Joseph Gordon

MSI Express Inc. is one of the largest food and beverage distributors in the Chicagoland area, offering a variety of products using various platforms and variety of equipment to produce finished goods. My daily activities included but were not limited to:

• Directly supervising over 100 employees per day
• Safety incident reporting, investigating, and corrective actions
• Onboarding training for new hires and weekly safety trainings in conjunction with daily huddles and monthly town hall meetings
• Managing day to day operations to insure all activities are productive and we are achieving KPI goals as planned
• Managing product changeovers; preparing ingredients and materials for upcoming setups to ensure proper execution with minimal downtime
• Collaborating with Maintenance and Quality Control personnel in the event of equipment failures or nonconformance to safely restore product flow and ensure all finished goods are within customer specifications
• Reconciliation of materials and investigating variances
• Using multiple platforms of software including but not limited to Nulogy, Safety Chain, and sharepoint for data entry and transactions
• Auditing compliance of GMP, housekeeping, safety, SOP, SWI, etc.
• Investigating failures or major downtime to provide corrective actions and/or process improvements as needed
• Employee coaching, developing, and training

Graham Packaging Company produces multiple plastic products and packaging with locations in Central, North, and South America as well as Europe. My duties were as follows but not limited to:

• Supervising over 70 employees per day in 5 different facilities
• Onboarding training as well as monthly town hall meetings
• Managing day to day operations to ensure production is safely producing quality products, achieving KPI and anticipating product changeovers
• Scheduling labor, requesting additional labor and reducing extra labor as needed
• Provided support to other departments as needed to meet organizational goals
• Daily gemba walks throughout all plants
• Auditing GMP, safety, SOP, SWI and all other processes to ensure we safely produced quality finished goods per customer specifications
• Root cause analysis and corrective actions of excessive downtime
• Process improvements and kaizens to show measurable cost reductions
• Maintaining quality standards ensuring all product is produced per customer specifications
• Safety incident reporting to include corrective action
• Using software including but not limited to: Kronos, SAP, and Streamline for record keeping and reporting
• Conflict resolution with employees
• Supporting all departments and promoting great culture and teamwork
• Forklift certifications and recertifications as needed

Danco Converting Company specialized in converting paper into customer specific packaging and printing film. My daily duties included but were not limited to:

• Supervising 70 employees daily
• Managing day to day operations for shipping, receiving, production, and food safety
• Co-Chair of Safety Committee to meet on a weekly basis to develop the program from it’s infancy stages to a professional team
• Implemented customer service standards that increased client satisfaction
• Developed and monitored procedures for food safety as well as record keeping for HACCP
• As Train the Trainer, I created a forklift certification program as cost savings
• Forklift recertification and investigations in the event of safety violations
• Investigating non-conformances and providing corrective actions
• Onboarding and continuing education to current employees
• Inventory management

FIC America Corporation, headquartered in Japan, is a global manufacturer and distributor of auto parts for companies including but not limited to: Ford, General Motors, Honda, Mitsubishi, Lexus, and Toyota. While at FIC America my duties included but were not limited to:

• Supervising over 100 employees daily within 3 facilities
• Daily pre shift and handoff meetings to include shift notes
• Managing day to day shipping and receiving activities to include but not limited to order fulfillment, warehouse, and recovery of shortages on shipments
• Maintaining direct communication with multi-million dollar customers to schedule expedite recoveries as well as adjusting production schedules to meet said demands
• Consistently met company and department objectives within budget and time constraints
• Led and managed projects to support logistics efforts and plans
• Maintained contact with multi-million dollar customers, especially when coordinating product recovery which also involves coordination of product changeovers to meet deadlines
• Creating and improving SWI with process improvement as a KPI
• Evaluate performance and coach and develop improvement plans as necessary
• Daily gemba walks in all plants
• Auditing finished goods for non-conformance
• Auditing GMP, safety, SOP, SWI and 5S
• Safety incident reporting and investigation and corrective actions as needed
• Supporting all departments and promoting teamwork and great company culture
• Using software including but not limited to: Kronos, SAP, share point, and customer specific portals for reporting and record keeping
• Monthly town hall meetings and weekly training focal points
• Assisting with administrative duties and other activities to support the company
• Coaching, developing, evaluating, and training all employees