David Beets Email & Phone Number

Louisville, Ky, Us

Spartanburg, South Carolina, Us

• Drive site culture with focus on behavioral and process safety at the Owensboro Hickory site• Led HSE Initiatives to gain RC 14001certification at site, and maintain ISO 9001 compliance • Led site management team of 12 personnel with leadership of 40+ total site employees • Successful negotiation of 2023 Union labor contract without an interruption in labor at the Owensboro Hickory site• Coordinate with corporate sales and finance teams to develop budgets and plan for S& OP• Implemented metrics to track productivity at the site to drive continuous improvement • Develop root cause analysis processes at site to improve uptime and develop road map to improve mechanical integrity and reliability of units • Led the development of key personnel to address gaps identified by internal and external audits• Led key initiatives to come into PSM compliance at Hickory Site• Led key projects at the site level that have added new production volume to site with additional projects in pipeline that have potential to add additional volume to 2025 S&OP• Have developed and executed capital projects to site to improve future site safety, efficiency, and viability

Brussels, Be

• Manage plant operations activities and personnel• Lead production team of union hourly employees and operations engineers• Coordinate with planning and logistics to regularly produce quality product on time to the customer• Balance maintenance needs with production schedule as maintenance gatekeeper • Integral member of Plant leadership Team for Willow Island site• Developing strategy to meet necessary OEE for individual units• MOC approver for MOC’s within the production areas • Utilize continuous improvement experiences to make value added decisions for production areas• Ensure all personnel are properly trained for production roles and responsibilities• Lead a safety conscious workforce to maintain OSHA VPP site status

Cleveland, Oh, Us

• Managed plant operations activities including the supervision of hourly employees• Develop KPI’s for plant metrics• Developed OEE calculation for plant evaluation• Wrote and managed all capital projects (0-$1MM)• Developed MOC’s for PSM and non-PSM operations• Apply six sigma principles to aid continuous improvement efforts• Led Mill Media Management program at Louisville Milling facility• Integral part of Problem Batch Root Cause teams and Consumer Complaints teams• Worked with R&D department to scale up new formula’s to operations• Oversee plant closure and decommissioning process for Louisville facility

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

• Lead 20 direct report operators in safely producing quality product• Manage all aspects of direct supervision of operators including payroll, reviews, and disciplinary actions• Review batch production records upon completion• Investigate material usage variances• Troubleshoot day to day production issues• Institute changes to limit documentation issues • SQF process experience in FDA regulated products• Pharma, Food, and Industrial products production• Lean Daily Management certification

Wilmington, Delaware, Us

• Capital Project Management• Management of Change • Cause Mapping Certification• Batch Process Troubleshooting • Minitab & Microsoft Project Experience • Six Sigma Green Belt Training• Lean and Six Sigma Methods• Total Preventive Maintenance (TPM)• Root Cause Analysis• ISO 9000 and cGMP Process Experience• Job Safety Analysis

Us

• Basic office clerical duties• Daily batch packet and energy usage reviews• Energy and housekeeping audits• Equipment efficiency reviews• Process Reliability Improvement (PRI) assistant

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Chemical Engineering

Chemical Engineering