David Canfield Email & Phone Number

Concord, Nc, Us

Matthews, Nc, Us

Union Grove, Wi, Us

Union Grove, Wi, Us

• Direct day-to-day operations for 90 person facility with responsibility for employee healthcare selections, budgets, P&L, and inventory cost• Partner with sales department team providing expertise on market targets, pricing, and sales• Develop client relationships with regular face-to-face contact helping connect the dots from sales to operations with our clients• Developed apprentice program that produced cross-functional training• Increase efficiency of rubber coating side setups using Kaizen principles• Increase employee moral providing coaching, mentoring, and support in production

• Directed day-to-day operations with 95 direct reports and six sales engineers generating $1.5 million in additional new revenue• Coordinated and authored several marketing pieces that were published in “Paper Industry” magazine • Developed content and launched a new company website that gives a comprehensive overview of CBM• Partnered with sales staff on marketing strategies increasing CBM’s customer base by 40% • Contributed and executed sales business plan impacting revenue from $6 million to $12 million in five years• Collaborated with the Plant Manager in creating and coordinating a scheduling process that yielded a 95% on-time delivery• Implemented lean manufacturing principals driving cost reduction measures to improve the bottom line

• Interfaced with field sales engineers on technical issues for customers located throughout the south and Mid-Atlantic• Troubleshoot operational problems with roll process in paper and textiles • Assisted sales engineers to target new business through a customer satisfaction and technical protocol• Developed marketing strategies and business plans to enhance market presence• Reduced in-process rejects, increase throughput, and rewrote ISO standards• Managed improvements to process equipment, such as calendars, cold feed extruders, lathes and grinders