GREGORY B. BRYANT

**** ******* ***** acar9q@r.postjobfree.com

Lithonia, GA 30038 Cell: 678-***-****

Objective: Seeking a career opportunity that utilizes my technical and analytical skills to develop and implement changes to

maximize company’s profitability

Manufacturing Manager, with lean-manufacturing experience, skilled at implementing new processes

and promoting effective teamwork. Extensive AutoCAD experience, proven ability to conceptualize new

layouts, optimizing production levels and improving throughput. Strong analytical, technical and

troubleshooting skills with a solid understanding of business processes. Collaborate well with all levels

of manufacturing from management to production employees. Excellent listening skills, resulting in an

intuitive ability to design effective manufacturing areas.

Core Competencies

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Project Management Productivity Design Engineering

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Improvement

Six Sigma Green Belt Strategic Planning

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Profit Optimization

Material Flow Performance Metrics

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Plant Layout Design

AutoCAD Leadership

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• Cost/Benefit Analysis

Process Development

• Root Cause Analysis

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Coca-Cola/NURRC – Contractor Spartanburg, SC 2011 to Present

The largest plastic bottle-to-bottle recycling plant that began operation in 2009 through a partnership between

The Coca-Cola Company and United Resource Recovery Corp.

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Managed daily plant production activities with directing and motivating site employees to achieve

growth and exceed daily targets – in charge of improving manufacturing performance and reducing cost

while ensuring that necessary process controls are effectively applied while producing quality product

and employee safety.

Management Successes:

• Recognized for excellence in process design, plant operations, logistics, risk mitigation and

cycle-time reduction

• Manages daily production operations through the production supervisors and/or production teams to

maximize production efficiencies including volume of product produced, run rates, raw material

utilization, yield loss, downtime, and slowdown while producing high quality product in a safe manner.

• Developed a preventive maintenance and equipment monitoring program that included setting up PM’s

and determining frequency and priority, inspected PM’s for completion and quality, continuously

improving the PM processes by upgrading existing PM’s, established PM routes, monitoring and

supporting the lubrication processes, and supporting the site Root Cause Failure analysis process.

Strategy & Leadership Successes:

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• Streamlined multiple-unit operating manuals and SOPs

• Implemented and managed one of the company’s most significant projects – 8 Million lbs of raw material

stage for FIFO

• Supervised process engineer to rewrite procedures for production changes, unit start-ups/shut-downs,

including production change process that reduced unscheduled downtime by 70%.

• Built the Quality Management System to make sure it exceeded Customer requirements

• Performed quality checks to ensure plant operations are within code specifications

• Conducted internal Standard Operating Procedure audits on multiple departments

• Focused on controlling developed processes to ensure predictable outcomes

Telgian Fire & Life Safety Atlanta, GA 2001 to 2010

FIRE PROTECTION FIELD CONSULTANT (2009-2010)

SENIOR MECHANICAL DESIGNER/PROJECT MANAGER (2001-2008)

Progressed from CAD operator to Project Manager to Engineering Consultant during tenure. Directed teams on

each stage of the project, including responses to RFP’s, preparing CAD plans and adjustments, assuring local

regulatory compliance, coordinating construction activities, and all elements involving job completion.

Key Responsibilities:

• Led process redesign efforts on process improvement project for North America transformation initiative

• Conducted quality assurance reviews on design submittal specifications, documents and drawings

• Prepared material and manpower estimates

• Provided hazard analysis

• Regularly interfaced with clients and local fire code officials

• Designed and used performance measures to drive and monitor client’s

• Developed reporting methodology for communicating process performance metrics, project status, project

margins, cost over runs and best practices

Strategy & Leadership Successes:

• Measured and tracked program and business metrics and reported out to executive management

monthly.

• Aligned standard business processes based on the SCM (Supply Chain Management), CRM

(Customer Relationship Management), and PLM (Product Life Cycle Management) models to

ensure consistency.

• Monitored daily progress of each project to assure projects remained on schedule and within

budget, met quality standards, and client’s expectations.

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EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

MBA, Finance, Economics, & Information Technology, Mercer University

2009

BS, Mathematics, Minor in Computer Science, Tennessee State University

1996

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

Six Sigma Green Belt Certification

NICET Certification

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