Manager / Supervision

David C. Erspamer

*** * ****** ****** ******** Wisconsin 53534

Home Phone 608-***-****

E-mail: *****.********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

* Complete profit and loss of a manufacturing profit center

* Multi facility planning and multi distribution center inventory management

* Trained and practiced in use of 5S Six Sigma and Kaizen tools and analysis

* Supervisor of over 300+ employees

* Specialized training and development skills

* Team building and consensus building expertise

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Iowa Drying & Processing April 2014-Current

Plant Manager

Sibley Iowa

Supervise and Manage total plant operations including liquid receiving, spray drying and blending, packaging

and shipping operations. Implemented new downtime program and inventory control system.

Received a 96% on October SQF Audit. Installed tower dryer and grinding system as a capital build out

program. Designed and contracted to install second blending room and packaging system. Designed third

blending room for planned expansion. Spearheaded USDA approval to run food grade product and run blending

for major new customers.

Axium Foods Oct 2012- April 2014

Team Leader Supervisor

South Beloit Illinois

Supervise the Day Shift Packaging Operation packaging private and company owned Tortilla,

Crunchy, Baked Curl, and Corn Chips for client companies. Company packaged over 50 million dollars in Sales

in 2013. Worked in processing to produce products during vacations and leaves as necessary. Axium works as a

three shift operation sometimes six and seven days as necessary. Responsible for Safety, Security, Quality and

Continuous Improvement for the packaging Department. Instituted 5S program, training standards for

employees and on-boarding procedure. Standardized use of Temporary labor for increases in volume during

seasonal and promotional projects.

Milk Specialties Global July 2010-August 2011

Plant Manager

Adell Wisconsin

Supervised all plant operations for over 60 union personnel. Duties included budgeting, downtime

analysis, training and development, quality control, maintenance, warehouse and packing production. Peak

volumes exceeded 1.6 million pounds per week. Receiving over 22 million pounds of liquid solids processing

and drying them into 60 million pounds dried Lactose, WPC and Permeate. Capital Budgets exceeded one

million dollars. Liaison with sales to reduce inventory and plan production requirements to optimize markets.

Set Production records on each dryer within the first six months of managing the operations.

Power Packaging Oct 2008 - April 2010

Production Manager

Geneva, IL

Operations responsibility for production which represented 80% of General Mills/Betty Crocker cakes

and brownies for the US and Canada. Directed three shift managers, three supervisors and the training manager.

Accomplishments include: Highest recorded cases/week produced 566K, Longest safety record - one year no

accidents, two years no lost time. Development and implementation of Continuous Improvement program

which included total employee involvement. Facilitated and lead work and discovery teams - (PM, Vertical

starts, Work standards, Purchasing, Overuse). Savings of over 600k in 2009. Turnover rates of less than 0.5%

per year, overuse rates of less than 1.4%. Lead training programs for all management in continuous

improvement principles and techniques.

IBC Hostess Mar 2008 - Oct 2008

Production Manager

Schiller Park, IL

Responsibilities include on time production of all Hostess products including mixing, blending, baking

and packaging. Staff includes three assistant production managers and 15 supervisors and 315 associates. Union

Plant Local One. Accomplishments include the formation of a new Daily Production Report. Introduction of

5S principles to all of 7 production lines and completion of the Ho Ho line 5S Project. Reorganized corporate

reporting process and shipping reconciliation programs. Introduced new Quality Program and Validation system

for production. Increased production efficiencies from 80% to 97-98% in the first four months.

X-PAC Mar 2007 - Mar 2008

Six Sigma Black Belt / Quality Manager

Yorkville, IL

Responsibilities include planning, formulating, creating and executing effective metrics to measure and

monitor Quality Performance. To identify, investigate and problem solve projects in order to improve supplier

and internal non-conformance. Participating in customer/supplier weekly meetings and identifying opportunities

for their improvement as well. Direction of Quality Department, sampling inspection and auditing. Direction of

Caterpillar Production System initiative, implementation of line balancing and 5S. Other areas of direction

include the maintenance team, tool room, safety coordinator, training and lead for employee retention team.

Accomplishments

1. Completed Caterpillar Green Belt training

2. Reduced DPU (defects per unit) 50%. Reduction from 1.43 DPU to 0.74

3. Implementation of Kaizen approach to problem solving

4. Formulated, rewrote and implemented new training program

5. Restructured maintenance and tool crib with 50% labor reduction and increased productivity

6. Instituted Quality Auditing program

Lebanon-Seaboard 1995 -2006

Plant Manager

Bristol, IL

Responsible for 65-85 million pounds of packaged production. Duties include planning, scheduling,

budgeting, direction of production supervisors, and inventory management of the offsite distribution centers.

More specifically, production scheduling, raw ingredient forecasting, ordering and grain contract analysis and

the planning and monitoring of a 5 year build out program to 120 million pounds.

Accomplishments

1. New product and packaging designs and implementation

2. Reduction of downtime 15% and increased production volumes 30%

Safeguard Business Systems 1992-1995

Production Supervisor / Quality Assurance Coordinator

Addison, IL

Supervised shipping, receiving, finishing and assembly departments. Assignment included development

and implementation of a Total Quality Management program.

Accomplishments

1. The reduction of rework 37%

2. Formation of Process Improvement Teams

Borden Foods 1989-1992

Plant Superintendent

Northbrook, IL

Supervised all plant operations for over 200 union personnel. Duties included budgeting, downtime

analysis, training and development, quality control, maintenance, warehouse and packing production. Peak

volumes exceeded 25-30 thousand cases per week.

Accomplishments

1. Set nine consecutive monthly performance records

2. Designed and implemented production facilities for Butter Toffee/ Cracker Jack

SKILLS

* Extensive experience with lost time control tools

* Training and development identification and implementation

* New product design, development and implementation

* Quality control instrument design and implementation

* Organizational design and coordination

* Leadership and coaching expertise in multiple managerial situations

EDUCATION

BA Science in Commerce, Management Major, DePaul University, Chicago, IL 1981

MA Science in Management, National-Louis University, Wheaton, IL 1996

American Society for Quality Control, St. Charles/Fox Valley Section 1208

Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) 1994

Green Belt Certification 2007

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