Brian Crowe
Lee’s Summit,MO
Summary
Forward-thinking team leader skilled at operating departments efficiently to meet goals. Successful background matching employees with roles for maximum performance. Proactive and hardworking individual focused on continuous operational improvement.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Director of Operations
Faultless Brands / Trapp Fragrances
07.2022 - Current
- Defined, implemented, and revised operational policies and guidelines.
- Oversaw day-to-day production activities in accordance with business objectives.
- Worked collaboratively with functional leaders to implement new procedures and corrective actions to improve quality.
- Achieved team goals through formalized training plans, coaching, and performance management.
- Monitored and create a budget and utilized operational resources.
- Analyzed business operations and implemented strategies to improve operational cohesiveness.
Production Supervisor
Church & Dwight
02.2022 - 07.2022
- Responsible for daily operations; providing leadership, focus and direction to the operations team
- Lead daily start up meetings communicating production requirements for the day and the OEE standards past and present
- Organizes and plans labor needs such as quantity of temps needed, vacation coverage and overtime
- Implement and maintain 5s and lean manufacturing processes, through Gemba walks, and periodic Kaizen events
- Ensures employees receive proper training (Safety, operations, housekeeping)
- Leads operating teams in the execution of the more operational aspects of the TPM program
- Does periodic audits on the operations processes and provides analysis of operations to support initiatives or areas of opportunity
- Leads operating teams in problem solving and short-term business issues
- Takes part in periodic meetings to discuss long term strategic planning
- Works to standardize operating processes such as changeovers, startups and shutdowns
- Implements cost control systems in areas such as waste, repair, and maintenance, supplies and labor
- Develops and follows leader standard work.
Production Supervisor
Legacy Touch
05.2021 - 02.2022
- Supervised a production floor of 17 employees in 3 department creating custom Jewelry pieces to remember passed loved ones
- Coordinate production plans by establishing priorities, monitoring progress, meeting deadlines, and resolving production/employee issues
- Create SOP and process flows to new items and ensure employees are trained and follow documents daily
- Monitor and maintain employee production through expectations by coaching and providing constructive feedback
- Coaching and training where needed to meet customer service needs
- Work closely with Production Manager on projects, issues, or breakdowns that may occur
- Implementing a safety culture program as the company continues to grow by following all OSHA requirements
- Learning the Fulfillment system to track orders through the process and shipped through FedEx
- Understand the different types of metal and how they are worked through engraving, polishing, cleaning, and plating to ensure a quality piece is presented
- Using my background to help resolve errors by using DAMIC to deep dive in the mistake to resolve then update SOP
- Working in 5’s practices to create a better workflow to more efficient.
Production Supervisor
Dots Pretzels
10.2020 - 05.2021
- Supervise a production floor of 20 employees
- Leading the team and facilitating a startup of a new production facility of what is becoming the number 1 snack food in the US
- In the first 3 month of production OE was averaging 65%+
- Working closely with the Project Manager to improve or modify equipment to become more efficient and food safe
- Building and implementing process and procedures for production equipment such as mixing and packaging for training/operating purpose
- Creating SOP, CIL, Improvement production systems (Redzone), Food Safety standards, and rolling out the new company policies from the Human Resource departments
- Interviewing for new hires and onboarding training for start dates
- Building a safe culture in a newly design manufacturing facility so that we are industry safe and compliance to OSHA regulations
- Also helping with inventory control to manage warehouse space as well as driving down waste
- Ensuring the BOM (Bill of Material) matches what we are producing
- Working closely with the Plant Manager and HR department to ensure we meet the staffing requirements of the facility to drive in labor cost to reduce the cost per unit price
- Track attendance, payroll, and discipline of each employee by following the employee handbook and reporting to HR when not in compliance.
Operation Manager
Upfield
11.2018 - 10.2020
- Manage production personnel across 3 shifts through 3 direct reports
- Ensuring the production schedule was produced on time and adhere to quality standards in accordance with company policies and applicable laws
- Work closely with other departments to ensure preventive maintenance are complete to optimize production efficiencies and quality was following with code
- Analyze production reports for down time, attendance, overtime, and quality of product to report out to Senior Management
- Monitor KPI’s to measure improvement to production and performance of the facility
- Monitors and enforces safety requirements, GMP’s and Food Safety
- Continually building a positive work environment while driving improvements to increase Overall Efficiency to open production capacity
- Creating standards of CIL, SOP’s, training, and ways of working to optimize operators time to focus on improving rather that firefighting.
Production Supervisor
Upfield
03.2016 - 11.2018
- Manage a lean production staff of 30+ individuals in a Union Environment to reach production efficiency safely, with good quality, while meeting production goals in a timely manner
- Drive and lead daily performance improvements through Kaizens, teamwork, and data
- Facilitate engineers daily to work through priorities and F-Tags
- Monitor daily production schedule to improve efficiencies and changeover reduction
- Monitor labor cost by staffing personal accordingly for all shift/week
- Updating and sending out KPI reports
- Update and manage AM activities
- Manage production startup and shutdown with Sanitation requirements
- Meet with Vendors on packaging quality as well facility trials/innovation on the production floor.
Lead Shift Coordinator
Unilever
03.2016 - 11.2018
- Successfully managed a shift of 112 skilled employees for over 2 years by balancing safety, quality, productivity, cost and moral to achieve positive results
- Manage manufacturing activities during designated shift by leading and motivating shift associates in all areas including safety, efficiency, loss management, quality, and continuous improvement (TPM)
- Assisted in completing step 5 World Class level of TPM
- Deployment of Lean Manufacturing utilizing Kaizen (Continuous Improvement Process) as the building block to lead and assist team development and understanding of continuously improving equipment and processes
- I attended and completed JIPM/TPM Facilitator Course 2012 - Certified Facilitator course.
Production Supervisor
CF Sauer
06.2015 - 03.2016
- Managed all departments; warehouse, maintenance, processing, and production, on the off shift while driving safety through leading indicators and near misses as well as quality by teaching and accountability
- Implemented a coached/trained lead in each department to manage production priorities
- Increased production case count throughput by 25% and efficiency by 5% in the 9 months there by implementing 5’s to be more organized
- Training and facilitating Pit Stop changeover mentality to reduce size changeover times from 12 hours to under 6 hours to increase production while reducing waste by better planning and communicating
- Also created training documents for new hires as well as checklist for all required areas to improve ways of working.
Quality Technical Lead
Unilever
09.2002 - 06.2015
- Manage Quality control programs to safeguard product quality, including leading and developing teams in continuous improvement activities
- Daily development of key aspects of plant quality with suppliers and plant team
- Provide predictive quality analysis of new innovations by developing and enforcing Good Manufacturing Practices with plant team and suppliers
- Develop focused improvement projects with suppliers to ensure higher standards of quality components
- Lead a focus to reduce over fill weights on Dove Body Wash that netted $750K a year based on production demand
- During my role in QA, I attended and completed an ASQ Certification in 2015.
Education
Master of Science in Performance Improvement -
Grantham University
Lenexa, KS08.2019
Bachelor in Business Administration - Management
Columbia College
Columbia, MO12.2013
Certificate in Industrial Electricity - undefined
Linn State Tech College
Linn, MO05.1999
Skills
- Operational strategy development
- Capital Spending
- Leadership training
- Cross-functional team leadership
- Risk management
- Budget management
- Vendor negotiation
- Customer satisfaction strategy
- Compliance and regulatory adherence
- Team management
- Process improvement
- Cost reduction
- Efficiency optimization
- Employee satisfaction
- Project management
- Strategic planning
Accreditations
- TPM facilitator course – 2012
- ASQ Certification – 2015
- AIB Food Safety Certification – 2019
- Lean Black Belt Certification - 2022
References
Provide upon request
Certification
TPM facilitator course – 2012
ASQ Certification – 2015
AIB Food Safety Certification – 2019
Timeline
Director of Operations
Faultless Brands / Trapp Fragrances
07.2022 - Current
Production Supervisor
Church & Dwight
02.2022 - 07.2022
Production Supervisor
Legacy Touch
05.2021 - 02.2022
Production Supervisor
Dots Pretzels
10.2020 - 05.2021
Operation Manager
Upfield
11.2018 - 10.2020
Production Supervisor
Upfield
03.2016 - 11.2018
Lead Shift Coordinator
Unilever
03.2016 - 11.2018
Production Supervisor
CF Sauer
06.2015 - 03.2016
Quality Technical Lead
Unilever
09.2002 - 06.2015
Bachelor in Business Administration - Management
Columbia College
Certificate in Industrial Electricity - undefined
Linn State Tech College
TPM facilitator course – 2012
ASQ Certification – 2015
AIB Food Safety Certification – 2019
Master of Science in Performance Improvement -
Grantham University
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