Michael Buchanan

Dedicated leader with demonstrated ability to train, manage, motivate, and develop team members to achieve organizational objectives. Cultural adaptability, management systems, employee engagement, and employee development are strengths.

• Develop a programming scheme to maximize yields and minimize process upsets with all germ preparation channels
• Wrote the original purge manual in a newly constructed corn germ extraction plant.
• Utilizing personnel expertise, set records 2 year consecutive years in hexane usage and germ residual oil
• Led the isomerase enzyme savings initiative which generated over $1MM in one year.
• Create a programming scheme to alert refinery personnel when, and which system was bottlenecking production.
• Managed the first department in my company to implement a standard work system
• Develop 5 of my direct reports to high-potential status.
• I have managed staffs as large as 80 employees. Postion under my management have included; Department Managers, Process Specialist, Engineers, Maintenance Managers, Operators. and Industrial Cleaners.

I have managed department budgets totaling over $10MM since 2017

Owned and operated a used car dealership, 01/01/97, 12/31/01