Manager Plant

Jack Bally

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Elyria, Ohio *****

Cell 216-***-**** or 440-***-****

Professional Experience:

Coyne Textile Services

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Cleveland, Ohio 44102 216-***-****

Position: Operations manager/General Manager Trainee September2007- Present

Nature of company: Industrial uniform rental service, annual revenue - 10.5 million dollars

Job Duties: My responsibility includes: 46 production employees, 4 supervisory staff, a 3.5 million dollar plant

budget, outside processing costs, building maintenance and renovations, merchandise control and stockroom

processing. The Coyne Textile Services Cleveland facility processes garments, rugs, shop towels and linen for

most of Coyne’s service centers in the state of Ohio. My interest in working for Coyne was their offer to train me

as a General Manager.

• Payroll -Reduced head count from 65 employees to 40 employees.

Introduced work standards and accountability

Visit customers and train with current General Manager

Achievements:

Improved Cleveland’s ranking from 9th to 3rd within the company.

Improved overall moral.

Reduced plant costs by 25%

Negotiated successful union contract 2009

Reduced tension between company and the union.

Greatly improved safety and quality.

Increased weekly revenue by $5000.00 through sales and collaborative partnerships.

Professional Experience:

Arrow Uniform Rental

1450 Granger Rd.

Brooklyn Hts, Ohio 44102 216-***-****

Position: Plant manager November 1996- September2007

Nature of company: Industrial uniform rental service, annual revenue - 15 million dollars

• Job Duties: My responsibilities included: 45 production employees, 7 supervisory and maintenance staff, a

3 million dollar plant budget, relay and transportation costs, outside processing costs, building maintenance

and renovations, and merchandise control. The Arrow Uniform Rental Cleveland facility processes

garments, rugs, shop towels, linen and gloves for all of Arrow’s service centers in the state of Ohio.

• Inventory control - The lowest merchandise cost of all Arrow processing plants.

Quality assurance- Highest quality rated plant by customers and service employees 2004- 2008

Payroll -Reduced head count from 75 employees to 45 employees yet increased revenues by 35%

Safety Director - implemented virtually all safety programs and chaired monthly meetings.

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Union Negotiator- Successfully negotiated (2) union contracts which improved conditions for both

parties.

Health, welfare and overall condition of the facility

Achievements:

Introduced a new product line (hand soap) which generated $240,000 in revenue it’s first year.

Nominated to Arrow’s corporate Change Team and held position until leaving 2003-2007

Successful TRSA tour in 2005

Arrow’s number 1 cost efficient plant 1998-2007

PPG’s “Supplier of the Year” award 2004, 2006, 2007

Reason for leaving: No room for advancement & company’s decision to close the plant

Professional Experience:

Aramark Uniform Services

3600 E 93rd. St.

Cleveland, Ohio 44105 216-***-****

Position: Plant manager August 1986-OCTOBER, 1996

Nature of company: Industrial uniform rental service, annual revenue - 10 million dollars

Job Duties : Oversee entire production processing area which included over 100 production employees, 5

supervisors, 1 engineer, 6 maintenance men, 4 million dollars in plant expenses, all equipment, all future

projects, building renovations etc. I also analyzed profit and loss statements, projections long and short term

and designed my own computer programs to assist with labor costs and inventory control. As the senior

manager, at times I was also called upon to fill in for upper management: I was authorized to sign company

documents, handle customer inquires, pricing etc. when necessary. The goal of the Aramark plant manager is

to process all materials in the most cost effective manner in the least amount of time at the highest quality

possible. This would include but was not limited to:

Inventory control - Reduced “other “ plant costs to the point that our facility led the company 8 out of 10 years

Quality assurance - Implemented Aramark Uniforms Quality assurance program and made the “Top 5”

list every month until my leaving the company. (Top 5 of a group of 25)

Payroll (Hiring/ Firing /Promotions /Increases) I was able to reduce absenteeism from 12 per day to less

than 6.

Safety Director - implemented virtually all safety programs and chaired monthly meetings.

Union Negotiator- Successfully negotiated (2) union contracts which improved conditions for both

parties.

Health, Welfare and overall condition of the facility

Achievements:

“Plant Manager of the Year” 1987 Special recognition award 1989

Reduced plant costs by 8% saving the company over $750,000 in annual costs.

Organized many programs to improve moral: Employee of the month, Annual Company picnic, incentive

and attendance contests.

Improved downtime in the plant by 25% by restructuring the maintenance/repair department, as well as

the reinstitution of P.M. programs.

Improved overall quality of merchandise with equipment upgrades totaling 2 million Dollars.

Spearheaded massive safety improvements to upgrade plant to meet O.S.H.A. Standards.

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Reason for leaving: The Company wished to transfer me to another position within the organization.

Merchandise control Manager October 1985-August 1986

Job Duties: Oversee all stockroom / merchandise areas which included (13) stockroom employees, (1) shipping

/receiving clerk, (1) supervisor and (1) purchasing secretary as well as 1.5 million dollars worth of inventory. My

basic job function was to purchase and process all ‘’new’’ orders of merchandise as well as maintain and

inventory all stock.

Supervised Customer service -large accounts

Inventory Control -reduced shelf stock by 10%

Generated Billing -this related to an increase in revenue of $5,000-$12000 per month

Awarded vendor contracts

Reviewed profit and loss statements

Reduced employees in the stockroom by 33%

Reason for leaving: Promotion to Production Manager

Assistant Plant manager April 1983-October 1985

Job Duties: Assisted In overseeing all area’s of production during the Production Managers absence and on a

more regular basis my position was to handle more of the day to day operation of the facility.

Reduced lost money ”unearned production” in the plant.

Supervised and hired supervision in the plant.

Designed a “scheduling board” for the production facility.

Reason for leaving: Promotion to Merchandise Manager

Production Supervisor March 1983-April 1983

Job Duties: Supervise Several Departments in the production area. (10-15 employees) Proven motivational

skills!

Reason for leaving: Promotion to Assistant Plant Manager

Self-Employed September. 1982-March 1983

Job Duties: Contracted construction jobs for myself and a small crew of helpers.

Reason for leaving: no job security

Bob Schmitt Homes

41950 Gate Post Rd.

Strongsville, Ohio Feb. 1978 - Sept. 1982

Nature of Business: New home construction (Builder)

Job Duties: Carpenter Foreman - Supervise a crew of 4 - 5 individuals to perform various Carpentry jobs such

as framing in houses - both interior and exterior walls, window and door installation, some concrete and drywall

work. Reason for leaving: Lay off due to lack of work.

Misc. construction jobs Sept. 1975-Feb. 1978

Achievements and Education:

Special recognition award 1/21/84

Completion of Production Managers Work Shop 8/15/86

ARA Leadership award 1987

Most Improved Plant Award 1987

ARA Leadership Award 1989

Completion of Kex Production Seminar 11/2/89

Certified trainer for maintenance lock out-tag out program 10/27/90

Completion of Texas University’s year 1 program for production management 11/16/90 & 4/1/2005

Completion of substance abuse awareness training 9/21/93

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C.P.R. Training 3/30/94

Production Managers Seminar 2/10/96

Eastern Kentucky University Basic team skills training 8/19/96

Completion of Arrow’s 2 year achieve global training

Elected and served 3 years on Arrow’s corporate Change Team.

Began a program for an annual company picnic for Aramark and continued as chairman 4 years in a row.

1991-1995

Contact person and coordinator during a full O.S.H.A. inspection and audit 1991

Represented Aramark Uniform during the union negotiations for the “91” and “94 “contract years.

Negotiated Arrow Uniform’s “2000” & “2004” union contract.

Instrumental in the start up of a new Aramark market center in Toledo, Ohio.

Responsible for hiring & training a Plant Manager for the Aramark Toledo operation.

Headed up United Way fund raising efforts the last 7 years of employment at Aramark.

I have never been terminated.

personal information

Home Owner

Landlord- (3) Rental Properties

Coach -Intramural Football + Basketball

Athlete - Lorain County Racquetball Champion and State Finalist 1990, 2 time State Gold medalist 2007

and regional Finalist 2007, State Doubles finalist 2007 and doubles and singles regional finalist 2008; Avid Golfer

Musician

Volunteer - Elyria High School Band Booster

Husband - Married for 34 years

Father - (3) Sons

References:

Karl Fillip - Aramark Uniform Area President Atlanta, Ga. 1-540-***-****

Bob Boden - Aramark Uniform Group Production coordinator Columbus, Ohio 1-614-***-****

Bert Murray - Aramark Uniform Group Engineer Columbus, Ohio 1-614-***-****

Jeff Miller - East Central President Arrow Uniform Rental 216-***-****

John Caputo - CEO Arrow Uniform Rental 1-313-***-****

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