Manager Sales
Resume:
JOHN LERCH
Indian Trail, North Carolina 28079
ablk5p@r.postjobfree.com
SUMMARY
Accomplished Plant Manager with experience managing complex manufacturing
facilities including P&L responsibility. Proven ability to develop and
achieve manufacturing goals that meet and exceed financial objectives.
Demonstrated skills and results in Production, Quality, Maintenance,
Customer Focus, Safety and Environmental areas.
Lean/Six Sigma Implementation ISO 9001 Management
Quality Improvements
SHE Leadership Continuous Improvement Customer
Focus
Exopack Advanced Coatings, Matthews, North Carolina (2006-2009)
A division of Exopack, LLC, a $500,000,000 paper and plastics
flexible-packaging company
that applies specialty coatings to films used in optical, electrical,
and medical applications servicing consumer and industrial customers.
Operations Director: Responsible to Vice President of North
American and Asian operations for leading operations of a specialty
coating facility manufacturing specialty extrusion coatings for the
electronics industry including manufacturing, safety,
environmental, quality, maintenance and engineering. Functioned as
ISO Management Representative responsible for the site's ISO
program.
. Led rapid plant expansion project that doubled sales and
employees in a 9-month period. Net Result: Improved EBITDA
from negative position to positive 10% of Sales.
. Managed hazardous waste program including collection,
storage, permitting and record keeping. Coordinated
hazardous waste training for proper handling and emergency
response.
. Identified and corrected organizational inefficiencies.
Implemented a continuous improvement program. Net Result:
Improved sales dollar per employee productivity by 20%.
. Led successful effort to renew TitleV air permit including
negotiating new terms with County Air Quality officials.
Schweitzer-Mauduit, Spotswood, New Jersey (2001-2006)
An international producer of premium specialty papers and the
world's largest supplier of fine papers to the
tobacco industry with annual sales of $750,000,000.
Plant Manager: Responsible to Vice President of US Operations for
overseeing safety, operations, engineering, maintenance,
purchasing, logistics, transportation, and environmental compliance
in a cigarette paper manufacturing plant with $95,000,000 in sales
and 330 employees.
. Led waste reduction effort that utilized Pareto analysis,
process variability reduction, changeover time reduction and
preventive maintenance improvements. Net Result: Reduced
waste by 15% generating $3,000,000 in annual savings.
. Organized new management team, installed performance metrics
and scorecard systems and initiated continuous improvement
program. Net Result: Achieved 15% increase in productivity.
. Responsible for site Process Safety Management program and
related chlorine gas usage and handling.
. Led new product startup of successful $62,000,000 investment
project to manufacture new low-fire risk cigarette paper
product. Directed crew training, start-up, process
optimization, and product qualification.
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Marcal Paper Mills, Elmwood Park, New Jersey (2000-2001)
A manufacturer of recycled tissue products supplying the
home market, with annual sales of
$200,000,000.
Director of Paper Manufacturing: Responsible to Vice President of
Manufacturing for leading 4 high-speed recycled tissue machines.
. Initiated chemical changes that led to improved operations.
Net Result: Saved $700,000.
. Developed crew training programs to improve basic papermaking
skills.
Garden State Paper, Garfield, New Jersey (1982-2000)
A producer of recycled newsprint supplying all major newspapers on
the East coast, with annual sales of
$110,000,000.
Plant Manager: (1992-2000) Responsible to President and CEO for
managing recycled newsprint mill with $100,000,000 in sales and 250
employees including safety, operations, engineering, maintenance,
purchasing, logistics, transportation, and environmental
compliance.
. Designed and implemented $6,000,000 process waste collection and
burning system that captured and burned 80 tons of process waste per
day. Net Result: Saved $2,500,000 in cost annually.
. Installed contaminant removal system. Net Result: Achieved 10%
improvement in equipment uptime and 50% reduction in customer
complaints.
Production Manager: (1990-1992) Responsible to Mill Manager
for directing deinking and
papermaking operations of newsprint mill.
. Resolved neighborhood odor problem that stopped DEP fines and neighbor
complaints. Improvements made through scrubber installation, process
improvements and public relation campaign.
. Eliminated quality inspector positions by putting systems and training
in place to give operations responsibility for quality. Net Result:
Saved $500,000 per year.
. Promoted to Mill Manager.
Additional Relevant Experience:
Technical Manager, Shift Supervisor, Process Engineer
EDUCATION
Masters Degree in Business Administration - Rutgers University - Newark,
New Jersey
Master of Science Degree - Chemical Engineering - University of Virginia -
Charlottesville, Virginia
Bachelor of Science Degree - Chemistry - Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- Indiana, Pennsylvania
TECHNICAL TRAINING
Public Speaking - Farleigh Dickinson University - Teaneck, New Jersey
Safety for Managers - DuPont
STOP Safety Program - DuPont
Take Two Safety Program - DuPont
Analytical Troubleshooting - Kepner Trego
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Microsoft Suite, Lotus Notes
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