Damon Dailey
New Castle,IN
Summary
Dynamic Production Manager with a proven track record at Boar's Head, driving a 20% improvement in efficiency through strategic manpower scheduling. An intuitive leader skilled in coaching and fostering team potential, I leverage data-driven insights to enhance production outcomes while prioritizing customer satisfaction and operational excellence.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Production Manager
Boar's Head
New Castle, IN
12.2023 - Current
- Managed all aspects of 3rd shift production, ensuring on-time product delivery and seamless coordination across all plant operations.
- Plan and coordinate the execution of raw production totaling a weekly goal of 800,000 lbs across 3rd shift with 125
associates. - Facilitated and mentored the training of employee and supervisor standard work in multiple areas.
- Streamlined workflow processes to enhance efficiency and reduce downtime around shift startup.
- Drive efficiency improvements through man power scheduling and line side PSBs improving PPM by 20% across the department.
- Successfully led a shift schedule transformation on 3rd shift, transitioning the raw pack team from a 4x10-hour schedule to a 5x8-hour schedule. This change resulted in a significant increase in throughput, boosting weekly raw pack production by 132,073 lbs.
Production Supervisor RAW 1st Shift
Boar's Head
New Castle, IN
10.2021 - 12.2023
- Supervised daily production activities, ensuring adherence to quality standards and safety protocols of 38 associates and 2 team leads.
- Trained and mentored team members on operational procedures and best practices.
- Completed a green belt project resulting in a 37% reduction in Honey Maple Ham pickle scrap.
- Worked closely with Process Systems to conduct weekly reports correlating plant SCOPE defect data to top 5 contributing OC issues so the team can direct our efforts where most effective with the OC team.
Production Supervisor RTE 2nd Shift
Boar's Head
New Castle, IN
12.2019 - 10.2021
- Supervised daily production operations, ensuring adherence to quality and safety standards
- Totaled daily inventory of all RTE products to help with scheduling.
- Implementation of a standard rework process to limit the amount of rework was being carried over day to day.
- Led proposal of the RTE 2.5 group that resulted in an increase in tonnage of 100,000 lbs per week.
- Succession planned for leads to become supervisors. Worked on identifying candidate's, identifying gaps, and put plans in place for them to learn/train for the job.
Education
High School Diploma -
New Castle High School
New Castle, INSkills
- Extensive experience in roles that prioritize customer satisfaction by putting people first while remaining personable, professional, and patient
- Effective problem solver that utilizes data and root cause analysis to solve a problem and how to successfully address it
- Intuitive leader that engages strengths, coaches through weaknesses, and fosters potential to elevate team members
- Data driven leader that understands OEE, yields, scrap, and downtime
- Good communication skills that translates management goals and KPI's to the floor level
Timeline
Production Manager
Boar's Head
12.2023 - Current
Production Supervisor RAW 1st Shift
Boar's Head
10.2021 - 12.2023
Production Supervisor RTE 2nd Shift
Boar's Head
12.2019 - 10.2021
High School Diploma -
New Castle High School