Ronald Pennise

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Spartanburg, SC 29301

864-***-****

adnjiu@r.postjobfree.com

Degreed Mechanical Engineer with MBA in Operational Management providing 30 years of operational leadership and management in such industries as textiles, food, and consumer goods. Operational skill and experience in plant maintenance and budgeting, inventory control with full P&L responsibility. Employing continuous improvement techniques, provide expertise in equipment utilization that improves employee safety, production quality, equipment reliability and bottom-line efficacies. Ability to develop and lead high-level functioning production teams that exceed performance mandates.

Recent Professional Experience

Contract Equipment Engineering October 2019 to April 2020

Country Fresh Inc., Gray Court, SC

Country Fresh is a processor of fruits and vegetables.

Achievements: Installed packaging equipment and placed into production on time.

Responsible for the installation, operation and maintenance training and stores set up.

Engineering and Maintenance Manager April 2014 to June 2019

Southern Weaving Inc., Greenville, SC

Southern Weaving multi-site (three plants and two distribution centers) manufacturing of high tensile strength narrow fabrics used in cargo restraint, safety protection, lifting and other specialty products.

Maintain mechanical and electrical systems, utilities, buildings and grounds in a 24-hour 5-day per week operation. Employing lean techniques, exceeded all measures for employee safety, production quality and equipment reliability.

Design specify and commission capital projects that deliver project scope, time, budgets and expectations.

Analyze and report on KPIs to create and implement corrective actions.

Develop SOPs in both capital project implementation and daily maintenance.

Managed eleven direct reports toward optimal selection, retention, development, discipline and performance.

Achievements:

Saved $850,000 by effectively managing capital projects for new plant construction and asset relocation to new facility

Reduced maintenance expenditure by 35% by developing novel preventive maintenance and parts management system

Engineering and Maintenance Manager November 2002 to December 2014

Nestle Prepared Foods Division, Gaffney, SC

Nestle Prepared Foods (plant and two distribution) manufacturing frozen prepared foods, facility (1,600 p) producing $700M annual sales in a continuous operation. Hired as maintenance manager and promoted to engineering and maintenance manager.

Provide overall technical support for the facility to include utilities, production equipment maintenance, engineering, facilities maintenance, and regulatory compliance

Direct responsibility for department performance management (goals, plans, organization development/training, maintenance budget proposal, engineering department compliance and implementation and management of the PM and EM pillar in plant TPM program, ISO/NQMS/PAS certification

Achievements:

Managed plant maintenance budget of $30M (12 salaried and 100 hourly associates) and $16 M capital investment. Implemented and managed the SAP-AMM–PS system to ensure effectiveness of asset management

Reduced the plant OSHA incident rate to under 1 with a target of zero accidents, reduced consumer complaints and product holds by 20 percent, decreased maintenance spending by 25 percent, reduced technical stoppages from 8 to 4 percent and increased production equipment efficiency by 10 percent, from 87 to 95 percent efficient

Reduced the number ammonia releases from over 200 to less than 10 per year through the redesign of entire system and development of PSM program

Johnson & Johnson North Little Rock, AR

Personal Products Company/ Chicopee September 1988 - November 2002

Director of Operations

Johnson & Johnson Personal Products Company/ Chicopee PPC a union manufacturing facility producing branded consumer medical class products (feminine protection/incontinence) wet wipes and non-woven (air laid and wet laid) products. Hired and maintenance manager and promoted to director of operations.

Responsible for all operations in the facility, distribution, engineering and maintenance, inventory control, plant budgeting, and P & L responsibility.

Established manufacturing policies and practices in the areas of lean manufacturing techniques, materials usage, capacity planning, production scheduling, quality, cost reduction, complete and on-time delivery, customer satisfaction, employee relations, visual controls and plant performance measures.

Ensured compliance with company standards for cost control, waste reduction, quality, OSHA safety and environmental responsibility, inventory management, complete and on time delivery at lowest possible cost, and company employment policies and guidelines including Code of Conduct.

Directed the implementation and execution of manufacturing policies and practices throughout the organization.

Developed, manage and lead operations capability for carrying out needed strategies and improving employee relations.

Achievements:

Increased efficiency of organization and increased output of facility by 100 percent through capital expansion and startup of a new medical device process on time and under budget.

Effective development and implementation of new products (launched $8 M product expansion)

Education

Master of Business Administration Operations Management

Webster University, Little Rock, AR

Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA

Selected Skills and Professional Development

5 S, Why-Why Kazan, Root Cause Analysis, Arc Flash/Electrical safe work practice OSHA standards

Continuous Improvement (CI) Processes, GMP FDA USDA AMI Medical Device

Hygienic Engineering, Incident Investigation, ISO Standards, Lean Manufacturing technique OEE

Managing Diversity, Manufacturing Management, Manufacturing Operations Excellence

Maximo CMMS MS, Quality and food safety (SQF), RCM Facilitator training, SAP-AMM–PS system

TPM – PM Pillar training, Visual Management

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