• Oversee a workforce of 100+ personnel in product and packing management; prioritize production needs through planning, assigning, and directing production work.• Lead performance measures to achieve a more skilled and flexible workforce while providing motivation, support and guidance to all employees to maintain a healthy workplace culture.• Establish workflow procedures that enhance speed and efficiency without compromising product safety or integrity. Manage and evaluate equipment and resources to ensure productivity and minimal downtime while working to reduce expenses and increase productivity across all product lines.• Estimate costs and follow budgets accordingly; implement cost reduction initiatives that increase efficiencies while maintaining quality standards.

• Manage a team of over 40 personnel in steam pasteurization, roasting, confectionery manufacturing and product packaging activities.• Leading performance measures through applying Lean+ techniques, retraining and cross training operators for a more skilled and flexible workforce and implementing a preventative maintenance program. Achieved an average of 57% increased efficiency on production lines.• Participate in redesigning roasting and packaging room layout and flow management to improve production throughput capacity. Implemented 7 new production lines, including 2 confectionary lines; ChewyBites and chocolate covered pistachios.• Manage production processes to enhance product quality and maximize efficiency by identifying opportunities for improvement and bottlenecks in the production processes and creating workable solutions.• Conduct internal audits to ensure that products meet grade and production standards and established processes are being followed. Ensure that supporting paperwork is maintained to help facilitate an audit ready environment while in production. • Organize and prioritize production needs through planning, assigning, and directing production work. Appraising staff performance; recognizing or disciplining employees, tracking staff attendance.

• Participated in Key Performance Indicator (KPI) execution planning for team and projects. Established and set plans with team; maintained and continuously improved direction, with emphasis in safety.• Oversaw and authorized budgetary expenses for department area and projects. Monitored accounts for budget adherence.• Directed team and department adherence to best practices through process audits and assessments, e.g. Material Handling Evaluation (MHE) Assessment: Quality Audit of System and Equipment.• Communicated system and equipment updates to department and critical areas.• Identified, coordinated, and set expectations of 10-20 mechanics and utility attendants to achieve desired results in reliability, productivity, teamwork, safety, quality, and job knowledge.• Collaborated across departments to identify opportunities to drive increased quality and performance; formulated and implemented solutions.• Produced and maintained shift and department reports. Built performance plans to address anomalies and performance improvements: Managed Preventative Maintenance and Corrective Maintenance in CMMS system.• Tracked and maintained department inventory par level though audits of cycle counts, process integrity, purchase orders, and usage tracking.

Almond Production Control, Manager• Oversaw, established and coordinated the production schedules in the Almond Production from hulled product to packaged goods. Ensured the flow of materials, parts and assemblies between or within departments.• Managed company inventory, assisted and expedited continuous improvement efforts in process management and production control. Managed supporting scheduling staff.• Applied Just-in-Time (JIT) methodology to control costs and inventory; Implemented Almond inventory management upgrade. $1 million first year saving, (2010).Roll Ex Project Leader• Acting Supervisory role for pistachio packaging department. Responsible for packaging lines being supplied and operating above minimum OEE levels. Facilitating Lean manufacturing projects in the packaging process. Managed 3 leads and 46 employees.• Supervisor of Bin Repair Department. Managed department personnel. Consolidated multiple shifts, retrained personnel with new operating procedures. Through Lean+, evaluated and upgraded operational equipment and processes. Implemented Production Board that included tracking OEE. Achieved $1.6 million cost avoidance.

• Assisted and expedited continuous improvement efforts in process management and related industrial certification efforts (e.g. AS9100).• Provided resolution assistance for internal and external organizational audit questions involving process and IT related discrepancies.• Researched, analyzed and implemented functionality improvements for the Operational processes and IT systems. Lead for three IT system Change Review Boards. • Co-Created and maintained organizational processes and product development process flows for System, Design, and Analysis engineering.• Formulated, communicated, and taught employee training and related frequently asked questions (FAQ).• Performed process integrity validation and data management analysis for multiple functions. Reviewed and analyzed change requests for impacts.• Conducted diversified activities involving collaboration, data mining, and research to propose business recommendations.