Project Management Operations Manager

Adlai Johnson, Jr.

**** **** ****** * *-*** 901-***-****

Pinellas Park, FL 33782 **************@*****.***

Summary of Qualifications

Manufacturing Leader with over 15 years leadership experience including production management, lean manufacturing, and project management.

Mechanical Engineering professional with over 8 years of mechanical experience including project management, proposal development, facility inspection, strategic solution finding, troubleshooting, fabrication, process piping design, procurement and cost estimating.

Trained in AutoCAD, Kronos, Ultipro, JD Edwards, TRACE, Asset Suite, and Microsoft Operating Systems.

Professional Experience

Blues City Brewery, Memphis, TN 06/2023-Present

Blues City Brewery (BCB) is one of the largest breweries in the country. BCB provides cost effective packaging solutions for both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. The Memphis facility produces over 60 million cases a year. BCB allows its customers to not worry about the packaging of their products by providing a state of the art facility dedicated to that purpose.

Blues City Brewery, Packaging Supervisor, Memphis TN 06/2023-Present

Leads up to 50 person team in a 1.3 million sq ft facility responsible for packaging several aluminum can configurations to include 12 oz sleek cans, 12 oz cans, 16 oz cans, and 24 oz cans. Oversees the start-up, operations, and completion of assigned production lines including but not limited to: equipment and operator safety, front line quality control checks, proper supplies, instruction on equipment operations, production reporting, material tests, maintaining/improving line efficiencies, and overall packaging employee-related skills. Ensures compliance with internal, federal, state and local guidelines and regulations including GMP, HACCP, OSHA, FDA, and TTB.

Projects & Accomplishments:

40% increase in OEE.

18% hold reduction.

Implemented a shift change from 3 shifts to 4 shifts.

Insituform, Batesville, MS 11/2022-6/2023

Insituform is a leading worldwide provider of cured-in place pipe (CIPP) and other technologies and services for the rehabilitation of pipeline systems. Insituform provides cost-effective solutions to remediate operational, health, regulatory and environmental problems resulting from aging and defective pipelines. Insituform’s technologies allow its customers to avoid the extraordinary expense and extreme disruption that can result from traditional "dig and replace" methods.

Insituform, Production Operations Manager, Batesville, MS 11/2022-Present

Leads 150+-person/1 manager/4-Supervisor team in a 250,000 sq ft facility responsible for Felt Roll creation, Plastic Coating, Tube Liner creation, Shipping/Receiving operations, Tool Crib, and Warehousing operations. Manages 2 separate departmental budgets totaling $3M and supervises the manufacture of product lines that generated over $70M in revenue per year.

Projects & Accomplishments:

Increased on time delivery from 72% to over 96%.

Decreased overtime year over year by 18%.

Shifted from a 3-shift operation to a 2-shift operation.

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Rite-Hite, Horn Lake, MS 07/2016-11/2022

Rite-Hite is a world leader in the manufacture, sale, and service of loading dock equipment, industrial doors, safety barriers, industrial fans, industrial curtain walls, and other in-plant products.

Rite-Hite, Manufacturing Engineering Manager, Horn Lake, MS 07/2021-11/2022

Plans, directs, and coordinates the activities of the maintenance, tooling, and engineering departments, facilitating efficient manufacturing operations across the facility. Responsibilities include training new maintenance and engineering staff, ensuring equipment uptime is at maximum capacity by implement proper preventive maintenance checks and services, provides guidance and oversight of plant renovations and expansions, ensures compliance with health and safety regulations, including EPA and OSHA requirements, prepares and manages departmental budget.

Projects & Accomplishments:

Installed a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) to monitor preventive maintenance and track work orders.

Set up an automated tracking system for downtime of equipment to identify root causes.

Created drawings of internally installed airlines and electrical lines.

Rite-Hite, Production Manager, Horn Lake, MS 07/2016-07/2021

Responsible for the management and evaluation of resources to ensure production schedule is met. Responsibilities include managing over 175 production personnel to meet safety requirements, product quality standards, delivery schedules and manufacturing costs. Tasked with setting production goals and communicating them to key production employees. Also, ensure senior management is informed of any obstacles or issues that come from the factory.

Projects & Accomplishments:

Increased production 150% while only increasing headcount by 110%.

Started a 2nd Shift to meet customer demand while maintaining quality standards.

Implemented a training plan which lead to a decrease in scrap by 8% during production increase.

Implemented a quality review plan that led to a decrease in warranty claims by over 6% during production increase.

Smith and Nephew, Supervisor, Memphis, TN 2015-2016

Responsible for the supervision, coordination and development of manufacturing personnel and compliance to documented processes. Responsibilities include supervising production personnel to meet safety requirements, product quality standards, delivery schedules and manufacturing costs.

United Technologies, Supervisor, Collierville, TN 2012-2015

Responsible for the oversight of the production planning, staffing, and day-to-day manufacturing operations in a cost effective manner. Prepare operational schedule and coordinate manufacturing activities to ensure production and quality of products meets specifications.

Savannah River Remediation, Design Authority, Aiken, SC 2011

Shaw Group, Subcontract Technical Representative, Aiken, SC 2009 - 2011

Washington River Protection Solutions, System Engineer, Richland, WA 2008 - 2009

Johnson Controls Inc., Sales Engineer, Memphis, TN 2007 – 2008

SSR Ellers, Mechanical Engineer, Memphis, TN 2005 – 2007

US Army, Second Lieutenant Air Defense Artillery Officer, Ft. Bliss, TX 2003 – 2004

Education and Licenses

Master of Business in Administration, Webster University, St. Louis, MO, 2006.

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, 2003.

ACE Associate (Lean Manufacturing for United Technologies)

Engineer-in-Training, Washington State #29721

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