Vanessa Hopgood
Summary
Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Operations Manager
PPG Industrial
Greensboro, USA
04.2023 - Current
- Drive safety excellence through personnel involvement, ownership, and accountability
- Integrate training matrix enhancing effectiveness, achieving 95% task knowledge across all employees
- Ensure hiring goals are met by defining and enforcing HR and safety policies to ensure adherence
- Effectively manage departmental production by driving OEE countermeasures
- Maintain a 95% on-time delivery record
- Awarded the 2025 Ergo Cup Conference People’s Choice Award for employee-driven ergonomic innovation and engagement
Business Leader of Tire Assembly (784 associates)/Component Prep (384 associates)
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Akron, USA
04.2021 - 04.2023
- Drive safety excellence through personnel involvement, ownership and accountability
- Facilitate team development and growth through communication
- Building employee commitment and ownership
- Facilitate team development growth with reviews and evaluation
- Motivate and encourage team
- Proactively delegate resolutions to complex and chronic issues preventing customer looses
- Data entry and accuracy complied to create department reports
Process Specialist of Mixing Department
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Akron, USA
01.2019 - 01.2021
- Drive safety excellence through personnel involvement
- Data entry and accuracy complied to create department reports (OEE)
- Utilize work processes to effectively manage and facilitate good asset health PM
- Prioritize work orders to address machine functionality and optimize on equipment availability
Area Manager of Mixing Department
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Akron, USA
01.2015 - 01.2019
- Align Labor/ Pay roll
- Manage People and Machinery
- Strive to meet daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual goals
- Delegate hourly associates
Education
Bachelor of Science - Biology
Fayetteville State University
Fayetteville, NC 08.2010 - 12.2014
South View High School
Hope Mills, NCSkills
- Operational efficiency
- HR policy enforcement
- Safety compliance
- Team collaboration
- Process optimization
- Project coordination
- Performance evaluation
- Employee engagement
- Proactive problem solving
- Effective communication
- Time management
- Change management
- Interpersonal communication
- Team building
- Written communication
- Supervision and leadership
- Friendly, positive attitude
- Training & Development
- Collaboration
- Problem-solving
- Leadership
- Data management
- Relationship building
- Attention to detail
- Research
- Critical thinking
- Customer relations
- Multitasking Abilities
Awards
- 2025 Ergonomics Conference Winner of People Choice
Timeline
Operations Manager
PPG Industrial
04.2023 - Current
Business Leader of Tire Assembly (784 associates)/Component Prep (384 associates)
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
04.2021 - 04.2023
Process Specialist of Mixing Department
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
01.2019 - 01.2021
Area Manager of Mixing Department
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
01.2015 - 01.2019
Bachelor of Science - Biology
Fayetteville State University
08.2010 - 12.2014
South View High School