EXPERIENCE DETAILS

95  -  03    Site Manager, BASF Corporation, Morganton NC & Grand Rapids MI (‘95-‘99)

·  Led project to build and start a $25M powder coatings plant. Project was injury free, on-time, on-budget, and on-quality. The new plant is based on self-directed high performance work teams.

·  Dual site responsibility for Grand Rapids MI and Morganton NC site from 1995 – 1999.  Led the closure team in transferring the products from Grand Rapids to Morganton and later the closing and decommissioning the Grand Rapids site.

·  Reduced emissions by 40% while increasing production to maintain EPA true-minor source status.

·  Led the team for transferring products from the Brantford Ontario site.

·  Established and led a Community Advisory Panel for the local area.

·  Guided the on-time, on-budget implementations of ISO 9000, QS 9000 quality registrations and the ISO 14000 environmental management registration.

·  Implemented a behavioral safety system to reduce injury rates by 75% and severity rates to zero. Program focuses on the day-to-day behaviors that often result in injury.

·  Increased productivity 60% by absorbing volume from three former plants without increasing headcount or fixed costs and without significant capital investment.

·  Initiated and conducted a site process optimization that led to numerous improvements.  This was a bottom-to-top total re-engineering effort.

·  Developed a customer welcome program for customer visits to the plant.  The program ensures a positive customer experience that advances marketing and sales goals.

·  Developed a monthly program of individual coaching for the plant management team.  Held annual seminars to teach leadership skills.

·  Designed and programmed a production batch tracking database.  The system allows supervisors and managers to optimize the number of batches in process and eliminate bottlenecks.  This was cross-licensed and marketed to paint companies in the U.S.