BRIAN GILES

Managed A-shift, achieving the highest yearly yield while producing the most tonnage among all 4 shifts in 2023.

-Oversight of eighteen team members with responsibilities for: blending, 4 Leistritz extruders, 2 irradiation lines, and 3 foaming lines.

• Mentored team members through regular feedback and performance evaluations, maintained shift's timesheets / vacation requests, and tracked training progress.
• Ensured shift compliance with OSHA, company safety policy, and responsible for equipment LOTO.
• Effective coordination with other departments to maintain efficiency and clear communication.
• Lead daily management meetings focusing on safety, production performance, downtime, job changes, and future needs.
• Generated daily production reports.
• Daily line inspections to ensure quality.
• Strong skills in problem solving and troubleshooting.
• Promoted and sustained a solid 5S culture within the plant.
• Articulate, friendly, and very effective working with people of different backgrounds and temperaments.

• Managed, organized, and maintained department to avoid USDA violations or delays.
• Established clear priorities, production quality standards, and organized manpower to achieve daily targets.
• Responsible for daily inventory and raw materials.
• Engaged in maintaining employee moral by being accessible leading by example.
• Prepared, calibrated, and monitored production machinery to achieve daily targets and quality standards.
• Minimized downtime through oversight of employee assignments and resource management.

• Ensured integrity and longevity of homes by installing high quality shingle roofs.
• Provided accurate and competitive estimates to clients.

• Greeted and registered customers arriving and leaving the park.
• Made and confirmed telephone and online reservations.
• Computed bills, collected payments, and made reservation changes.
• Oversight of inventory needed to maintain the commercial swimming pools, arcade room, and mini golf.
• Manager on Duty: responsible for the overall operations of the park, ensuring thirty employees are working efficiently throughout assigned shifts, while providing timely resolutions to customer inquiries and complaints.
• Recorded and ensured sterilization and pH levels were correct for two pools, water slide, and splash ground.
• Maintenance work in the off-season: landscaping, trimming bushes, leaf removal, cabin/site restorations, and winterized the park.