Human Resources Vice President

ROBERT L. NIDA

**** ******** **** ***** ******* Court

West Lafayette, IN 47906

Estero, FL 33928

**** ******** *****, ******, ******* 34105

************@*****.*** Telephone 765-***-**** LEADER/EDUCATOR/COACH/WORKER

An experienced Value-Creation Leader/Educator/Coach/Worker leading multiple P & L manufacturing/retail business units with assignments in Cement, Printing, High Performance Plastics, Chemicals, Aluminum Wheels, Steel Wheels, and Commercial Trailer Manufacturing. In addition, Healthcare, Plastics Research/Development, National Commercial Trailer Retail Stores, and Public University assignments have added broad and diverse contextual adaptation experiences. Significant success has been achieved in public and privately held companies including domestic and international joint venture assignments. Specific job assignments have been held in all areas of Organizational Development, Human Resources, Continuous Improvement, Quality, Research, Engineering, Technology, and Strategic Business Unit P&L. Each role increased the accumulated knowledge, skill-sets, and passion to pursue assignments as a turnaround leader with emphasis on total workforce development to accelerate P & L Value Creation; Organizational Behavior Dynamics, Cultural Assessment/Transformation, and Human Capital Development with an emphasis on the value creation process was given special attention. The Continuous Improvement Process includes the end use customers interface, the supply chain interface, and the total workforce partnership being in a state of alignment as measured by objective quantitative and qualitative evidence.

• Operational Excellence/Quality Management Systems

• Lean Sigma Continual Improvement Project

Management

• International JV Experience

• EH&S Compliance Initiatives

• Organizational Development

• Human Resource Management

• Talent Management

• Benefit Plans Administration

• SBU P&L Leadership

• Collective Bargaining Negotiations

• New Product Commercialization

• Employee Assistance Plans

• Turnaround Value Creation Models

• Strategic Culture Change Initatives

• Compliance & Ethics Assessments/Training/Compliance

• Learning Management Systems (LMS)

• Change Management Deployment Initiatives

• College/University Relationship Leadership

• Turnaround/Value Creation Interventions

• Value Creation Coaching

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

The Worker’s Value Creation Academy, Lafayette, IN Founder & CEO

Regent University PhD. Leadership and Business Students Executive Mentor Purdue University. West Lafayette, IN

Director of Education & Workforce Development

Indiana Next Generation Manufacturing Competitiveness Center (IN-MAC) WABASH NATIONAL CORPORATION, Lafayette, IN

Corporate Vice-President of Organizational Development Vice-President/GM of the Retail SBU

Corporate Vice-President Business Development & Continuous Improvement ACCURIDE CORPORATION, Evansville, IN

Corporate Senior-Vice President (Steel Wheels SBU, Aluminum Wheels SBU, Billion Foundry SBU, & Gunite Foundry SBU)

VP/GM Steel Wheels SBU & Aluminum Wheels SBU

VP Steel Operations

VP Technology/Continuous Improvement

Director General Accuride de México (CEO SBU Productivity Improvement Award Recipient) Corporate Director of Continuous Improvement

AKW JV Director of Human Resources and Continuous Improvement 2

FAG BEARINGS CORPORATION, Joplin, Mo

Manager of Human Resources

Manager of Human Resources & Quality

ALLIEDSIGNAL, Pittsburg, KS

Manager of Human Resources & Total Quality

THE NIDA GROUP, Richmond, VA

President & CEO

Employee Staffing & Licensed State Benefits Consultant ALLIEDSIGNAL, Morristown, NJ, Petersburg, VA, Hopewell, VA Manager of R & D Technical Operations

Manager of Engineering Plastics Manufacturing (CEO SBU Productivity Improvement Award Recipient)

Manager of Human Resources, Quality, Safety, and Environmental Affairs Manager of Human Resources for Fibers Division (10K EE, 7 Manufacturing Plants, 1 R&D Center) Manager of Human Resources, Chesterfield Manufacturing Plant (3.7K EE) Superintendent of Personnel and Labor Relations, Chesterfield Manufacturing Plant (3.7K EE) Supervisor of Labor Relations, Chesterfield Manufacturing Plant (3.7K EE) CAROLINA GRAVURE, A DIVISION OF LITTON INDUSTRIES, Lexington, SC Director of Purchasing and Personnel Director

LEHIGH PORTLAND CEMENT, Fordwick, VA and Mitchell, IN Personnel Manager

EDUCATION/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Ph.D. Organizational Leadership, Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA Dissertation: Leadership Power and Take-Charge Behaviors in a Workforce Turnaround Improvement Initiative: A Mixed Methods Dissertation Research Study

• Masters Total Quality Management, Friends University, Wichita, KS

• BA Sociology, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA

• 2006 - 2007 Business Department Adjunct Faculty, University of Evansville

• 2011- 2014 Business Department Adjunct Faculty in the Accelerated MBA Program, Indiana Wesleyan University

• QS-9000 & TS 16969 Quality Systems Auditor

• Internal AlliedSignal Malcolm Baldrige Award Examiner

• Six Sigma Black Belt, TQL/TQS/TQMP Facilitator

• American Society Quality (ASQ) Membership

• Society Human Resource Management (SHRM) Membership

• International Employee Assistance Plan Association (EAPA) Membership

• Purdue University Krannert School of Management Global DAUCH Manufacturing Enterprises

& GSCMI Supply Chain Initiatives Technical Advisory Board

• Management Representative in Collective Bargaining Negotiations with United, Cement, Lime, and Gypsum Workers, Teamsters, United Auto Workers, Canadian Auto Workers, and Mexican Labor Unions

• Past Member of the Ivy Tech Community College Advanced Manufacturing Advisory Council

• Past Member of the Lafayette Jefferson High School Advanced Manufacturing Advisory Council

• Past Member of the Labor Relations Committees: VA State Chamber of Commerce and VA Manufacturers Association

• Past Member of the Virginia Manufacturer and Virginia Chamber of Commerce Labor Relations Committees

• Past President of the John Tyler Community College Foundation

• Past President of the Petersburg, VA YMCA

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