Manager Plant

Harry Dunker

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McPherson, Kansas 67460 ***********@*****.***

Executive Profile

Plant Manager with company oversight, committed to safety, cost-effective management of resources

and high quality performance.

Skill Highlights

• Expertise in Plant Operations

• "Hands-On" Management style

• Instructor of Lean Manufacturing

• Change Agent

• New product formulation and development

• Proven ability to design, plan, organize and manage production line expansions.

• Safety Team Leadership

Professional Experience

Plant Manager, 6/2011 - current

Nation Pizza and Foods – McPherson, Kansas

• Overall responsibility of USDA Facility that produces appetizer-type dough items and cookies.

• Manage seven direct reports (Managers) with an employee base of 175.

• Profit / Loss responsibility.

• Oversees operation that runs at a negative labor variance.

• First year reduction in plant-wide material usage by 8%.

• Specializing in new product development; from concept to shipment.

• Excellent communication and team-building skills.

• “Lead by Example” manager with cross functional experience base.

Plant Manager / Chief Operations Officer, 2/2000 - 9/2010

Value Added Products – Alva, Oklahoma

• Managed plant start-up of two frozen dough manufacturing production lines.

• Oversaw equipment installation, coordinated vendor interaction, and employee training.

• Overall responsibility for all plant production.

• Directed a management team of 10 salaried employees and 120 hourly employees.

• Developed production schedules to meet customer demands.

• Successfully managed product throughput and scrap to improve waste management.

• Developed human resource policies, and implemented new employee handbook. All

employee hiring and terminations. Monitored employee review process.

• Directly responsible for new product development and dough formulations. Worked with

customers on product specifications.

• Point person on all customer and vendor interaction with the plant

• Plant Safety Manager. Developed and implemented new plant-wide safety program and

training. Worked with Oklahoma OSHA creating and implementing safety program, including

annual OSHA pro-active inspections. Directed Safety team using SHARP program and

insuring all employees obtaining OSHA 10-hour certification.

Total Productive Manufacturing Manager, 1/1999 - 2/2000

The Pillsbury Company – Geneva, Illinois

• Green-field site plant start-up. Responsible for equipment installation of 2 high speed

production lines. Laminated dough line with an inline fryer and a laminated dough line with a

tunnel oven.

• Implemented first TPM program within the Pillsbury Company. Coordinated all lean

manufacturing, mechanical and electrical employee training and certification.

• Directed 5s lean manufacturing techniques it improve OEE for successful plant start-up

production curve.

• Involved with plant policy development and employee hiring.

• As Plant Safety Manager, developed and implemented new plant-wide STOP safety program

and training. Coordinated plant safety program with Pillsbury corporate policies.

Break-Out Plant Engineer, 4/1995 - 12/1998

The Pillsbury Company – Chanhassen, Minnesota

• Oversaw start-up of USDA R&D dough production facility. (Expansion of current plant)

• Worked with cross-functional team on plant design, equipment selection and plant

installation.

• Developed employee training procedures.

• Assisted Pillsbury R&D engineers with on-site trials for new product development

• Plant implementation of new product lines at multiple Pillsbury plant locations.

• Wrote preventive maintenance procedures for all Break-Out equipment.

Maintenance Technician, 4/1987 - 3/1995

McGlynn Bakeries / Pillsbury – Chanhassen, Minnesota

• Green-field site plant start-up.

• Involved with installation and maintenance of four frozen dough lines, four baked product

lines, two cookies lines, seven blast freezers, two spiral proofers and associated packaging

lines.

• Maintenance point person in Pillsbury acquisition of Rudi’s Breads

• Led implementation process of new plant-wide statistical process control program.

• Experience with ammonia refrigeration system.

Sergeant, United States Air Force

8/1981 - 8/1985

• Instrumentation Technician.

• Accelerated promotion to Sergeant with Below-the-Zone program.

• Honorable Discharge.

Education

• American Institute of Baking certification in Pizza Production, Plant Sanitation,

Food Defense, HACCP, and Statistical Process Control.

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• Marshall Institute certification in Total Productive Manufacturing. (TPM).

Activities / Hobbies

• Coaching son's Little League baseball and soccer teams

• Attending high school and college football games.

• NASCAR fan

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