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Listing ID #8899

VP Operations/Plant Director

Candidate: #171033
Current Position: VP of Operations/Plant Director (Manufacturing)
Industry: Manufacturing
Experience: 20+ Years
Relocation: Southeast

Scope:

This individual is a skilled manufacturing leader in single and multi-site operations. This individual has direct responsibility for safety, operations, shipping, scrap, environmental compliance, and P+L Management.

Accomplishments:

  • Led eight plants in the production of a variety of products including PVC, plastic, tapes, building products, and more with over 1,200 employees, $490mm in annual Net Sales, and $114mm in EBITDA.

  • Centralized divisional continuous improvement group into a focused improvement team providing training, cost reduction leadership, and continuous improvement project implementations.

  • Led teams implementing over $16.5mm in operational cost reductions.

  • Reduced OSHA incident rate from 2.45 to 0.66 in six months.

  • Overhauled the onboarding process to reduce turnover of associates with less than 3 months of service from 513% to less than 50 % in just three months.

  • Integrated two additional manufacturing facilities into the company as part of a competitive acquisition.

Haskel Thompson & Associates:

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For more information about this candidate, please contact Nick McQuarry at nick@haskelthompson.com or (239) 302-3588