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Quikrete - Wisconsin, Sussex, WI - Plant Manager - Responsible for all operations at Quikrete - Wisconsin including production, quality, shipping & receiving, maintenance, and safety & environmental
- Successfully implemented 5S program
- Implemented extensive Preventive Maintenance program
- Reduced inventory 40% in eight months
- Reduced OSHA incident rate from 2.5 times industry average to 0.75 times in one year
- Developed critical operations metrics relating to Quality, Safety, Productivity, Customer Satisfaction, Shipping, & Inventory
Houghton FluidCare, Kohler, WI - Complex Manager ’02 to ‘05 - Responsible for the design, development and implementation of total chemical management for KohlerCompany
- Manage the analysis of all Kohler operations as they relate to chemical efficiency including cutting fluids,coolants, and waste treatment; negotiating contracts with vendors; staffing and supervision; and recommending process and product changes to increase quality and efficiency while decreasing costs.
- Managing implementation at multiple Kohler sites, determining appropriate personnel needs and hiring site managers, tailoring contractual and business requirements to meet specific site situations
Raabe Corporation Menomonee Falls, WI - Production Manager ’00 to ‘01 - Responsible for all production at Raabe Corporation’s, ISO 9001 aerosol paint plant. This includes scheduling,purchasing, aerosol filling, blending, color matching, shipping & receiving, inventory control, and small quantity container filling.
- Member of Raabe’s Strategic Planning Group and leading a task force with consultants to improve scheduling, reduce lead times and increase inventory turns.
Summit Packaging Racine, WI - Operations Manager ’99 to ‘00
Responsible for all operations at Summit Packaging Systems, ISO 9002 certified aerosol valve manufacturing plant inRacine, WI, including P&L, high-speed assembly, injection molding, maintenance, scheduling and shipping and
receiving.
Highlights include:
- Successfully prevented a plant closure by increasing productivity, reducing overall expenses, and retainingISO 9002 certification
- Reduced OSHA incident rate from 18 to 7.
- Increased operating efficiency by 50%
- Successfully converted to a 7 day per week, 24 hours per day operation
- Main contact for top customer
- Maintained Food Contact Production Regulations
Hydrite Chemical Co. - Cottage Grove Plant Manager,’96 to ‘99 Responsible for all aspects of plant operations at Hydrite’s synthetic organic manufacturing site including thesupervision of 6 departments including distillation, batch and continuous reactors, thin film evaporators, process
engineering, and maintenance. Responsibilities also included project management, maintaining GMP standards for
pharmaceutical additive, scheduling of production, Process Safety Management, MRP and MRPII, and safety and
regulatory compliance. Assisted in new product and process development, process hazard and operability reviews, and
process hazard analysis.
Highlights include:
- Reduced OSHA incident rate from 18 to 2.87
- Increased capacity utilization from less than 65% to over 96% while increasing production rates 6 fold
- Successfully converted to a 7 day per week, 24 hours per day operation
- Managed increasing sales of 308% over two years
- Increased net margins by 55%
Milwaukee Plant Manager, ’91 to ‘96
Responsible for all plant activities including production, process development, MRP, shipping and receiving,
maintenance, project management, and quality control
Highlights include:
- Inventory reduction of 32%
- Backorder reduction of 90% over two years
- New, $900,000 food process, CIP cleaner manufacturing, facility expansion completed on time and at budget
- Successful implementation of MRP II software. Implementation used as an example of a textbook case by the software firm
American Biosynthetics Milwaukee, WI - Process Engineer ’88 to ‘91
Development and startup of a new pharmaceutical manufacturing facility to produce synthetic caffeine - Duties included pilot plant operation, process design, distributed control system development, MRP, and plant startup and operation.
Milport Chemical Co. Milwaukee, WI - Plant Engineer ’86 to ‘88
• Duties included process design and control, equipment specification and purchase, quality control, and product
development
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