Larry Spilker

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Apartment 104

Saline, MI 48176

417-***-****

adifph@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Manufacturing Leader adept at building high performance teams and culture to meet goals for productivity, quality, safety, customer satisfaction, employee engagement, and on time delivery

LEAN- Six Sigma, Value Stream Mapping, Visual Manufacturing-Gemba Daily Management

Lean-Kaizen – Standard Work and Continuous Improvement Standardization, Green Belt

Total Productive/Predictive Manufacturing /TPM

P&L / Operating Income/ EBITA / Working Capital / Variances / Cost of Inventory

Quality – ISO, TS, and IATF certifications

Windsor Mold Group USA Jan 2020 – Oct 2020

Production Manager – Windsor Mold Group Saline (Tier 1 Automotive Plastic Hard and Soft shot Injection Molded parts)

Led the production team responsible for Safety, Productivity, Quality, Customer Satisfaction, and On Time delivery

Hired, coached, and mentored 2 new supervisors, one experienced supervisor, and promoted one Supervisor to a more Senior position to develop to next level in the organization

Customers served were Ford (US/China), GM, BMW,

Pre-covid drove a 4% increase in productivity based on WMG KPI for productivity with a work force that was 30 % temp/trainees.

Post-covid able to recover back to earlier production gains with a work force that was 60% temp/trainees.

Help develop and implement Covid Protocols for safe check ins and outs as well as implementation of proper PPE adherence and barriers where distance could not be achieved.

Drove on time delivery KPI from mid to high 80s to sustainable 96-100% daily results.

Myers Industries 2005 – 2019

Plant Manager - Buckhorn Inc (High- and Low-Pressure Plastic Injection) 2009 – 2019

Led the Buckhorn Springfield MO plant where my leadership team was responsible for productivity, quality, safety, lean, customer satisfaction, employee engagement, on time delivery, and cost reduction.

Products manufactured--center flow seed boxes for Pioneer, Monsanto, Becks, and Asgrow; intermediate bulk containers; bread trays for Pepperidge Farm and other bakeries, multiple handheld totes used by Automotive, Manufacturing, and Distribution companies.

High Pressure Plastic Injection Presses with tonnage ranges from 500T up to 4000T

10 years of YOY improved Operating Income and EBITDA

Lean Focus Standard Work Implementations

2 Seed Box Production Lines – reduced 10 direct/indirect per day = $375,000 annual savings

3 Tote Production Lines - reduced 2 direct / day = $75,000 annual savings

6 Bin Production Lines – reduced 8 direct / day = $300,000 annual savings

8 years of YOY OSHA Incident rate reductions

Most Improved Plant Safety Record Award and Plant Spirit Award in 2015.

One of only 38 companies in state of Missouri to be certified SHARP plant by State OSHA

Mentoring-Coaching-develop future leaders

1 person promoted to Production Manager, then to Operations Manager, then to Plant Manager in another division

1 person promoted from Supervisor to Production Manager, then to Operations Manager

1 person promoted from Maintenance Manager to Technical Service Manager

Implemented 80/20 process and segmented plant into 3 separate business units

Implemented monthly State of the Business Meetings (Open Book Management)

Plant Manager - Buckhorn Rubber Company (Rubber Injection/compression molding and mixing) 2007 – 2009

Led the Buckhorn Hannibal MO plant. Products manufactured--molded rubber products- water valves, air hoses for large trucks, hood latches, and small rubber parts for Tier 1 automotive OEMs.

Successfully completed consolidation of Mebane Product Lines into Hannibal facility

Implemented PPE and Safety Policies that reduced OSHA incident rate by 50%

Implemented 5S and Standard Work Cells on Presses

Negotiated 3-year contract with Rubber-Steel workers local union bargaining committee

Implemented monthly State of Business meetings (Open Book Management)

Plant Manager-Buckhorn Rubber Company (Rubber Injection Molding) 2005-2007

Led Buckhorn Mebane NC plant. Products manufactured-molded rubber products for Automotive, Manufacturing, Agricultural, and Distribution markets.

Monthly State of the Business Meetings with Spanish translator

60% Spanish Speaking work force-implemented bilingual team teach for each of the 4 shifts

to improve communication, team building, and business results

YOY met budgeted P& L goals

Successfully completed shutdown of this facility into Hannibal facility while meeting productivity, quality, safety, customer satisfaction, and on time delivery goals

Implemented Standard Work Cell for Water Valves production presses and work area

V.T.W. Limited Corp (Self Owned) 2002 – 2004

VP Operations

Led the business operations side of a fermented wines--Labeling and Bottling operation.

P&L responsibility

Co-owner- business start up

Used Lean principles-- designed, set up, and implemented small batch wine fermentation process that allowed one person to safely process up to 200 batches of wine at a time

Polymer Group Inc (Non-Woven Fabrics) 2001 – 2002

Plant Manager

Led the Little Rock facility where my leadership team was responsible for productivity, quality, safety, lean, customer satisfaction, employee engagement, on time delivery, and cost reduction.

Products manufactured--non-woven fabrics and materials used in health care, filtration, household cleaning Swiffer mops, automotive, and clothing apparel.

Implemented monthly State of Business Meetings

Successful startup --on schedule and met budget-- of new technology non-woven fabric production line to make Swiffer Mop materials

Implemented SPC +/- 3 Standard Development processes on two production lines to reduce scrap and 100% inspection of products

No OSHA reportable incidents while leading this team

Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company 1992-2001

Plant Manager Industrial and Automotive Hose 1999 to 2001

Led the Collingwood Ontario plant where my leadership team was responsible for productivity, quality, safety, lean, customer satisfaction, employee engagement, on time delivery, and cost reduction.

Products manufactured—radiator hoses for automotive OEMs, Tier 1 Automotive and industrial.

Implemented BAPP Behavioral Accident Prevention Process which helped team to YOY reduction in safety Incident rate-behavior based safety program

Implemented Monthly State of Business meetings to communicate KPIs and upcoming safety and lean initiatives

Improved P&L results YOY for two years

Negotiated new 3-year labor contract with local UAW bargaining committee

Implemented Lean Synchronized Manufacturing Cells on Injection Molding cells for our customer-Ford Motor Company

ISO and TS quality certified

Plant Manager (High Pressure Injection Molding and Automotive Instrument Panels 1998 – 1999

Led the Logan Ohio plant

Products manufactured-- OEM Instrument panels for Ford and GM and aftermarket instrument panels

After plant lost Ford Contract --90% of production due to Ford’s decision to take manufacturing this product back in house-- Successfully worked with Union, Government officials, and media to maintain safe, high quality production of for JIT Tier 1 Auto customers until last day of operations while exceeding budgeted EBITDA of $2 million. Met safety, quality, on time delivery, customer satisfaction, productivity goals during shutdown phase.

Implemented Monthly State of Business Meetings

Operations Manager and Production Manager (Molded Rubber Products and Mixing)

1996 – 1998

Led a team at the St Mary’s Ohio plant

Products manufactured--Military tank tracks for Abrams Tanks. Molded rubber products for large truck air hoses, motor mounts, hydraulic motor mounts. Rubber Tracks for low soil compression John Deere Tractors

Corporate Internal Consultant (Behavioral Safety and Lean Change Overs) 1993 – 1996

Led, coordinated, and implemented safety and lean initiatives for 18 plants

Production Manager (Rubber Hose/Belts/Mixing and Prep) 1992 – 1993

Led production team at Lincoln NE plant

Products manufactured-- Formed radiator, heater, and fuel line hoses. Automotive Belts and complete Rubber Preparation Mixing (Banbury, Calendars, Spreaders, Friction Coating fabrics, cement house, slitting, and cord treating)

Education BS Education from University of Nebraska Graduated

Continuing Education-Lean (Definity Partners/Lean Focus), Center for Creative Leadership

Interests-family activities with three young children, reading, fishing

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