Nathan Wright

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Profile

Bold, no-nonsense Senior Manager with more than 30 years of successfully transforming troubled companies or divisions in the heavy equipment, mining, defense, and food and beverage industries. Offer a history of outstanding success in quickly bringing organizations to greater productivity, revenues, and win-win customer relations. Doctorate of Management, Licensed PMP, MBA, BSBA, & CMRP. Known and respected for leadership in three primary areas:

General Management

Expert in the overall management of business facets with accountability for profit and loss, strategic planning, budgets, sales, major project management including capital projects, training, staffing, warehousing and distribution, safety, maintenance, quality, contract negotiations, global sourcing, labor relations, and related functions. Have led staffs of as many as 200+ managers, supervisors and workers. Expert in vendor and partner technology relationships, and satisfying customer needs and expectations through resourceful problem solving.

Operations Management

Solid record of achievement in supervising large or multi-unit operations including asset management, continuously improving productivity, major electrical and facility upgrades and installations, and resource management. Highly adept in the use and application of management philosophies such as Lean Manufacturing, TPM, and Risk Management. Develops and facilitates a variety of leadership development workshops.

Maintenance / Reliability Engineering Management

In-depth abilities in the management of Maintenance and Reliabilty Engineering programs, including related programs of Safety and Quality Engineering, that incorporate tools such as FMEA and RCPE. Numerous examples of individual and group coaching that have significantly increased the availability and reliability of multimillion dollar systems and equipment to the benefit of clients and company alike.

Professional Experience

Transformational Performance Solutions, Grand Island, NE 2014 - Present

Transformational Performance Solutions, provides leadership coaching to the defense, mining, manufacturing, and food and beverage industries.

President and Founder

Transformational Performance Solutions, LLC, develops leaders in their noble pursuit of achieving performance potential. Focusing on Leadership Development, Maintenance & Reliability, One-on-One Coaching, Design for Reliability, People Development Strategies & Programs, Electrical Safety, Strategic Planning, and Transformational Leadership.

Facilitates workshops, and the development of course curriculum.

Experienced in utilizing both the MLQ 360 degree leadership questionnaire and Brain Pathways assessments.

Provides professional individual and group coaching to all levels of the organization.

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Kraft Foods, Kirksville, MO 2013 – 2014

Kraft Foods Group is one of the largest, most renowned food and beverage businesses in North America. We’re also one of the biggest publicly traded consumer packaged food and beverage companies, based on our 2011 combined net revenues of $18.7 billion.

Maintenance Manager

Produced dramatic improvements while directing operations for installation and service provisions for facility infrastructure systems. Responsibilities include budgets, strategic planning, and capital project justification. Provide cross-functional management across operational units. Consolidated all asset operations ; increased reliability. Directed 2 supervisors, and over 45 employees.

Led PM Pillar for Lean transformation including transfer of knowledge to Autonomous Maintenance through workshop facilitation

Applied and taught Reliability Centered Maintenance concepts, and effectively conducted training to advance the plant's overall knowledge of reliability, tripling MTBF and reducing MTTR by 50%

Led Zero Tolerance Safety Program implementation resulting in turn around from worst to best safety record in facility.

Wright Mining Associates, Safford, AZ 2012 - 2013

A family-owned business providing consultation to the mining industry on leadership, maintenance and reliability.

Principal

An expert consultant in technology, maintenance and reliability, warehousing, and operations management for the manufacutiuring & mining industry. Specializing in technology including advanced infrastructure, reliability centered maintenance, real-time equipment monitoring and management, autonomous equipment applications and change management. Specifically focusing on large-scale operations management and project management.

Developed course curriculum and facilitated a variety of workshops

Developed Individual Leadership Development Plans utilizing MLQ 360 degree leadership questionnaire and Brain Pathways assessments.

Demonstrated history of results and value creation by improving equipment reliability through professional individual and group coaching

Effective oral and written communications skills that support collaborative teamwork, and the ability to influence others

Nyrstar, Gordonsville, TN 2011 - 2012

Nyrstar is an integrated mining and metals business, with market leading positions in zinc and lead, and growing positions in other base and precious metals (~6,600 employees).

Asset Manager, Nyrstar Tennessee Mines

Produced dramatic improvements while directing operations for installation and service provisions for all Tennessee assets for Nyrstar and facility infrastructure systems. Responsibilities included budgets, strategic planning, and capital project justification. Provided cross-functional management across eight operational units across Tennessee. Consolidated all asset operations ; increased reliability. Directed 12 general supervisors, 14 front line supervisors, and over 172 employees.

Provided individual and group professional coaching resulting in substantially improved profitability by reducing operational costs from $4.3M to $2.15M.

Through workshop facilitation and one-on-one coaching increased operational productivity from 5,500 tons/day to 8,250 tons/day by implementation of lean, which led to improved equipment reliability and increased customer satisfaction.

Cut warehouse inventory from $22M down to $17M by new resource management tools.

Fostered a focused total safety culture reducing the total recordable incident rate (TRIR) from 7.54 with 27 people hurt in the year prior to my assignment. During my tenure the TRIR was 1.34, which is significantly below the national average of 2.1.

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ASARCO LLC, Hayden, AZ 2007 – 2011

An industry leader of high-quality metals and minerals with five major operating units in AZ and TX worth $1.6B.

Manager Electrical and Facility Operations

Directed all maintenance operations, with P&L accountability, for installation and service provisions for electrical and facility infrastructure systems. Included cross-functional management across five operational areas, long-range planning, capital projects, and company-wide cost cutting projects. Directed general supervisors, nine front line supervisors, and had general oversight over 50 employees.

Increased equipment availability to 93%, and returned company to a world class facility and maintenance operation through leadership development, coaching, strategic planning and lean process improvements.

Turned around safety culture in an organization through the implementation of a modern safety management methodology (DNV) resulting in zero reportable incidents during the remainder of my assignment (3 years).

Led a companywide project to increase focus on electrical safety. Study led to all 5 operating units 100% compliant with respect to the elimination of Arc Flash Hazards, the leading cause of death to electrical professionals. The first comprehensive study completed in the mining industry, it resulted in a white paper, several presentations of the work, and to new standards in IEEE 1584 and NFPA 70E.

Northrop Grumman Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA 2004 – 2007

Naval and Marine Systems division for a $30 billion global defense company.

Superintendent Facility and Electrical Maintenance

Directed departmental capital projects. Spearheaded vision, strategy, and execution of change management. Oversaw staffing, strategic directives, and technical training of facility and maintenance teams. Directed project teams through due-diligence, prioritization, and development. Participated in research and development of modernization of facility processes to increase reliability and efficiency.

Implemented a comprehensive maintenance strategy that increased equipment availability to 95%.

Initiated Lean Manufacturing and Total Productive Maintenance Program (TPM) reducing waste and increasing profitability, trimming electrical cost $1.2 million (20%) in 2006 through energy efficiency, equipment upgrade, employee education, and operation modification programs.

Received the President’s Leadership Award in 2005 and 2006 plus 3 awards from Pacific Gas & Electric.

Named the 2006 California “Best Overall” company out of 5,000 by the Flex Your Power Organization.

P&H Mining Equipment, Mesa, AZ 1995 - 2002

A world leader in the manufacturing and support of surface mining equipment.

Senior Field Engineer/Director of Technical Training

Guided the development of new technology and provided technical advice to customer senior management on major equipment acquisitions and overhauls. Developed and instructed training seminars. Directed a 24 man construction crew in the erection of large mining equipment. Performed start-up and commissioning of new and used equipment.

Generated $100M increase in company profitability by conducting onsite research and development of new technology resulting in permanent modification in company design and philosophy as well as setting the industry standard for large mining excavators.

Increased company revenue from $1.35M to $1.6M, by implementing predictive and preventive diagnostic programs.

Developed aftermarket retro-fits for the equipment controls generating $1 million in annual profits.

Military: USN Electronic Technician. Honorably discharged.

Education

Doctorate of Management, Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs, CO

MBA, Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs, CO

BSBA in Project Management, summa cum laude, Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs, CO

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