Lou Mattingly

**** ****** ***

La Grange, KY ****1

502-***-****

acum7x@r.postjobfree.com

Summary Dedicated leadership oriented management & operations professional with hands on production, process, engineering, supply chain, and management experience. Demonstrated leadership capability in driving operations excellence and results, as well as meeting goals and objectives through quality focus, lean manufacturing, and teamwork. Currently traveling >90% of the time and looking for a local opportunity.

Experience DuPont Nutrition & Health ; Jan. 2013 -- Present

Production Superintendent -- Supply Chain Coordinator – Soy Polymers

Successfully started up new process in food grade facility and transitioned customers and supply chain to new technology products from China, without any supply interruptions.

Manage production schedules in China and inventory management worldwide for the Soy Polymer business. In addition, also responsible for production, technical & trial support for process & product related issues at the China plant as well as addressing any customer product complaints.

Review and manage demand plans with account managers to determine customer requirements for SKU’s, volume, and quality to insure supply needs are met while minimizing inventories

Currently, project lead in transitioning technology and production of Soy Polymer business to US (Memphis, TN) with savings of $5,000,000+ annually. Started up Feb. 2016.

DuPont Protein Technologies - Solae ; Louisville, KY. 2000 – 2012

Production Superintendent (Operations Manager) ; May 2009 – Dec. 2012

Managed site operations producing soy protein products for industrial use in the paper & board, décor ink and adhesive industries; includes responsibilities for safety & core values, budgeting & cost controls, product quality, capital, facilities, people, etc.

Safely led 40 plant production and lab employees (represented by the USW union) and 6 supervisor and technical employees

Led plant continuous improvements efforts and teams focused on Quality, Rate, and Yield

oImproved plant uptime from 72% to 87%

oImproved first pass quality from 95% to 99.4%

oIncreased product yields from -2.5% below standard to +3.0% over standard

Led development and implementation of multiple cost saving projects, including :

oRework systems (Grade B from other plants) saving $1,000,000+ annually in raw material cost.

oDeveloped and converted a product over to a lower cost process, saving 20% of product variable costs (Energy) saving $800,000+ annually.

Successfully led site through numerous safety improvements, including developing and implementing a plant housekeeping process, with regular audits, to improve plant safety and personnel accountability for their respective areas

Plant closed Dec. 2012 with production relocated to China

Supply Chain Coordinator (with Plant Engineer & Site Technology Lead Roles) ; 2007 – 2009

Reduced polymer inventory from 6000 MT to 1500 MT worldwide, $9 Million inventory reduction

Successfully led efforts to reduce product SKU’s 50% without losing sales volume or customers

Plant Engineer, Maintenance Manager, Site Technology Lead ; 2005 - 2007

Managed 8 mechanics plus E&I, supervisor, and 2 engineers

Reduced maintenance costs 10% by reducing use of contractors while increasing plant uptime 2%

Improved plant reliability by focusing on repetitive equipment related issues, determining root cause failures, whether they were equipment or process related problems, and implementing repairs/solutions to prevent future failures.

Process Engineering Manager, Site Technology Lead ; 2000 – 2005

Led plant efforts for multiple quality improvement and cost reduction projects

oImproved first pass quality from 92% to 95%

oDeveloped tracking systems for cost reduction & yield improvements by reducing product variability and shifting product quality parameters to improve efficiency -- Savings of $500,000 annually

oLed trials and efforts to eliminate chemicals from products that were not required or value added in the production process -- Savings of $700,000 annually

Reduced Grade B inventory from 1500 MT to 0 with quality improvements and aggressive reworking plans without causing an increase in grade B or customer complaints

Led business quality team review of product specifications versus customer requirements

DuPont Fiber Sales & Development ; Urbana, OH. ; 1999 – 2000

Plant Manager

Managed site with 50 employees that produced powdered cellulose products for food ingredient markets. Included responsibilities for core values, safety, budgeting & cost controls, quality, capital, facilities, people, community stewardship, etc.

Reduced co-packer costs $1million annually by Installing new blender & packaging line

Improved labor relations and successful union contract negotiations (represented by the Teamsters union)

Prepared facility for business to be sold to a domestic competitor

Protein Technologies (Ralston-Purina) ; Louisville, KY. ; 1991 - 1999

Sr. Engineer / Production Manager

Improved first pass quality from 30% to 92% with numerous process improvements

Led startup of new technology drying process ($5MM)

Led startup of new on-line packaging system ($1MM)

Led startup of conversion from batch reaction to continuous reaction process ($2.5MM)

Led quality management implementation and continuous improvement process for site

Rhone-Poulenc ; Louisville, KY. ; 1990 – 1991

Sr. R&D Engineer, Water Soluble Polymers (Guar Product Development)

B. F. Goodrich Company ; Henry, IL., 1983 – 1990

Process Engineer / Sr. Process Engineer / Engineering Manager (PVC Production)

Other Experience DuPont Production Systems (DPS) & Lean Manufacturing Concepts

DuPont Integrated Business Management

DuPont PSM & First Party Audit Training. PSSR Element Leader.

Root Cause Failure Analysis

Education University of Louisville / Bellarmine College ; Louisville, KY ; May 1983

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering/Chemistry, GPA: 3.7/4.0, magna cum laude

Certifications Six Sigma Green Belt

Software Experience Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook, Project), Lotus Notes, SAP, SAP Business Warehouse, Manage-It-Central, and Minitab. PLC Ladder Logic Configuration & Intellution HMI Systems.

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