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Durand, Wisconsin, United States

• Direct the coordination of all manufacturing facilities functions to ensure compliance with the company’s vision and mission statements. Collaborate with plant management and human resources to hire production employees, and conduct annual reviews to evaluate employee performance.• Created valuable team resources in collaboration with leaders in marketing, sales, operations, and facilities. This included the development of the sales teams’ informational guide used in front of customers to increase knowledge and product sales, in addition to Plant Managers’ Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) guide and production managers’ best practices document shared across nine production facilities.• Closed two facilities and improved processes in remaining two facilities to increase profits, improve turn-around time, and decrease non-quality. Work daily with General Managers, Regional Managers, and Plant Managers to ensure facilities are efficiently producing high quality tires.• Promote plant safety while serving on the company’s Safety Committee, dedicated to employee education, team-building, and compliance to the safety programs and incentives.• Comply with quality systems, product specifications, and customer satisfaction, followed by all department employees.

• Improved profits in Chicago facility, resulting from 2-month on-site, hands-on collaborative leadership with production employee to coordinate maintenance program, streamline operations, and improve efficiencies. Promoted employee to become a production manager who earned the “Retread Plant Manager of the Year” award in 2015, 2016, and 2017.• Improved annual quality audit scores by 4.3% across all seven facilities by reviewing previous audits at each facility, identifying quality issues resulting in low scores, and resolving identified issues with proactive plan in place to improve work methods. Focused on improving communications from plant management to production employees.• Initiated a company-wide Preventive Maintenance Program, working with Michelin’s plant equipment PM template as a company guide to suit our needs.• Visited customers to ensure quality standards were being met, supporting sales leaders while proactively addressing customer concerns.• Trained Plant Managers on production software use to meet customers’ product specifications. This resulted in properly shipping correct products, improving quality, decreasing credits, returns, and customer concerns.

• Provided ongoing coaching, motivation, and development to assist subordinates in achieving their goals.• Awarded “Retread Plant of the Year” in 2011 and 2012 for best year over year overall plant performance of seven facilities. • Improved profits while decreasing non-quality by 50% through team-building, coaching, and mentoring production employees.