Eric Solomon

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Zephyrhills, FL ***40

Cell: 813-***-****

LinkedIn: https://www.LinkedIn.com/in/Eric Solomon7184571b?

acwsys@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

Creative in systems to gain the highest results and sustainability. Inclusion of all operations to meet business goals and develop and empower people.

Gain results through the use of continuous improvement systems, DMAIC system to seek root cause and long term solutions to business challenges. Creating organization system's through 5's and ownership to sustain housekeeping and quality standards has helped in the reduction of accidents and clear housekeeping standards

Specialties: Manufacturing design and cost savings projects, leader development, DMAIC, Maintenance systems to support overall maintenance excellence, development of managers and resources, technical support and root cause solutions to meet business goals. hiring of A players for future growth of the business. Ability to bring a team together to meet long term goals. Team Building and Leadership Development.

Education

Florida State College at Jacksonville 1993

Electrical Theory and Applications 680 Hours/4-year Undergraduate Degree

PM Pillar Training Course, NWNA, Bosco, Italy 2009

1-week course to prepare and develop the process necessary to develop the PM pillar at the Plant level.

Received Best Team Award during the training

TPM Coaches Course, NWNA, Fremont, 2011

2 week courses to train and develop the skills and systems to coach all of the reliability Pillars. This enables the Coach to Support the 4 reliability Pillars, (AM, PM, FI and E&T). Allows the pillar leaders to have a Mentor as they gain the skills to drive the performance of their Pillars

Manufacturing Leadership Training, Rive-Rine, Switzerland 2007

2-week Leadership course offered to up and coming leaders as they move into Senior leadership and prepare to manager outside the 4 walls of a Facility.

Six Sigma Green Belt, Zephyrhills, FL 2005

Completed a Green Belt project that reduced the defect rate by 70% on overfilling and leaking fill valves. Learned and demonstrated sigma levels and how to reduce DPMO and a common weighted measure for improvement.

Employment

Nestle Waters North America, Zephyrhills, FL 3/ 2016 to Present

Plant Manager

Earned a reputation as a valuable and cooperative coworker by: being fair, honest, and willing to help others when needed; effectively resolving conflicts at appropriate times; and assisting new managers and other staff to become familiar with policy and operations. Daily interfacing with engineers on various projects. Demonstrated effective and consistent technical support. Designed and rebooted a lubrication program with a new vendor for Nestle Waters. Experienced manager with excellent team abilities. Established goals and objectives, developed policies and procedures, recruited and trained staff, and initiated and enhanced systems.

• Established the Nestle NCE program, created and selected members for the GA and LDV pillars

• Opened the LDV gate in September

• Created a compliance score card to simplify current level of Compliance and Daily/Weekly/Monthly business reviews

Nestle Waters North America, Red Boiling Springs, TN 3/ 2013 to 3/ 2016

Plant Manager

Established procedures, and directed testing, operation, maintenance, and repair of manufacturing equipment. Planned, coordinated, and directed engineering project, organized and assigned staff, and directed integration of technical activities with products. Directed, reviewed, and approved product design and changes, and directed testing. Planned and directed installation, maintenance, testing, and repair of facilities and equipment. Conferred with County and City officials and spoke too public to solicit support. Prepared and directed preparation of correspondence, reports, and operations, maintenance, and safety manuals. Formulated training policies and schedules, utilizing knowledge of identified training needs. Evaluated effectiveness of training programs and instructor performance.

• Implemented maintenance planning process that included Specific Machine Expert's (SME)

• Trained coached and assess team and implemented NCE in the Factory and opened the gate to prepare for TPM.

• 3 years without a lost time accident

Nestle Waters North America, Madison, FL 3/ 2012 to 3/ 2013

Market PM Pillar Leader

Trained, Coached and Assess the PM Pillar leader and team members on the Process and lead the pillar team. This position is a key lead position within the plant and requires not only technical knowledge, but communication, collaboration, and general management capabilities. Managing the PM pillar includes leading the NWNA CMMS (Computer Maintenance Management Systems), Planned Maintenance (PM) Pillar, to establish and continuously improve Maintenance systems to drive asset reliability and cost improvements. Leading the Maintenance Organization to safely deliver asset reliability and cost targets, aligned with business goals and objectives. Responsible and assists with projects related to the development and sustainment of the pillars to include but not limited to: Line productivity metrics, MTBF, MTTR, Minor and Major Breakdowns, BDA, etc. The role maintains close liaison with Production Teams, Maintenance Technicians, Engineers, storeroom personnel.

• Created Maintenance Work Group teams to support the piolet line

• implemented the 1st PM Pillar team in NWNA with a cross functional team from Operations, Maintenance and Quality

• kicked off Tagging of defects for both the AWG and MWG teams to start to get the equipment back to basic condition

Nestle Waters North America, Madison, FL 10/ 2009 to 3/ 2012

Operations/Technical Manager

Duel Role Operations Manager / Technical Manager of a 45 million case plant with areas of Maintenance, Blow molding and Productions. Current PM pillar at the Madison, Florida Manufacturing facility as well as and Nestle TPM Coach.

• Managed both Operations and Technical Role

• Opened NCE Gate and Started TPM

• Managed Thread finish project on all 1/2 liter lines

• Upgraded Maintenance Shop and Layout to teach MWG 5's

• Accident free for 3 years

Nestle Waters North America, Zephyrhills, FL 2002 to 2009

Operations Manager

Operations manager of a 70 million case plant with areas of Maintenance, Blow molding and Production with a 2.5 million maintenance budget

• Most Improved Plant 2002,2005

• Created Lubrication program, Built Maintenance Shop and created 5's standards

• worked with and ran several equipment install projects for production lines

Nestle Waters North America, Zephyrhills, FL 1998 to 2002

Production/Technical Resource

Managed the bulk department of 2 1-gallon lines and 1-2.5-gallon line

Start up manager for 3 new line installation while adhering to NWNA new line start up process

Created 5's program and audit to insure housekeeping standards and quality products

Created 1st automated downtime tracking system for NWNA that led to the installation of EIT

Created rebuild programs that supported winter time projects and comprehensive maintenance budget reporting for resources

E.F. Lea Electrical Contractor, Jacksonville, FL 1988 to 1998

Electrician

Certified Journeyman Electrician/ Industrial controls electrician working with Bottling Plants installing Pet production lines. Supported special projects and programming on equipment centers as well as equipment upgrades driven by the maintenance managers. Serviced and supported beverage companies including Pepsi, Coke, Southeast Atlantic, RC cola. Headed many projects installing seamers, fillers, packaging equipment, New Production Line installations, lab systems, Water process systems, lighting, and new office installations as well as power distribution systems.

• Learned problem solving and motor controls and supported automation projects

• Electrical Journeyman's Licenses

• Knowledgeable in power distribution and controls

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