SUMMARY:

Seeking an executive engineering or management leadership position with a company that has strong growth potential, positive core values and a structure to enable its leaders to be productive, highly effective and to contribute to the company goals and mission.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Florence, KY

Senior Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing capital projects in the Florence factory as well as developing a master plan for expansion.

Confidential, Florence, KY

Director of Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Was a member of the executive management committee reporting to the Vice President of Florence operations leading a team of 11 professionals.
• The Engineering & Confidential group provides Safety leadership to all 400 employees; is responsible for environmental compliance, as well as, utility efficiencies and reduction.
• The factory is on track to achieve several very aggressive sustainability goals.
• My team provides maintenance & reliability improvements to the facilities and utility infrastructure that supports production.
• Also with - in the engineering group umbrella is new works construction project management for both internal & external facility expansions most of which provide utility infrastructure upgrades and increased production space to support continuous growth of the business.

Confidential, Ohio, Indiana, and Kansas

Corporate Director of Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Recruited, trained, coached and mentored two top engineers on the engineering team.
• Personally responsible for project management of over $50M in capital improvements during 2012; in 2013 the engineering team managed fast track capital improvements exceeding $100M; project scopes were of a wide range; facility restoration, adding processing capacity, improving production efficiencies and product quality, improving workplace safety and environmental compliance. Most projects were in existing operating locations; construction methods adhered to strict USDA food safety standards and safe quality food standards.
• Coordinated with all departments to maximize results.
• Created new revenue streams through implementation of wastewater treatment and water reuse technology (new to the food processing industry).
• Improved wastewater compliance objectives at multiple locations.
• Traveled internationally with large teams researching and selecting innovative food processing equipment and methods as well as green technologies.
• Worked closely with senior management improving growth strategies.
• Encouraged best practice implementation to reduce operating costs while improving product quality.

Confidential

Director of Engineering Services

Responsibilities:

• As a member of the reliability leadership team, I implemented reliability centered maintenance tools, systems and philosophies.
• Achieved significant improvements in energy consumption, chemical and water usage and overtime costs. Recruited, coached and trained many reliability professionals.
• Worked closely with senior executive management to finalize and make key business decisions.
• Traveled internationally mentoring engineers as the company expanded capacity infrastructure in two Asian markets.
• Mentored and developed several new and existing field engineers.
• Developed new industry leading technologies as a member of the R&D team.
• Benchmarked other industries on lean technologies and six sigma philosophies.
• Managed land acquisition and facility construction of new automated facilities in five key eastern American markets.
• Projected and managed annual capital budgets for one third of the North American facilities as well as ensured environment compliance was maintained.
• Lead a group of safety professionals that focused on improving facility safety.
• Performed and taught long-range capacity planning for the company and represented engineering on several acquisitions.

Field Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project manager for construction of seven automated industrial laundry facilities including land acquisition.
• Designed and managed facility renovations and equipment upgrades throughout the regions responsible.
• Ensured environmental compliance & implemented green technologies throughout facilities within the regions.
• Implemented reliability initiatives and supervised reliability professionals; managed facility restoration efforts.
• Represented engineering on several acquisitions across north America; performed engineering due diligence and made key recommendations to senior executive management prior to acquisition closing.

Confidential

Regional Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager on a 250,000 sq. ft. Confidential automated distribution facility, a $50 million dollar project.
• In addition to the Des Moines project, several other small projects completed were in and around the mid-west region.

Plant Engineering Manager

Confidential, Cincinnati, Ohio

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager on three new Confidential facilities.
• Managed and mentored three engineers, eight teamster machinists, as well as forty porters. Involved in financial planning, cost cutting measures, construction, environmental compliance, recycling, operational improvements, and facility safety.
• Facilitated services to outside customers as well as reliability training for 32 Confidential facilities in and around the Kentucky/Ohio region.