Mark J. Szarzynski

*** ***** ***** *****, ****** Pa. 18330, 570-***-****

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Plant Manager

Hands on, Results driven manager with experience in leading operations in manufacturing in various types of industries. Track record for meeting or exceeding goals for Safety, Quality, and Production leading to greater profitability by directing various department managers, engineers, and production associates. Proficient in implementing and completing large scale equipment projects. Experienced in implementation of ISO 9000, AIB and several inventory control systems. Process oriented. Adept at being able to engage first line associates to accomplish goals through daily interaction.

Professional Experience

Berry Global Inc.- Mountaintop, Pa.

Manufacturer of stretch wrap, can liners, coextruded layered film and institutional sales.

Plant Manager 2018- 2020

Coextruded blown; Cast; and Custom blown film

Responsible for leading all aspects of the facility in the manufacturing, logistics, and maintenance for all products produced in the 300-person plant. This also includes:

Guiding of purchasing and scheduling in all facets of their responsibilities.

Led plant to a 98% score on AIB ratings. Cut safety incidents in half.

Responsible for 1.3-million-dollar improvements budget.

Organized sourcing against a new scheduling system to reduce production interruptions.

Creating classes to instruct new employees on the basics of extrusion.

Main point of contact with corporate legal team to evaluate real safety issues and claims.

Lead plant wide monthly safety meetings.

Improved rest room and break room facilities within the plant.

Decreased backlog on major customer with minimal investment increasing the finished product to the customer by 40%.

Reduced scrap by 3%

Redesigned reprocessing equipment to reduce downtime by 60%.

Improved and upgraded the safety equipment reprocessing department.

Improved printer quality throughout the plant with education and focus with weekly classes.

1996-2010

Supplier of coextruded and monolayer, cast and blown extruded film to various distributors and customers.

Production Manager Coextruded Products (2007-2010)

Responsible for leading 24 associates in all aspects of manufacturing of coextruded films by utilizing 6 multilayer blown film lines and various accessory equipment including winders, “Kundig” gauge control systems, repelletizing equipment and various resin delivery systems.

Increased production by 30% due to managing the schedule properly to reduce setup downtime.

Decreased overtime costs by 12% by improving length of runtimes and being able to keep staffing.

Regularly reaching over 95% to 100% production efficiency for forecasted production.

Facilitated startup of 5-layer W&H coextrusion line.

Worked within and facilitated the AIB and ISO 9000 quality systems to successful certification yearly.

Production Manager Cast Products (2003-2007)

Responsible for leading 24 associates in all aspects of coextruded cast films utilizing 3 cast film lines and various accessory equipment including Honeywell gauge control systems, high speed winding equipment, and resin delivery systems.

Facilitated startup of newest cast line.

Reduced scrap by 10% in a very efficient department.

Continued to meet goal of OSHA recordable incidents to 4 incidents per year.

Worked within and facilitated the AIB and ISO 9000 quality systems to successful certification yearly.

Supervisor Cast Products (1996-2002)

Responsible for leading associates on a shift to produce coextruded cast film utilizing 2 cast film lines and various accessory equipment including Honeywell gauge control systems, high speed winding equipment, and resin delivery systems.

Hold record for most sellable pounds produced on a shift.

Assisted in writing procedures for the ISO system.

Train new associates in procedures according to ISO to run the lines safely and efficiently.

Dyna Pak Corporation – Lawrenceburg, TN June 2016 –January 2018

Manufacturer of can liners for retail and institutional sales.

Plant Manager

Responsible for leading all aspects of the facility in the manufacturing of can liners for the retail and institutional markets utilizing various extruders, flexographic printers, slitters, bag machines and winders. A separate department of converting equipment is utilized to package most of the retail products.

Created basic systems to better control all aspects of purchasing and inventory control.

oExcel based programs to log purchase orders and inventory costs.

oFigure costing for custom products also utilizing the inventory costs system.

Increased manufacturing efficiencies 23%.

Improved “on-time” shipping performance to approximately 3% late of shipments per month.

Upgrading equipment as needed

Reduced overall raw material costs by approximately 11% overall due to renegotiating all vendor pricing.

Filmtech Corporation – Allentown, Pa. 2012 – 2015

Supplier of cast, coextruded, laminated and embossed plastic products to the agricultural, hygiene and specialty industries.

Plant Manager

Responsible for leading 100 associates in all aspects of the 24 hours/day, 7 days/week facility in the manufacturing of cast, coextruded and laminated film utilizing 7 extrusion lines and winding equipment.

Led 24 million pound producing facility to first successful quarter in Filmtech history since owned by Sigma Plastics.

Successfully facilitated the installation of a new $6 million-dollar 5-layer coextrusion line with Honeywell gauge control and optical inspection system.

Installed 8D root cause analysis quality system and improved customer returns from 2% to 0.2%.

Initiated and installed new patterning for embosser to increase quality and production on new line by 30%.

Initiated and implemented program for compatibilizer use to increase use of repelletized material by 40%.

Facilitated the install of 12 new silos to expand raw materials inventory to capitalize on raw material prices when available.

Facilitated the install of a 300-ton chiller to decrease down time due to older equipment.

Replaced and upgraded most of the screws and barrels on 6 cast lines to improve output and quality of the product.

Customized ASR systems to reduce downtime by 5% daily on 4 cast lines.

2010-2011

Supplier of cast, coextruded, laminated and embossed plastic products to the agricultural, hygiene and specialty industries.

Shift Manager

Responsible for leading 18 associates in the safe and efficient manufacturing of extruded cast film with the use of 5 cast lines, a repelletizer, and various accessory equipment including Honeywell measuring systems.

Increased shift production from lowest producing shift to the highest producing shift in the facility.

Decreased downtime on the shift by 10% on the shift from the previous year by applying experience to minimize mechanical downtime.

Accutech Films (Now Novolex) – Coldwater, Ohio 2011-2012

Manufacturer of extruded plastic bags, film, and stretch hooder to both retail and commercial markets.

Production Manager

Responsible for leading 72 associates in all aspects of the 24 hours/day, 7 days/week facility in the manufacturing of coextruded and monolayer blown film utilizing 14 extrusion lines including the use of all accessory equipment for producing bags and rolls.

Facilitated the install of a new inventory control system (Made 2 Manage).

Purchased new screws and barrels where necessary to improve efficiencies on the line.

Purchased new treater units to improve safety and quality on 7 blown film lines.

Trained operators on the use of the “Kundig” thickness measuring equipment.

Professional Converting/Glitterwrap – Rockaway, NJ. 1993-1996

Supplier of decorative products for the “Party” industry. Printed, metalized, and slit paper and plastic for gift wrap, bows and decorative tissue.

Director of Manufacturing

Led facility in all aspects of producing decorative products utilizing two 6 color gravure coaters/printers, two gift wrap rewinders, 3 bow making machines, 2 sheeters and 1 automated guillotine.

Designed the layout of the facility floor for all the equipment.

Implemented and sustained a Scheduling department.

Purchased all raw materials and services required to continue manufacturing.

Purchased new giftwrap rewinder equipment in Germany to double production of retail gift wrap rolls.

Facilitated all costing to the owner for products manufactured.

Technical Coating International – Leland, NC. 1992-1993

Startup company to manufacture slit, gravure coated, metallized and non-metallized film. (Minority owner)

Production Manager

Worked together with 3 startup members to accomplish all aspects of startup and manufacturing of coated metallized film for the decorative and static bag industries.

Instrumental negotiating and acquiring the lease for the actual facility.

Purchased raw materials used for production.

Tore down and reengineered used equipment to be utilized for production.

Fabricated equipment to be used for production.

Sourced all necessary vendors for needed equipment that could not be rebuilt or fabricated.

Involved in Marketing, Sales, and R&D.

Web Technologies Inc. – Oakville, Ct. 1989-1992

Manufacturing of laminated, metallized, coated and slit plastic and pet film products to supply various markets.

Production Manager

Led 30 associates in all aspects of producing extruded, metallized, coated, laminated and slit films utilizing 2 metallizers, 9 slitter/rewinders, 2 coaters, 1 coater laminator and 2 monolayer extruders.

Successfully changed Web Technologies from a 4-day, 2 shift operation to a 7-day 4 shift operation.

Facilitated the startup of 2 extrusion lines.

Education

Measurex Operation and Set-up course

Macola Inventory control Course

Applied Coatings and Equipment Seminar

GM SPC Certificate for Low Volume Runs

Various Business Management Courses, Post College, Waterbury, Ct.

Various Electrical Engineering Courses, University of New Haven, West Haven, Ct.

Various Electrical Technology courses, Waterbury State Technical College, Waterbury, Ct.

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