Plant Manager. Seven years as an existing Plant Manager. IE degree
Resume:
Darin Stephens
Cartersville, GA 30120
Cell: 678-***-****
Shaw Ext: 706-***-****
Employee Number: 000*******
Email: *****.********@*******.***
Education: Southern Polytechnical State University, Georgia
BSIE Industrial Engineering; minor: Mathematics 1991
Work History:
April 10 - Present Plant Manager - Shaw Industries 80/Re2E/2
Providing development and leadership for associates to
function in a team environment to accomplish set goals. The
team has had a great safety record 3 out of the 4 years,
improved in overall quality, claims % and improved through
put by 20%. The plant has made a 25% improvement in waste
over time. Overseeing a $24MM new facility start up that
converts post consumed waste into steam. The plant has
become LEEDS certified. Converting waste to energy and
responsible for the start up of all of residential yarn
storage in the company.
Supervisor: Clay Osborn/Brian Henton.
July 07 - March 10 Plant Manager - Shaw Industries 7G/DW
Managed 200+ employees. Work with cross functional teams
(sales, marketing, R&D, Distribution, outsource company and
Mfg) as a functioning business unit to reach business
growth and profitability. Large improvements in every
measureable item. Reach Gold Cup for the first time in
history. Also, having favorable POVA's and income
statements.
Supervisor: Herb Upton
March 06 - July 07 Production Manager - Shaw Industries Plant 4
Managed 500+ employees. Improvements in safety, quality,
claims, and cost. Work with cross functional teams to
improve the uptime of a new dye line and improve claims.
Made positive impacts on efficiency, quality and claims.
Completed several six sigma projects that help lead the
plant.
Supervisor: Tim Preast
Jul 04 - Feb 06 Production Manager - Shaw Industries Plant 20
Managed 500+ employees. Improvements in safety, quality,
claims, and cost. Completed several six sigma
projects that help lead the plant.
Supervisor: Tim Ausmus
Jan 03 - Jun 04 Carpet Production Manager - Shaw Plant WE - Contract
Division
Managed 400+ employees in 4 different departments.
Accidents decreased from 12 per year to 3 per year.
Claims were heading toward a 22% reduction for the
year. Organized manufacturing to decrease
bottlenecks and improve customer service.
Supervisor: Steve Kurtz
April 02 - Jan 03 Yarn Production Manager - Shaw Plant WE -WA/WP
Managed 170 employees and 4 departments - Twisting,
Heatset, Air Entangling, Rototwist. Reduced overall
cost in all departments, reduced incident rate and
improved quality by 50% in Twisting and 20% in Air
Entangling.
Supervisor: Steve Kurtz
Dec 00 - April 02 Weaving Production Manager - Shaw Plant 64/44
Managed 130 employees and a Weave Master on a 24 hour 7
day a week schedule. Responsibilities include Weaving,
Winding, Mending, and Warping. Spent time in Belgium to
gain knowledge of looms. Also, responsible for project
management of installing new looms and getting the
looms into production. Have help reduce quality, while running more
quality critical styles. Safety has gone from 8 accidents last
year to 4 this year. Cost has dropped the last 2 months
through reducing overtime and improving production.
Supervisor: Mark Ferguson
Aug. 99- Dec 00 Department Manager - Shaw Plant 20
Managed 125 employees. Responsible for 2 coating lines,
inspection, reinspection, off-line shearing, and
shipping. Improved SQS procedures, housekeeping,
turnover, increased daily average production by 14%,
decreased medicals by 50%, decreased off-quality and short firsts by 45%,
decreased delam claims by 60%. Improved the existing
technology on the finishing lines by adding computerized
controls and measures.
Supervisor: Tim Preast/Clay Osborn
June 97 - July 99 Department Manager - Shaw Plant 23
Managed 165 employees. Responsible for Tufting and
Receiving. Reduced medicals from 5 per year to 4 per
year. Increased daily average tufting production by
15%. During the last 2 months in the job, became the
lowest cost per square of all tufting departments. Decreased
off-quality by 30%. Set up PM schedules for all machines.
Started lean manufacturing by linking one yarn mill to
3 tufting machines.
Supervisor: David Morgan
Feb. 96 - June 97 Plant Industrial Engineer/Plant Accountant - Shaw
Plant 23
Managed an associate IE and 5 office hourly employees.
Responsible for setting budgets and issuing the POVA on a
weekly basis. Worked on raw materials in the plant.
Saved $9K/week in primary backing. The plant was
$695K unfavorable in shrink and scrap in 1995, and the plant was
$120K favorable in 1996.
Supervisor: Steve Kurtz
July 96 - Jan 97 Plant Industrial Engineer/Process Engineering - Shaw:
Belfast, Northern Ireland Managed one engineer.
Responsible for setting up the first budgets related to
actual production. Worked in different departments to
improve processes and cost. Managed waste/recycling.
Saved $60K/year by changing methods of waste disposal.
Proposed a $75K/year savings to recycling latex waste
water. Completed time studies in all areas to determine
standards.
Supervisor: David Whitener
July 95- Jan 96 Process Engineer: Finishing - Shaw Plant 20
Responsible for delam/tuftbind analysis, updating specs,
updating SQS, responsible for fingerprint unit. Used
SPC to monitor the quality of the department on a
weekly basis.
Supervisor: Ron Cochran
March 93 - July 95 Associate Industrial Engineer - Shaw Plant 20
Responsibilities included completing and setting up the
budgets, learning the costing system, waste
management, recycling, process improvements through time
studies, work sampling, and plant layouts.
Supervisors: Chris Fickle/Chris Germany
Other Skills: Certified SQS (ISO9001) auditor, CADD drawings,
spreadsheets, Vax Systems,Completed the courses
Leaders For Life, Dale Carnegie, Shaw Speak some Spanish
and German, Green Belt (6 sigma training)
Relevant Activities: Guitar, snow skiing, love to travel, Spanish,
Computers/Internet, people, weightlifting and reading
leadership books.
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