Manager Plant

WILLIAM B. COVERT

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Fernandina Beach, Florida 32034

Phone: 904-***-**** Cell Phone: 870-***-****

E-mail: *******@*****.***

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OBJECTIVE: Experienced Manufacturing Leader Desires Senior Level Position with Progressive

Organization.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: Over 25 years in Management, including:

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• Total multi-site responsibility • Capital machinery selection & installation

• Profit and loss responsibility • Graphics process printing

• Plant start-up • Machine hour pricing (MOPS)

• Lean Manufacturing • Industrial engineering

• Sales management • Plant engineering

• Labor negotiations/union and non-union • Floor management

• Capital budgeting & justification

SMURFIT-STONE CONTAINER CORPORATION, Florida Complex 2008 -2009

Area Quality Manager

Responsible for 2 plants.

• Managed quality function during consolidation of 2 plants into state of the art billion square foot

facility.

• Maintained and expanded volume by reinstating and upgrading quality system for National Account

customers including Anheuser Busch, Pizza Hut, and Little Caesar’s.

• Lead AIB certification resulting in a superior rating while reducing non conforming product by 25%

in the consolidated facility.

PINNACLE FRAME AND ACCENTS, Pocahontas, AR 2004 –2008

Senior Vice President

Responsible for 4 manufacturing facilities and 5 warehouses with peak employment of 675 people,

producing 125m frames per day from wood and extruded plastics .Annual sales $65MM

• Obtained state funding for training of all managers and key hourly employees in Lean

Manufacturing methodology including 5S, SMED,OPF,Valuestream Mapping and Kaizen.

Resulting in:

• Reduced workman’s comp cost by $87,000/yr.

• Improved direct labor costs by 25%.

• Reduced total overhead by 16%.

• Instituted supervisory training in safety, team building, and computer skills.

• Established wage classification system, attendance program, and drug testing program, while

improving plant wages for the first time in 3 years.

• Fill rate 99%+, major customers included Walmart, Dollar General, and Micheal’s.

• Negotiated lease with city officials for a 440msqft warehouse at less than $.02

Per sqft annually

• Rationalized capacity by closing 2 wood facilities and 3 warehouses.

SMURFIT-STONE CONTAINER CORPORATION, Houston, TX 2003 – 2004

Production Manager

Responsible for 180,000 sq. ft. ISO Certified Plant running 52mmsf/sq ft. of high volume national

accounts business.

• No LTA’s

• Improved Plant labor cost from $6.20/msf to $4.98/msf.

• Began alignment of plant capabilities with marketing plan thus increasing thru-put.

• Instituted plant wide preventive maintenance program.

• Lead installation of major corrugator upgrades.

• Initiated monthly labor-management meetings resulting in improved labor relations.

INLAND PAPER BOARD PACKAGING, Hattiesburg, MS 2001-2003

Manufacturing Manager

Responsible for 160,000 sq. ft. AIB Certified plant running 45mmsf/sq ft. of diverse high volume national

accounts and short run local business in a union environment.

• 1.74 TIR – no LTA’s

• Developed Management friendly concepts that were negotiated into a 5-year labor contract,

which resulted in the 1st time a contract was approved on first vote in plant’s 35-year history.

• Began implementation of self directed work teams which resulted in 20% increase in

productivity while reducing salaried manufacturing positions by 30%.

• Specified, justified, and installed equipment to align plant capabilities with marketing plan.

• Improved on time delivery to 98%+.

INTERNATIONAL PAPER, Fort Worth, Texas 2000-2001

Manufacturing Manager

Responsible for 150,000 sq. ft., ISO 9000, continuous improvement, plant running $15mm + of high

graphics direct print (5 color +), labels, and other high value added products.

• Safety program award FBA award for Best Safety record for a sheet plant year 2000, 0 LTA.

• On time delivery 98% +.

• Improved plant man-hours per msf by 15%.

• Reduced Mfg. Overhead by $100m.

• Reduced plant waste by 12%.

• Gallup poll rating 4.0+.

• Promoted seven employees to positions of higher responsibility.

SERVICE INDUSTRIES, INC., Morristown, Tennessee 1986-2000

General Manager/Owner

Responsible for 30,000 sq. ft. facility on 6-acre site. Peak employment of 45 employees with $3.8 million

sales in the corrugated container, wooden crate and pallet industry.

• Beginning with start-up capital of $35,000, built company from zero sales to $3.8 million in 13 years.

• Recruited, trained, and developed diverse hourly and management personnel from non-traditional

sources with no previous industry experience.

• Progressively built operating profit to $150,000 per year in 1998.

• Selected, purchased, and installed state-of-the-art equipment for this integrated materials packaging

facility.

• Plant was featured in Pallet Enterprise Magazine for innovation in segmenting target market and

utilizing KanBan, VMI and JIT techniques to capture targeted market.

UNION CAMP CORPORATION 1978-1986

General Manager, Jamestown, North Carolina 1985-1986

Responsible for 120,000 sq. ft. corrugated container facility employing 100 in a multi-shift operation with

annual sales of $10+ million.

• Effectively implemented machine hour pricing.

• Changed plant mix resulting in $200,000 annual increase in profit.

• Initiated customer-oriented packaging, which was later instituted in several Union Camp plants.

• Developed new manufacturing team concept resulting in drastic productivity increases.

• Taught Dupont S.T.O.P. program to supervision.

• Successfully implemented preventive maintenance.

Manufacturing Manager, Morristown, Tennessee 1979-1984

Responsible for 150 employees in 220,000 sq. ft. facility with annual sales of $30 million. Produced

corrugated boxes, including triple wall, poultry and government grade boards, in a job shop, lean

manufacturing environment.

Plant Superintendent, Morristown, Tennessee 1978-1979

Responsible for 160 employees in a three-shift operation.

• Improved plant productivity from 940 to 390 man-hours per million square feet.

• Reduced plant waste from 13% in 1978 to 8.8% in 1983 by implementing method changes and

motivational programs, including monthly plant meetings, supervisory incentives, and recognition of

outstanding achievements by hourly employees.

• Negotiated two 3-year labor contracts.

• Changed seniority system from job to plant seniority.

• Implemented Pull Manufacturing.

• Reduced grievances from 37 in 1979 to 2 in 1984.

• Named outstanding manufacturing manager among the 22 container division plants for 1983.

EDUCATION

OHIO UNIVERSITY, Athens, Ohio

Bachelor of Science

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

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Little League Baseball Coach Boys’ Club Volunteer Leader

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United Way Budget Committee Industry Trade Associations

• Board of Directors Rolling Hills Country Club

• Rotary International

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