Executive Operations Manager
Resume:
THOMAS FABBRINI
**** ********* ** *** **** Drive, Lakeland, FL 33812
acuu5e@r.postjobfree.com
www.linkedin.com/in/thomasfabbrini
Summary
Experienced Operations Manager who has maximized profit through a streamlined methodology to measure and improve sales, material cost, capacity, labor and service. Formulated highly effective strategies to quantify and enhance employee safety, product quality, planning, logistics and efficiency. Developed a team that increased net profit by an average of 32% across eight facilities. Directed four plant acquisitions; converting all facility, operations, environmental and personal procedures to the current company and regulatory standards, while improving facility productivity.
Skills
• Financial Analysis & Reporting
• Project Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Microsoft Access, Excel • Continuous Improvement
• Lean Manufacturing/ Six Sigma
• Forecasting
• APICS Professional Member • Team Building/Kaizen Leader
• Strategic Planning
• Financial Modeling
• Benchmarking Using KPI’s
Continuous Improvement
•Improved plant units per man hour by 53% and improved production run time by 26%, through robot modification.
•Coached team to generate bottleneck analysis reports and coordinated with plant managers to help understand capacities and focus line modifications, improved line rate 300 units/hour.
•Continuous improvement efforts allowed a 33% reduction in drying cost at the Pensacola Plant.
•Lakeland labor rate improved by 60% using Kaizen teams to create, faster change overs, implementation of preventive maintenance. Instructed plant supervision on how to understand daily requirements.
•Developed capital plans to improved facility profit, installed packaging and filtration equipment under budget 7%.
•Researched Tablet Press modifications and improved plant production rates by 250%.
•Trained local managers in 5S and SMED philosophy to improve change overs, reducing downtime by 40%.
•Installed new production line, training 25 new employees 13% under budget and on time.
•Reduced waste by modifying equipment to repurpose coating onto other materials, saving $129,000.
•Led team to relocate plant equipment from Framingham, MA to Kernersville, NC with under 5% turnover.
•Assigned to close the Jamestown operation, Turned plant around and improved plant cost by 160%.
•Developed operating procedures to provide training, reducing labor costs by 23%
•Eliminated largest defect by using Pareto analysis to determine quality issues, improved by $340,000.
Logistics Management and Negotiation
•Coached Logistic and Plant managers to improve scheduling and augmented the ERP systems. Executed a 98% on time customer delivery rate. A 48% average improvement with all newly acquired facilities.
•Delivery cost improvement of $270,000 reduced contract loads and created plant to plant synergies.
•Negotiated material purchases, achieving volume discounts. Reducing material costs $350,000.
•Standardized batch record system to assure employees understood process, lowered labor cost by 8.0%.
•Improved plant profit to a 20% net gain from a 12% net loss in less than two years by controlling plant costs.
•Controlled raw material purchases, vendor specifications and negotiated price. Reduced costs 9%.
•Introduced Six Sigma to address material waste. Decreased cost by $135,000 by controlling bag weights.
•Designed MRP data base to advanced supply chain management, improved on time delivery by 88%.
•Managed inventory control and worked with the ATF to verify inventory procedures and effectiveness.
•Used Kanban to reduce WIP inventory, resulted in 12% inventory reduction and improved line efficiency 27%.
Team Building and Safety
•Assured compliance A2LA laboratories requiring detailed documentation of procedures and calibrations.
•Assisted with obtaining ISO certifications for the automotive industry, by creating internal audits and verification of processes and record keeping, while reviewing the data to provide operations a means to improve.
•Improved safety compliance, by auditing each operation regularly, and driving the safety culture. This resulted in a 72% reduction in spending with regard to accidents and insurance claims across the five operations.
•Designed, installed and trained technicians to use quality data base to confirm, control and improve quality. Initiated best practice review eliminated inconsistency. Reduced process variability by 20%.
Financial and Strategic Planning
•Marketed, developed, and introduced new product with higher margins, increasing sales 15% and net profit by 8%.
•Simplified dashboard reports to track daily and weekly performance to manage P/L statements.
•Presented quarterly to senior executives and ownership the state of operations performance to goals and objectives.
•Coordinated sales team margin meetings to assure best price for products sold, increased margins 18%.
•Increased Florida sales revenue by 50% and improved profit 24%.
Professional Experience
Safety Solutions and Supply, Mulberry, FL 2016 – Present
Regional Training Manager, Safety and NCCER Craft Training 2016 – Present
Developed team to determine need, research and complete program. Maintain margins and assure program quality.
The Quikrete Companies Inc., Atlanta, GA 2001 – 2015
Regional Operations Manager, Central and South, FL 2010 – 2015
Directed operations, planning, sales, compliance and P/L for eight process manufacturing facilities throughout Florida.
General Manager, Central, FL 2004 – 2010
Managed operations, planning, compliance and P/L for five manufacturing facilities throughout Florida.
Plant Manager, Lakeland, FL 2001 –2004
Managed operations, hiring, planning and P/L for a bagging plant, including seven production lines.
Highland Industries, North America 1992-2001
Plant Manager, Moses Lake, WA 2000-2001
Led operations, hiring, planning and financials for the airbag assembly operation and the manufacturing of air bag inflator propellant; improved net profit by 15%.
Plant Manager, Framingham, MA 1997-2000
Supervised operations, hiring, planning, P/L and delivery for laminating and coating of inflatable life vest.
Production Manager, Jamestown, NC 1995-1997
Supervised color coating and lamination lines, producing 1.6 million yards of coated automotive security shades.
Education/Training/Awards
Bachelor of Science, Industrial Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Acquired Processing Patent for Thermal Plastic Olefin, Patent # 5,834,381, 1997
Trained through Toyota Production System (TPS), Huntington Beach, CA
Cooperative Education Student with Georgia Power in Bainbridge, GA
Highland Industries Manufacturing Manager of the Year
Certified Master Trainer through NCCER, Gainesville, FL
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