Robert Aiken Email & Phone Number

Lakeland, Florida Area

Major AccomplishmentsResponsible for the change management, warehouse management, empowerment of the salaried and hourly workforce, P & L, vision, quality control, and customer support. Responsible for the implementation of production activities and programs coupled with setting goals and communicating requirements to ensure regulatory compliance.Major Accomplishments•Increased production from 20 tons per day to 120 tons per day by identifying equipment bottlenecks, justifying capital expenses, and managing projects that attacked the heart of the problem•Taught senior management the importance of accountability, consistency, and the need for proper documentation•Developed a strategy which created preventative maintenance (PM) inspections through tracking equipment failures and a schedule was developed to reduce and eliminate equipment failures and break-downs•Created a safety program that grew employee participation in the company safety program while increasing employee involvement in issue identification and correction•Facilitated a responsible and interactive maintenance program that increased mean time between failures and developed a partnership between production and maintenance resulting in maintenance actions that addressed the root cause of issues that hindered production efficiency

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Weekend Plant ManagerResponsible for driving employee training and to help the company move ahead by teaching the employees how they fit in the company and why the contribution was important to the company and themselves coupled with the implementation of production activities, warehouse management, along with setting goals and communicating requirements at all levels.Major Accomplishments•Facilitated daily communication meetings along with regular follow-up to assure all departments understood production requirements while providing an opportunity for the communication of potential production issues coupled with successful solutions allowing all to provide input and adjustments production schedules to assure the most productive and efficient use of plant resources and requirements •Developed a standardized written reporting system that allowed all to understand the plant operating efficiency allowing all department managers to understanding where their units were meeting or failing production requirements

Okeechobee Fl

Plant Manager Full P&L responsibility and management of all operating departments in a 250,000 square foot non-union manufacturing facility to include transportation, maintenance, engineering, production, receiving, shipping, and over-all responsibility for all written employee protection programs and procedures. Major Accomplishments• Developed written functional production procedures where none existed which was the cornerstone that increased consistency between shifts and production operators increasing product consistency which reduced customer complaints from nine per week to zero• Created a simplified quality control system that that identified issues before they reached the customer allowing operations personnel to identify and isolate issues in real time• Detected wasted energy supplied to steam driven equipment and redesigned the system to reduce the cost of operations by 50% • Drove the overall responsibility for employee safety and OSHA requirements by driving down responsibilities causing employees to buy-in and take ownership in the program. Enabling the employees to self-monitor and drive the need for OSHA compliance. • Isolated employees which were causing increased costs through continual damage to company equipment resulting in a costs saving of 23% per department in maintenance costs

Reoccurring equipment failures resulted in the regular production of scraped semiconductor computer chips. The problem was isolated to no written alignment procedures or training in proper troubleshooting procedures. Development of written procedures coupled with regular alignment training resulted in a decrease in scrap wafers by 99% attributed to improper alignment. A hard drive failure in computer chip production equipment would result in a 24 hours recovery time to replace and recover the software on the failed unit. Research into the problem revealed that the hard drive could be cloned and stored in the event of hard drive failure. Written procedures for the replacement of the hard drive and cloning procedures resulted in a reduction of down time from 24 hours to 30 minutes.

Responsible for determining the direction of the resource team assuring capital projects are within budget and fully justified, assuring all executive management needs and concerns were addressed, accountability was assigned within the guidelines of company policy, and company expectations were met or exceeded through department activities.Major Accomplishments -Implemented a mentorship program that facilitated the growth of junior management-Facilitated structured daily meetings which included follow-up tracking, area performance reviews, documentation reviews, and maintenance and operations issues resulting in a clear vision the members of the department needed to take to increase area and department performance

Responsible for project management, P&L, process improvement projects, employee training and developmentMajor Accomplishments -Decreased employee turn-over by 18%-Designed and implemented an employee maintenance training and inspection program resulting in a 23% decrease in area maintenance costs

Responsible for all department production activities including quality, maintenance, employee development, operations, and equipment maintenance programsMajor Accomplishments -Created a production cross-training program resulting in improved communication across the department and increased productivity by 28%-Established an employee based safety program resulting in a 45% decrease in accidents through problem identification and correction coupled with a 200% increase in employee safety suggestions-Management and redesign of pulp processing systems resulted in a net profit of $4 million and caused pulp prices to decrease by .34 cents worldwide by turning the company to into a provider of orange pulp products

Responsible for the maintenance and operations of several computer controlled data analysis collection systems, the supervision of 37 airmen and NCOs, Air Force Safety and Fire Programs and all maintenance actions of assigned equipment

Master'S Degree, Managerial Leadership, 3.8

Bachelor'S Degree, Organizational Management, 3.8

Associate Of Applied Science, Electronic Systems Technology, 4.0