Develop and implement sustainable Health and Safety systems to entire company, as well as specific business unit, working on a corporate team of Health and Safety engineers. Provide support to facility safety personnel including onsite training focusing on injury reduction, safety audit action completion, development of facility specific safety goals. Manage a proactively focused divisional team of safety professionals and division management to develop effective solutions to division wide opportunities.Significant Accomplishments-Coordinated with facility and division leadership to ensure strategic alignment as primary resource for safety managers.-Coordinated and planned multiple company specific OSHA 30-Hour classes, and Advanced Safety Leadership courses, as well as yearly company safety conferences.-Led Kaizen/SWAT Team events focusing on Behavioral Based Safety, Ergonomics, Machine Guarding, LOTO, Industrial Hygiene, HazREC.

Support production personnel and reliability team to surpass safety, quality and production goals. Develop a culture of 100% responsibility and a team of safety minded, quality conscious reliability technicians and support staff. Maintain effective involvement on facility steering team. Manage and deliver capital projects under budget & ahead of schedule. Improve storeroom operations, purchasing processes (JD Edwards Enterprise), equipment maintenance, and building and grounds management (HVAC, fire suppression, security, utilities, etc.). Identify inefficiencies and optimize department processes such as planning and scheduling, preventive and predictive maintenance, RCFA and emergency work control.Significant Accomplishments-Worked with all facility associates to earn and maintain over 2.2 million work hours without a lost time injury.-Coached a team that installed a $500K electron beam dryer in three months from project inception.-Installed a VFD Gardner Denver air compressor with storage tank and refrigerated dryer, under budget.-Led cross-functional Equipment Reliability improvement team to cut unscheduled downtime in half.-Identified, with production managers, the most effective capital and monthly spend to achieve year over year increase in OEE, MTBF, and reduction in quality complaints and production waste on all equipment.-Completed Sheet Fed Printer feed head improvement project yielding monthly savings of $25K.-Coordinated OEM training on major equipment for reliability technicians and operations personnel.-Upgraded fire suppression system piping, eliminating underground water leaks.

Support reliability managers at folding division facilities, working with corporate engineers and six sigma black belts. Provide support to facility leaders including onsite reliability training, audits and PM Optimizations. Manage a proactively focused divisional team to develop effective solutions to division wide opportunities. Work with division management on facility specific and division wide goals to reduce cost and loss exposure.Significant Accomplishments-Integrated sustainable and effective reliability practices with RockTenn Performance Excellence system working with folding division reliability team and Marshall Institute (consultant).-Worked with facility and division leadership to ensure alignment as primary resource for reliability managers.-Coordinated and planned company specific Reliability Improvement Methods classes, as well as yearly company reliability managers conference.-Led PMO Teams to optimize time spent on PMs, working to move as many tasks to running PMs, increasing run time.

Develop and implement sustainable Health and Safety systems to entire company, as well as specific business unit, working on a corporate team of Health and Safety engineers. Provide support to facility safety personnel including onsite training focusing on injury reduction, safety audit action completion, development of facility specific safety goals. Manage a proactively focused divisional team of safety professionals and division management to develop effective solutions to division wide opportunities. Oversee DOT Safety functions for entire company (24 facilities in the US and Canada, 160 drivers).Significant Accomplishments-Coordinated with facility and division leadership to ensure alignment as primary resource for safety managers.-Implemented standardized Folder-Gluer guarding plan, working with division engineers and operations VPs, to eliminate caught-ins. Achieved 95% reduction in related work comp costs after first year of implementation.-Successfully identified and implemented, as project lead, a new RMIS for entire company, yielding significant cost reductions related to incident management and safety / compliance audit follow-up.-Coordinated and planned multiple company specific OSHA 30-Hour classes, introduction to environmental compliance courses, as well as yearly company safety conferences.-Led Kaizen/SWAT Team events focusing on Behavioral Based Safety (SafeStart), Ergonomics (MoveSMART), Machine Guarding, LOTO, Industrial Hygiene, HazREC.

Develop and maintain all safety, environmental and AIB programs for 100+ employee facility including ergonomics, behavior based safety, OSHA compliance, environmental compliance, employee training, safety team leadership. Achieved zero recordable incidents; developed and implemented machine guarding practices for over 90 machines across RockTenn allowing operators and mechanics to more efficiently troubleshoot and fix problems; earned first AIB certification for facility; achieved highest third party validated safety audit score of all plants.

Assist facility Technical Manager in safety program development focusing on LOTO, Arc-Flash and training programs. Exposure to quality control, six sigma and team leadership practices. Developed and implemented safety training schedule for 200+ employees; designed standardized LOTO format including procedures, labels and equipment; led bulk oil tank containment project.