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Independence, Oregon, United States

• Site leader overseeing all plant operations including production, warehouse, shipping and receiving,maintenance and office management; ensures compliance with federal and state regulations; monitorsand enforces quality.
• Establish short and long-term strategic operating objectives for the Scott’s Miracle-Gro plant inIndependence, OR.
• Direct, manage and develop managerial and supervisory personnel to ensure efficient and safeoperation of the plant.
• Establish, communicate, implement and enforce safety programs and procedures.
• Establish and monitor plant operating budget; prepares and analyzes profit and loss statements;identifies and implements improvements to positively affect profitability. Recommends purchase ofall capital equipment and.
• Identify all possible sources of raw material while monitoring quality and cost effectiveness;negotiate supplier and vendor contracts and ensure the quality of all purchased supplies and services.

Maricopa, Arizona, United States

• Responsible for overseeing plant operations and establishing short and long-term operating objectives to ensure we most effectively deliver customer orders on time and in full.
• Analyze production flows to plan and schedule weekly, monthly, and quarterly production in order to maximize efficiencies and reduce labor hours while meeting production targets.
• Coordinate and negotiate with outside suppliers and vendors to set up accounts with our facility in order to make strategic business decisions for the plant.
• Actively participate and coordinate in meetings with all of the Plant Managers in my region to provide assistance and support as needed to one another in order to ensure we all succeed in meeting customer demand and.
• Develop and present various presentations to the Plant Managers in our region to discuss facility successes, failures, best practices, needs, safety initiatives, etc. of my facility.
• Was asked by my Regional Vice President to travel to the Provo, Utah facility twice and the Independence, Oregon facility once this year to ensure our region focused all available resources to achieve our targets. My.

Waco, Texas, United States

• Responsible for managing all batching operations for the Gold Peak, Chilled Minute Maid, Aseptic Juice box, and Non-Carbonated Beverage departments.
• My highly skilled team of QA Technicians facilitate all batching operations that supply nine separate high-speed beverage production lines.
• Our team produces products such as Powerade, Vitamin Water, Gold Peak Tea, Minute Maid Juices, Hi-C, and many other brands.
• Coordinate with the national planning team to schedule the production plan to maximum line efficiency and ensure all customer orders are fulfilled complete and on time.
• Present weekly and monthly reports on our teams yield loss, actual versus goal, and cost savings on all production lines.
• Work with my team of 40 highly skilled associates to ensure all batching operations maintain excellent health and safety standards.

Waco, Texas, United States

• Responsible for leading daily production operations to achieve critical business objectives in a safe and efficient manner.
• Oversee and manage 100 employees across multiple shifts and departments, ensuring each department and shift is functioning cohesively as one team.
• Drive Continuous Improvement and Lean activities in order to achieve KPIs.
• Led initiative to decrease facility glue expense which resulted in a $75,573 savings per year for the company
• Led initiative to decrease heater cleaning downtime on the Burger King production line which lead to a daily reduction in heater cleaning time of 75% and returning 120 minutes of daily production time back to the line.
• Led initiative that increased the average cases per shift on the Variety Pack line by 18.85%

Dallas, Texas

• Responsible for supervising and coordinating the activities of production employees to complete the production goals within the parameters of safety, quality, efficiency, service time, and cost.
• Drive Continuous Improvement and Lean activities in order to achieve KPIs.
• Led lean initiative that reduced the direct labor headcount of the facility, streamlined processes, and saved the facility an average of $50,000 in labor each year while also decreasing the line rate by 11 seconds per.
• Responsible for the $3.2 Million dollar budget of the Anti-Reflective Department, monitoring all P&L statements for the department. Closed out the 2019 year $75,000 under budget allowing that money to go into new.
• Leads team of 32 associates across two separate shifts, ensuring team standardization between shifts. Sets team objectives to achieve safety, quality, and efficiency standards. Celebrates successes of the team in order.
• Inspect and monitor the performance of production lines to ensure that production requirements are met.

Dallas, Texas

• Supervise 32 associates across two shifts and three departments, ensuring efficient processing through the Luxottica Dallas Distribution Facility.
• Manage distribution center operations through leading the team to achieve operational success in each department.
• Organize and plan daily goals in order to direct the team to achieve long term success.
• Utilize SAP and LMS ERP systems in order to track daily operations and ensure supply chain service times were maintained across 5 separate warehouses and $22 Million in inventory.
• Managed international shipments to and from Italy, Canada, China, and Puerto Rico.
• Distributed to Lens Crafters, Target Optical, Sunglasses Hut, Oakley, Rayban, as well as many other customers across all fifty states, Puerto Rico, and Canada.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Meridian Laboratory is a full scale optical facility manufacturing 1400 eyeglasses daily.
• Duties included but not limited to daily receiving of frames and lenses, managing receipt of international shipments, supervising the proper launch of incoming orders, tracing and verifying the exact frame shape and.
• In my time with Meridian Laboratory, I was tasked with developing, planning, and managing the re-design of the laboratory’s inventory department. My team and I were able to develop a new system and operations flow that.

Duties include but not limited to the transport of trauma patients in the emergency room to STAT exams such as C.T. Scans, M.R.I.'s, and X-rays. In addition to this, I transported cancer patients too and from radiation therapy daily and transported standard in-house patients too and from Radiology.

Duties include but not limited to the rotation, balance, repair, and change of tires for customers. As well as, general upkeep of garage and showroom floor. Often dealing with customers one on one to solve each unique problem and serve every need.