.5 hours and increasing paster completion rate from 82% to 96%.

Led the bindery operations with total management and leadership responsibility for 6 salaried supervisors and 160 hourly employees. Production equipment included two selective perfect binders, eight selective saddle stitchers with 3-station ink jet, two high speed ink jet mailers, three Kansa inserters, 2 Sitma polybaggers and quarter folders.• Fostered a sense of accountability within department through appropriate setting of expectations regarding standard operating procedures to eliminate spoilages.• Executed new work practices, procedures, and equipment, to reduce crew size on saddle stitchers, improving KPIs for cost-per-piece by up to 5% annually, allowing for increases in employee bonus payouts for three consecutive years. • Created detailed standardized bindery instruction format for Customer Service Department to utilize when issuing instructions to bindery department.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Industrial Engineering

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Marketing