Michael Harston

**** ****** ***** ****

Crowley Texas 76036

Phone 682-***-****

E-mail acrhv9@r.postjobfree.com

Objective To utilize my skill and many talents to help an existing or growing company to expand its horizons and increase its bottom line.

Work History

Major Minor Solutions

1133 Switch grass Lane Crowley Texas

April 2014 to Current

Working as a freelance consultant with various companies.

Helping them to increase their bottom line through improving productivity and time studies. Improve the safety performance and conduct leadership and team building training

Pecan Deluxe Candy Company

2750 Lone Star Drive Dallas Texas

July 2008 to April 2014

Plant Manger/ Safety Director

Pecan Deluxe is a Small Family owned business which is responsible for the development and manufacturing of ice cream inclusions. They make a variety of products which is used to enhance and add flavor to ice cream and products. Those items are pralines, hard candies, cookie dough, ribbons and sauces, brownies, pie chips cookies and cakes.

As the Plant Manager I reported directly to the VP of Operations my duties were as followed; responsible for the managing of the plant supervision staff and 250 hourly employees. Production, Warehouse, traffic and Maintenance were my direct report. Also responsible for Training and developing Department heads and setting all training programs such as CIT (Continuous Improvement teams) BBS (Behavior Based Safety) SPC (Statistical Process control) and worked with QA Department on all GMP, Allergen and HACCP programs.

Hired all hourly employees and management staff. Was responsible for all EEO programs and reports along with salary and wage programs. Employee discipline, incentives and morale programs

I improved the plant productivity and through put by 20% with the process of establishing plant metrics and an hourly productivity report to measure standard versus actual. I also establish strict guidelines for daily quality improvements which has led to us scoring 95percentile in all customer audits and regulatory audits. Was instrumental in us obtaining a level 2 certification on the SQF (Safe Quality Food) audit.

Also responsible for meeting budgets, labor analysis and P&L statements.

Improved Safety program by reducing work place accidents. This was done by implementing the BBS program (Behavior Based Safety Program. The program teaches employees to correct behavior before accident can occur. Example if an employee is cutting a bag towards their body it is a matter of time before they will eventually cut themselves. BBS teaches them to cut away making it less lightly that the will have that type of accident. Accidents were decreased from twenty-two in 2009 to six in 2013. Establish risk assessment adherence to OSHA requirements and BLS rates.

I also created plant KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) which measures the level of effectiveness of the plant in all areas. I created a series of metrics that gave every area a scorecard in order to improve daily production, quality and safety. These KPI’s helped to improve productivity by 20%. Quality holds and customer complaints were reduced due to focusing on improving on the daily score card and the use of Statistical Process Control (SPC).

I also conducted a weekly class on Leadership and Team Building for Managers, Supervisors and Team Leads. Classes were 360 Degree Leadership, Good to Great, The Five stages of building an effective team Johari’s Window Effective communication and Creative problem solving. Through these classes we developed some very good teams which improved the overall plant leadership and plant morale.

Power Packaging Inc.

803 WN Carrier Parkway

Grand Prairie Texas 75050

May 1989 to April 2008

Plant Manager

Started as a production supervisor, then was promoted to Production Manager after 5 years and then Promoted to Plant Manager after 5 years. Power Packaging is a third party manufacturer which produced dry goods for various companies. Our customers were PepsiCo (Gatorade), Zatarain’s (Rice and Pasta) Unileiver (Pasta, Soup mixes, Taco seasonings, Rice and sauces), M&M Mars (Uncle Bens Rice), General Mills (Muffins and Cake Mixes) Nestles (Carnation Instant) and Morrison Milling (Corn Kits). The GP plant was responsible for 30 million dollars in annual sales netting an average of 6.5 million allocation to corporate. I was responsible for a staff that supervised over 370 hourly employee in the daily manufacturing of the before mention products. All department heads reported to me. I reported to the VP of Operations. Duties included budget reports P&L reports, CIT, Training, Corporate Safety Director and Customer Service very instrumental in the start of various project for Quaker and Unilever.

Equipment; Bartlett’s (horizontal packaging machines) Hayseen (Vertical Packaging) Ribbon Blenders, Little ford Blenders, Clybourne Carton machines, Sanco stick pack machines Agelos Seamers, Paxall scale and packers,

Served as the Continuous Improvement Facilitator for the plant. Under my direction the Grand Prairie facility went four years without a recordable accident and was one of the safest plants in America. This was done by implementing the BBS system. Production numbers were improved by teaching employees to use the four M method (Man, Machine, Method and Materials). Employees were taught to use this method when solving problems. Cost reductions were done by evaluating labor cost and make reductions due to time and motion studies. I built effective teams through training classes. I had five former employee get promoted to higher position as a result of the classes.

Herbies Foods

902 W Santierre

Grand Prairie Texas

Production Manager

Feb 1987 to April 1989

Responsible for the day to day operation of ready to eat sandwiches. Supervised a crew of 30 employees in slicing meats for sandwich prep. Equipment used were slicers cry-o- vacuum machines and dough boy wrappers.

Rubenstine Foods Inc.

Dallas Texas

Production Supervisor

Jan 1984 to Feb 1985 Responsible for the day to day operation of producing sea food products. Supervised 40 to 60 employees in the manufacturing of IQF shrimp, breaded shrimp and frozen hush puppies.

Agar Foods Products,

Chicago Ill

Production Supervisor

June 1976 to Sept 1980

Work for the largest pork producers in the US, Supervised employees in various departments. Canned Hams, Artery pump, Picnic pump, Belly Pump, smoked meats, and Bacon.

Education

University of Arkansas Pine Bluff Arkansas

Biology

Additional Skills

CIT facilitator

BBS Director and Trainer

Excel Spread sheets

MS Word

Oracle

MS PowerPoint

References

Bruce Frier Power Packaging Director of Operation 972-***-****

Bob Brustman General Mills Director contract Packaging 612-***-****

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