Production Manager Plastic

James W. Kramer

**** ******* **. 616-***-**** Mobile

Coopersville, MI 49404 *********@*****.***

Summary:

Demonstrated achiever with exceptional knowledge of color formulations for plastics, developed a process for injection molding letdowns up to 400:1, and developed extrusion screws (single and twin) that accomplish these letdown ratios. Extensive experience developing pigment dispersions. Exceptional knowledge in Polymer Extrusion and consider myself an expert. Experienced with MacBeth color software and X-Rite color matching software. Seventeen years of automotive color experience, fifteen years of supervisory experience, fifteen years of production manager experience, and six years of research and development experience. Also have eighteen years experience of screw design (single screws, twin screws, and continuous mixers) along with complete extrusion equipment setup. I have also worked with all types of pelletizers; strand, gala, underwater, Sheer Bay water-slide and water ring. Twelve years field service experience troubleshooting plastic injection molding applications.

Employment:

10/19/11-7/20/15, Plant Manager, Noble Polymers-Grand Rapids, MI

Manage and oversee production, maintenance, and shipping/receiving associates.

Reduced overtime and saves the company $16,000/month.

Reduced maintenance materials cost by managing their budget.

Managed production schedule and produced zero late shipments monthly.

Worked with Supervisors to reduce changeovers from 1.5-2 hours to 15 minutes or less. Screw changeovers reduced from 1.5 days to less than 2 hours.

Zero safety incidents have occurred in 1400 days.

Hands on assistance with material processing improvements working together with the MEG lab.

8/1/08-8/26/11, Production Manager, Carolina Color Co.-Delaware, OH

Handled all aspects and operations of the production process.

Managed budget and met with corporate headquarters.

Scheduling jobs for all machines and assign job duties.

Perform customer service to meet customer color schemes.

Troubleshoot processes with problematic orders.

6/05-7/08, Production Manager, Infiltrator Systems-Winchester, KY

Manufactured approximately 500,000 pounds of HDPE, PP and LDPE daily in this 24/7 operation.

Company has two 8” and two 10” single, twin-screw extruders, three continuous mixers, and three Galla pellitizers.

Managed eighty employees including four supervisors, twelve operators, eight lead-men and fifty-six material handlers.

Master scheduler of extrusion machinery, assign job duties, perform hourly checks, order materials along with research and development.

Hands on with Carbon Black pigments, evaluating percentage of Carbon Black in formulations.

Perform scale up of masterbatches and tests including melt, index, and notched izod.

Develop plastic processing and troubleshoot extrusion process.

Hands on assistance with maintenance.

2004- 6/05, Plant Manager, Immix LLC-Holland, MI

New plant start up including machine installation, line layout, and extrusion line set up.

Company has 2 extrusion lines processing material such as PP, PE, ABS, PET, Acrylics, and PVC.

Troubleshoot formulations making adjustments to color to meet customer specifications.

Set standards for pigment loadings from 25:1 to 400:1 letdowns for VG to critical color.

Developed screw technology that reduced pigment load up to 25%.

Developed letdown ratios of 400:1 with single screw and twin-screw extruders.

Developed formulations, color masterbatches, and a scale up system.

Develop process and troubleshoot extrusion and color process.

Setup color software.

Manage 4 employees including operators and material handlers.

Hands on with Carbon black, pre-dispersed and raw form carbon pigments.

Perform sample runs final approval of QC for color.

Travel to customer facilities to troubleshoot color process in injection molding and extrusion.

Perform all Quality Control issues and customer relation’s problems documenting problems and corrective issues.

Wrote all ISO procedures for Immix.

Setup and developed standard operating procedures and safety procedures.

2001-2004, Production Engineer/Field Service Tech., Uniform Color Company-Holland, MI

Manufacture high quality color concentrates for the Thermoplastics industry.

Company has 26 Wayne, Century, Entec, and American Kuhne single and twin-screw extruders that range from 11/4 – 5 inch and 72 mm processing material that includes PP, PE, Nylon, PET, ABS, Acetal, Valox, PS, among other engineered resins.

Troubleshoot color formulations and tweak color to meet customer specifications.

Reviewed all formulas released from the lab and sent to production.

Troubleshoot master batch pre-blends.

Perform scale ups that range anywhere from 5 lbs to 1000 lbs.

Design and change screws.

Run trials to decrease cycle times.

Work with R&D on developing new products.

Developed a pre-check process, which increased production volume by 45%.

Reduced the scrap rate from 10% to 4% within 6 months.

Reduced the color reject rate from 18% to 11% within 6 months.

Troubleshoot all products with processing issues.

Company is QS qualified.

1998-2001, Production Manager, Uniform Color Company-Holland, MI

Handled all aspects and operations of the production process.

Managed budget and met with corporate headquarters.

Scheduling jobs for all 26 machines and assign job duties.

Perform customer service to meet customer color schemes.

1995-1998, Production Technician, Uniform Color Company-Holland, MI

Managed all customer production orders processed and delivered on time. Handled all scheduling of production orders.

1992-1995, Extrusion Operator/Mixer, Uniform Color Company-Holland, MI

Partnered with maintenance and production to develop the most efficient process possible.

89-92, Non-Manufacturing

85-89, Operator/Color Matcher, Uniform Color Company, Holland, MI

Operator of extrusion machines.

Education:

X-Rite Color Development Course (2004), X-Rite Corporation, Grandville, MI

QS2000 Management Certification Training (2001), Uniform Color Company, Holland, MI

Dale Carnegie Personal Management Course (1999-2000), Grand Rapids, MI

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