Josh Johnson

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Memphis Tennessee 38125

417-***-****

adjaak@r.postjobfree.com

Education Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Major: Bachelor of Science in Physical Education 12/2000

Minors: Coaching/Psychology

Plant Manager, Prairie Farms, Memphis, TN, Fluid Milk Plant 24/7, 08/2016—03//2020

Oversaw the plant operation of 156 employees producing milk and juice products by utilizing two HTST’S and 5 fillers and cooler load out, raw receiving.

Responsible for direct reports including: Maintenance, Quality, Warehouse/Cooler, OPS Manager. and 7 Indirect Supervisors. Through the reports the focus points were safety, quality, CPMH, uptime in maintenance, gallons per man hour, plant efficiency/cost, and shrink reduction.

Certificate of Training: FSPCA Preventive Controls for Human Food & Juice HACCP Workshop.

Assistant Plant Manager, Bongards Creameries, Humboldt, TN, 05/2016--08/2016

Working with the plant manager to enhance quality, safety, productivity, and core GMP’S. To help groom young supervisors to be more efficient with time management and place meant of employees. In the process of introducing 5-S.

HP Hood LLC/Assistant Plant Manager, Vernon, N.Y. 01/2013--04/2016 24/7 operation, plant size 105,000 square feet on 23.4 acres, 150 employees, 65mm pounds per year processing capability/One Cheese Line 16, 24, and 32 oz. cheese and 32 oz. yogurt/4 Greek Yogurt Fillers 6oz. and 5.3 oz. cups/Dry storage 20,000 sq. feet/Manufacturing Plant 6500 sq. feet/pallet space 450 plus/Cold storage space 900 plus

(Went in to replace the current plant manager)

Responsible for entire plant functions and a direct line report the Sr. Director of Operations, which involves working with Maintenance manager on a 92k budget per month for building maintenance, equipment maintenance, processing, curd processing, packaging, fillers, warehouse/warehouse equipment. To date 1.1mm dollar budget and tracking YTD 30K under budget. Working with Quality Manager on SQF, training of operators on QCCP’S, HACCP’S, SOP’S, MSS, and costumer complaints; YTD Yogurt is 0.09 per 100k units Cheese YTD 1.72 per 100k units. Involved with the EHS Manager (new position to the plant) on Equipment/Human Safety; PPE, AOH, LOTO, Hot Work, Confine Space, LTA’S/Recordable Rate with a goal of 0 Recordable and 0 LT’S; YTD 4.0 recordable and 1.5 lost time. Working through the Operations Manager to achieve On Time Start-Ups, Improve Line Eff. Reduce Shrink, and more throughput with better operations up time. Work with the Warehouse Manager to make sure, we have no customs shortage and a 98% on time ship rate. These are just some of my DAY TO DAY duties of the Cultured Dairy Plant.

Dairy Products: Raw Milk, UF Skim, Greek Yogurt, Skim Milk, Cottage Cheese for commercial sales and internal utilization

Responsible for 6 Direct reports and 5 Indirect reports, a plant that’s in transition with new equipment and a new Management/Supervisory Team

Driving focus is on Safety, Quality, Efficiencies, SQF, Maintenance during new lines start-ups

Focus on 800 cs. Per hour =’s to 71% Eff. Start-up curve

Involved with Budget 1st. and 2nd. Pass

PMO Knowledge

Performance Managers Review

Input Supervisors Review

Contract Negotiation’s

HTST Pasteurizer Operators Work Certificate of Achievement (Cornell University October 15-17-2013)

Responsible for pulling a new management team together while keeping the focus on Company KPI’S

Dairy Farmers of America Operations Manager, Cabool, MO, 08/2007--01//2013

(Plant Size 300 plus 24/7 rotating shifts

Increased the canning/packaging department efficiently from 67% to 80% by stabilizing the department through team building, working with maintenance on equipment up-time, and refocusing the department on repeatability and sustainability, in return increase through put by 3K dozens per month.

Implementing SQF Systems (Post –Farm Gate) September 5th. 2012

Certificate #: A0001252/Training August 29-30, 2012 by Randolph Inc. Appendix 7

Certified HACCP Training workshop August 27-28, 2012 by Randolph Inc.

Leading 2011 Recycling/Environment Team, consists of 5 Management and 4 Hourly teams in an aggressive effort to reduce plant landfill waste by 50%

Lead the training and coaching of supervisors and managers on effective team meetings, target to engage employees and extract valuable information.

Increased department efficiency by 13%. In return, added over 900K to the company’s bottom line a year. Responsible for 6 direct reports, 74 indirect reports, supervisor’s evaluations, job objectives, Quality, GMP’s and MSS program.

Dairy Farmers of America Human Resources/Safety Manager (Promoted), Cabool, MO, 05/20/06--08/2007

In this role, the liaison between the plant and corporate. Responsible for corporate plant policies and procedures, OSHA yearly required training, workers comp claims, overall plant discipline, recruiting, hourly testing and training, conversed with the union representatives on employee issues, and lead all grievance meetings.

Developed a safety observation “toolbox” talk program.

Improved safety L.T. A’s, and Recordables by 50% in 2006/2007.

Trending in 2007 1 L.T.A. and 2 Recordables.

10-hour General Industrial Safety & Health Outreach Program, May 2006.

Dairy Farmers of America Senior Formula Processing/Coffee Supervisor (Promoted), Springfield, MO, 10/2004--05/2006

Managed the processing and coffee department consisting of 16 full-time employees and two direct reports. Responsible for blending dry ingredients and coffee extract to produce a liquid dairy base product for the canning department.

100% batches right the first time. Responsible for the equipment upgrades, safety, shrink, discipline, vacations, and trainings.

Spearheaded the leadership team meetings and development of employees toward high performance work teams.

Dairy Farmers of America Grade A/Milk Processing Department Supervisor (Promoted), Cabool, MO, 10/0203 –10/2004

Received over 1MM gallons of raw milk daily. Responsible for pooling milk, shipping to bottlers, processing raw milk into cream and condensed and a powder room operation, which converted dry milk back to condense. Achieved this through 18 full-time operators across 3 shifts and a 240/6-minute hold process.

Operating budget over 100K per month, profit margin over 150K per month, bottom line back to the company 1.5MM per year achieved through controlling direct and indirect operating cost.

(SMB) State Milk Inspection every 6-month, (IMS) Interstate Milk Shippers scores: 97 on cream equipment, 97 on condense, 98 on enforcement score once a year.

Dairy Farmers of America Formula Supervisor, Cabool, MO, 03//2003 – 10/2003

Responsible for basing and blending of ingredients through homogenizing and direct steam ingestion to create a dairy base product for the canning department. Achieved this through 17 full-time employees.

Resource for SAP and lateral logic.

Batches right 100% the first time, 100% startup efficiency (no late batches to canning).

Dean Specialty Food Groups Plant Supervisor (Plant size 300 plus 24/4), Dixon, IL, 07/2001-03/2003

Responsible for production of aseptic products on 5 lines, quality packaging/warehouse and nightly sanitation. Maintained production by working through a team consisting of 23 production operators, 6 sanitarians, 4 maintenance employees and 2 prep swe1pt technicians in a union environment.

Involved in moving the plant from excellent to a superior AIB score by developing a bucket and brush color code system. Developed a cross shift film shrink team. Developed a pre-op/swabbing program for all equipment.

Dean Food/Purity Dairies, Inc. Filler Operator/Milk Plant, Nashville, TN, 08/2000—07/2001

Responsible for sanitation and production of the gallon filler which consisted of milk, orange juice and Kool-Aid drinks.

Had to perform SPC, weight checks, and enter correct code dates. Moved into a supervisory position at the Dixon Illinois plant.

Rutherford County School System Special Education/Educational Assistant, Murfreesboro, TN, 08/1999—05/2000

While completing my college degree worked as an assistant teacher in the classroom teaching basic math and keyboarding, job coach assisting students in real life job opportunities and coached the freshmen running backs and defensive backs.

Pillsbury Company Production Supervisor (Toaster Strudel/Toaster Scramble, Murfreesboro, TN, 1990-1999

(Plant size 600 plus)

When running toaster scramble responsible for production 4 nights and sanitation 1 night a week. Through team building and cross training reduced sanitation from 12 hours to 6 hours. In return able to resume production by 6 am adding another 1600 cases of through put which improved efficiencies and added to the company’s bottom line 11MM a year.

Accomplished this through 2 teams consisting of 33 full-time employees, 10 temporaries, and a full-fledged high-performance self-regulating team system.

Pillsbury Company Frosting/Warehouse Supervisor

Responsible for the frosting department production and warehouse functions consisting of 2 teams of 34 full-time employees and 8 temporaries.

97% delivery ship rate, weekend maintenance, (FIFO). Worked with maintenance and plant engineers on continuous improvement of the equipment.

Pillsbury Company Jingle Project Plant Startup Team Coordinator

Involved in plant startup from brick and mortar, conversing with headquarters to ensure plant technical support, layout of equipment, training of old and new employees, writing of OJT’s and procedures. Worked with corporate R & D to develop product specs. This project came in on time and within budget.

Pillsbury Company Dough Production Supervisor (Toaster Strudel)

Responsible for the bakery and packaging department consisting of 30 fulltime employees, 19 temporaries and 7 maintenance techs. Performed HACCP checks, SPC trends of the product, and sanitation once a week.

Spearheaded a cross shift shrink reduction team reducing shrink from 25 to 30% down to 11%, increased through put by 2K cases a shift, netted over 14MM to the company’s bottom line a year. Completed SPC basic series and interaction program, June 1990. Completed Pacer Group process management workshop in continuous improvement, June 1991.

Pillsbury Company Sanitation Supervisor

Managed a team of 16 sanitarians and 2 maintenance technicians. Responsible for the sanitation of a bakery line, mixers, proofer, blast freezer, 800-gallon fryer, and all packaging equipment/icing room. 98% line turn around rate.

Developed a plan to convert 16 sanitarians into 2 production teams by utilizing temporary work force. The plan included pay structure and cross training to pick up a base and backup skill. Met the startup curve 2 weeks early.

Certified in chemical application and plant fogging.

Training of new temporaries to perform sanitation once a week.

Completed a 4-day workshop on sanitation, pest control, and pre-op inspection at the American Institute of Bakery. Received (AIB) superior score.

Trained with USDA inspector on how to pre-op the production line to ensure a safe and wholesome product.

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