Manager Plant
Resume:
Gary Butts
Lafayette, Indiana *7909
adbmmy@r.postjobfree.com
Summary of Qualifications: Strategic minded, analytical professional with significant manufacturing, logistics, supply chain, and people management experience. Repeatedly shown to be adaptive and flexible in diverse industries with the ability to get things done while being sensitive to the diverse problems in today’s world. Demonstrated ability to identify, recruit, and train talented team members. Proven track record of achieving excellent results. Extensive knowledge of WMS systems including SAP, AS400, PKMS, Mandate, Workload, Red Prairie, Oracle, Manhattan, as well as the CASI System. Certified green belt.
Education: BS Marketing/Business Administration - Troy University
Donaldson Company– Operations Manager – Rensselaer, IN April 2018 – Present
Responsible for management and providing leadership to the functional areas of inbound, putaway, replenishment, picking, and outbound for North American Distribution Center. Responsible for achieving safety, quality, cost, productivity, financial, and delivery standards for facility. Accomplishments include 20% productivity improvement and continuous improvement ideas that generated year over year savings. Experienced in LTL, TL, parcel, and International shipping.
Hord Services – Continuous Improvement Manager – Cincinnati, OH May 2017 – April 2018
Hord Services is an engineering consulting firm specializing in reduction of labor cost involving high labor and touch points. Responsible for providing engineering knowledge which reduced an average of 10%-30% in labor cost, increased throughput 15%-30%, and improved quality. This was accomplished by developing and implementing improved processes and methods and establishing performance standards.
Levi Straus & Company –Shift Operations Manager - Florence, KY Jan 2008 – May 2017
As a senior member of the Facility Leadership Team, responsible for supporting facility director in meeting customer service levels, executing the strategic plans at the supply chain level, managing resources to achieve quality, service, cost, and productivity metrics. Providing leadership/collaborating with department managers in strategic and tactical decisions in the operations of facility, providing daily feedback as well as floor presence. Provide leadership in Human Resources and labor relations to ensure positive, progressive, and safe work climate that reinforces the company’s Terms of Engagement. Perform daily/weekly/monthly reports for senior management as well as performing succession planning for facility.
Self-Employed - April 06 - December 07
Williams-Sonoma - Operations Manager - Olive Branch, MS - Aug 03 - March 06
Responsible for complete operations of facility including receiving, replenishment, picking, packing, and shipping for 1.1 million sq. foot facility. Knowledgeable of WMS, PKMS, Kronos, RF systems as well as AS400. Responsible for staffing levels and meeting or exceeding established productivity goals. Accomplishments include improving cartons per hour shipped by 30%, improving service level from 83% to 98% and reducing cost by 31% utilizing both company employees as well as third party providers. developed company recognition program.
Varsity Brands - Operations Manager - Memphis, TN - Jan 02 - Jan 03
Responsible for managing 12 apparel contract facilities in multiple states. Responsibilities included price negotiation, scheduling, insuring on time deliver as well as quality of goods delivered. Accomplishments included sourcing first offshore products in Mexico resulting in reduced costs, improved margins, and higher financial results for company. Also, responsible for creating and publishing quality specifications standards for products produced.
William Carter Company - Sourcing Manager - Atlanta, GA - March 01 - Oct. 01
Responsible for sourcing apparel products in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Costa Rica. Responsible for identification and certification of potential contractors who could deliver a quality product in a short production window. Responsibilities included on site surveys, assessment, and negotiation of contractor cost and pricing, trouble shooting/problem solving at contractor locations. Coordinated with cross-functional departments to meet business demands and financial objectives.
William Carter Company - Plant Manager - Harlingen, Texas - July 98 - March 01
Asked to assume responsibilities for total P&L for plant of 600 plus employees with excess of 25 million dollar annual budget utilizing lean manufacturing concepts. Coordinated daily/weekly with merchandising, forecasting, and planning departments to ensure accurate delivery of products. Some accomplishments include restructuring quality dept. to achieve a 20% improvement in defect percentage, developing material usage program resulting in a $334,000 savings in 24 months, reducing excess costs by 31%, and reducing workers compensation cost $220,000 in the first year.
William Carter Company - Plant Manager - Senatobia, MS - March 93 - July 98
Directed staff of 6 managers, 12 supervisors, and 475 direct employees utilizing team Kanban manufacturing techniques. Responsible for preparation of operating and capital budgets. Accomplishments include increasing out-bound production level by 26% due to increased efficiency of direct employees, decreasing production cost by improvement of production methods and re-engineering of layout of facility. exceeding company quality goals, as well as re-training plant personnel in lean production techniques. Facility had best safety record in incidents and lost time from 1995-1998. Was asked to manage second plant in Georgia for 6-month period due to illness of plant manager.
VF Corporation - Plant Superintendent - Jackson, AL - Jan 91 - March 93
Directed 2 production managers and a staff of 12 supervisors and 550 direct employees. Responsible for plant performance in areas of schedule, cost, and quality. Other responsibilities included facility operating within budget, production and capacity planning, inventory controls, material usage, equipment justification, and meeting deadlines on a daily basis. Responsible for conversion of facility to lean team based production system.
VF Corporation - Production Manager - Atmore, AL – Feb 87 - Jan 91
Managed staff of 7 supervisors and 300-350 production employees. Responsible for meeting production, quality, cost, and safety goals for company. Implemented first lean JIT production system, which included the TSS one-piece production system. Partnered with various departments in development of policies, procedures, and methods relating to lean production techniques.
VF Corporation - Industrial Engineering - Milton, FL - April 86 - Feb 87
Received training in establishment of company standards through the use of computerized time studies, plant layout, equipment justification, analyzing and maximizing workflow design. Performed production delay studies, developed, evaluated, and improved production methods by utilizing knowledge of product design and materials.
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