Kelvin Watson Email & Phone Number

Petersburg, Virginia

• Maintain plant functions for all shifts and healthy relationships between general employees and upper management while leading high-performing department managers in day-to-day production. • Provide wide-ranging support to management staff to ensure deadlines and production amounts are met. • Proactively analyze operations on a continual basis to improve costs, quality, and service.• Direct and coordinate the activities as assigned to obtain optimum efficiency and economy of operations while also meeting production needs and requirements. • Ensure all sanitary, quality, and consistency requirements are met and participate in developing, implementing, and maintaining the Total Quality Management (TQM) process.• Actively participate in the capital expenditure requisitioning process, budgeting, and goal setting.• Ensure that required preventative maintenance is performed on all department equipment. • Oversee the shift support groups, including Security, Human Resources, quality systems, maintenance, distribution, and first aid to ensure good working relationships. • Plan, develop, and implement policies and the goals of subordinate supervisory personnel. • Confer with personnel and proactively review activity and operational reports to determine changes in programs or operations if required or as needed. • Ensure employees adhere to all company policies and rules regarding HACCP, GMP, and SOP.

• Led the strategic planning and execution of production schedule while managing and leading 5 high-performing department supervisors and 50+ associates.• Assisted the plant manager in planning the budget and labor goals for the plant and assumed the plant manager’s responsibilities in his absence. • Built and maintained an effective supervisory team, exercised exceptional leadership and communication skills, and ensured effective production teams and team building.• Analyzed operations on a continual basis to improve costs, quality, and service.• Actively participated and supported in managing the department's functions, including Production Scheduling, Purchasing, Shipping and Receiving, Area Sanitation, Heat Processing, and Product Chilling.• Assisted in the training and developing of all employees in area of responsibility, specifically Supervisors and Lead Persons.

• Controlled and managed the thermal cooking system, Thermix, from Armor Inox and wrote and implemented Standard Operational Procedures and Training plans.• Supervised and led a high-performing team of 10 or more associates through a commitment to training and development. • Maintained and proactively monitored the plant’s Critical Control Points (CCPs) and followed the HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) plan and procedure.• Ensured that the cooking and chilling of products met Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point plan requirements.