Garrison Hill
Ruston
Summary
Wood Products leader with 9 plus years of growing experience at Weyerhaeuser, centered in safety leadership, operational excellence, team development, and capital project execution. Passionate about creating culture with integrity and continuous improvement.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
DES Manager
Weyerhaeuser Oriented Strand Board
08.2023 - Current
- Responsible for achieving safety, quality, production performance goals and providing leadership for a department covering four teams
- Actively partnering with the Maintenance Department to coordinate and optimize job planning for pitstops, down days, and annual shutdowns
- Contributed to the creation, development, and implementation of Arcadia’s Pay for Skill structure.
- Coordinate down days for both production, maintenance, and contractors to maximize our planned downtime
- Establishing a new standard for the operation and performance for Arcadia’s Drying, Energy, Screening, and Environmental areas improving Safety, Reliability, and Performance.
- Role model safety, monitor safety compliance, and participate in plant wide safety
- As a part of this role, I was the operations lead for a sixty-eight-million-dollar capital project up. I developed all the Lockout Procedures, SOPs, trained the operators, and worked with TSI & Blackstar Solutions to get the system up and running
- Identify and develop future leaders and operational talent to support long-term organizational growth
- Work diligently on Optimization of the DES area.
Shift Supervisor
Weyerhaeuser Oriented Strand Board
06.2017 - 08.2023
- Responsible for achieving safety, quality, production performance goals and providing leadership for a rotating team covering the entire mill facility
- Actively worked with my shift maintenance to trouble shoot issues, fix problems, and work through upset conditions
- Used process management to optimize and improve throughout the mill
- Role modeled safety, monitor safety compliance, and participate in plant wide safety
- Coordinated down days for both production and maintenance to maximize our planned downtime
- Drove accountable with all mill employees
- Activity worked with maintenance to make sure we are planning the correct jobs to improve reliability
Production Lead
Weyerhaeuser Engineered Lumber Products
03.2016 - 06.2017
- Responsible for achieving safety, quality, production performance goals and providing leadership for a rotating team of thirty-two employees performing four different manufacturing processes
- Role modeled safety, monitored safety compliance, and participated in plant wide safety
- Actively scheduled around vacancies, absenteeism, vacations, maintenance to meet production and on-time customer shipment
- Actively lead employees within a Union labor force
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration - Management
University of Louisiana at Monroe
Monroe, LA12.2015
Associates - Business Technology
Louisiana Delta Community College
Monroe, LA01.2012
Skills
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
- Effective collaboration across (Maintenance, Operations, Leadership, and Suppliers)
- Strategic Planning & Cost Reduction
- Innovative thinker with planning and problem-solving skills
- Creative mindset coupled with good judgement and decision-making skills
- Effective process management and Lean Manufacturing Skills (Root Cause Analysis & 5S)
- Skilled in utilization of SAP & Microsoft Office (different font size)
- Development of Talent and Performance Management
- Strong believer is Cross-Functional Development and Skills
- Open to, and act on feedback
Timeline
DES Manager
Weyerhaeuser Oriented Strand Board
08.2023 - Current
Shift Supervisor
Weyerhaeuser Oriented Strand Board
06.2017 - 08.2023
Production Lead
Weyerhaeuser Engineered Lumber Products
03.2016 - 06.2017
Associates - Business Technology
Louisiana Delta Community College
Bachelor of Business Administration - Management
University of Louisiana at Monroe
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