Leonard Caplan Email & Phone Number

Hendersonville, Nc, Us

Irvington, New York, Us

Concord, Ma, Us

Orrville, Ohio, Us

Orrville, Ohio, Us

Meadville, Pennsylvania, Us

Elwood, Indiana, Us

As the Production Manager for the Bottle Line, responsible for processing and packaging of 12 oz., 14 oz., 16 oz., and 24 oz., glass products and PET plastic bottles 45 oz., and 66 oz., products. As the Value Stream Leader from the beginning of the process with raw material mixing, sauce batching and cook formulation to glass / plastic bottle filling, capping, thermal processing and cooling of the product. The product would then flow directly to packaging with Kronos labeling, Standard Knapp tray packing with shrink wrap and Alvey case palletizing. I am responsible for the complete value stream process of the Bottle Line KPI performance; safety, quality, OEE% and product yield%.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

As the Manager Plant Quality, I was the quality advocate for the plant, providing leadership for the quality and food safety program systems. Responsible for developing and maintaining the Quality and Product Safety System that consistently meets ConAgra Foods, Regulatory, Customer, Kosher and third party audit requirements to ensure products meet the highest standards of quality. Accountability for ensuring specifications are defined and communicated, formalizing process capability, institutionalizing process control and predictive quality processes. I ensure best lab practices and provide guidance and adherence to quality policies. I was an integral part of plant leadership team; leading and/or providing direction to the Food Safety & Quality Pillar within ConAgra Performance System (CPS).

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Improved schedule adherence and produced the required paste for the company by bostwick.Major capital investment for equipment upgrades to improve operational efficiency and quality have been identified. Bulk Paste controls, Decanter fiber return, Bin Filler B controls and an additional Finisher for T120.Continuous Improvement Manager AMD – Led the AMD Teams for a Focus Line approach on D-Line to reduce downtime with Minor Stops by 12%.AMD improve case through put from 19,000 cases per day to 24,000 per day – 20% improvement.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

As a CPS (Conagra Performance System) Practitioner, I led CPS deployment across the Shelf Stable manufacturing platform. I was a member of a CPS deployment team across the platform and had coaching responsibilities for 5 manufacturing plants. I coached connectivity and alignment to the Operating System and coordinate integration of end-to-end processes that effect manufacturing. I acted as the point of contact for the manufacturing process definition and documentation for continuous improvement, SAP/system changes, new start-ups and other changes within the manufacturing platform. The manufacturing performance was the key driver with metrics for process effectiveness and adherence as other success criteria in the platform.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

As the Manager Plant Quality, I was the quality advocate for the plant, providing leadership for the quality and food safety systems and programs. Responsible for developing and maintaining the Quality and Product Safety System that consistently meets ConAgra Foods, regulatory, customer and third party audit requirements to ensure products meet the highest standards possible. Accountability for ensuring specifications are defined and communicated, formalizing process capability, institutionalizing process control and predictive quality processes. I ensure best lab practices and provides guidance and adherence to quality policies. I was an integral part of plant leadership team; leading and/or providing direction to the Food Safety & Quality Pillar within ConAgra Performance System (CPS).

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Accountable for managing plant production activities across multiple shifts and/or departments to produce products that meet established quality, customer service, safety, innovation and cost metrics consistent with schedules and policies. Implements standard work and maintains improvement through sustaining behaviors, operating with discipline and rigor, implementing autonomous maintenance. Oversees the production of quality products to fulfill customer requirements. Controls and effectively utilizes the production capacity, staffing and equipment and outside resources through planning, organizing and scheduling to minimize losses; works within the framework of the budget to optimize company profitability.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Responsible for a 5 million case food manufacturing facility, 3 shift operation, 5 supervisors and over 100 team members. Completed a successful major integration project start-up curve for production efficiency to achieve 85% in 8 weeks. Developing procedures and programs to track material flow and usage for BPCS and Efficient Replenishment. Directed the Sanitation program to successfully gain grant of certification for reestablishment of USDA. Driving product material cost down by challenging team members to focus hitting product weight targets with SPC. Leading the production team effort to reduce quality product holds from 155K to currently 23K by developing or improving SOP, improving equipment and holding accountability.

Vevey, Ch

Directly supervised 90 production team members with direct involvement with employees from food prep, product cook process, product packaging and to final product casing. Developed and trained hourly team members while monitoring performance, attendance and corrective actions. Enforced USDA, FDA Regulations, AIB Guide lines, GMPs and Nestle Food Quality Policies and Procedures. Co-leader of Quality Improvement Team for production lines addressing performance efficiencies, improvement projects with engineering, PM programs with Maintenance and Product Development to improve overall production line efficiencies. Educated and developed team members to focus on quality issues in the production process which drove a higher focus on Product Quality to a FPQ score of a 99.8%.

Towson, Md, Us

Towson, Md, Us

Springdale, Ar, Us