Michael Gerbec

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Twenty years’ experience in engineered-to-order manufacturing environments with the majority of tenure spent on supply chain including: Master Scheduling, Production Planning, Inventory Management, Machine Planning, Maintaining ON-TIME scheduling and more. Highlights include increasing efficiency, affecting positive changes in culture with a hands-on approach, and excellent interpersonal skills based on honesty, candor and a positive attitude. Not afraid of a challenge. Employs creative solutions.

McCullagh Coffee Inc June 2017 to Current

Roasters of Fine Coffee

Plant Operations Manager

•Production Manager

•Master Scheduler (production as well as Roasting)

•Building Maintence Manager

•Shipping/ Receiving Manager

•Quality Manager

•Recently underwent a ASI/FDA consultation and currently working on SOP's for Microbiological testing and swabbing for lysteria contamination.

SMOKIN JOE’S FACTORY July 2010 to June 2017

Smokin Joes is a tobacco manufacturing plant

Production Manager / Master Scheduler (December 2012 Thru June 2017)

Measurements and weights of finished product is critical to Federal regulations and must strictly be adhered to.

I have trained the machine operators along with the support of the Maintenance department to do their own small mechanical repairs and not to rely specifically on the maintenance crew.

•Every morning myself and the group leaders would have a Gemba walk and check the status and condition of said areas.

• Review daily PM sign offs.

•Plus and minus target achievements

•At Smokin Joe's factory I have been the MASTER SCHEDULER for both the Production group and the Tobacco Blending Department. Typically used 6 week forecast for production and 6 month forecast for tobacco usage and crop ordering.

•I have extensive use using MRP/ERP systems (BAAN, SYSPRO, DBA,SYTELINE).At Smokin Joe's I had to get creative and made my own MRP system utilizing MICROSOFT EXCELL. Within my version of MRP I have incorporated The "50 QUESTIONS" frequently asked. I was able to forecast and schedule the use of each raw component with the entire inventory in order for Production and Inventory Department and function.

•Initiated weekly cycle counts on raw materials

I have been trained on every machine within the manufacturing departments and have been an machine operator, Blending Leadman, tobacco pusher, tobacco filler, and floor sweeper if I am short staffed due to emergency leaves or other circumstances.

Supply Chain Manager

•Master Scheduler

•Ancillary schedule coordination, purchasing and planning for all raw materials, daily review of production efficiency and multi-department communication

•Initiated 3 month (quarterly) order cycles and increased inventory turns to 9

•Set raw material inventory value to equal quarterly sales projection + 5% to account for spikes

•Initiated lean philosophies in material management

•Initiated A, B, C Material evaluation and cycle counts

•Established KanBan program with internal bin values in conjunction with vendor replenishment orders

ACCELLENT INC. November 2008 to July 2010

Accellent is a strategic partner in healthcare manufacturing, bring client innovations to market. This is an “engineered to order” (job shop) environment. Items such as needles for cataract surgery, spinal rods and bone screws.

Production Planner/Buyer

Responsibilities include planning machine schedule for production, daily shadow of W.I.P. and target dates for completion, maintaining KanBan and VMI programs for customer goods, releasing sales orders and package goods for shipments, maintaining quarterly inventory lot/batch accuracy, evaluating queue times for specific sequences, coordinating priorities for quality inspectors, coordinating clean room activities, reviewing MRP/ERP requirements.

Worked with lean-concept manufacturing and Focus Factory thinking.

•Production Planner/Buyer for 25 machines to manufacture several different family items

•Scheduled "CLEAN ROOM" activities and to ensure all protocals are being adhered.

•Ensured each article is tracked throughout production and outside processing.

•Worked closely with the quality department to ensure a high standard of quality and integrity are followed

DANAHER MOTION – DELTRAN 2007 to April 2008

Danaher Motion is a capital equipment manufacturer, building machines for OEM’s. This is an “engineered to order” (job shop) environment.

Production Planner/Buyer

•Planner / Buyer

•Maintain Amherst and St. Kitts Focus Factory inventory

•Maintain KanBan system for specific Focus Factory and purchase orders

ACCUMED INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES

Accumed is a global manufacturer specializing in the medical/sporting goods/safety/military industries. Their products are used to secure devices to the body. This is an “engineered to order” (job shop) environment.

July 2004 to April 2007

April 2008 - November 2008

Receuited back to Accumed Innovative Technologies to ramp up a 5,000 sq. ft Production and inventory control department specifically for a new customer 3M.

Production Control/Inventory Manager

•Master scheduler

•Shipping & receiving Manager - including invoice to delivery reconciliation, material coordinator, monthly inventory reconciliation,

•Assisted the transition of existing business software system to integrated ERP system (DBA). Ran parallel systems "live" and "Test" companies to see what results were affecting what within the system.

•Maintain global inventory locations; Taiwan, Hong Kong, Windsor Ontario, Danville Pennsylvania, Buffalo

•Restructured inventory locations with KanBan, bin locations and instituted inventory A, B, C analysis based on lean manufacturing and 5S philosophies

•Lean manufacturing team leader

•Reduced obsolete and slow moving material either thru sale to competitors or back to customers at a discount

•Inventory accuracy rating of 98%

•Completed APICS (Basics of supply chain) certification

•ISO Certified, 2005

GREIF BROTHERS CORPORATION July 1988 to July 2003

Greif is an Industrial Packaging Manufacturer. They work with their customers to design and manufacture custom solutions for packaging including steel containers, plastic drums, container closure systems, corrugated containers and more. They are an “engineered to order” (job shop) environment. ISO CERTIFIED IN 2001

First Line Production Supervisor

•Supervised and coordinated 5 departments, responsible for setting up 1st and 2nd shift daily operations. - Successfully increased efficiencies by 15%.

•Responsible for 125 Union employees working on various jobs and safety awareness while working in a factory environment. – Injury rate among the lowest in the division

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Production Control Manager

•Master Scheduler

•Daily monitoring of W.I.P. – Reduced W.I.P. value and aging work orders by 50% to increase efficiency thru out 5 departments

•Assisted in successful transition from existing business system to integrated MRP system (BAAN).

•UN/DOT Manager – Satisfied fulfillment of monthly items required for testing which covered all plant manufacturing for entire Fibre division

Materials/Purchasing Manager

• Reduced on hand inventory dollar value from1.8 mil to 1.2 mil.

• Eliminated slow and obsolete inventory.

• Restructured inventory based on lean manufacturing philosophies.

Certificates of achievements:

Cert of Completion – APICS BASICS OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Cert of Completion – TRAINING AND LEADERSHIP METHODS OF LEAN MANUFACTURING

Cert of Completion – MANAGING INVENTORY & CYCLE COUNTS

Cert of Completion – FUNDAMENTALS OF FINANCE & ACCOUNTING

Cert of completion – LIFT TRUCK OPERATIONS AND SAFETY; MITSUBISHI

Personal Interests and activities:

Member Knights of Columbus 4th Degree

Former Grand Knight

Former Deputy Grand Knight

Former Faithful Pilot

Former Color Guard Leader

Freelance artist

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