Joseph A Paszkiewicz Jr

Arnold, MO 314-***-**** (cell)

adbs93@r.postjobfree.com

Consumer Goods

Change Management

JIPM

Poka-Yoke

Kaizen

Root Cause Analysis

cGMP

5’S

Value Stream Mapping

JIT

SMED

20+ years P&L responsibly

5 Why’s

KPI’s

TPM

Visual Factory

Union Management

(10 years experience)

Established track record of turning around workforce culture and leading change to align with companies’ goals. Have managed over to 250 employees with multi-site responsibility. Experience with consumer good manufacturing and have led Kaizen events and implemented Lean methodologies. Experience in cGMP, FDA, MO Pharmaceutical, HACCP, OSHA and worked with local regulatory agencies. Hands on incorporation of new products and processes, while reducing the overall demands focusing on increasing bottom-line profits. Completed plant roof top reduction and successful plant closures and consolidations. Including plant redesign to eliminate under used space and lower WIP inventories. Have developed and initiated numerous training programs.

July 2019 – Present

Huvepharma St Louis, MO / Veterinary Pharmaceutical Company

Title: Site Manager

Responsible for all site production, Budget, Shipping and Receiving, Production Quality, Continuous Improvement, Maintenance, Planning and Scheduling.

Responsible for P&L

Training & Development

Continuous Improvement, Lean, 5’s

Supply Chain Management

Plant & Work Flow Design

Maintenance

Managerial Accounting

Production Planning

Forecasting & Scheduling

Purchasing & Inventory Control

Safety

Reduction in Costs

Hired to improve quality, increase plant capacity, reduce downtime and developed positive employee culture.

Promoted in Jan 2020, assigned the additional responsibilities of the St Joseph MO Distribution Center.

Implemented a 1.2 million dollar cost saving equipment replacement program. With a ROI of less than 2 years.

Implementing TMP thermo imaging maintenance program.

Developed TMP autonomous maintenance team program to reduce break downs.

Developed teams between maintenance and production by breaking down preexisting dysfunctional silos. Teaching teamwork with emphasis in establishing a customer vendor relationships. This ended a long standing failure for these two departments to work together resulting in a positive and more productive environment.

June 2003 – December 2018

Empire Design St. Louis, MO / A contract wholesale manufacture in textiles, plastics and metals

Title: Plant Manager / Dir of Operations

Responsible for all long term strategic and daily activities of the company including Manufacturing, Accounting, Payroll, Purchasing, HR, Shipping and Receiving, Maintenance, B2B Sales, Quality, Safety and OSHA & Regulatory Compliance and Customer Service.

Responsible for P&L

Training & Development

Continuous Improvement, Lean, 5’s

Supply Chain Management

Plant & Work Flow Design

Maintenance & Engineer

Managerial Accounting

Production Planning, Forecasting & Scheduling

Purchasing & Inventory Control, Apics

OSHA & Safety

Managed IT and Network systems

CadCam, CNC, PLC

Reduction in Costs

Built company from (2) to (9) production lines utilizing a variety of materials, including copolymers and PVC as an industrial coating.

CNC machined HDPE panels and Thermo forming of HDPE panels for various consumer products and photo polymers utilized in manufacturing process. Metal Stamping and Punch Press of aluminum and steel parts and panels

Led merger of three smaller acquired companies including manufacturing, product line and inventory into our WMS system.

Reduced company’s three facilities to one main location for production and warehousing resulting in 22% reduction in labor, lowered WIP and inventories by 13%.

Lowered purchasing of raw materials by 9%.

Manager of customer service and point of contact for B2B customers and product price point.

Acted as controller of operational P&L and closed payroll and monthly inventories.

May 2000 - June 2003

Quick Point Inc. Fenton, MO / Plastics injection molding company with four different plants manufacturing wholesale plastic items primarily to the promotional products industry.

Title: Director of Manufacturing & COO

Plant Manager for Fenton, MO and Director of all plants in the Union MO, Washington MO, and Russell AR locations with over 250 reports. (14) injection molding production lines using various types of plastic copolymers were used for its products including ABS, PTFE, PPC, HIPS, PS and PC. After molding, various products would need further assembly through Ultra sonic welding, spin friction welding and mechanical fastening. Led the Manufacturing, Shipping & Receiving, Quality, Training, Maintenance, Purchasing and Safety & OSHA Regulatory Compliance.

Responsible for all manufacturing, P&L

Training and development

Continuous improvement, Lean,5’s

Engineering & Validation

Product Design

OSHA & Safety

Injection mold, tool and die design.

Supply chain management, ERP, WMS

Production planning, forecasting & scheduling

Purchasing & inventory control, Apics

Plant & work flow design

Reported quarterly to Board of Directors

Facility and machine shop management

Managed Multi plants in different states

Assisted in implementation of new WMS software launch which allowed my division to greatly lower its WIP inventories. Worked closely with IT group in launch of ERP & WMS systems.

Facilitated merger of various different production product line acquisitions and mergers.

Managed the building and updating of BOOs and BOMs, inventory SKUs and subassemblies, purchasing of raw product needs, planning and scheduling of these lines into our systems.

Led purchasing, Production and Inventory Control of several new product launches.

After down turn in industry sales, led company-wide layoff across all four manufacturing facilities reducing FTE labor by 33%.

Led relocation of manufacturing lines and closing of satellite plant reducing labor by 12 FTE’s.

Represented company in two successful arbitration claims against my decisions in labor reductions and closures. (Judgments where 100% ruled in our favor with no settlement claims awarded)

After the event of 9/11 tower attack the industry took a huge down turn and the company’s gross sales shrank in half 2012. We retained the same net profit as the prior year. The company CEO at the annual budget meeting stated he didn’t understand how our net profit was still high, the CFO responded by attributing the credit to me and new Supply Chain policies and procedures I had implemented was the result of the savings and profits.

Sep 1997 - May 2000

BioMeriux Inc. Hazelwood MO. / An infectious disease control company supplying the medical and food industries with advanced In vitro testing kits. This company was a spin-off of McDonnell Douglas to provide In vitro medical test kits for NASA astronauts. BioMeriux is a French owned company with US sales at that time of over 200 million dollars.

This company used PC and PS plastics in building a component sub assemble to capture body fluids for medical testing. The process also included bonding different plastic films to the component to control or inhibited the O2 permeability, once completed an aluminum/HDPE bonded pouch was assembled around the component and thermo sealed to prevent shelf life degradation from moisture and oxygen.

Title: Manufacturing Manager:

Production manager for all of the disposable departments and maintenance. I had (9) direct reports and (250) employees over three shifts reporting to me.

Responsible for P&L and Budget

Coaching, Training & employee development

Continuous improvement, Lean,5’s

Kanban, Kaizen

Engineering & Equipment validation

Project Management

Leadership Training

Worked with Sales and Marketing Teams

Managed 250+ FTE employee evaluations

Production planning, forecasting & scheduling

Purchasing & inventory control, Apics

Plant & work flow design

Continuous maintenance validations

Quality Assurance

cGMP, ISO 9001, SOP

Work in international management teams

Supply Chain Management, ERP, SAP

Solely responsible for all manufacturing problems and issues on shifts and departments.

Responsible for training and development hiring and termination of all reports.

Completing budgeting, performance evaluations and good manufacturing practices within my departments.

Evaluated newly acquired facilities to advise on current and possible future manufacturing quality, management problems and capabilities.

Lead manufacturing processes and implementation and launch of new products while working on the plant expansion engineering team to double the current production capacity.

Led project to use the 5’S system to clean up device history reporting system to FDA and reduce reporting errors. Grew into company-wide project that was the building block to move toward an electronic system.

Worked with IT Group on building and launching SAP software.

Sep 1987 - Sep 1997

UniLever, St Louis Lever Brothers Plant located in Pagedale, MO. Within my ten years with Lever I held and was promoted through many positions and was being developed to become a Plant Manager.

Titles: Stationary Engineer/Thermodynamics, Warehouse supervisor, Production Supervisor, Project Manager, TPM/Lean Manager, Logistics Supply Chain Manager

Spray Tower, High Speed Packaging

Training & Development

Continuous improvement, Lean,5’s

Kanban, Kaizen, TPM

Maintenance, Project Management

Leadership Training

Engineering & Equipment Validation

10 years Union Employee Management

Engineering Project management

Supply Chain Management, ERP

Production Planning, Forecasting & Scheduling

WMS Inventory Control, Apics

Plant & Work Flow Design

Root Cause, SMED

Quality Assurance

TPM cGMP, ISO 9001, SOP

International Project Management

IT Plant Project Manager to implement an automated WMS that linked into our ERP. Inventory accuracies increased from the low 80’s% to over 99.9%. Resulted in not only reducing finished goods WIP inventories, but allowed us to comply with FDA logistic lot traceable details not accomplished prior.

TPM/Lean Manager for the Pagedale, MO Plant to help increase product throughput. Broke numerous record runs in daily line daily performance.

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration/Management, 2 years Engineering, Certified in arc welding, Training in TPM, Root Cause Analysis, Six Sigma, Toyota system, Lean Manufacturing, SMED, Demi Theory

Change Management, Cultural Diversity, Train the Trainer, Value Stream Management.

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