Matthew Pitcher

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Plant Manager Linde -Medford, OR

February 2014 to October 2016

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Emergency Response incident commander

• Responsible for preparedness of the ERT team and fostered an environment of collaboration between Linde and community emergency services.

• Responsible for overall Site Security and compliance with Department of Homeland Security regulations.

• Primary interface for third party oversight and regulatory entities, including but not limited to. local fire department and HAZMAT team, local law enforcement, EPA, OSHA, and municipal water and sewer authorities

• Lead and participated in local safety programs and initiatives

• Primary responsibility for the proper and timely handling and reporting of site incidents and near misses

• Recruited plant employees

• Developed personnel to maximize productivity

• Fostered a cooperative, team environment, conducive to diverse backgrounds, opposing viewpoints, and open exchange of ideas

• Evaluated staff, providing timely and constructive feedback

• Consistently addressed behavioral and performance issues

• Identified and lead projects which aligned with company objectives

• Routinely measured and reported performance against agreed goals and objectives (KPIs)

• Direct responsibility and accountability for on-time delivery

• Responsible for evaluating existing resources and procuring assets to support new business

• Ensured supply of raw materials

• Developed inventory targets and ensured that these targets were met as part of business continuity planning

• Ensured appropriate production planning

• Scheduled labor and overtime in line with plant capacity and demand

• Interfaced with logistics and planning personnel to establish and maintain proper stock levels at stocking locations and customer locations

• Ensured expertise regarding domestic and international shipping regulations

• Direct accountability for quality of products

• Visibly lead and demonstrated a commitment to quality and continuous improvement.

• Took immediate action to correct discrepancies with plant policies and issues and set corrective actions to prevent reocurrences

• Fostered a culture of continuous improvement at all levels of the organization.

• Promoted system improvements utilizing six sigma and lean

• Supported commercial team

• Hosted customer and regulatory plant tours and audits

• Responsible to develop a yearly budget and periodically review and report variances to Operations Management

• Ensured timely and accurate processing of invoices

• Communicated site and division performance to local personnel

• Developed long term strategic planning to meet the company's vision for success and performance

• Managed the local engineering team to execute plant projects to meet cost, schedule, and scope

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Responsible for the safe and profitable operations of the Medford, OR Electronic and Specialty Gas Plant which is a PSM, RMP, and Department of Homeland Security regulated site

• Managed and grew a plant of 35 employees to a plant of 50 plus plant employees with 15 division and engineering resources

• Recertified site to OSHA VPP Star status which included a week long audit with 4 auditors and interviews with 100% of the on site team including contractors

• Increased plant product line loading by over 50% on multiple products

• Increased site profitability by 30%

• Managed a highly technical team to their best performance

• Started 11BF3 and Si2H6 new product lines while growing WF6, HBr, BCl3, Cl2, CO2, F2 and F2 mixes, SiH4, TCS, and H2/N2 existing product lines

• Projects completed to double the capacity of the WF6 product line

Plant Manager/Site Supervisor

Air Products - February 2010 to February 2014

• Responsible for site safety performance, employee and contractor BSP compliance and PSM/CalARP/CalOSHA compliance

• Achieve and maintain environmental compliance targets

• Responsible for plant budget in excess of 80MM

• Turnaround planning and management (24 month cycle)

• Supervise operators, maintenance technicians, and contractors

• Support of all aspects of the 24/7 day-to-day operations, including troubleshooting plant process problems, supervising daily plant activities and driving plant projects

• Provide support to SoCal TGEE pipeline system

• Oversight of customer billing and natural gas nomination activities

• Work with process engineering group to ensure the facility is operating at the highest efficiency possible

• Identify maintenance concerns or improvements, then develop and implement corrective/preventative measures

• Document plant downtime and CoNC and drive corrective actions

• Interface with tactical planning and delivery logistics planning to ensure inventory management of the facilities products

• Interface with regulatory officials to ensure that all health, safety and environmental regulations are complied with and support all internal and external audits

• Main operations contact with refinery operations team on all plant issues, improvement projects, scheduling downtime, and billing

• Built strong relationships with the plant and regional support teams as well as contractors and brought in the required support depending on site needs and priorities

• Strong commitment to employee involvement, team building and diversity

• Provided backup for the Wilmington and Pipeline Site Supervisors

Production Manager/Cell Manager

Honeywell Aerospace - 2008 to 2010

• Responsible for the production of all space manufacturing product lines - thrust vector actuation kits (electronic control units, actuators, reservoirs, pressure vessel, manifold) SM3 TSRM and DACS thruster assemblies, space station valves, and Atlas ground, flight, and check valves as well as the tool room (machine shop) and clean room at the Tempe Honeywell Site.

• Responsible for a large highly technical and cross function team of engineers, technicians, assemblers, production planners, machinists and a welder on both conventional and a 24/5 work week schedules

• Provides all HR functions for 29 direct reports which include goal setting, evaluations, performance monitoring and progressive discipline plans, interviewing and hiring, and terminating employment

• Responsible for leading, developing and mentoring a high performance work team which manages material flow, assembles, tests, and performs final product preparation, inspection and packaging of aerospace components

• Provides coaching and mentoring in support of professional development of direct reports

• Demonstrated commitment to identify and resolve employee satisfaction issues

• Proven leadership, associate development skills and the ability to build strong teams

• Actively contributed to the achievement of company goals for Safety, Security, Affirmative Action, EEO, Environmental Protection, Housekeeping, and a union free workplace

• Responsible for meeting financial goals of the department

• Demonstrated an active commitment to lean manufacturing/six sigma principles and implementation

• Coordinated support resources to solve in process hardware and technical problems

• Drove HOS (Honeywell Operating System based off of Toyota Operating System) implementation in cells

• Demonstrated a commitment to continuous improvement and process improvement

• Achieved and maintained better than 95% on time delivery to manufacturing schedule

• Developed and managed strategies and projects for inventory and cycle-time reduction

• Developed and executed a plan to achieve 20% plus annual productivity improvements

• Responsible for ISO and Missile Defense Agency Audits of manufacturing areas

• Experience in direct customer interface both in person and on daily and weekly conference calls

• Effectively flowed down site and product line business requirements into actionable tasks

• Manage cell expenses, operating procedures, employee specification and performance reporting systems

• Superior interpersonal and communication skills; effective at all levels of management

• Lead team in root cause analysis and action implementation and reporting results to senior management and customers

• Strong knowledge of SAP

Operations Manager

Air Products and Chemicals - 2006 to 2008

• Responsible for all site manufacturing through the use of SAP (five product lines)

• Responsible for all operators, operations specialists, SAP power user, production planners and transportation planners (warehouse and parts room) on both conventional and a 24/7 compressed workweek schedules including HR functions (evaluations, performance monitoring and progressive discipline plans, coaching, interviewing and hiring, and terminating employment)

• Oversee materials management including purchasing, receiving, delivery, planning and inventory management of the facility

• Site leadership in organization's international supply chain planning including Supply Meetings and Partnership Meetings

• Primary site member of organization's quality steering committee

• Member of site continuous improvement steering committee where future CI plans are developed, approved, staffed and prioritized

• Lead implementation of continuous improvement projects using flow, 6S (Workplace Organization and Visual Controls), mistake proofing, and ACE (cause and effect), Kaizen, and Six Sigma

• Owner of site eMOC (electronic Management of Change - site change process) program

• Maintain all operations to ISO certification standards (ISO9000-2000) and lead participate in all internal and external LRQA audits

• Hosted site regulatory and customer audits and site tours

• Superior skills working in a matrix organization

• Site P&L (profit and loss) and variance responsibility

• Responsible for site SOX compliance

• Manage product lines consistency and improvements using SPC data and monitor/react to control charts trends for in control product offerings and to increase product yields

• ERT team management including responsibilities for team training, equipment, drills and reports

• Proven safety record including leadership in many safety programs including BSP (Basic Safety Process), APSAM

(Air Products Self Monitoring Module), PSM (Process Safety Management) audits and ESM (Electronics Specialty Materials) organization safety meetings, JSAs (Job Safety Observations), TSOs (Task Safety Observations)

• Operations lead in site OPHRs (Operating Plant Hazard Reviews), PHAs (Process Hazards Analysis), and ORIs

(Operational Readiness Inspections)

• Lead in all recordable injury/first aid, near miss, customer complaint and quality investigations

Gas/Chemical Operations Manager

Air Products and Chemicals - 2000 to 2005

• Responsible for bulk/specialty gas and chemical systems operations at all Intel Fabs in Arizona

• Responsible for all gas/chemical related equipment, including but not limited to gas cabinets, BSGS (bulk specialty gas systems), purifiers, bulk tanks, delivery units, analyzers, valve manifold boxes, chemical dispense modules, chemical valve boxes, solvent valve boxes, monitoring and control systems, and all related equipment.

• Oversee materials management including purchasing, receiving, delivery and general inventory management of gases and chemicals

• Lead and/or participate in gas and chemical related task forces and seven step problem solving sessions

• Act as liaison between Intel and Air Products, including facilitating work between all areas of fab (i.e. engineering, management, facilities, EH&S)

• Proven safety record including roll out and leadership in BSP (site safety program)

• Assist Intel with environmental reporting and outside agency tours of the gas and chemicals areas

• Maintain all operations to ISO 9000/2000 certification standards and participate in all internal and external audits

• Contributed to major projects as part of the design and management team including 300 mm conversion of Fab 12, Fab 22 design and startup, Fab 12 858 and 859 expansions

• Directly manage 18 technicians on a 24/7 compressed work week schedule

• Superior skills as team builder, coach, and mentor

• Responsible for site continuous improvement and lean enterprise events

Lead Technician/Project Manager

Air Products and Chemicals - 1997 to 2000

• Develop policies and procedures

• Troubleshoot and repair all site equipment

• Train technicians on equipment, procedures and safety standards

• Act as liaison with team and site manager

• Supervise the installation and startup new equipment

• Review all gas system design and tool installation packages

• Develop team and build rapport with clients and contractors Technician

Air Products and Chemicals - 1994 to 1997

• Troubleshoot, repair, start-up, and operate bulk and specialty gas equipment including analytical equipment.

• Receive and inventory all incoming product.

EDUCATION

B.S. in Technical Management

DeVry Institute of Technology - Mesa, AZ

Graduated - 2004

AAS in Electronics

DeVry - Phoenix, AZ

Graduated - 1992

Green Belt Certified

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