VINCENT D. GAGLIARDI
Adams,TN
Summary
- 30 years of progressive career growth gained in fast-paced, high-quality, production manufacturing environments.
- Extensive production department management / leadership experience leading high-volume, multi-shift operations.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills combined with positive and effective people, leadership and communications skills.
- Master's Degree in Management and currently enrolled in MBA program
- OSHA General Industry Certification
- Six Sigma Green Belt
- Forklift Certified trainer
Results-driven Business Director with expertise in Six Sigma Green Belt and ERP systems. Proven track record in enhancing workflow efficiency, safety compliance, and team leadership, delivering significant production improvements.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Business Director Operations
Ingram Content Group LSI
01.2021 - Current
- Oversee staff of 230 production, shipping, and maintenance associates in a 24/7 operation. Senior Ops Managers, four Ops Managers and eight Supervisors.
- Reconfigured entire layout of equipment and departments in an effort to improve work flow. Added 10 new pieces of equipment to increase capacity as part of a $7 million capex.
- Increased UPLH from 23 to 32 by developing new SOPs as well as improved work flow.
- Implemented realtime productivity tracking software to improve associate awareness of production targets and current percentage to target.
Plant Manager
Five Star Manufacturing - Tier 2 Automotive
01.2020 - 01.2021
- Oversee staff of 60+ employees in a OEM/aftermarket automotive parts assembly operation.
- Purchase raw materials, schedule production, source outside vendors.
- Developed KPIs for production, ontime delivery, vendor evaluation, and actual vs. budget monthly performance.
- Revived ISO 9001 program and working with plant engineer recertified plant in March.
- Used QB Enterprise to improve cost of materials for all products to assist Sales with pricing to customers and increase profitability.
- Developed shipping and receiving procedures to improve traceability of incoming materials as well as outgoing finished goods to customer.
- Business closed
Operations Manager
Courier Printing - An RRD Company
01.2018 - 01.2020
- Oversee all operations departments, including Scheduling, QA, Production, Shipping/Receiving, Warehouse, Fulfillment, and Maintenance.
- Purchase all consumables, supplies, and source outside services.
- Oversee, implement, and train employees on all corporate EHS programs.
- EHS has been my main focus over past year. Specifically, machine guarding and LOTO regulations.
- Machine guarding was being bypassed by operators by removing safety switches and actual guarding. LOTO procedures were not up to date with current machines. Developed new documentation, displayed by machine, and trained affected and authorized employees.
- Implement quality procedures to improve overall plant quality.
- Customers are asking for improved quality expectations. Implemented new procedures to increase time pulls of product during production. Also introduced secondary startup checks to ensure product is as customer specified on job ticket.
- Monitor purchasing and work with vendors to lower costs.
- Develop budgets with Plant President for each department.
- Work with Sales team to develop new revenue streams through kitting and fulfillment.
- Improve EBITDA by monitoring labor and material costs.
- Going into 2020 budgeting we are creating baseline costs by job through shop floor data collection. In the process of assessing each machine line to create labor requirements needed. Currently we have reduced head count through attrition and retirement by 6%.
- Current cap ex projects include installation of cutting system acquired from sister plan, rebuild of pollution control unit to improve efficiency and utility costs, installation of fourth stitcher line.
- COVID WFR
Production Line Supervisor
AO Smith - Ashland City
01.2016 - 01.2018
- Manage 70+ operators on high speed water heater paint and assembly line.
- Improved production on line from average of 92% to 97%. Line was scheduled to run at a cycle time of 21.4 seconds.
- Identified standard model could run at higher line speed rate which encompassed about 70% of daily production schedule.
- Increased line speed from 21.4 seconds to 19.4 seconds which allowed for 9.3% increase in overall line speed during standard model.
- The other roughly 30% of production schedule included higher work content models which created more line stoppages and quality concerns as employees struggled at the 21.4 second cycle time. To help employees achieve consistent production and decreased line stoppages we decreased the line speed to 22.4 seconds. Even though this slowed production it also decreased line stops and the overall affect improved production.
- Ensure all operators work within current work instructions.
- Worked with training coordinators to improve training and employee placement based on their ability. Finding the employee's strengths helped to improve retention and improved skill set.
- Direct four Leads to managing staffing, production, quality, and safety.
- SAP proficient.
- KRONOS proficient.
- First Responder certified.
- OSHA General Industry certified.
- Forklift Certified.
Production Manager
CSI Medical, Inc.
01.2014 - 01.2016
- Oversee operations for a $17MM medical device plant, including Scheduling, Warehouse, Shipping/Receiving, and Production departments.
- Implement preventive maintenance programs for all machines.
- Improved machine uptime by developing preventive maintenance based on OEM specifications. Even though we dedicated 4 hours a week to PM time overall machine uptime increased from 74% to 82% which included MR, Run, and cleanup time.
- Develop LOTO procedures for all machines.
- Designed and implement LOTO for each piece of equipment to ensure company met OSHA specification for affected and authorized employees.
- Develop procedures and work instruction for production processes.
- By developing standard work instructions for how jobs moved through operations, employees were more in tune with customer's expectations and quality increased and scrap waste decreased by approximately 10% by job.
- 40 direct reports.
- Company sold
Pressroom Manager
Courier Printing - Consolidated Graphics
01.2011 - 01.2014
- Direct, train and develop a team of 25 Press operators across multiple shifts.
- Accountable for $1.8MM operating budget.
- Oversee Pressroom, Shipping, and Maintenance departments.
- Reduced costs by improving machine reliability and reducing waste.
- Developed preventive maintenance program for each press to improve machine reliability and uptime by 18%.
- Maintain licensing and ensured plant was complying with State and Federal hazardous waste storage and disposal.
- Developed hazardous waste reduction plan by retrofitting current inkjet machines from liquid filled to cartridge based system.
Pressroom Manager/Project Manager
CENVEO - ST. LOUIS
01.2009 - 01.2011
- Direct, train and develop a team of 40 union operators across multiple shifts.
- Accountable for $3.5MM operating budget.
- Worked with Corporate Engineers to move two production facilities into one new plant.
- Managed operations in three locations during movement of equipment ensure production continue uninterrupted.
- Increased savings in consumables, waste, and raw materials by working with vendors, employees, and implementing best practices.
Assistant Manager / Pressroom Superintendent
QUEBECOR WORLD, Clarksville, TN
01.2007 - 01.2009
- Lead, train and direct a team of 6 shift Supervisors and 200+ union operators on 10 heat-set, offset web presses with accountability for an $8MM Operating Budget plus Safety, Quality, Productivity & Efficiency and Positive Employee and Customer Relations.
- Reduced waste and over consumption of 1MM+ pounds of paper annually.
- Achieved division EBITDA targets and successfully remained under departmental budget for total unit costs.
- Increased net speeds by 11% year over.
- SME (Subject Matter Expert) on Six Sigma green belt projects fostering continuous-improvement in web-breaks, ink key presets, waste, and quality.
- Key and contributing member of the Corporate Paper Team sharing and implementing 'best practices' across all divisions reducing paper waste.
- Technical expert to the corporate procurement team on consumable purchasing and testing.
- Coached press crews on best practices for make-ready time, total waste, and overall productivity. Preventative Maintenance, Troubleshooting & Repair.
- Direct support of Time Inc, Viacom, Disney, Hachette, and other customers achieving positive relations and consistent levels of quality.
- Plant closed
Pressroom Manager
HILLSIDE PRINTING (RR DONNELLEY & SONS), Hillside, IL
01.2003 - 01.2007
- Direct, train and develop a team of 50 union operators across multiple shifts.
- Accountable for an operating budget of $4MM plus the efficient operation of 5 heat-set web presses, ranging from a two unit Goss Suburban to eight unit Heidelberg M600, and two 4 color Heidelberg Speedmasters.
- Implemented a preventive maintenance program for all presses.
- Developed and implemented ISO procedures for Pressroom, achieving plantwide ISO certification in October 2003 and recertification in 2005 and 2007.
- Monitored and processed reporting for EPA on pressroom's consumption of VOCs as well as maintained backup files for RTO efficiency.
- Successfully improved productivity and waste by developing and communicating measureable goals.
- Achieved all 2006 goals in production and waste set by RRD Corporate.
- Lowered costs of consumables by working directly with suppliers.
Pressroom Quality Specialist
DAILY HERALD - PADDOCK PUBLICATIONS, Arlington Heights, IL
01.1998 - 01.2000
- Developing a preventive maintenance program, working with suppliers to improve quality of consumables, and train operators on quality procedures.
- Supported the Pre Press department to fingerprint presses to improve print quality.
Education
MBA -
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 09.2022 - 09.2024
Master of Science - Management
Austin Peay State University
Bachelor of Business Administration - Cum Laude
Austin Peay State University
Six Sigma Green Belt -
OSHA General Industry Certification -
Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite - Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Journeyman - Offset web / heat-set
Skills
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite - Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- ERP proficient
- Journeyman - Offset web / heat-set
- Six Sigma Green Belt
- OSHA certification
Timeline
MBA -
University of Arizona
09.2022 - 09.2024
Business Director Operations
Ingram Content Group LSI
01.2021 - Current
Plant Manager
Five Star Manufacturing - Tier 2 Automotive
01.2020 - 01.2021
Operations Manager
Courier Printing - An RRD Company
01.2018 - 01.2020
Production Line Supervisor
AO Smith - Ashland City
01.2016 - 01.2018
Production Manager
CSI Medical, Inc.
01.2014 - 01.2016
Pressroom Manager
Courier Printing - Consolidated Graphics
01.2011 - 01.2014
Pressroom Manager/Project Manager
CENVEO - ST. LOUIS
01.2009 - 01.2011
Assistant Manager / Pressroom Superintendent
QUEBECOR WORLD, Clarksville, TN
01.2007 - 01.2009
Pressroom Manager
HILLSIDE PRINTING (RR DONNELLEY & SONS), Hillside, IL
01.2003 - 01.2007
Pressroom Quality Specialist
DAILY HERALD - PADDOCK PUBLICATIONS, Arlington Heights, IL
01.1998 - 01.2000
Master of Science - Management
Austin Peay State University
Bachelor of Business Administration - Cum Laude
Austin Peay State University