Operations Manager Plant
Resume:
Wesley E. Riggleman
Rockingham, VA 22802
Objective:
To obtain a management position that will leverage my strengths and maximize my contributions to the organization’s goals and objectives.
Key Skills:
Build relationships
Develop Others
Motivate for High Performance
Challenge, Innovate, Change
Improve processes
Employment History:
Bowman/Andros Products
Bowman/Andros Mt Jackson Virginia
Nov 2021 to Present Plant Manager. Responsible for all Production-Sanitation and Quality depts. in the Core Sauce and Pouch production area’s at the Mt Jackson facility.
Cargill, Inc.
Cargill Protein - Timberville, Virginia
April, 2012 to Oct 2021 – Plant Operations Manager. Responsible for all production operations at cooked meats facility.
Direct management of two area managers. Production team includes four salaried supervisors and 200 hourly associates.
Implemented Management Operating System to drive continuous improvement in key operations metrics including labor variance, quality, and production efficiencies.
Reduced hourly staffing by ten percent to maximize labor efficiencies.
Led facility through various project implementations including new computer operating system launch (SAP) as well as new product lines (diced chicken, pepperoni).
Cargill Value Added Meats – Retail, Dayton, Virginia
2007 – April, 2012 – Operations Manager B. Responsible for turkey deboning operations.
Manage four salaried production supervisors with 184 hourly operations employees. Reduced one salaried headcount in deboning area.
Installed ergonomically designed thigh conveyor system that eliminated two staffing positions and reduced risk.
Additional risk reduction projects include implementing use of ergonomic steels for knife sharpening, 30-minute job rotations, employee-led warm-up exercises, and pneumatic ergonomic stands at the leg processors.
Promote employee engagement through weekly breakfast meetings with new hires, and engagement teams.
2005 – 2007 – Operations Manager B. Responsible for 2nd shift Further Processing operations.
Managed six salaried production supervisors with 254 hourly operations employees.
Installed sizing equipment to sort product and increase rotisserie production in bone-in turkey breast area.
Installed a slide at the ground turkey area that enabled the department to run frozen burgers and family pack ground turkey down the same conveyor with no increase in staffing.
2001 – 2005 – Senior Supervisor (area manager) – 1st shift deboning
Managed three salaried supervisors at the same time providing direct supervision to 42 hourly operations employees. The deboning area had a total of 205 employees.
Traveled to another facility to learn about thigh and drumstick deboning equipment prior to installing in Dayton facility.
Rocco, Inc.
Shady Book Farms, Dayton, Virginia (acquired by Cargill)
1999 – 2001 – Production Supervisor – 1st shift deboning
By setting department expectations and managing performance, eliminated need for 20 second shift positions that had been supporting breast trim operations
1998 – 1999 – Production Supervisor – 2nd shift evisceration
1995 – 1998 – Maintenance Mechanic
Maintained company-wide continuous improvement program working with quality control technicians and USDA inspectors. Required supervising and motivating 6 – 10 hourly employees to complete routine maintenance tasks such as painting, replacing conveyor belts and other minor repairs.
1990 – 1995 – Lead Person (level 2) – 1st shift chiller department
Coordinated activities of 40 hourly production workers in four different areas on a daily basis. Filled in for supervisor for an extended period while supervisory position was vacant. Responsible for employees’ safety, time and attendance records, production data, etc. Reduced department overtime costs during this assignment. Managed performance of several below target employees.
As ergonomics team lead, identified and improved the ergonomic efficiency of numerous processes.
Education and Training
Dale Carnegie Course
High Performance Management – Cargill, Inc.
Industrial Management course – Blue Ridge Community College, Weyers Cave, Virginia
Certificate: Human Resources for the non-HR Manager – Blue Ridge Community College
Industrial Maintenance Apprenticeship courses – Massanutten Technical Center
oTechnical math, industrial maintenance welding, mechanical maintenance, electricity 1, basic motor controls, blueprint reading and schematics, developing troubleshooting skills, supervisory skills, communications skills, industrial first aid and CPR
High School Diploma – Spotswood High School, Penn Laird, Virginia
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