Keith Bragg Email & Phone Number

United States

• Leading manufacturer of high quality and sustainable pulp, packaging and paper products.Director of Order ManagementLead three mill facility teams in developing and implementing enterprise-wide Standard Operating.
• Established and Implemented safety procedures for all areas of shipping and PIT usage
• Led cross-functional facility team through successful warehouse re-organization, resulting in improved daily operations, efficiency improvements and inventory improvements.
• Successfully implemented standardization of machine scheduling at both manufacturing facilities. Resulted in reductions in both processing time and trim waste.
• Achieved $260,000 in savings by utilizing Lean Six Sigma tools along with personal knowledge and experience in packaging materials and load securement materials.
• Established a Transit Damage Manager to the Quality Team in 2023 to reduce number of overall claims by 25% for a $310,000 savings.

Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States

• Manufacturer and distributor of food packaging and foodservice products.PS&D Business Unit Manager Managed 82 hourly employees and 10 salaried employees including all logistics needs for a one-machine facility.
• Safely managed through a reduction of 1 machine CGW shutdown in 2021 and reduced head count by 30% to current level safely and efficiently. Resulted in cost savings of $900,000.
• Achieved Zero OSHA recordable injuries for 770 days by identifying process and people deficiencies.
• Reduced costs utilizing Lean Six Sigma tools along with personal knowledge and experience of packaging materials, load securement materials & damage prevention. of $4.2MM
• Used Yellow Belt Project to identify and implement process change to finished products inventory losses that resulted in $750,000 annual inventory write-offs.
• Utilized RCFA process to identify failures and improved wrapper availability from a low of 85% in 2018 to current availability of 95%

Baileyville, ME

• Logistics ManagerManaged team of 25 employees responsible for logistic needs of a 2-machine facility, producing on average 1100 of tissue tons per day, in addition to 1 pulp dryer producing 400+- tons per day. Also.
• Managed three major types of transportation (international transportation, rail transportation, and trucking transportation).
• Managed machine scheduling for 2 tissue machines, inventory control of 11 outside warehouses, in addition to on-site inventory control.
• Established processes, and accountability to substantially improve our safety performance
• Increased asset carrier base from 3 to 10. Implemented our own brokerage program to take advantage of swings in capacity issues. Utilized this model which reduced transportation costs by $600.00 per load.

Escanaba, MI - Jay, ME

• Managed 82 hourly employees and 9 salaried employees handling all logistics needs for a 4-machine facility including 1 pulp dryer, producing on average 2,200 tons per day.
• Established processes and set expectations and accountabilities resulting in over 634 days without OSHA recordable event along with 314 days without an event or accident.
• Reduced transit damage by $1.85 per ton from 2015 to 2018. Total savings of $1MM.
• Successfully managed through a reduction of 2 machines and a pulp dryer shutdown in 2015, reducing head count by 30% safely and efficiently.
• Oversaw machine scheduling of 4 machine systems, in addition to overseeing and implementing inventory controls of 8 outside warehouses.

Bucksport, Maine, United States

• Managed 26 hourly employees and 3 salaried employees in addressing logistics needs for a 3-machine facility producing on average 1,200 tons per day.
• Achieved safety milestones in 2012, 2013, and 2014, reducing FA & OSHA recordable instances every year until the facility closure.
• 750K Reduction in Finishing and Load Securement materials.
• 45% overtime reduction year over year. Using Six Sigma tools to accomplish.
• Led efforts to swing facility from primarily rail to 60% truck without capital or increasing facility footprint changes.

Bucksport, Maine, United States