Manager Engineer

Resume of Kurt Hedstrom

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Phone: 863-***-****

Lakeland, FL 33810 E-mail: abiksu@r.postjobfree.com

August 2006 - Sept 2010: Home schooled our four boys to give my wife a

break after twelve years of schooling them.

. Self employed - Home and auto repair. Completed seven year book project

- to be published by Tate Publishing.

April 2004 - July 2006: Rehired by Diamond Products as Packaging and

Corporate Engineer.

April 2004 - Dec 2004:

. Oversee the redesign and procurement of the packaging

components for both the White Rain hair

care product line (shampoos & conditioners) and the new

products (body wash & lotion), all for an

on shelf product launch of Jan 2005.

o Arbitrate acceptable component designs (PET bottles, caps, labels, &

corrugate) between Sales, Marketing and component venders.

o Oversee the vender selection and timely delivery of all prototype

sales samples.

o Instrumental in final component vender selection, contract

negotiations and problem resolution in all areas of initial

component delivery and production start-up.

Jan 2005 - Jan 2006:

. Temporarily moved up to St Paul Minnesota, to assist in

all areas of plant production, maintenance

and engineering to improve plant profitability.

. Oversee the liquidation of all plant equipment after

corporate conversion to a sales and marketing

Company, with all production and shipping done on a contract basis.

Selected liquidator from

multiple competitors and negotiated a contract. Net sale to Diamond

was $4 MM.

Feb 2006 - Aug 2006

Temporarily moved to Dayton Ohio to assist the new contract packager,

Outsourcing Services

Group, in meeting the large increase in production demand. Acted as

Engineering and

Maintenance Manager.

Jan 2003 - March 2004: Undertook and completed a personal project in

addition to some consulting

work concerning packaging operations and equipment.

1989 - Jan 2003: Diamond Products - Seffner, FL - OTC Pharmaceutical

manufacturing and packaging. (Business was sold in 2002; production was

assimilated into an existing facility in Tennessee)

1999 - 2002: Operations Manager - Plant Engineer / (Positions

held concurrently)

. Submit and oversee a detailed annual plant operations budget of $5.7 MM.

With the exception of 2001, the plant ran at a 32%+ gross margin. (Plant

produced $25 MM in annual sales)

. Directly responsible for all aspects of the plant operation with the

exception raw materials procurement. Responsibilities included

production, plant warehousing, quality, safety, regulatory compliance,

equipment and building maintenance, and engineering in the following

departments: Liquid Filling, Dry Filling, Maintenance, QS,

Blending/Compounding, and Blow Mold. HR responsibilities included working

with the supervisors to fairly administrate a progressive discipline

program along with the attendance and production incentive programs.

. Instituted a Visual Factory Management Program utilizing the 5S

Methodology on the high speed filling lines in 2002. The results were

dramatic with regards to productivity, scrap, quality, cleanliness, and

employee morale, i.e. profit.

. Direct oversight for the design and construction of a $1.5 MM+. building

expansion. Considerations: costs, design & engineering, schedules,

permitting, lien releases, safety, quality, materials, payments, and

running the existing facility under disruptive construction conditions.

. Responsible for the plant conversion to a corporate ERP system (ROSS).

This included adaptation of existing processes to the new ERP system, and

personnel training.

. Responsible for the implementation of an accelerated validation program

to maintain customer and FDA compliance.

1997 - 1998: Corporate Engineer - Plant Engineer - Maintenance & Blow

Mold Manager /

(Positions held concurrently)

. Assumed additional responsibilities at the Gem Facility with regards to

equipment and building maintenance, operations, purchases, and

maintenance staffing and training.

. Directly responsible for the purchase of a $1.2 MM., one-of-a-kind

thermoforming - radio frequency welding machine producing a stand-up

solid air freshening container in a single operation. Considerations:

design, costs (both operation and purchase i.e. return on investment),

purchase contract (payment terms, performance criteria, etc).

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. Directly responsible for establishing a program to supply PET mouth wash

bottles for a new private label mouth wash venture. Return on investment

was not sufficient for in-house manufacturing, opted for purchased

bottles.

. Considerations: vender selection of both bottle suppliers and mold

makers, mold engineering and designs, contract terms, etc.

1990 - 1996: Plant Engineer - Maintenance & Blow Mold Manager /

(Positions held concurrently)

. Plant went from $7 MM. annual sales to $25 MM. during this time.

Instrumental in increasing the plant production capabilities by 360% over

this period.

. Directly responsible for the purchase and installation of $2 MM+. in

continuous extrusion - shuttle blow mold machinery, auxiliary equipment,

and molds with quick-change capacities; in addition to the construction

of an air-conditioned molding department with bottle storage capacity.

Considerations: purchase agreements, vender selection, equipment and mold

engineering and design, production requirements with return on

investment, etc.

. Directly responsible for the relocation and installation of 5 packaging

lines.

. Had oversight of the daily operations of the Molding & Maintenance

Departments, in addition to overseeing all other process and equipment

efficiencies and output.

. Installed a recording process to monitor and improve production on all

production lines. Made continuous improvements on all lines during this

time, both in process and machinery operation.

1989 -1990: Plant Engineer - Maintenance Supervisor

. Learned the basics of packaging, blow molding, and the plant operation

while overseeing the daily operations of the Maintenance Department.

1985 - 1989: Harris Electric - Bartow, FL - Electrical Contractor:

Projects Manager - Electrician

. Oversee all aspects of project operations at both the management and

technical level.

. Projects included: design and installation or repair of primary and

secondary services, motor control centers, instrumentation, high voltage

overhead feeds.

. Troubleshoot and repair a wide variety of machines, power distribution

services, and process equipment.

. Work was performed at the following locations: packaging plants, juice

concentrate plants, phosphate mines, rendering plant, power plant, etc.

1980-1985: Industrial Dredging and Engineering - Anoka, MN: Ops. Manager

1980-1982, VP of Ops. 1983-1985

. Had oversight of all aspects of project operations at both the management

and technical level.

. Both managed and was instrumental in the engineering of the following R&D

projects: Trona crystal reclamation for Kerr-McGee in California and FMC

in Wyoming, phosphate reclamation for FMC in Florida, taconite pellet

reclamation in Minnesota.

. Managed power plant ash disposal pond reclamation projects throughout the

US.

1978 - 1980: Canonie Offshore - Muskegon, MI: Project Superintendent -

Equipment and Special Proj. Manager

. Directed the hydraulic dredging and marine towing portions of a project

installing the largest power plant fresh water-cooling system to date,

$50 MM. This project was completed on Lake Michigan.

. Equipment manager over the marine towing and hydraulic dredging

operations within the corporation.

. Had oversight of special projects such as the conversion of an old steam

ship tanker into a towable tanker barge, and oversight of a $1MM expense

account with multiple department access within the corporation.

1976 - 1978: National Twist Drill (Lear Segler Corp) - Maxton, NC: Plant

Superintendent - Plant Engineer

. Instrumental in the relocation of a cutting tool manufacturing plant from

Michigan to North Carolina.

. Had oversight of the daily manufacturing operations and machine and plant

maintenance.

Education: Michigan Technological University - BS in Mechanical

Engineering - 1976

Additional Training : Texas A&M, 1week course on hydraulic dredging -

University of North

Carolina, 3 day course on executive training - Various 1 and 2 day courses

and seminars on supervision, management, inventory, PC programs; also,

electrical, mechanical, and hydraulic systems.

PC Skills: Word, Excel, and Outlook.

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