Operations Manager Plant
Resume:
Todd Kish
Plant Operations Manager at Quality Pasta Company
Adah, PA 15410
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Professional Summary
Detail-oriented Plant Operations Manager with 15+ years of experience in managing food production facilities, ensuring SQF-2 certification and high employee retention rates. Proven track record in implementing lean manufacturing and 5S standards, with expertise in industrial equipment maintenance and production management. Skilled in creating a team environment and enforcing company rules and regulations.
Currently looking for a new role due to a company buy out. Authorized to work in the US for any employer
Work Experience
Plant Operations Manager
Quality Pasta Company-Charleroi, PA
March 2014 to December 2024
Operations Manager at Quality Pasta Company for the past 10+ years. QPC was a startup company that has grown under my leadership to a 45-46 million annual sales business. I have been in charge of every aspect of the food production plant. We are SQF-2 certified with an annual score of 98 on annual audits. My position is in charge of employees, machinery, temp employees, maintenance, QA, machinery buying and designing, FTL and LTL trucking, HR issue, unemployment, 3PL warehousing for production purposes. Basically, from front of the house to the back I have my finger on it at the facility.
• Kosher products (Rabbi certified)
• Gluten free items
• SQF II
• Less than 2% scrap
• 88% retainment for salary and hourly employees
• 80% retainment for temp employees
Production Manager
Crown and Cork Holdings INC-Connellsville, PA
2012 to March 2014
Handle day to day operations of the manufacturing plant in Connellsville, PA. We produce over 6 million caps/closures a day, varying in sizes and styles.
• Creating a team enviroment and a sense of ownership at the plant to improve production.
• Enforcing company rules and regulations with in the union contracts
• Tracking downtime and spoilage efficiencies
• Supervising order changes to ensure proper packaging, labeling, compound and specifications
• Deciphering the root cause of production losses
• Training hourly employees on safety, rules and job responsibilties
• Creating productions orders and scheduling to keep up with demands of our cliental
• Scheduling overtime and maintenance as needed
• Rapid decision making to keep production cost low Maintenance Manager
DMI Corporation-Monongahela, PA
2007 to 2012
Maintaining, installing, and setting up Industrial Equipment; rollformers, rotational presses, production presses, AC/DC drives, servo feeds, uncoilers, electrical maintenance, PLCs, mixing equipment, air compressors, pneumatic equipment, HVAC, gear and gear reduction units, tooling, die, hydraulic equipment, solenoid valves, shears, conveyer belts, fork trucks electric and LP, OSHA guards, grounds, etc.
• Directing Machinist in tooling and die maintenance and repair
• Compiling and training on lock out tag out procedures for all forms of energy sources
• Moving personnel to emergency break downs to keep thru put going to keep production numbers up.
• Maintaining and fabricating guards, platforms, handrails, and safety zones to OSHA safety standards and compliances
• Safety advisement team leader.
• Lean 5S/ISO standards trained.
• Making equipment, production lines, tables, from a line drawing or blue print
• Insured a safe, unified, high morale team environment
• Insured PM schedule and PM's were completed and correctly done
• Union experience
Production Manager
DMI Corporation-Monongahela, PA
2004 to 2007
Handle day to day operations of the plant; Production, Safety, Deadlines, Call offs, Scheduling, Enforcing rules.
• Working with workforce and management to complete common goals to succeed as a company.
• Working with Maintenance department, Lean department, and Purchasing department to make deadlines and productions numbers.
• Training new employees on SOPs, rules, safety, etc
• Pointing out safety concerns, rules and violations
• Making sure equipment was running correctly to make production numbers Shop Foreman
Ward Industries-Monesson, PA
1999 to 2004
Handle day to day operation of the sheet metal shop; Scheduling, call offs, enforcing rules, training new union employees, ordering items to keep shop running
• Handling maintenance issues
• Making next day orders priority for shipping
• Dealing with union issues
• Quality control
• Handled maintenace issues and installations on industrial equipment; roll formers, presses, uncoilers, servo and air feeds, pneumatic equipment, hydraulic equipment, air compressors, shears, 3 roll benders, etc
Midnight Sort Manager
North East Shipping-New Stanton, PA
1996 to 1999
Controlled quality and production of the North East Shipping belts.
• Provided a team atmosphere, keeping morale up.
• Constantly adjusting workforce to fill voids in other areas to keep packages moving. Education
Bachelor's degree in Business Management
CCaC - Pittsburgh, PA
Skills
• Lean Manufacturing
• Industrial Equipment Experience
• Electrical Experience
• Facilities Maintenance
• Production Management
• 5S
• Plant Management
• Lean
Additional Information
• Effective management, technical, and supervisory skills.
• Developed and refined ability of project members to estimate and maintain completion times for tasks.
Achieved on-time completion rate for project sub-tasks.
• Use clear, concise communication skills in conjunction with organizational skills to perform daily duties.
Technical Expertise
• Management Skills: leads • Technical Skills: hands on approach, groups, teaches/trains/instructs, delegates teaches/trains, welds/fabricates, open to ideas, responsibilty, makes descisions, enforces comprehends schematics, reads blue prints, auto policies, takes charge, open to suggestions and cad trained, ability to learn quickly, adapts well to new ideas new enviroments
• Organization Skills: manages projects effectively, • Team Work Skills: works well with others, handles details, punctual, multi tasks, motivates others, shares credit, delegates coordinates tasks, meets dead lines, sets goals effectively, sensitive, supportive, self confident, accepts responsibility, cooperates
• Communication Skills: speaks effectively, openly • Problem Solving Skills: ability to solve problems, expresses ideas, negotiate and resolve annalyzing warning signs, identifying the problem, differences, listens attentively, provides well finding the solution, able to connect with all levels thought out solutions of workforce
Problem Solving Skills: ability to solve problems, annalyzing warning signs, identifying the problem, finding the solution, able to connect with all levels of workforce
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