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Ronaldo Luna

Operations and engineering hands on professional with 25 years of experience in food manufacturing in areas of safety, quality, cost, service, leadership, strategic thinking and team development with proven progressive advancement.

Management and Technical skills:

Performance Management

Quality Program implementation

Technical and organizational capability

Ingredient vendors certification

Diverse and inclusive environment

Asset reliability/ Autonomous Maintenance

Employee and team development

Capital project management

Safety and Environmental programs

Plant and facilities equipment

Food safety programs implementation

Kaizen and Green Belt Six Sigma projects

Environmental/Sustainability projects

TPM, 5’s, Value Stream Mapping

Energy and Utilities optimization

July 2014 – Present; Café Valley Inc. Phoenix, AZ

Plant Manager

Responsible for the operation, Production, Sanitation, Safety and Maintenance of six production lines including Muffin, Cake, two Pastry lines and two Croissant lines.

Four Direct Report Managers for a total of 650 employees.

Annual budget of $8.5MM. Including direct labor, ingredients and manufacturing overhead.

Leader of the productivity agenda of the site mainly focused on waste, downtime reduction and labor optimization.

Leader of a Managers Leadership Skills Program for the Phoenix site

Partnered with R&D and Technical Services for the Commercialization of Product Innovation in the multi-deposit and loaf cakes platforms.

January 2014 – July 2014; Cafe Valley Inc. Phoenix, AZ

Plant Engineer

Responsible to re-build the maintenance and engineering areas, growing the maintenance department to 17 maintenance technicians and 2 managers.

Conceptualization, planning and execution of capital projects including the areas of regulatory compliance, asset management, product quality, productivity and sustainability.

Leader of the sustainability and environmental agendas

Full responsibility of the engineering area budget comprised of maintenance parts, labor, energy/utilities and operational supplies.

Leader of the productivity agenda in conjunction with the plant manager

Implementation of PM program for all plant equipment.

Dec 2010 – Dec 2014; FritoLay, Inc. Casa Grande, AZ

Maintenance/Engineering Director

Responsible for plant equipment and facilities leading a team of 40 maintenance technicians and 5 managers.

Conceptualization, planning and execution of capital projects with a budget of $1.7MM US dollars, including the areas of regulatory compliance, asset management, product quality, productivity and sustainability.

Responsible for the operation and maintenance of the most recent environmental sustainability initiative in PepsiCo:

o60,000 pound of steam per hour biomass boiler, burning green wood chips.

o450,000 gallons/day waste water and recycling plant, achieving 75% recycling rate.

o4.5 megawatt solar fields supplying 50% of plant electric energy requirements.

Leader of the local sustainability agenda:

oDeveloped and executed local sustainability projects in order to reduce electrical energy consumption and saving $45M on an annual basis.

oOwner of resource conservation indicators on energy and utilities usage.

Leader of environmental compliance agenda managing an Environmental Coordinator and Green Team to comply with company’s self-monitoring program.

Managing an operational budget of $9,300M dollars comprise of maintenance parts, labor, energy/utilities and operational supplies.

Delivered above plan productivity in all related technical accounts last year for a total of $190M dollars.

Ranked on 6th place out of 32 plants in total production downtime at 3.50%

Sept 2007 – Dec 2010; FritoLay, Stacy’s Pita Chips; Randolph, MA

Manufacturing Director

Supported FritoLay new business acquisition as Manufacturing Director.

Responsible for the production, quality assurance and sanitation departments for a total of 250 team members and 10 managers

Implemented FritoLay operational systems and processes in the Quality, Processing and Packaging departments.

Develop and executed operational and technical training in the processing and packaging departments for resources and operators on the Pita Chips process.

Developed and executed Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma projects delivering $600M in labor and product change over downtime reduction.

Supported the relocation of three production lines to company’s co-packer located in Michigan with no disruption of product supply during high demand period.

Site frontline re-alignment as a result of production lines relocation.

Delivered $3,350M in productivity vs. planned through improvement of operational cost mainly in labor and ingredients from ’08 to ‘10.

Nov 2004 – Sept 2007; PepsiCo, Stax plant; Mexicali, Mexico

Operations Manager

Responsible for the overall manufacturing area including production, quality and maintenance departments with a headcount of over 500 team members.

Supported business growth ensuring manufacturing capability to supply international markets including Brazil, Peru, Korea, Taiwan, South Africa, Australia and Europe.

Pilot Implementation of the Autonomous Maintenance and 5s programs.

Key projects execution delivering over 2.7 million dollars in productivity.

Sponsored and supported the implementation of Six Sigma projects with 15 kaizen leaders and 3 certified green belts.

Oct 2003 – Nov 2004; PepsiCo, Stax Plant; Mexicali, Mexico

Technical Manager

Supported the startup of new plant (Stax) operations.

Development and implementation of preventive maintenance program for new technology equipment and facilities.

Technical department organizational structure revamped with controls specialist and high skilled technicians

Improved production lines efficiency and reduction of downtime by 10% and 35% respectively.

Key projects executed delivering over $2 million in productivity.

Implementation of Frito Lay sustainability programs focused to reduce energy and utilities usage

Implementation of FritoLay manufacturing systems for the technical area such as Assets Reliability Model, resource conservation and safety programs.

Development and implementation of blue printing audit for key process equipment.

Oct 1998 – Oct 2003; PepsiCo Obregon Plant; Obregon, Mexico

Maintenance Manager

Computerized Preventive maintenance program (MP2) implementation, integrating activities, planning, scheduling and parts ordering.

Reorganize maintenance department from functional to process focused structure improving customer service, production efficiency and operative cost.

Design and implementation of 2 year technical certification program partnering with local technical school.

Developed electric energy consumption savings program leveraging government incentive and technical support (FIDE) obtaining first place in state competition.

Oct 1995 – Oct 1998; PepsiCo Obregon Plant; Obregon Mexico

Maintenance Business Unit Leader

Maintenance parts and labor budget control

Development of packaging innovation projects: Punch hole automation and three versions of stickers inserter.

Integration of the first high speed bag maker machines to PepsiCo Mexico operation.

Participation on Value Added Analysis projects in PepsiCo Mexico manufacturing plants

Oct 1990 – Oct 1995; PepsiCo Obregon Plant; Obregon, Mexico

Maintenance Resource

Supported Obregon Plant startup of operations in brand new plant and equipment.

Responsible for packaging, processing and facilities areas.

Budget control

Preventive Maintenance program implementation

Education:

2001–2003 Technology Institute of Sonora; Obregon, Mexico

Postgraduate studies in technology management with focus in automation and control

1985 – 1990 Technology Institute of Sonora; Obregon, Mexico

Bachelor degree in electronics engineering

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