Tom Jablonsky, Mba Email & Phone Number

Yardley, Pa, Us

Rotterdam, Nl

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In this position I report to the CEO and am a member of the senior leadership teams leading the North American Manufacturing operations comprised of 17 facilities and 1300 employees producing plastic bottles for all major consumer products companies across numerous market segments including personal care, laundry, food, and beverage industries. I manage Production Engineering, Logistics and Manufacturing Services Groups which are responsible for Continuous Improvement, North American Maintenance, Task Force and Manufacturing Execution implementation. Accomplishments:• Drove the launch of a new Continuous Improvement culture through Benchmarking and Best Practices implementation applying Lean and Six Sigma processes. Dramatically increasing equipment uptime 40%, reducing scrap 25%, improving productivity 15% while creating a culture of employee engagement.• Overhauled country-wide Quality systems, driving 35% reduction in customer complaints in 1 year.• Improved the poorest performing operation in 9 months from a negative profit position to profitability through comprehensive and aggressive turnaround tactics.• Led strategic initiatives adding three new sites and two major site expansions in 1 year.• Strategically established key business cases applying analytical skills and financial acumen to improve operating performance and grow business scale.

Yardley, Pa, Us

Beverage Packaging North America DivisionOversaw a manufacturing network of 16 facilities in North America of more than 2000 employees. Created and deployed manufacturing business objectives, policies, and programs integrated with functional areas of the supply chain including engineering, planning, sourcing, production and delivery, materials, inventory management, and logistics. Accomplishments:• Provided leadership and oversight of the Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) programs reducing recordable injuries by 25% in less than 12 months.• Implemented across all sites in North America a planning system based on customer historic demands combining advanced forecasting tools resulting in a reduction in inventory of 20% while improving service by 25%. • Established a technology and staffing strategy designed to address the industry turnover rate that resulted from a mature workforce and retirement rate exceeding 15% annually.

Yardley, Pa, Us

Eastern Region, Beverage Packaging Division Oversaw 8 facilities: 4 end manufacturing and 4 can manufacturing encompassing >900 hourly and 100 salaried employees, including 8 Plant Managers and their staffs.• Launched three automation projects with investments totaling $15MM, resulting in annualized labor savings of $4.5MM.

End Center Beverage Packaging DivisionManaged highly automated manufacturing facility producing 30 million aluminum can ends for the consumer beverage industry. This facility is the largest division revenue and profit contributor exceeding $400MM annually. Managed 20 professional and 190 direct labor employees.Accomplishments:• Achieved 7% improvement in efficiency in 12 months.• Reduced equipment downtime by 20% by implementing maintenance system using TPM.• Improved inventory accuracy by 20% while reducing inventory 20% through implementation of a CMMS inventory management system.• Created partnership between union and workforce which supported performance improvement while developing a culture of employee involvement.

Yardley, Pa, Us

Beverage Packaging DivisionDeveloped vision, direction and implementation strategy for 14 can and end plants across the U.S. Personally trained >185 executives and managers in Lean principles and implementation techniques. Led plant management in creation of current and future state value streams each year. Worked with plant staff to develop policy deployment and implementation plans. Accomplishments:• Functioned as business consultant while driving the corporate Lean strategy across the Americas.• Achieved 35-70% reduction in product changeover times resulting in >$3<$600K annual savings.• Implemented pull based planning system that improved on time in full performance by 50%, reduced excess and obsolete4 inventory by 60%, established appropriate balance of product inventory by mover class, and reduced working capital by >25%.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Cardone Industries is the largest privately held re-manufacturer in the UN with $400MM annual sales.Served as Director in these two divisions:DIRECTOR, CARDONE BUSINESS SYSTEM OFFICECreated this office focusing on all non-manufacturing business processes. Developed future state vision for the functional business areas of Procurement, Planning, Logistics, Warehousing, Marketing and Finance.DIRECTOR, CARDONE PRODUCTION SYSTEM OFFICELed organization in developing and implementing manufacturing processes for 38 product lines. Introduced corporation to the Toyota Production System. Implemented Lean Manufacturing program including training, value-stream mapping and Kaizen. Developed Black Belt System for both operations and business systems.• Achieved 40-70% productivity increase, reduced WIP 70-95%, reduced materials 20-30%, reduced floor space 40-50%, reduced finished goods 50-75%.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering

Mba, Business