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Cumming, Ga, Us

Cumming, Ga, Us

Smithfield, Virginia, Us

Assured the continuous supply and timely procurement of all the necessary raw material, packaging, ingredients, sanitation, safety and crew supplies to ensure no interruptions to the Production processing requirements. Planned and managed the UPC inventory levels across multiple DC’s to fulfill customer’s orders and to keep the facility running optimally.  Core Management team Manage 30+ million in purchases. Plan 60 million pounds of Production annually.  Order fill exceeding 99%. Consistently top order fill performer within the company. Actively drive cost savings resulting in greater profits to the organization. Impact exceeding $100,000 annually. Holds vendors to high standards.

Managed the production and sanitation activities of the operation associates to manufacture a quality and food safe product at the lowest possible cost. Served in the capacity of Sanitation Supervisor.

Windermere, Florida, Us

Manage the production activities for this facility with 700 employees and a wide range of food products, ensuring cost-effective production meets quality and critical scheduling targets. Collaborate with Production Manager and other key personnel to plan and execute special initiatives and to meet ongoing corporate goals. Supervise, train, and directly support up to 190 hourly staff members assigned to 17 production lines. Ensure sanitary conditions exceed guidelines, and that quality is maintained to sustain customer satisfaction and loyalty.Plan and lead process improvement initiatives to lower costs, increased operational efficiencies, and decrease quality issues. Assign teams and oversee projects from inception to completion. As a result, efforts achieved annual cost savings of $180K in 2009 and $175K 2010. Managed film shrink reduction project in 2010 that realized $50K favorable to standard, as well as being only facility in the Fresh Express network with a favorable variance. Serve as company representative providing facility tours to existing and prospective customers, executives, and auditing teams. Authored and implemented current facility tour procedural manual and script. Played a central role driving $1.5M favorability to standard in 2010 in areas of labor costs, raw yields, and supply yields. Additionally, exceeded all targeted quality and safety metrics.

Windermere, Florida, Us

Proactively and effectively managed a wide gamut of safety-related planning, oversight, and improvement projects for a 300K square foot facility with 1.1K employees. Evaluated in place policies, processes, and practices to assess employee wellbeing, and identified and improved issues in a timely manner. Developed innovative new safety programs, and collaborated effectively with maintenance, project management, engineering groups, and management to correct unsafe conditions and hazard, including for startups following numerous construction projects. Maintained 100% compliance with state, federal, OSHA and EPA mandates and guidelines.Introduced and implemented a behavioral-based safety awareness training program, and developed several successful incentive and recognition programs that created positive energy and enthusiasm, thus generating increased safety awareness and an improved overall safety culture. Personally selected by the National Safety Director as sole safety professional providing safety consulting and guidance to sister Fresh Express plants, and helped facilitate a strategic safety improvement plan. Guidance and leadership resulted in 2.6M man hours with no lost-time accidents over an 18 month period.

Windermere, Florida, Us

Directed production for the processing area of the facility. Trained and supervised employees, analyzed existing processes and formulated approaches to streamline operation, lower costs, and increase output and quality. Developed SOPs for specialized job requirements.

Windermere, Florida, Us

Responsible for scheduling daily production runs totaling 1.5M pounds of produce on a weekly basis. Developed and implemented forecasting models and capacity models, and designed and deployed machine best-run sequences to lower costs while improving overall efficiencies. Achieved a cost reduction of a $0.13 to $0.06 per pound through effective scheduling. Reduced finished goods shrink by over $200K per year.

Managed several accounts with annual sales exceeding $20,000,000 for an apparel company which designs, manufactures, imports, and markets men’s wear under several very well known brand names.