Manager Plant

Devon Thomas

* ******* **. ?Irvington, NJ ***** *73. 820.7795 acb1yy@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Accomplished management professional with 18years experience in

manufacturing and Laboratory environment consistently focused on process

improvement initiatives. Maximize quality assurances and efficiency through

effective project management, team leadership, and carrying out detail root

cause analysis to formulate befitting resolutions. Provide direction

through training initiatives and ensure compliance with regulatory

guidelines.

Highlights

Process Improvement Team Leadership

Project Management Process Design

Strategic Planning Continuous improvement

Lean Manufacturing Quality validation

Accomplishments

. Supervised and Trained 30 employees on manufacturing changes that

resulted in production yield improvement which translated into $400K

monthly savings.

. Developed a new process for an existing technology resulting in the

construction of a new 500mton manufacturing facility.

. Proposed changes to automation department to redesign the control

program architecture to eliminate 6 hrs of program lag time. The cost

of the redesign was $60K but this resulted into $24k weekly savings

. Identify and drive continuous improvement project that resulted in the

reduction of product change over time from 7 hrs to 2 hrs thereby

generating $300k in monthly savings

. Implemented changes that resulted in an average of 65% OEE within two

years of initial start-up.

Experience

Manufacturing Supervisor

01/2010 to /2013

Firmenich Inc

Newark NJ

. Managed the daily manufacturing operations with a key focus on

continuous improvements.

. Maximize operational efficiency by implementing and coaching staff on

various lean six sigma initiatives.

. Managed Budget and review production cost, implements changes as

needed to production and inventory so as to maintain profitability

.Drive daily operations during the last fiscal year to achieve maximum

production out-put while reducing overtime by more than 5%.

. Developed and implement initiative to track performance and promote

operators, this led to improved work performance and 5% reduction in

unscheduled time off.

. Coordinate with Engineers and Mechanic to schedule equipment PM and

repairs so has to maintain overall downtime below 3%.

. Developed operators training manual including process control plan so

as to aide in the recognition and recovery from possible process

failure. This resulted in the reduction of unscheduled downtime by

12%.

. Oversaw the technical transfer and scale-up of all new products

resulting in an average of 85% RFT.

. Investigate and implement corrective actions as pertain to safety,

equipment failures and product non-conformance through CAPA

(Corrective Action and Preventive Action).

. Track and report monthly site performance to plant Manager and Site

Director.

Manufacturing Engineer

01/2007 to 01/2010

Firmenich Inc

Newark NJ

. Performed risk assessment and improve employee safety. Implement

safety system to allow for safe pumping of solvents and thereby

eliminate accidental splashing.

. Liaison with Human Resources and Production Manager to recruit and

fully staff a new production facility enabling the plant to start-up

on schedule.

. Drove the effort to identify and write initial SOP and JSA prior to

the start up of a new Manufacturing facility allowing us to implement

a successful initial training program.

. Led the effort to start up a brand new production facility and being

able to manufacture sale-able product within the first week of

operations.

. Recommended changes in design and processing methods. Perform

experiment to prove that recommended equipment was inadequate

resulting in $60k savings

. Implement system to track and record equipment Downtime enabling us to

focus attention on recurring failure.

. Drive the plant continuous improvement programs using lean six sigma

to increase through-put by 10% during the first year of operation and

exceed the basis of design by 30% during the 3rd year while reducing

overall utility consumption by 13%.

. Managed new products from engineering through production, ensuring

that all technical constraint are removed resulting in less than 10%

scrap.

. Oversaw manufacturing of existing products. Develop cost efficient

manufacturing processes thereby eliminating non value added processing

steps.

. Implement new processing technique resulting in 10% decrease in raw

material consumption.

. Site technical expert for three separate technology

. Track and report monthly production KPI to Plant Manager, Site

Director and Engineering Director.

Process Scientist

04/2001-01/2007

Firmenich Inc

Princeton NJ

. Managed Pilot Plant experiment to improve yield, reduce cost and

demonstrate plant capability resulting successful scale-up and

transfers to production

. Conduct Pilot plant experiment and present data to Management

demonstrating the business impact for the building of a New

Manufacturing Facility.

. Design experiment to study the effect of various Die design as pertain

to particle size resulting in uniform product distribution.

. Conduct design of experiment to study the effect of temperature and

the rate of Die freeze off in an underwater Pelletizer system

resulting in a modified equipment design

. Performed multiple steps synthesis in order to achieve yield

optimization and cost reduction for new and existing products.

. Design and implement process control system for five fully staff R&D

Lab

. Implement project to reduce overall hydrogen use-age resulting in 15%

yearly cost reduction while also adding safety benefits.

. Retrofit an abandoned continuous hydrogenation unit into a fully

functional automated unit and developed the company's first continuous

hydrogenation process.

. Developed cost effective continuous multi step synthetic processes for

propriety products thereby replacing costly batch processes and

reducing environmental waste.

Analytical Chemist

1999 to 2001

Virginia Dare

Brooklyn NY

Quality Control Supervisor

1998 to 1999

Shaw Mudge & Co

Shelton CT

Production Chemist

1995 to 1998

Frutarome Inc

N.Bergen NJ

Education& Professional Development

MS Chemistry: Long Island University

BS Chemistry: Bloomfield College,

Lean Manufacturing

Six Sigma

Lab view / Delta-V

SAP

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