Implement process improvements; manage projects, control inventory, plan and schedule work, address customer complaints, and resolve daily management issues to enhance organizational efficiency. Manage and procure raw materials and finished goods with domestic and international suppliers, qualify domestic and international vendors, and direct the supply chain. Verify appropriate level of accountability for facility goals and objectives is established and maintained. Support new product development, update and maintain product and equipment, and source and qualify new equipment. Perform purchasing, research and development, quality, and other company functions. Conduct time studies to ensure processes and equipment are running efficiently, and labor is distributed evenly. ● Provide employee coaching and development to achieve a well cross-trained crew of 65 employees.● Schedule associates to achieve uninterrupted work flow and increase production efficiency by 34%. ● Consolidate and analyze production metrics to maintain or improve productivity by 26%, control costs, and reduce waste by 42% in some instances. ● Plan, organize and schedule timely deliveries to customers to ensure customer satisfaction ratings of 97%. ● As acting Human Resources manager provided personnel with training and safety programs to increase retention.● Constantly improve processes according to Lean manufacturing and Kaizen principles to boost productivity.

● Oversaw 29 packaging lines and 145 employees, most of them temps, as operations supervisor. ● Created team to improve efficiency on a cereal line from 37.3% to 116% in a three-month period.● Developed 6 training programs and 17 manuals to increase staff knowledge base and output by 17%. ● Worked with safety manager to develop lock-out, tag-out program to increase plant safety by 6%. ● Worked with Elite onsite to develop attendance program, and implemented spreadsheet to track operator and group leader performance output and quality.

● Started as a general laborer and worked up to production supervisor, Occasionally filling in for the department Superintendent and plant Superintendent overseeing 30 pieces of equipment and 17 to 40 employees, some of them temps. ● Directed safety, quality, scheduling, maintenance, and inventory management to boost operational efficiency. ● Reduced mineral oil usage by 30% by implementing the use of high quality needle valves and training. ● Reduced C-fold film usage by 22% by introducing a new style of seal jaws for the packaging baggers.● Filled in on the cartoning side of the building, directing production, quality, safety and crews for the McGuckin & Pyle formers as well as the Heiber Schroder formers.