Travis Burden
Dallas,TX
Summary
I am a dedicated team player possessing strong leadership, supervisory, communication and people skills. Also, a person with a strong work ethic committed to quality and achieving company and personal goals. Searching for position with a growth and profit oriented company that will allow my advancement while utilizing my skills to contribute to the overall success of the operation.
Resourceful professional in manufacturing management, known for high productivity and efficient task completion. Specialize in process optimization, quality control, and inventory management. Excel in leadership, problem-solving, and communication, ensuring smooth operations and team synergy.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Production Manager
Brakebush Inc.
Irving, TX
09.2020 - Current
- Oversee the operations of the Flat pack and two IQF departments
- Ensuring that daily orders are completed
- Inventory control
- Meeting customer quality specifications
- Measuring production performance daily through production scorecards
- Manage a team of three supervisors and 75 hourly team members
General Production Manager
Tyson Foods
Broken Bow, OK
11.2019 - 09.2020
- Oversee all operations of the IF and white meat pack out departments
- Ensuring that the daily orders are completed
- Meeting customer quality expectations is key in this role
- Having four direct reports (supervisors) and 150 hourly team members
- Ensuring that safety is at the forefront daily
Shift Manager
Simmons Foods
Southwest City, MO
05.2017 - 10.2019
- Oversee all operations on 3rd shift in 1st processing, Sanitation, and Darkmeat departments
- Ensure that Safety is being practiced and enforced
- Ensure product quality meets customer requirements
- Manage a team of 14 managers and 300 hourly employees
- Process improvements and lean ideals are key in this role
- Also maintaining budgets in each department
Shift Manager
Pilgrim’s pride
Marshville, NC
11.2015 - 05.2017
- Oversee all operations in 1st processing and 2nd processing on third shift
- Running one high speed in evis
- Two cutup line, 4 cone Lines, 2 Wld, 1 thigh debone
- All products are bulk pack
- Responsible for 14 managers and 350 hourly employees
Owner and Operator
Country Kitchen LLC
Utica, KY
11.2013 - 11.2015
- Owner and operator of country kitchen restaurant
- Responsible for all daily operations
- Skills Used: Bookkeeping, P&L reports, inventory order and monitoring
Area Contract Sanitation Manager
VincitGroup
Chattanooga, TN
11.2009 - 11.2013
- Managed four contract sanitation plant operations grossing over six million in sales
- Accountable for operations including safety, budgets, cost, and labor for each site
- Coaching site managers on process improvements and cost saving techniques
- Ensuring a professional relationship with customers and sought and provided analysis for new business
General Production Manager, 3rd Shift
Tyson Foods
Robards, KY
11.2007 - 11.2009
- I was responsible for all third shift operations total of six production departments
- Lead a team of four supervisors and approximately 100 team members
- Responsibilities include overall safety for team, improving product quality, department efficiencies
- Communicate with the overall team and USDA on plant projections
- Reviewing KPI reports daily, production scheduling, production reports, and P&L reports were also important duties performed
- Providing feedback on quality performance issues to plant manager, coaching supervisors to achieve personal and production goals by providing them support and leadership
Debone Superintendent
Mountaire Farms
Lumber Bridge, NC
11.2006 - 11.2007
- Responsible for three different production departments
- Coached team of four supervisors and 126 hourly team members
- The team was responsible for ensuring that customer specifications and orders are complete on a daily basis
- Tasks also include safety, continually monitoring product quality, improving efficiencies, improving pounds per man-hours throughout all departments
- Reviewing profit and loss reports, reviewing customer feedback reports, and daily production reports were also part of my responsibilities
- Coaching supervisors and the team to meet goals for the overall success of the company, improving morale and lowering turnover are important aspect of this position
Debone Manager
Gold Kist
Douglas, GA
09.2004 - 11.2006
- Coached a team of four supervisors and 230 hourly employees
- Accountable for five departments to included safety, maintaining the debone yield, maintaining good pound per person-hour through thigh debone and Marination
- Responsible for reducing the turnover and absenteeism in all five departments
- Within two years second shift debone increased the debone yield by 2%, in the last year second shift increased pounds per man hour average by over one hundred in our Marination department exceeding our goal
- Our department labor cost within a year was better than the average company in Agri
- Stats
- Within 12 months the average quality defects were decreased by fifty percent
Production Supervisor
Tyson Foods
Robards, KY
12.2000 - 09.2004
- Training program for the first six months plant wide in each department
- Supervised department of 65 team members
- Responsible for the overall safety of the department
- Coached team on techniques for improving yields and quality of product in the department
- Reduced cost of department packaging and labor in the department
- Increased the efficiency in the department
Hospital Corpsman
United States Navy
Beaufort, SC
06.1998 - 09.2000
- Provided routine medical services including Emergency medical services to the arm service men and women
- Completed Basic EMT
- Completed CPR training
- Station at Paris Island SC, Emergency Clinic
Education
Diploma -
McLean County High School
Calhoun, Kentucky05.1995
Skills
- Word
- Windows
- Lotus
- ADS
- Perstime
- Kronos
- Excel
- Manufacturing management
- Root-cause analysis
- Quality assurance
- Production optimization
- Cost control
- Training skills
- Manufacturing operations
- Experienced in production scheduling
- Continuous improvements
- Workflow optimization
- Production oversight
Certification
- HACCP Certification, Tyson Foods, Springdale, Arkansas, 03/01/02
- Emergency Medical Technician, USN, Beaufort, South Carolina, 03/01/99
- Basic Life Support Certification, ongoing
- CPR Certification, ongoing
Education
McLean County High School, Calhoun, Kentucky, Diploma, 05/01/95
Timeline
Production Manager
Brakebush Inc.
09.2020 - Current
General Production Manager
Tyson Foods
11.2019 - 09.2020
Shift Manager
Simmons Foods
05.2017 - 10.2019
Shift Manager
Pilgrim’s pride
11.2015 - 05.2017
Owner and Operator
Country Kitchen LLC
11.2013 - 11.2015
Area Contract Sanitation Manager
VincitGroup
11.2009 - 11.2013
General Production Manager, 3rd Shift
Tyson Foods
11.2007 - 11.2009
Debone Superintendent
Mountaire Farms
11.2006 - 11.2007
Debone Manager
Gold Kist
09.2004 - 11.2006
Production Supervisor
Tyson Foods
12.2000 - 09.2004
Hospital Corpsman
United States Navy
06.1998 - 09.2000
Diploma -
McLean County High School