Production Manager Entry Level

Eric E. Gebhart

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Cell: 302-***-**** Email: *********@*****.***

OPERATIONS MANUFACTURING LEADER

Versatile, resourceful and highly energetic professional, drives results through developing and implementing practical, customer-driven solutions. Builds relationships at all organizational levels and effectively balances both strategic and tactical approaches. Has experience in a variety of operational functions to include: manufacturing, logistics/product supply and distribution

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Union Environment • Training and Development • Change Agent • Drives for results • Integrated LEAN 6 sigma • Conflict Resolution • SAP - Championed the facility with the role out of IL6S

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

• 2014-Received an Above and Beyond the Call of Duty (ABCD) Award for leading an industry best practice process (IL6S)

• 2015-Received Managers Award for executing a $5MM dollar repatriation project

• Successfully negotiated four-year IBT and three-year UFCW Union bargaining agreements

• Well-rounded manufacturing professional with solid hands on experience

• Promoted from Ops Supervisor to Manager

• Certified Six Sigma Green Belt

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Hirsch Industries Dover, DE 2022 – 2024

The company was responsible for producing industrial sized filing cabinets to major companies (Wal-Mart, Office Depot, Staples, etc...)

Production Manager

• Managed the production of 50 employees

• Areas of responsibility included overseeing the weld, paint, and assembly shops

• My crew achieved the most favorable number the company has reached. Our direct labor was 103% and our compliance to plan was 101%.

Kraft Heinz Company, Dover, DE 2012 – 2022

Kraft Heinz Company is the third-largest food and Beverage Company in North America and the fifth-largest food and beverage company in the world with eight $1 billion + brands

Materials Manager

• Managed 600+ salaried and hourly field-based employees

• Delivered direct and open-door concept access to senior executives, managers, interns, entry level and PT employees

• Controlled a Raw Pack and Whip inventory level of over $20MM

• Managed a finished good inventory level of 350MM lbs

• Managed a buffer warehouse with 19M pallet spaces and an outside storage warehouse containing 50M pallet spaces

• Administered annual merit planning and executive stock awards against $2.5 million budget

• Responsible for managing all warehouse and distribution employees – with a fleet of 100 Powered Industrial Vehicles – to include forklifts, yard equipment, and railroad cars

• Managed appraising performance system (MAPS)

• Managed the scheduling and purchasing for 32 production lines – major brands of Jell-O / Kool-Aid /Stove Top / Shake N Bake / Crystal light

Kraft Foods, Dover, DE 2008 – 2012

Business Unit Manager

• Managed over 400 employees across the entire site

• Responsible for the operations of 32 production lines and 1MM square foot of conversion space

Kraft Foods, Dover, DE 2005 – 2008

Business Unit Leader

• Lead a team of 100+ employees across the Stove Top and Shake N Bake business

• Repatriated 15MMlbs of crumb from an outside vendor to be manufactured in the Dover Plant; this was a $42MM capital investment

• Worked on a lean project to reduce 12 different types of bread crumb being used across Stove Top and Shake N Bake to four types

• Harmonized all Canadian packaging sizes and formulas to match the U.S. version; this created less mechanical changeovers and reduced our raw and pack inventory

Kraft Foods, Dover, DE 2003 – 2005

Operations Supervisor

• Supervised 80+ employees across both Kool-Aid and Stove Top businesses

• Completed a Six Sigma Green Belt project that was a $400M savings for the plant

• Redesigned the baffling system on top of a Kool-Aid filler that produces 24M lbs of sugar per hour (over pack on this line was 14 grams per bottle; it was reduced down to +/- 3 grams)

• Served as co-lead on a project that was developed to move all Crystal Light production from Mexico back to the U.S. which consisted of nine production lines with a total of 20 additional fillers

Kraft Foods, Dover, DE 2000 – 2003

Logistics Production Scheduler and Material Buyer

• Responsible for scheduling 15 Jell-O production lines and managing 600+ materials

• Built the truck load plans to be shipped to seven different distribution warehouses

Kraft Foods, Dover, DE 1997 – 2000

• Held several positions including Inventory management and distribution supervision

EDUCATION

B.S. Business Management

Wilmington College

Cum Laude GPA 3.9

SYSTEMS

Proficient in multiple systems – SAP, Tableau, Prism, Matrics, Hertzler, Quality Suite, SchedX, MES, Zarpac, Microsoft Office package, Manujistics, Kronos, LPR, LIS, and multiple Lean processes and procedures

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