Senior Manager Continuous Improvement
Resume:
Larry W. Powell
Troy, Illinois 62294
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Overview
Senior Manager with business, engineering and functional experience. High energy problem-solver whose strengths include critical thinking and exceptional communication skills. Able to anticipate issues and proactively deliver innovative solutions. Proven performance strengths in business management, continuous improvement, engineering, data and information organization, and technical skills. Ability to apply inherent and learned organization techniques and technology to solve corporate issues within budget, time and resource constraints. Applies strengths to reach value-added solutions within a work environment.
Areas of Experience
Management of large groups, 200 plus salaried and hourly personnel. Including but not limited to IT professionals, controls engineers, planners, schedulers, storeroom managers, mechanical engineers, AutoCAD engineers, supervisors, and contract employees.
Experience in Networking, switches, routers, wireless applications, WMS systems, SQLDB B2B transactions, server client relationships.
Lead IT organization, leadership in utilizing IT resources to improve the flow of data, from speed to more intuitive programs.
Trained in Advanced Control Logix and Factory talk View Studio. Very well versed to provide leadership for projects, containing these elements.
Six Sigma Green Belt, have lead multiple projects for hundreds of thousands to multi-million dollar projects. Never had a project come in over budget or late.
Lead root cause analysis and leveraged to business units advantage, eliminated repeat failures and educed technical stoppages year over year by 3% to world class levels of 2% or less.
Natural communicator, with outstanding interpersonal skills, and engaging business leader.
Experience across multiple manufacturing environments and the processes for producing many types of products
Extensive business acumen with a large amount of experience in large manufacturing environments.
Experience in change management, managing both process and organizational changes.
Experience in Financial planning, budgeting, and accounting of budgets in excess of $100MM
Experience in OEE, manufacturing, productivity and efficiency measurements and monitoring.
Experience in sustainability serving on national energy team, to drive improvements in companies overall carbon footprint, energy use, negotiation of rates and contracts for energy.
Manager of projects and served as plant electrical engineer, providing Electrical Reliability and state of the art automation controls to processing and packaging equipment.
Energy conservation experience, providing a 3% reduction in plant energy costs from 2005-2004.
Lead efforts to reduce waste and automate all of the plant production lines from 77% availability to 90% availability through continuous improvement and departmental focus.
Responsible for driving $11.1 Million dollar productivity target, by applying business practices and knowledge to the department and returning the department to profitability. My department delivered the greatest productivity of any department in the facility appx. $1.5MM dollars in productivity against operating budget.
Experience in Electrical Arc Flash, and plant safety, machine guarding and controls.
Lead the Quality Change Management System for the Engineering department, and an active member in out ISO 2000 certification drive.
Long range planning and strategic leader formulating 1, 3 and 5 year plans for facilities.
Employment Experience
September 2013-Present, Prairie Farms –Granite City, Illinois – Plant Engineer
January 2012– September 2013 Nestle USA – Bloomington, Illinois – Maintenance Manager
March 2009 – July 2011 Archer Daniels Midland – Decatur, IL – IT and Maintenance Superintendent
October 2007 – December 2008 Multiple contract jobs with Baptistas Bakery, Franklin Wi, ACH Foods – Champaign, IL. – Senior Project Engineer and Manager of Technology
Sept 2003 – October 2007: Kraft Foods – Champaign, IL – Manufacturing Maintenance Manager / Controls Manager
Educational Experience
Degrees :
Colorado Technical University – Executive Masters Business Administration
Colorado Technical University – Bachelors in Business Administration Information Technology- Magna Cum Laude
Kaskaskia College - AAS Electronics Engineering Technology – Magna Cum Laude
Professional Certificates:
Villanova University – Green Belt Six Sigma Certification
Villanova University – Lean Six Sigma Certification
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