Manager Quality

Richard o. standish

*** * ******* **. 705-***-****

North Bay On. P1B 8G4

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manufacturing operations

ACCOMPLISHED, ENERGETIC, MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS LEADER WITH LARGE AND

SMALL-COMPANY EXPERIENCE. BUILDS THE REQUIRED PROCESSES/PEOPLE/METRICS AND

SYSTEMS WITH EMPHASIS ON TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT THAT ACHIEVE SUSTAINABLE

RESULTS. U.S. AND CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP.

|Operating P&L Management |Quality/ISO Best Practice |

|Operational Excellence |Capital Projects |

|Building High Performance Teams |Labor Relations |

|Lean Process Improvement |Organizational Restructuring |

November 2010 to April 2012 - After taking a severance package I have been

involved with serious health issues of family members

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

TEMBEC INC. A $1.6B COMPANY WITH MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS AND PLANTS IN

FOREST PRODUCTS, PAPER, PULP AND CHEMICALS.

Sr. Vice President - Operations, Temiscaming Site

2007 - 2010

Operations P&L accountability for $500M business group of 4 plants.

Responsible for meeting production targets, satisfying customer

delivery requirements, meeting quality standards, and managing the

manufacturing added value standards. Multi-plant operations included a

sulfite pulp plant, chemical plant, paperboard mill and mechanical pulp

mill. Provided leadership to 800 employees (including union) with

direct reports in engineering, environmental, maintenance,

manufacturing production, IT, logistics, procurement, safety, HR and

accounting.

. Leadership: Promoted to increase operational effectiveness of newly

established business group.

. Developed strategic and operational plans for the business that

focused on growth or rationalization of production capacity to align

with the fluctuation of market demand.

. Initiated aggressive action plans to drive financial performance

and optimize production that centered on lean tools, efficiencies,

environmental, scrap, capacity, forecasting, staffing, safety,

quality and cost targets. Developed and managed budget with focus

on product cost and margin.

. Productivity Results: Achieved target profit margins in 3 of the

plants, delivering record performance:

. Overall improved efficiency by 2%.

. Reduced cost 4.5% in challenging environment.

. Reduced environmental reportable incidents 8 fold

. Reduced both staff and hourly by 16%.

. Operational Excellence: Achieved site certification for ISO 9000-4

Quality, ISO 14001 Environmental, and ISO 18001 for Safety.

. Established standard work practices and processes for every aspect of

operations to achieve lower costs and quality of service.

. Introduced, trained and championed the use of lean tools to drive

plant improvements.

. Improved OSHA incident rate 48%

. Team Development: Drove Staff development through performance assessments

and evaluations. Provided coaching and expectations for setting plant,

team and individual goals that aligned with the business strategy.

. Labor: New, more cost effective collective agreements were negotiated.

Vice President - Manufacturing, Paper Board Group

2000-2007

Operations P&L accountability for $204M paper board mill.

Recruited to lead operations team with reports in production,

R&D, environmental, maintenance, safety, logistics and HR.

. Performance improvements: Utilized best practices to achieve

optimal performance and productivity.

. Machine efficiency increased 12%; Prime product percent increased

15%

. Cost of claims reduced 87%

. Cost of manufacturing reduced 13% during period of rising Canadian

dollar,

. OSHA index rate reduced 70%.

. Capital Project: Successfully implemented $31M machine capital

improvement project 2001-4,

. Quality: Improved quality through the development of process

controls, grade guidelines & operating specifications, and the

implementation of ISO programs

pacifica papers inc. /Catalyst paper corporation - $1.2B producer of

Mechanical printing paper 1994 - 2000

Operations Manager, Paper Mill, Power River, BC, Canada (1998-

2000)

Managed the operations, maintenance and administration of ~$400M

business with 5 plants producing printing paper and hog fuel and ~

600 employees.

. Performance Improvements: Utilized best practices to achieve

optimal performance and productivity.

. Paper mill OSHA incident rate reduced by 15%

. Reduced Paper Machine controlled operating costs by 16%

. Reduced TMP controlled operating costs by 5% with record quality

and line efficiencies

. Reduced mechanical pulp operating costs by $1M/yr. through

bleaching optimization.

. Reduced finishing and distribution costs by over $3.00/tonne.

. Cost Improvement: Restructured operations yielding a 30% staff

reduction and leading to the amalgamation of the operating and

maintenance groups into one.

Production Manager, Paper Machines (1994 -1998)

Managed the operations, maintenance and administration of the 3

machine 1300 TPD paper mill

. Performance Improvements included:

. Improved Paper Machine 12-month efficiencies by over 3% to record

levels.

. Reduced maintenance 12-month efficiency losses from 5.7 to 3.8%.

. Reduced waste and rejected product 12-month efficiency losses from

8.1 to 5.5 %.

. Reduced Paper Machines controlled manufacturing costs by over

$60/tonne.

Irving Paper, Saint John, NB, Canada 1992 - 1994

Irving is a non integrated paper mill which produced newsprint and

specialty papers. The mill produced 880 MTPD on two machines.

Paper Mill Manager - Paper Machines, Finishing and Shipping Departments of

an 880 TPD two machine paper mill ('94)

PAPER MACHINE SUPERINTENDENT (92-93)

. PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS INCLUDED:

. Introduced soft-nip calendar specialty printing grades for offset

and rotogravure printing.

. Increased production from 800 to 880 MTPD and Paper Machine

efficiencies by 10%.

Champion International, florida and Texas, USA 1984 - 1992

Champion was a fully integrated forest product corporation. Assignments in

the integrated paper mills at Pasadena TX, Pensacola FL, and Sheldon TX

No. 5 and No. 6 Paper Machines Manager Sheldon TX 1990 - 1992

No. 5 Machine Manager Sheldon TX 1989 - 1990

P-5 Machine Tour Foreman Pensacola FL. 1986 - 1988

Paper Mill Technical Superintendent Pasadena TX 1985 - 1986

No. 27 Coated Paper Complex Senior Process Engineer Pasadena TX 1984 - 1985

0. At Sheldon Mill, managed two Horizontal Bel Baie news machines. The

operations leader for the $42MM No. 5 Machine rebuild. The 42-day

planned construction outage was completed in 41 days and the aggressive

start up curve was achieved.

1. At Pensacola, participated on the rebuild team for P-5 to the then,

world's largest fine paper machine. Managed one of the four operating

teams during check-outs, start up and for the first two years of

operation.

2. At Pasadena, coordinated the technical activities for the fine paper

coated machine complex, two uncoated machines and a pulp dryer.

Nalco Chemical Co., Texas 1981 - 1984

Pulp and Paper Technical Sales Rep.

PROCTER & GAMBLE PAPER PRODUCTS CO., GREEN BAY WI 1974 - 1981

Industrial Relations and Operations Management positions

Health, Safety and Environmental Manager Fox River Mill

Tissue Rewinder Area Manager

Facial Tissue Line first line supervisor

education

MACALESTER COLLEGE ST. PAUL MN. - B.A. BIOLOGY WITH CHEMISTRY MINOR

Graduated with Honors 1974

Finance for Non-Financial Managers - Stanford University, Pala Alto Ca.

1996

Queen's Operations Leadership Program - Queens University, Kingston On.

2004

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