Jason Ripley
Guyton,GA
Summary
Hardworking and motivated Senior Manager with 30years of experience and record of success in Manufacturing and Logistics industries. Solid history balancing team performance, customer service targets and business objectives. Dedicated to working closely with employees to maximize productivity and optimize procedures. Decisive leader with good planning and organizational skills.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Manager and Platform Leader Automated Vehicle
Georgia-Pacific
Atlanta, GA
03.2020 - 05.2024
- Played key role in developing a capability that enabled facilities to eliminate the need to rely on manufactures to maintain automated equipment.
- Responsible for the reliability of over 500 automated guided vehicles at 20+ locations
- Lead development of asset strategies, learning materials, KPI’s, site daily direction setting meetings.
- Effectively leading and scheduling both remote and embedded technicians to the highest priority of work resulting in high percentage of vehicle availability.
Logistics Operations Manager
Georgia-Pacific
Rincon, Georgia
01.2016 - 03.2020
- Managed all Logistics, Planning and Transportation operations at 3.5 million sq. ft. facility. Successfully managed a $25MM+ budget
- Managed expectations with 3rd Party Logistic provider.
- Responsible for instilling companies core values and safety vision.
- Manage 130 salaried and hourly employees.
- Interictal part of the mill leadership team.
- Effectively managed organization change.
- Drove cost savings initiatives through process changes and capital investment.
- Led mills Digital Transformation before being selected to play more encompassing corporate role.
Manufacturing Engineer
Georgia-Pacific
Green Bay, WI
11.2006 - 01.2016
- Played key role in justifying a $20MM project that upgraded outdated conventional palletizing equipment with a state-of-the-art robotic solution.
- Prepared technicians for the new palletizer equipment by collaborating to apply concepts of reliability while developing work processes to properly maintain equipment that will be installed.
- Managed the outsourcing of high scaled labor to an optimized base case realizing an annual savings of $2MM.
- Applied asset strategies to robotic palletizers and laser guided vehicles.
- Managed many projects that included work execution and budgets.
- Managed and administered a warehouse management system that controls all the materials into, within and out of a 5 million sq. ft. facility.
- Managed and reduced a forklift fleet by introducing electric forklift technologies.
Papermaker
Georgia-Pacific
Green Bay, WI
04.1994 - 11.2006
- Operated, in a team environment, multiple multi-million-dollar high speed paper producing assets.
- Responsible of quality and production reporting.
- Instrumental in implementing TAPPI standard tracking of parent rolls across nine paper machines.
Education
Associate of Science - Manufacturing Technology
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Green Bay, WIBachelor of Science - Manufacturing Engineering
University of Wisconsin - Stout
Menomonie, WISkills
- Operations Management
- Proven effective Leader
- Cross-functional team management
- Strategic Planning
- Performance Management
- Verbal and written communication
- Key Performance Indicators
- Staff Training and Development
- Innovation Management
- Project Management
- Embraces Change
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Sr. Manager and Platform Leader Automated Vehicle
Georgia-Pacific
03.2020 - 05.2024
Logistics Operations Manager
Georgia-Pacific
01.2016 - 03.2020
Manufacturing Engineer
Georgia-Pacific
11.2006 - 01.2016
Papermaker
Georgia-Pacific
04.1994 - 11.2006
Associate of Science - Manufacturing Technology
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Bachelor of Science - Manufacturing Engineering
University of Wisconsin - Stout