Director of manufacturing
Resume:
Carl A. Evans...
Rivermeade Drive, Hebron, KY ***48, 513-***-****, acxz12@r.postjobfree.com
Visionary Operations Executive and adaptive change agent with a ‘customer first’ strategy, adept at removing waste, cutting costs, and improving safety and productivity in a range of industries, including Food and Beverage, Consumer Products and Manufacturing. Blends inspirational leadership, creative ingenuity, and sound strategic planning and execution to accelerate sales, revenue and profit growth. Collaborative leader excels at building and managing cohesive, motivated teams, while driving multiple high-priority projects in fast-paced, competitive environments. Improves performance and strengthens the engagement of associates by cultivating and managing culture. Select Accomplishments:
Business Transformation: Grew the ice cream and novelty category by $50M – from $300M to $350M.
Accelerated Revenue Growth: Generated $2M additional revenue over three years by recycling, education and training.
Cost Reductions: Saved $500K in costs by taking 31 plants, out of 33, to zero waste-to-landfill.
Strategic Leadership: Improved material losses by over $2M in two milk plants.
Achieving Operational Excellence: Currently saved over $2M in labor costs, and well over $20M by improvements in efficiency and safety, higher customer satisfaction, increased productivity and lower cost/unit.
Core Competencies that Facilitate Growth
Revenue Growth Profit Maximization
Strategic Analytical Planning
Executive Leadership
Operational Excellence
Facility Plant Management
Process Capital Improvements
Benchmarking Best Safety Practices
Cross-Functional Team Development Motivation Training
Quality Control Environmental Control
Crisis Management
Systems Design Integration Implementation
Budget Definition Cost Control
Customer Satisfaction Strategy
Problem Solver
Change Agent
Sustainability Management
Skilled Communicator
A Career of Delivering Enhanced Performance and Profitability
The Kroger Company, Cincinnati, OH 1999 – Present
Largest supermarket chain by revenue, second-largest general retailer, and twenty-third largest company in the US.
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS (2012 – Present)
After companywide restructuring and the redistribution of plant responsibilities, two additional director roles were created.
Promoted to take on new position with responsibility for the oversight of six manufacturing facilities.
Recorded $900M in Sales, $130M in EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) with three of six plants achieving record EBIDA in 2015.
Achieved zero waste-to-landfill from 31 of the 33 plants.
Drove up Frozen Dairy growth by 10% to $350M.
Doubled Frozen Dairy EBITDA from $16M to $32M in one year (2015).
Utilized value-stream mapping to improve customer comments by 7.5% in one year (2015).
OPERATIONS MANAGER (2011 – 2012)
Promoted to Head Office to take operations control for all grocery facilities, reduce costs and improve efficiency.
Achieved $680M in Sales and $89M in EBITDA.
Increased grocery plants productivity by 5%.
Negative customer comments decreased by 10% in one year.
GENERAL MANAGER, AMERICA’S BEVERAGE COMPANY (2010 – 2011)
America’s Beverage Company supplied Kroger with all its water and carbonated beverages, but the facility required an experienced executive to oversee refurbishment and new capital investment.
Promoted to architect expansion plans, achieve more efficient use of space and increase plant productivity.
Totaled $160M in Sales, $12M in EBITDA.
Led plant to TIR of zero in first year.
Awarded Supplier of the Year.
Improved Associate Engagement score by 10%.
GENERAL MANAGER, TARA FOODS (2008 – 2009)
Company needed to radically improve the plant’s overall performance and metrics.
Promoted to turn around the Tara Foods’ facility, and make environmental and cost savings.
Achieved record $24M EDITDA.
Improved Associate Engagement Score by 10%.
Drove Sales to $125M.
Oversaw first plant in Kroger manufacturing to be zero waste-to-landfill.
PRODUCTION MANAGER, CENTENNIAL FARMS DAIRY (2002 – 2008)
Company looked to an experienced leader to turn around what Kroger acknowledged was its worst manufacturing plant.
Recruited to oversee increased productivity, revenue and profits at the Dairy facility.
Achieved $96M in Sales and $13M in EBITDA.
Drove plant from worst in Kroger manufacturing to top five.
Increased productivity by 30%.
Improved plant from TIR 4.0 to zero.
Improved material losses by over 100%.
Achieved all green in Associate Engagement survey – first plant in Kroger.
PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR RELIABILITY ENGINEER, SOUTHERN ICE CREAM (1999 – 2002)
Kroger looked to overcome efficiency and reliability issues within the plant.
Led team that improved plant reliability from 62% to 85% in eighteen months.
Reduced changeovers on vita lines by 100%.
Nominated chair of vendor management subcommittee for all Kroger Plants.
CMP Consumer Products, Kingston, Jamaica 1996 – 1998
Paper manufacturer.
PLANT MANAGER
Facility required an experienced manager with particular expertize in product development to enable the company to compete with imports from the US.
Oversaw quality, production, maintenance and human resources.
Heavily involved in product development.
Nabisco Jamaica Ltd, Kingston, Jamaica 1993 – 1996
Manufacturer of cookies and snacks.
OPERATIONS MANAGER
Supervised production, maintenance, quality, human resources and purchasing.
Developed new products from conception to production.
Facility received Exporter of the Year Award (2x).
PREVIOUS POSITION
Production Manager, H.D. Hopwood & Company, Kingston, Jamaica (1990 – 1993).
Professional Development
Board Member, International Dairy Foods Association
Secretary of board, International Ice Cream Association
Total Quality Management Certificate, Sweden
Theory of Constraints Certificate, P&G
Education
MBA Operations Management, Kennesaw University, Kennesaw, GA
MBA Finance, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
BSC Physics, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
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