Edward Rose

**** ********* *****. • Rock Hill, SC 29732

H: 803-***-**** •

C: 256-***-****

ad38gi@r.postjobfree.com

INDUSTRIES: PAPER, CHEMICAL, PLASTICS ( and rubber) • BUILDING PRODUCTS

POSITIONS: CORPORATE DIRECTOR • PLANT MANAGER • START UP MANAGER • CORPORATE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT MANAGER • TECHNICAL AND RESEARCH MANAGER • PRODUCTION MANAGER • ENGINEERING AND MAINTENANCE MANAGER • DEPARTMENT MANAGER • MAJOR PROJECT MANAGER • INNOVATIONS AND ACQUISITIONS TECHNICAL MANAGER• PROCESS ENGINEERING MANAGER• CORPORATE PROCESS” TROUBLE SHOOTER”

Career goals overview:

Outstanding track record of strategic contributions in Paper, Building Products, Chemical and Plastics Manufacturing resulting in continuously exceeding objectives, increasing profits and continuous system improvements.

Primary career focus has been on startups, equipment and system upgrades and turnarounds. This has led purposely to multiple career opportunities and changes that has enabled me to have a far wider and advanced technical and operational knowledge base than people in similar management roles.

Career Goal: “Create and retain more job opportunities for America manufacturing through technical, manufacturing and process advancements. Find position in Rock Hill, SC (within 50 mile radius)

Highlights from three industries:

Chemical industry:

Worked with Teams in development of 23 new product applications, plus helped generate over 35 million dollars in profits from new business opportunities within a 3-year period. As the Chemical Plant Manager and Engineering manager, led Team in capital expansion project (new reactors and distillation tower); installed and startup of milling and bagging operation; developed preventative maintenance program; expanded Quality program; and led efforts in an improved safety program that resulted in no lost time accidents over the next 2-year period after having multiple accidents yearly before arrival. Led Team in efficiency process studies that resulted in improved margins of 10-20% in several manufacturing product lines. Served as Continuous Process Improvement Champion and contact for automotive industry. Held positions up to Corporate Technical Director, and Plant Manager. Some of chemical specializations include polymers- coagulants and flocculants, lubricants, silicates and nanoparticles, cleaning and deposition controlling agents, fire retardants, coatings, grease resistance and sizing chemistries, absorbents, defoamers, and performance aids.

Paper, Packaging, and Recycling:

In paper machine area involved in 11 paper machine startups or rebuilds; numerous upgrades and advance technology projects such as control system upgrades; forming table designs; upgraded press designs; calendar and coating upgrades; stock prep and refining upgrades; retention and polymer control innovations. Have developed programs from concepts and trained and developed numerous teams from new operators up through foremen, engineers and superintendents. Skills in both technical areas plus process improvements and human resource development. Led plants in multiple upgrades to make lightweight liner grades with virgin and recycled blends was corporate expert in area.

In continuous improvement area have been a past Corporate Technical Director covering continuous improvement, quality, technical and engineering plus capital projects for all Paper manufacturing (including pulp, woodyard, bleach plant and utilities). This also included corrugation plants and wood converting operations. Have assisted or led the development of process improvement programs in five different companies. (See attached skills sheet for reference of expertise in numerous continuous improvement techniques. This has allowed me to modify programs to match different company programs and their cultures to create a pathway for further advancements.)

Two significant accomplishments in this area include: CEO annual letter to shareholders indicating the development of these programs led to returning to profitability after a negative profit year plus this being the company path forward to build on this progress. The second achievement at another company was utilizing this method in a new plant start up that was merged with an existing plant. The joint merged plants won “plant of the year” by obtaining the seventh-year business goals in 18 months. This has become the center of excellence in plant operations and other plants are sending management teams to learn the practical applications developed and utilized in this cultural transformation that includes safety, training; plus, employee and team development, process and procedures, reliability, continuous improvement, cost takeout, and problem solving.

Additional paper mill experiences include Manager over two recycled recovery facilities. This includes their engineering and start up of the facilities. Department head or assist superintendent or higher for wood yard, pulp mill, bleaching, utilities and recovery areas, plus maintenance, engineering. Considered expert in continuous improvement systems plus paper mill areas such as wet end areas; chemical systems; recycled fiber utilization; coatings and gypsum chemical systems. Managed or participated in numerous projects across mill such as new bleach plant and recovery systems; wood yard upgrades; fiber and raw materials upgrades in recovery and utilities; installation of continuous digester and screening; pulp washer upgrades; control systems for batch digester optimization; deinking systems and new performance chemistries; new coating systems, laminating and plastic coating applications and formulations Also led projects in fluff pulp; environmental upgrades; turbine installation; plastics and other coating applications.

Plastics and Roofing:

In the Plastics and Roofing Industry have led in startup and upgrades of TPO plastic roofing lines which is a laminated extruded product. Have also participated in start up of ISO board operation which is a foam generated board for insulation. Finally was technical support for a roofing rubber extrusion process in Ohio after they had lost several of their technical staffs. Also worked in research and application of advancements in fiberglass mat lines manufacturing process and formulations. Served as a Technical, Quality and field support for both fiberglass mat systems, and (bituminous/ asphalt) shingle systems. Worked on continuous formulation upgrades and plastics recycle use in TPO. Worked with Plant Teams in developing continuous process systems such as KT and 5S. Served as Process Improvement Leader and Problem-Solving Coach. Held positions up to Technical and Research Manager and Plant Production Manager. In addition, 7 years as a Technical and Research manager for PVC, plastics, film and laminating applications in paper and flooring including both formulations and applications.

SUMMARY OF SPECIAL SKILLS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

(This highlights only some of existing skills.)

Financial Skills:

P&L Budgeting for Plant: Annual and Monthly budgets with Monthly report outs; Including budgets based on 1.) Standards; 2.) Plans (consideration of changes in process, Cost take outs, material changes and price changes, technical process changes); and 3.) Forecasts (adjustments in maintenance or material spends or process to maintain overall budget goals or changes in operational requirements). Experienced in EBITDA, variance control and volume (absorption) based systems for budgeting. Typical budgeting for 14-50 million annual expenditures. Have assisted in area preparations for up to 1 billion in total program expenditures.

Capital Budgeting: Presentation and capital packages prepared to support goals, upgrades, like kind and other capital considerations utilizing such techniques as 4 block summaries with typical cost analysis, depreciation and investment return (IR) analysis. Prepared and managed capital projects more than 200 million with typical project management 5-50 million.

Departmental and Maintenance Budgeting: Coordinated budgets for departments for both production and maintenance areas. Maintenance include specialized planned maintenance shutdown budgets, contract services, manning and materials budgets, plus stores and spare parts budgets and annual expense budgets. Budgeting also included Asset and Reliability programs with cost reduction and containment processes.

Research and Developmental Budgets: Cost outlays versus potential outcomes with risk analysis and potential market penetrations.

Business Functionality Software Experience:

SAP (current): full applications including areas as financial, inventory, logistics, quality, and production.

JD Edwards (several years in past): full system application as with SAP.

WebEx, Microsoft office skills, Outlook

Microsoft projects: Maintenance control

Process Control:

Pi: data control systems and data analysis

Historian: data analysis

Continuous Improvement Skills, Quality Control and Problem solving:

Kepner Trego, (Trainer) Six sigma black belt (trained through corporate program), 5S and 6S Lean (Trainer), Toyota, 8D, ISO systems (quality) and ISO 14001(environmental), DOE (design of experiments), Voice of the Customer.

Management Training and Skills, plus Safety and other:

Some recent areas include: Critical conversations, Critical accountability, Manager as a Coach, first line Management skills (Trainer), VPP safety (OSHA volunteer protection program)- manager involved in certification process, Dupont Behavior based safety program,

Some outstanding awards during career:

MVP award three times and with 2 different companies, Above and Beyond contributor (2 years-); Blue Ribbon Contribution, (Top 1% performer award (4 years), President’s High-Performance award, Young Engineer Award. “Plant of Year” award in corporation for 2020.

Leadership Accountability: Have managed up to 700 employees in direct chain of command and up to 2000 plus indirectly. Typical management Teams 70-200.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & ACCOMPLISHMENTS (LAST 12 YEARS)

Present Position

Johns Manville, February 2016 -Present

Scottsboro, Alabama and Hillsboro, Texas

Present position- Plant Production Manager (Superintendent-asst plant manager)

Past Positions-

Senior Process Engineer and Project start up Production Manager

Process Improvement Manager

Led production Teams in maintaining no lost time records for Safety through Startup and existing postproduction periods.

Successfully lead Team through achieving goals on FPY on both new and existing TPO lines which contibuted to CTO savings for plant in excess of 1 million annually.

Led Startup crews through development and training of a new TPO Plastic roofing plant.

Currently senior Plant Production Manager for Production, Shipping, and Logistics of Plant which includes two TPO lines.

Budgeting responsibility for multiple plant areas. Corporate report out on overall plant performance.

Primary process engineers for project working with the Production Team to establish the operational conditions of the new line.

Led plant in the development of Problem-Solving techniques such as 5 why, KT and others, implemented with the Team new training methods that continuously upgrades the training materials such as JSA and SOP’s.

On support team for business development team of PVC and injection mold development.

Assisting start up in Texas facility starting in 2021 in addition to Alabama position. This was a ISO board facility using a foam generating process.

Was also a technical support for our Ohio plant producing extruded rubber roofing. Including modifications of formulation changes during supply shortages. And leading team in FMEA problem solving sessions.

Led team in converting all areas to digital data input on pads and computer and eliminated all paper forms input.

Georgia Pacific Corporation, 2012-2016

Sr. Corporate Staff Engineer- Director level- Primary Corporate Trouble Shooter – major issues that involved millions of dollars in production or quality issues.

Assisted Mills with high priority items that were causing major issues in meeting their operational goals.

Trained plants in continuous improvement and problem-solving methods.

Assisted Plant Teams in correcting paper machine issues and productivity goals, plus maintenance issues. Assisted in such areas as coating issues, pressing, drying, wet end, quality and test improvements, formation improvements, refining, stock treatment and chemical programs, winder issues, pulping issues and bleaching and Fluffed pulp and wood yard and conversion issues.

Assisted Mills with major capital plans, development, and execution of projects from 2 million to 500 million.

Worked on a key innovation wet end projects including installation, start-up and training on six different liner board paper machines.

Helped select, install and train mill teams in selection of innovated systems in Paper Machine area and to a lesser degree in Pulp Mill areas.

Designed the preliminary plans for rebuilding 3 different complete paper machines (115-280 million-dollar projects, each) covering to light weight liner.

Helped two mills establish best practice of in-line continuous improvement system utilizing an Operational Envelope that constantly tracked values and used statically controlled limits to notify operators real time of values.

Created and conducted extensive training programs that improved results.

Documented contributions of more than 20 million annually on performance reviews. annual reviews.

Assisted 3 plants to convert paper machines to manufacture light weight liner.

Rock Tenn — Florence, SC (2010-2012)

Production Manager / Area Manager – Paper Machines and Shipping

(Recruited to improve paper machine operations that had not achieved budget and operational targets for 14 straight months.)

Select Accomplishments:

Paper machine area Team achieved both profitability and production targets within 90 days after arrival and maintain goals 22 of next 24 months.

Responsible for “FRONT SIDE” of mill operations. HD’s through Shipping.

Team set several single day and multiple day production records.

Reduced breaks per day on one line by over 50%.

No lost time accidents in supervised area for entire time managing area. Best record in over 5 years for safety.

GAF Corporation (2008-2010)

Chester, SC,

Technical Director of Plant and SE Region for Corporation

Led Technical and Research Team in fiberglass mat plant and in support of other roofing plants in SE region. This included 3 technicians and 1 engineer directly.

Research included optimizing fiber glass manufacturing and TPO formulation development.

Successfully lead over 2 million cost reduction projects to reduce fiberglass mat weight and thickness while meeting equal engineering specifications.

Supported plant and other roofing plants in various operational and quality projects such as winder upgrades, moisture shower and bituminous/ asphalt applications.

Led and trained operators and engineers in problem solving techniques: 6 sigmas, Lean, 5 why and KT.

Other relevant positions in past:

Unitex Chemicals, Greensboro, NC (2007-2008)

Mill Manager

Developed and rewrote quality and process improvement program.

Led and trained operators and engineers in problem solving techniques: 6 sigma, Lean, 5 why and KT, 8D.

Led certification program for automotive industry customers.

Over Engineering and Maintenance programs.

Installed 3 reactors and 1 distillation column (4 million project).

Installed milling and bagging operation.

Lost time accident free for 2 years while there.

Due to personal economic hardship in 2008 retired mill manager requested to return and I worked will ownership team to grant this and accepted my next position at GAF.

Akzo Nobel (chemicals) 1998-2004

Technical and Product Technology Manager

Nalco Chemical (chemicals) 1991-1998

Technology and Applications Manager (SE region)

Research Applications (Corporate)

Chesapeake Corporation and Wisconsin Tissue, West Point, VA (1984-1991)

(Recruited to lead startup of 2 paper machines and recycled plant)

Some of positions while at Chesapeake include:

Corporate Engineering and Technical Director

oResponsible for all capital project development for corporation

oOver continuous improvement and quality program for corporation

Total program transformation across all plants.

o Corporate program Safety Manager

o Corporate Research Manager

Wisconsin Tissue Plant Manager (transition manager, after acquisition)

Production Manager, bleached and unbleached grades, liner board, bag, bleached board, specialty

Star up Manager for 2 paper machines and recycled plant (140 million project)

Technical support and engineering start up for 2 recycled recovery plants.

Plant Superintendent of Maintenance

Superintendent or Asst Superintendent in rotation of all areas (Pulp Mill, Bleach Plant, Utilities Paper Machines)

Select Accomplishments:

Developed and rewrote quality and process improvement program for entire corporation.

Trained over 2000 employees in 8 sites on quality and continuous improvement and problem-solving methods.

Established corporate program on continuous improvement that led company back to profitability.

Within 90 days met start up goals of new systems after project behind for 6 months before taking over as project manager.

Supported acquisition team as Technical Lead in acquiring 3 mills.

Served as transitional Plant Manager over one of acquisition mills.

Created new products for company.

Served as technical resource for auxiliary companies in recycled and wood products areas.

EDUCATION:

Majored in Pulp and Paper with Chemical Engineering option

(Majored in Chemistry before switching with 30 plus hours in Chemistry.)

B.S. DEGREE 1980, NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY.

Worked on MBA degree 1983-84 at LSU, Incomplete due to job transfer.

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