Maintenance Manager

Chris McLaughlin

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Round Lake Beach, IL 60073

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Plant Director - Food Industry

Professional Profile

Highly respected professional leader who blends over 33 years of increasing

responsibility in operations and management. Strong and decisive

operations knowledge with excellent analytical, organizational, team

building, and planning skills. Maintain uncompromising focus on high

quality standards, bottom line profit improvements, and cost savings

initiatives. Demonstrated ability to drive innovation through detailed

planning, training, and determined execution. Track record of success

reducing costs, improving profits, and streamlining operations.

Key Areas of Expertise

Leadership Planning Operations Operations Improvements

Mentoring P&L/Budgeting Engineering

Coaching Problem Solving Communications

Staff Development Lean Manufacturing Safety Standards

Professional Experience

Little Lady Foods, Inc. Gurnee, Illinois

Apr 2006 to Sep 2010

Little Lady Foods is a privately owned family company that produces frozen

style pizzas and sandwiches that are brand named and private labeled for

major company retailers and restaurants.

Plant Director

Nov 2007 to Sep 2010

I joined the company as a Maintenance Manager, promoted to Director of

Operations, and promoted again to Plant Director. The plant I directed was

comprised of four production lines that ran two ten hour shifts, six to

seven days a week. During this role, I was responsible for 550 employees

and 22 direct reports. The scope of my responsibility included quality,

production, maintenance, warehouse, sanitation, scheduling, finance and

accounting. This included full responsibility of the P&L and 165M in

annual sales. In addition, I was a key player in making strategic long-

term goals that impacted plan profitability.

. Produced 99% of the total company operating income within the Gurnee

facility

. Achieved 129% targeted cost savings initiative goal for the facility

. Partnered with corporate headquarters and executive vice presidents to

facilitate 24 new successful product launches in a 30 day period

. Reduced OSHA recordable incidents by 25%, which reduced the overall

insurance rate multiplier, year after year

. Successfully certified the facility for the Safe Quality Food (SQF) Audit

and re-qualification in FY10

Director of Operations

Nov 2006 to Nov 2007

. Identified trends on changeovers, startups and shutdowns, and implemented

new production strategies to reduce non-production times by 50%

. Achieved more than 5% improvement in direct labor costs over the prior

year

. Instilled cooperation between internal facility departments and external

departments

Maintenance Manager

Apr 2006 to Nov 2006

. Identified trends and implemented metrics to reduce downtime to less than

5%

. Trained and equipped maintenance personnel to dramatically reduce the

need for outside contractors

. Developed and implemented new preventive maintenance program to reduce

repeated issues

Kraft Chicago Bakery, Chicago, Illinois

Jul 1998 to Apr 2006

Formally Nabisco Bakery, the Kraft Chicago Bakery (cookies) had over 2,000

unionized employees (three different unions) running production 24 hours a

day, seven days a week.

Senior Maintenance Supervisor

I joined Kraft as an Electrical Supervisor, promoted to Mechanical

Supervisor, and promoted again to Senior Maintenance Supervisor. As a

Senior Maintenance Supervisor, I was responsible for the north bakery that

consisted of 12 production lines. This includes all controls support of

the lines, daily breakdowns, upgrades of existing equipment and new

equipment.

Served as liaison between corporate engineering and bakery personnel

Managed maintenance activities of unionized maintenance personnel from

diverse specialties

Supervised and trained mechanical, electrical, and engineering personnel

on breakdowns

Evaluated new and used equipment for implementation into the bakery

United States Marine Corps

Jul 1977 to Jul 1998

Data/Communication Electronic Maintenance Manager

. Performed staff duties in formulating and implementing maintenance supply

plans

. Instructed in the theory and maintenance of electronics

. Evaluated test plans, inspecting departments, performing

data/communications maintenance

Education

Center for Creative Leadership, San Diego, CA, 2008

Rockwell Automation Courses on programming of PLCs, Panelviews, and Servos,

1998-2000

Electronic Maintenance Supervisor Course, 29 Palms, CA, 1997

Career Enhancement Specialist, Norfolk, VA, 1992

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