Manager Plant

Dunham (Ray) Wright **** Hwy *** West Monroe, Louisiana 71292

Cell: 318-***-****

Email: *********@*****.***

High achieving leader

MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT

Analysis u Strategic Planning u Budgets u Labor Relations u Counseling u Training u Retention u Product Engineering u Tooling u Equipment u Lean Methods u Process Improvement u Quality Systems

Dynamic, self-driven and goal-focused PLANT Manager, hands-on skills and 25 years of contributions to diverse teams. Astute analytical skills, strategic thinking, and aggressive agent of change. Proven successful leadership skills with diverse teams in different departments. Gifted trainer; inspired high-performing teams. Offers a solid record for enhancing revenues, reducing costs, improving quality and operating efficiencies.

CAREER TRACK

Plant Manager 2014-Present

Continental Carbonic

Coaching, Mentoring, Leadership for a top notch team achieving common goals. leading teams to common goals which is performance KPI, Improve safety with chemical background and utilization of PSM.

plant Manager 2012- 2014

Bemis Company

delivered coaching, mentoring, leadership for developing a cohesive team to achieve common goals. Established profit and loss for strategic planning to allow the plant to focus on key performance factors.

Improved plants Monthly Sales from 1.1 million a month to 3.2 million a month. Improved the quality complaints by 15%. Improved productivity from 59% uptime to 85% uptime. Improved Safety from a lost time rate of 1.7 to 0 in first year.

Developed Profit and Loss metric to make changes proactively not reactively. Action items list for Safety team to achieve zero defect Rate. Developed and mentored next level manager training for one up.

Accolades: Won the Bemis plant award for best safety record in 2013. Won the most improved plant corporate wide for 2013. Had a Profit improvement of 2.1 Million a month in the first year.

Production Manager 2010 - 2012

Graphic Packaging International West Monroe, Louisiana

Deliver energy, insight, technical expertise and organizational leadership essential for meeting key performance objectives. Collaborate with the Plant Manager on developing strategic planning, capital funding and through put, downtime percent improvement and waste reduction. Formulate and implement manufacturing plans and quality systems through leading Department Managers. Define labor needs; train and coach direct report personnel.

Improved plant department’s monthly bottom line from a loss of $200,000 dollars to 1.9 Million in earnings per month.

Developed and implemented the first standard work for Department Managers and Supervisors. Developed Department Manager and Supervisor score card for expectation standards.

Improved quality complaints by 15% per month. Achieved the preferred supplier award for quality improvements over our competitors.

Set 5’s, SMED, and Six Sigma project Metrics. Set minimum standards per department each quarter for achievement of each event and project. Had project savings of $800,000 in 2011 and 2.2 Million in 2012.

2011 recipient of the Corporate Graphic Packaging Leadership award

2012 Recipient of Corporate Graphic Packaging Leadership Award 2 Years in a row.

2012 Chamber Of Commerce Leadership Ouachita graduate for leaders of the future.

Department Manager 2007 – 2010

Graphic Packaging International West Monroe, Louisiana

Deliver team concepts to all areas of my department and leadership to achieve high performance objectives. Collaborate with the Production Manager on developing through put, downtime percent improvement and waste reduction metrics. Formulate and implement manufacturing department plans and quality systems. Define labor needs for the department; train and manage shop floor personnel.

Improved from running only one printing press at standard to running all 4 at standard month to day and year to date. This was an improvement of 47% in throughput improvement. Improved the downtime percent from 23% down to 11%. Reduced quality defects by 10%.

Developed and implemented the first standard work for shop floor employees. Developed operator score card for operators in my departments.

Improved die change times from 3 hours to 1 hour.

Organized 10 full blown smed/lean events with a cost savings of $500,000.

Executed 5s events on 5 assets in the Finishing Department

Process Engineer 2004 – March 2007

Graphic Packaging International West Monroe, Louisiana

Deliver energy, insight, technical expertise and organizational leadership essential for meeting key performance objectives. Collaborate with the Department Manager on developing improvement plans for assets. Formulate and implement manufacturing continuous improvement plans and quality systems improvement. Define maintenance needs and train shop floor personnel.

Improved from running only two assets at standard out of 12 total assets running to 10 running at standard out of 13 assets. Improved the downtime percent from 26% down to 16%. Reduced quality defects by 10%.

Developed and implemented the first process tech support team. Implemented the first level 1 and level 2 team meetings.

Improved through put on some assets as high as 30%. Developed processes for die changes to improve the time it takes to convert.

Organized and executed 3 full blown smed/lean events.

Executed 5s events on 5 assets in the Finishing Department

Special Projects 1997 – 2004

Graphic Packaging International West Monroe, Louisiana

Technical expertise and hands on to meeting run goals. Planning and executing make-ready start up times. Standardize settings across all gluing assets. I trained the make-ready team on how to perform efficient make-readies for quick change over times.

Folder Gluer Operator 1992 – 1996

Graphic Packaging International West Monroe, Louisiana

Maintain run speeds, quality, and waste goals with hands on adjustments as needed. Know all aspects of a folder gluer while training your crew.

Assistant Folder Gluer Operator 1990 – 1992

Graphic Packaging International West Monroe, Louisiana

Hand feed gluer while assisting the gluer operator. Relief operator when operator was on break. Perform quality checks to verify systems.

Finishing Packer and Case Stacker 1988 – 1990

Graphic Packaging International West Monroe, Louisiana

I packed corrugated case with the proper quantity of beverage carriers. A Quality requirement was to check two cartons for critical carton characteristics in each case. I stacked cases on a load while continuing to learn the next level job.

LEARNING CREDENTIALS

Liberal Arts

Northeast Louisiana University Monroe, Louisiana

Business Administration

University of Phoenix Phoenix, Arizona

Additional courses, seminars and workshops include:

Lean Manufacturing BMG Six Sigma Green Belt Qual Pro Lean/Six Sigma Black Belt (Measurement Systems Advanced Measurement Systems) (DOE and Advanced DOE)

SOFTWARE PROFICIENCIES

Microsoft Excel / Word / PowerPoint / Visio / Mini Tab

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