Manager Chemical Engineering

Ronald D. (Ron) Grantham

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Starkville, MS 39759

Cell Phone: 601-***-****

Secondary Phone: 601-***-****

Home Email: **********@*******.***

Education: B.S. Chemical Engineering, Mississippi State University, Class of 1982, GPA: 3.7

Qualifications

34 years of experience in the pulp and paper industry; including 5 years as Operations Manager for Georgia-Pacific, Naheola Mill and 4 years as Operations Manager for Georgia-Pacific, Bleached Board Mill Operations. Also includes a total of 11 years as Converting and Tissue Mill Manager for Georgia-Pacific, Naheola Mill.

Proven ability to organize and lead teams in pursuit of production, operating efficiency, safety and cost savings goals.

Mill Improvement Process, utilizing lean and 6 sigma tools, drives efficiency improvement efforts to reduce waste and increase cost reduction efforts. MIP was a quarterly Mill led effort to identify and improve waste reduction, increase production capabilities, and reduce total cost. The MIP waves led to approximately $250K reduction in spending quarterly. I was the lead for 2 years and our savings totaled about $1.5MM during that time.

Naheola normally adds a 6thS for Safety improvement to what most other mills normally refer to as 5S Kaizen effort. This makes 6S improvement effort which is Safety, Sort, Straighten, Shine, Standardize and Sustain. This is a systematic approach to improve and maintain the mill operating floor or any other area that is a housekeeping problem.

Implemented reliability improvement efforts that included precision maintenance, preventative and predictive maintenance, root cause failure analysis(RCFA), lubrication and contingency Among others.

Experience

Currently have taken early retirement from Georgia-Pacific Crossett Mill, and am searching for a new opportunity in the paper industry. I am available to relocate. I enjoy working and hope to find an opportunity that will provide a win-win situation for myself and a future employer.

2015 until 2016 – Operations/Maintenance Gatekeeper, Georgia-Pacific, Crossett Mill, as noted above, includes precision maintenance, preventative and predictive maintenance, root cause failure analysis, RCFA, lubrication and contingency planning.

2009 until 2014 - Operations Manager, Retail Tissue, Naheola Mill, Georgia-Pacific

oPromoted to manage the retail bath tissue product system which consisted of 5 Tissue Machines and 12 Converting lines that produced an average of 68,000 cases per day of Quilted Northern bath tissue and 12,000 cases per day of Brawny® paper towels.

oInstalled an AGV or Automated Guided Vehicle system in the Distribution Center at Naheola. This resulted in significant cost reduction by reducing the required number of Lift Truck Operators to store and retrieve cased goods, as well as virtually eliminating damage associated with manual storage and retrieval. This was the first AGV system in service in the GP system. Total cost reduction was $500K annually initially and grew to about $1MM after the system was optimized.

2005 until 2009 – Operations Manager, Bleached Board, Georgia-Pacific, Naheola Mill

oPM2 produced uncoated cup stock for conversion into Dixie cup

oPM3 produce coated plate stock for conversion into Dixie plates

2000 until 2005 – Converting and Tissue Mill Manager, Georgia-Pacific, Naheola Mill. Responsible for the safe operation of the Retail Towel, Tissue and Napkin Departments at the Naheola Mill that increased converting case production from 40,000 cases per day to 65,000 cases per day due to equipment layout optimization and new equipment installation and start up. This also included SPC efforts and joint meetings between Converting operators and Machine Room crews. Naheola referred to this process as AIP or area improvement process.

1992 until 2000 – Converting Manager, Georgia-Pacific, Naheola Mill. Implemented Statistical Process Control which reduced consumer complaints by 50%.

1987 until 1992: Career change to Kimberly-Clark, Memphis Mill. Managed 2 crescent former tissue machines that produced Kleenex facial tissue. Installed first robotic stacking machine for large bundle pack towels and the first towel laminating emboss section in Kimberly-Clark to improve product quality for largest customer, Wal-Mart.

1982 until 1987: Promoted to Assistant Pulp Mill Superintendent for CCA, Brewton Mill. Improvement Projects:

Nokia Auto Cook batch digester control system installation and start-up which improved pulp production rates by 30% and reduced headcount by 75%.

Lime kiln chain redesign to improve kiln efficiency by 20%

Member of team that installed the first Extended Nip Press in U.S. on #2 Board Machine, increasing speed from 1300 fpm to 2100 fpm

Education: B. S. Chemical Engineering from Mississippi State University, Class of 1982

Labor Relations: Participated in 3 Contract Negotiations while working at the GP Naheola Mill including the 1st Labor Contract after GP acquired Fort James.

I have been a witness in 6 Arbitration cases during my career.

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