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Foxborough, Massachusetts, US

Waltham, MA, US

• Responsible for the Engineering and Maintenance stream for a 24/7 union chemical manufacturing facility across 10 acres producing 3.5M gallons a year of biotech, distilled HPLC, and LCMS solvents solvent blends for.
• Manage a team of 6 Engineers and 4 Mechanics, accountable for developing strategies to drive productivity, reliability, CAPEX deployment, and ensure continuous development across networks, reporting to the Director.
• Established key 5 year strategic plan with projects in all VSM to reduce downtime/barriers to execution based on Operational losses and AOP growth data.
• Created and deployed a site reliability and TPM strategy improving equipment reliability from 50% to 96%+
• Led Kaizen to make engineering upgrades to double current Distillation capability and cost savings of $1.1M and executed 160 improvement ideas in timespan of 7 months

Waltham, MA, US

• Responsible for the Laboratory Chemicals and Biotech Value stream for a 5/24 union chemical manufacturing facility across 15 acres producing 2.5M gallons a year of biotech, distilled HPLC, and LCMS solvents and solvent.
• Lead a team of 14 Supervisors and Engineers and 120+ indirect operational employees, accountable for a $5M budget and developing strategies to drive productivity, minimize costs, and ensure continuous development.
• Oversaw efforts during the pandemic, ensuring minimal disruptions to a COVID-critical area of the business by enacting new policies and safety protocols and measures, ensuring distribution of COVID-Critical chemicals.
• Collaborated with quality, supply chain, warehouse, engineering, and maintenance to provide the team with matrix guidance to deliver annual P&L goals.
• Accountable for adhering to all regulatory guidelines, including PSM, FDA, ISO 9001, DEA, EPA, GMP, and OSHA Standards.
• Participated in the S&OP process for 5000 SKU portfolio to manage inventory levels and improve overall product service levels to 95%.

Wilmington, DE, US

• Led the Diamines process within a multi-business site operation of DuPont™ Neoprene and PPDA, a Kevlar® intermediate producing 27M lbs annually across a 100 acre three 5-story building chemical process.
• Supervised 6 direct supervisors and engineers, and indirect 50+ non-union employees, in a complex automated chemical processing plant collaborating with quality, warehouse, engineering, and maintenance.
• Developed strategy deployment with the Operations and business leadership team to drive operations, engagement, operational discipline, and other business plans.
• Improved team effectiveness and productivity using Six Sigma, Kaizen, Visual Control Boards, Group Problem Solving, root cause analysis (RCA), and personnel engagement.
• Coordinated and enabled major incident investigations in safety, environmental, customer complaints, and quality to defining corrective and preventive actions being recognized for outstanding safety performance.
• Serve as Area Lead for ensuring regulatory compliance with PSM High Hazard, ISO 14001, EPA, GMP, and OSHA.

Wilmington, DE, US

• Provided operational leadership for a 10-acre manufacturing complex producing 3,300MT of formulated enzymes and emulsifiers for the food and bakery industries, ensuring production, safety, and quality performance goals.
• Accountable for a $2M budget and responsible for leading a team of 2 Shift Supervisors and 30 non-union team members providing strategic direction for all aspects of a manufacturing unit collaborating with quality.
• Accountable for meeting business metrics, including cost, quality, and production goals, setting expectations, and establishing a strong safety culture for the unit.
• Implemented lean manufacturing/Kaizen process to improve building resource utilization and utilized resources to improve production business metrics.
• Managed the compliance and maintained related documentation of both buildings with FDA, GMP, HACCP, PSM, OSHA, and other federal and state regulations.
• Interacted regularly with business leadership and supply chain management to determine operational needs.

Wilmington, DE, US

• Coordinated day-to-day activities to meet goals for safety, quality, and productivity for high hazard refrigerant manufacturing plant producing 1M tonnes of product across 2 large chemical plants and 150 acres.
• Managed 40 direct reports (union) to meet delivery-to-promise goals for 8 domestic and export products ensuring safety, quality, and productivity goals are met and compliance with PSM High Hazard, ISO 14001, EPA, and.
• Participated in Supply Chain & DIBM processes to define production goals and customer needs, communicate required transitions & major outages, and maintain a minimum raw material inventory.
• Coordinated periodic & physical inventory validation to perpetual SAP R3 inventory records while solving discrepancies and performing root cause analysis.
• Worked directly with maintenance to ensure that equipment repairs and annual inspections are identified, scheduled, and completed on time through Work Management Process.
• Applied Lean, Six Sigma, and DPS tools established systems to improve and monitor KPIs, including Uptime, Quality, BOM, delivery-to-promise, and cycle count metrics to meet business needs and improve customer.

Wilmington, DE, US

• Championed the site's transformation in conjunction with the Plant Manager and Site Staff, focusing on a line-led transformation driving continuous improvement systems to improve Safety, Productivity, and Delivery.
• Provided coaching, training, and support to site leadership and shop floor to ensure progress and sustainability in DPS, monitoring all projects generated to enable cost savings tracking and task prioritizing.
• Facilitated Leadership Capability Modules for the leadership team, including extensive follow-up and coaching on the homework associated with each module.
• Coordinated the delivery of the TRACC Safety Module and Assessment for the site in alignment with the Global Integrated Operations: SHE Deliverables.
• Led the effort to provide a strategic plan for the site to reduce its gap between World-Class performance in key metrics and established improvement projects worth $ 22 million at LaPorte and Mobile Site to achieve.
• Managed and led through influence the Area Steering Team and 3 Implementation Task Force’s by developing strategies and implementation plans that delivered stabilize and awareness stage in foundational practices in.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Science - Ms, Engineering Management

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechanical Engineering