Plant Manager

Nick Herman

*******@*****.*** **** King James Drive Green Bay, WI 54304 920-***-****

Objectives

To use my abilities and skills in the manufacturing world to grow as a superior leader in the flexographic printing industry

Education

North East Wisconsin Technical College, 2003-2004

Business Management

Experience

Legacy Flexo 1327 Glory Road Green Bay, WI 54304

Plant Manager January 2011 – Present

• Steer and direct flexographic manufacturing operations that generate $36M in annual revenue. Establish operational polices and implement process improvements to ensure superior quality and outstanding output of finished goods. Directly manage over 70+ employees. Design and implement coaching and training programs to develop staff, facilitate efficiency, and improve performance

• Handle and organize plant operations within industry policies and processes

• Maintain the clean, safe plant

• Start and handle plant polices and processes

• Accountable for all plant production

• Create and keep well community relationship

• Promote well-trained and motivated employees

Responsible for day –to-day operations of five (5) flexo presses, and various support machines for a $36MM facility

Manage daily production schedule with contains over 1,500 different SKU’s

Reorganize leadership team for the manufacturing area to more clearly define roles and responsibilities and also increase leadership accountability

Successfully install four (4) eight-ten (8-10) color central impression flexographic printing presses since 2012

Larsen Converting 871 Parkview Road Green Bay, WI 54304

Press Operator November 2006-January 2011

Operate multiple 10 color central impression presses

Have extensive wide web flexographic experience.

Able to run, troubleshoot all machines

Comexi 67" 8 color 1200fpm

F&K 36s 67" 10 color 3280fpm

PCMC Fusion Max 75" 8 color 2500fpm

PCMC Provision 56" 8 color 1200fpm

PCMC Fusion C 42" 10 color 1000fpm

PCMC Infinity NT 57" 2500fpm

W&H Astroflex 67" 1500fpm

Retroflex stack press

Expert 4 color process

X-Rite/Color Cert spectrophotometer

Plate separations

Anilox inventory management 100+

Mounting equipment used:

Moss-type

Mount-O-Matic

Skills

Wide web flexographic printing expert

• Safety-oriented

• Operations management

• Production goals

• Self-motivated

• Efficient

• Machinery inspector

• Quality control

• Process improvements

• Staff development

• Team leadership

• Interpret results of process control analysis and make adjustments to optimize plant performance.

• Structure and manage plant production goals.

• Scheduling 70+ employees on 6 machines, shipping department and winder department with vacations and PTO

• on call 24/7 for press issues or mechanical problems

• effectively communicate with operators and supervisors on a technical level.

• Expert on printing on poly film .85-6MIL, paper from 10# tissue to cardboard stock

• 4 color process expert

• Ink toning skills, able to make, tone, change formulas in water based and solvent based ink systems

• Have extensive ink experience with INX, Press Color, Sun Chemical, Flint and Premier ink systems in both water and solvent

• X-Rite/Color Cert trainer (spectrophotometer)

• Able to mount plates on various different sticky backs to channel bac

• Create troubleshooting guides for machines to include step by step process with pictures.

• Work extensively with the maintenance department to schedule p.m.’s for each press/machine

• Create and maintain positive relationships with all vendors related to the pressroom

• Order/audit/maintain all anilox in pressroom 100+

• Create new programs for waste/cost savings

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