Dennis Zink Email & Phone Number

Hollidaysburg, PA

I am the Global Product Manager - Filter Presses on McLanahan's Global Product Management and Development Team, focused on helping customers evaluate and define equipment solutions in their product and waste material processing streams. I have knowledge and experience with solid/liquid separation and mixing equipment including: concrete reclaimer/washout.

Hollidaysburg, PA

Providing dewatering and filtration sales/engineering services to the pulp, paper, aggregate and mining industries.

Managed Quality Assurance, Process Engineering and Environmental EngineeringResponsibilities: Product specifications, customer satisfaction, new product development, process optimization, department budgets, cost reduction and environmental compliance.Accomplishments: +40% customer complaint improvement, +$2MM annual cost reduction, developed/introduced.

Managed New Product Development TeamResponsibilities: Defining customer requirements, establishing new product specifications, defining/establishing new manufacturing capabilities and business development strategic planning.Accomplishments: Developed and introduced new domestic and international security document paper products, developed in-house.

Managed Manufacturing OperationResponsibilities: Managing manufacturing supervision and Technical area staff, manufacturing paper products to meet customer specifications and delivery requirements, maintenance shut down planning/execution, safety improvement, department budgets, manufacturing cost reduction and labor/management relations.Accomplishments.

Managed Process Engineering, Quality Assurance and Customer Support groupsResponsibilities: New product development and commercialization, existing product family redesign and commercialization, customer satisfaction, department budgets and supervisory training.Accomplishments: +25% customer complaint improvement, initiated Spring Mill product development.

Lead Manufacturing Engineer on $15 Million PM upgrade projectResponsibilities: Defining manufacturing capability requirements, approving new equipment specifications, selecting new equipment, developing training materials, coordinating training, initial start-up coordination of new equipment and manufacturing optimization.Accomplishments: Successfully.

Managed the Paper Making OperationsResponsibilities: Operations supervision, meeting customer specification and delivery requirements, maintenance shutdown planning/execution, safety improvements, and department budgets. Accomplishments: +33% paper machine output, +45% customer complaint improvement, assisted in successful negotiation of two union.

Held Shift Supervisor, Assistant Superintendent and Superintendent positions.Responsibilities: Pulping operation supervision, pulping operations maintenance shutdown planning/execution, safety improvements, raw material trials, department budgets, operation cost optimization and pulp quality improvements.