Manufacturing Leader of Plant. Ohio State Lean Manager Certification

David H. Austin

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Purpose: To obtain a position within a company that allows me to utilize and expand my leadership, professional skills and knowledge base while meeting Company business objectives.

Work Experience:

3/2017 – 2/2021 Blue Diamond Growers (BDG)

3/2017 – 2/2021 Operations Business Manager – 1802 C Street, Sacramento, CA

Valued leader on the Global Manufacturing Operations (GMOPs) team & an influencer across the BDG 3 Sites who coordinates and manages the supply and execution aspects of delivering new products, innovation, and brand value engineering. While ensuring Safety & Quality during the projects and is sustainable after the projects. Lead over 150 projects without any Safety or Quality incidents.

Lead and develop key change management processes for GMOPS, Business Units, Procurement Engineering, Finance, Marketing, Sales, R&D and others as needed while delivering new products, innovation, and brand value engineering including brand changes, supply optimization, supplier and system integration, third party support, start-ups, product line extensions, line transfers, etc.

Coordinate and facilitate Margin Enhancement opportunities, Capacity conflicts, & Safety & Quality improvements. Start Up Manager for Capital Projects in support of the GMOPS.

Lead Cross Functional Team of internal & external resources to obtain $2.4 million FY18 and $2.7 million FY19 for the Federal and State R&D Tax Credit.

9/2012 – 11/2016 Nor-Cal Beverage Company

1/2014 – 11/2016 Vice President of Manufacturing – 2286 Stone Blvd West Sacramento, CA

Member of the Company’s Leadership Team to provide the vision for Safety, Quality, Team Members and Productivity.

Responsible for two locations in California (Anaheim and West Sac) with 450 employees.

Manage the production of 50MM cases and over 375 SKUs for our partners The Coca-Cola Company, Arizona Tea, Monster and Nestle across four hot fill PET lines, one tunnel pasteurized line, two chilled paper lines, one chilled plastic line two aseptic line, and three can lines.

Implemented Maintenance Connections to manage WOs and PMs.

Passed all external and internal audits. ISO 9001, FSSC 22000, Customer Audits for both locations.

Achieved the lowest consumer compliant rates across multiple platforms for both plants.

Increased efficiencies by 20% plant wide through Lean & Six Sigma principles, schedule reviews, extended runs, employee engagement/involvement in Anaheim. Reduced accidents by 20%.

Cross trained 25% of the employees in Anaheim.

9/2012 – 12/2014 Plant Manager West Sacramento Plant – 2260 Stone Blvd West Sacramento, CA

Managed 225 employees in Safety, Quality and the Production of 25MM cases and over 300 SKUs for our partners The Coca-Cola Company, Arizona Tea, Monster etc.

Exceed over 1000 days without a lost time accident.

Passed all external and internal audits. ISO 9001, FSSC 9000, Customer Audits etc.

Team member of the Plant Food Safety Team.

Achieved the lowest consumer compliant rates across multiple platforms.

Increased efficiencies by 25% plant wide through lean & Six Sigma principles, schedule reviews, extended runs and employee engagement/involvement.

Cross trained 40% of the employees.

4/2000 – 9/2012 The Coca-Cola Company

3/2011 – 9/2012 Manager of Contract Manufacturing Venturing & Emerging Brands - 2500 Wildwood Atlanta, GA

Project Lead to find new locations and build relationships to produce new products. i.e. Dasani Drops, Project Ginger, CasCal, Honest Tea, FUZE Tea, Clam Club, Ice Coffee, Kerry Coffee & etc.

Project Manager to bring the new facilities in compliance with equipment and quality requirements.

Maintain a Project Tracker to communicate project status to multiple teams. Including Procurement, Infrastructure Planning, Finance, SAP and Contract Manufacturing. In 2011 there were 35 projects.

Establish relationships with internal and external groups to be successful. Including the new external locations, Brand Teams, Project Managers, Engineering, Finance, Quality, Procurement, Infrastructure Planning, Transportation and SAP.

Negotiate pricing and terms for Contracts.

Received highest rating on my Performance Review in 2009 & 2010. EP (Exceptional Performance).

7/2006 – 9/2012 Manager of Contract Manufacturing West Coast – Folsom, CA

Produce products for Chilled Juice (Minute Maid products), Thermal (Powerade, Vitamin water, Fuze & MMJTG), Water (Smartwater) & Aseptic/Other (Tetra Box, Pouch & Fruit Smoothies) platforms.

Accountable for a $86MM budget & 40MM cases for a total spend of $773MM across the platforms.

Lead contact negotiations including pack fees, loss allowance, warehousing, shipping, quality and production expectations.

Project Manager & engineer support for multiple projects to improve system capability and capacity. i.e. Vitaminwater Production, New Mixing System and Sleeve Labeling & Bundling at Nor-Cal Anaheim. MMJTG at Nor-Cal Sacramento. New Minute Maid products/packaging at SSI & Nor-Cal.

OE & Lean Manager for the Contract Manufacturing Team to lead system improvements. i.e. Cutrale Leesburg 89oz efficiencies increased by 50%.

Managed my plants to Schedule Adherence of 99% in 2009.

1/2005 – 1st Shift Team Leader – Atlanta Syrup Branch

7/2006

Lead a dynamic workforce of Mixing including railcar unloading, Packaging, Shipping & Maintenance Departments (37 Associates) to produce 37.5 MM gallons of the Plant’s 90 MM gallons.

Assisted the Plant to reduce regular hours by 8% & overtime by 32% ($250M).

Participated in achieving E3 Quality Certification and a Siliker Audit score of 98%.

Provided the Waco Facility with a Shipping Plan using OE (Productivity up 30%).

Provided Labor Model ensuring staffing from departmental teams to three shift teams was correct.

Directed the Defects Per Million Team (Achieved lowest DPM in Plant history).

9/2002 – Maintenance Manager – Atlanta Syrup Branch

1/2005

Managed 17 Maintenance Techs over a 3 Shift operation & outside services.

Accountable for repairs budget of $1.7MM & $1MM labor.

Increased through put efficiency by 8% a record high.

Project Manager for Battery Room Upgrade. Reduced forklift & battery repair costs by $50M annually

Managed over 500 days without a Recordable and over 1,500 days without an OSHA Lost Time.

Represented the North America Syrup Plants in the MRO selection process & contract negotiations.

Certificate of Accomplishment in Strategic Maintenance Leadership from Marshall Institute.

7/1996 – 4/2000 Siemens Electromechanical Components - Safety & Facilities Mgr. Peachtree City, GA

11/1994-7/1996 Rieter Automotive Systems – Loss Prevention Mgr. Chicago, IL

5/1991- 11/1994 Mobil Chemical Company (Rigid Division) – Safety Mgr. Frankfort, IL

Education: Murray State University Murray, KY

Degree: Bachelor of Science May 1991

Certified Lean Manager The Ohio State University 2009

Supply Chain Leadership The Coca-Cola Company 2003

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