Experience

Verdant Specialty Solutions

• United States
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Site Manager

  • May 2022 - Present



Sherwin-Williams

• United States
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Plant Manager

  • Jun 2018 - Apr 2022

  Responsible for 130+ colleagues comprising EH&S, Quality, Continuous Improvement, Engineering, Manufacturing, Warehousing, Inventory and full P&L for a Top Tier COMAH site. Responsible for 130+ colleagues comprising EH&S, Quality, Continuous Improvement, Engineering, Manufacturing, Warehousing, Inventory and full P&L for a Top Tier COMAH site.



MACDERMID OFFSHORE SOLUTIONS, LLC

• Wigan, United Kingdom

• Manufacturing Manager

  • Oct 2015 - Jun 2018



Univar Solutions

• United States
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Process Improvement Leader /SAP Business Process Owner Operations at Univar EMEA

  • Sep 2014 - Jun 2015

  Delivering business process efficiency improvements across EMEA at the manufacturing and distribution centres using Six-Sigma DMAIC approach.Define and implement a set of Operational KPI based minimum standards that each site has to meet.Carrying out operational site gap analysis audits in Italy as part of a EMEA site improvement efficiency drive.Using analytical tools such as Every Angle to measure current performance against KPI's, identify potential improvements and implement a specific improvement plan.Project managed a customer complaint improvement program in France to reduce in-transit damage by 3rd party hauliers Show less

• Business Process Owner - SAP Forecast to Stock (Part-time role)

  • Sep 2013 - Sep 2014

  Took on the role of Business Process Owner after the completion of the EMEA SAP implementation project to manage the transfer from hypercare to business as usual, and proactively manage the ongoing process optimisation requirements within Production Planning (PP), Warehouse Management (WM), Quality Management (QM), Document Management System (DMS) and third party system interfaces.

• Operations Manager

  • Aug 2006 - Sep 2014

  Responsible for the safe day to day running of a large manufacturing site/distribution warehouse, servicing a wide customer base across multiple industries/sectors, and the wider Univar UK network with specific materials only manufactured at this site. Creation of a comprehensive safety program for a lower tier COMAH site incorporating full Risk Assessment review and improvement plan, behavioural safety, adherence to regulatory requirements such as Legionella, Asbestos and LOLER, and proactive safety initiatives such as a near miss solution.Developing a value adding customer service plan achieving in excess of 99.5% OTIFFull control of the site P&L and delivery of the annual Capex plan from project conception to completion. Show less

• Subject Matter Expert (Part-time role)

  • Apr 2011 - Sep 2013

  Selected from the business to join a team implementing SAP ECC 5.0 across Europe (Rotterdam, Nordics, Iberia, France, UK & Ireland). Within the FTS team as the primary Production Planning SME, responsible for the design, implementation and testing of the business processes ensuring that the template fully met the business requirements, working closely with the other streams, PTP, OTC and RTR to ensure a flawless end to end process flow.Developing the needs of the business through a defined template solution supporting the preparation of BPD’s (Business Process Documents) for all Production Planning processesData gathering from legacy system and outside of the legacy system. Providing advice and feedback on requirements for plant mapping, bulk storage tanks, work centers, etc to ensure the options within the template are understood and the configured solution met the business needs.Suggested and implemented improvements to process, identifying opportunities to develop further efficiency benefits from SAP over the legacy systems.Wrote Standard Operating Procedures, UPerform and troubleshooting guides for Super Users and end users.Trained the Super Users and facilitated the training sessions for the end usersCreated test scripts. Testing UAT and RT within HP Quality Center 10.00 Show less



Baxenden Chemicals Limited

• Chemical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Operations Manager

  • May 1995 - Aug 2006

  Manufacturer of Polyester Resins, Water Based Polyurethane Dispersions and Solvent Based Coatings & Adhesives. Reporting to the General Manager, responsibilities included management of 3 separate factory units, Materials Planning, UK Logistics, Process Improvement and Waste Disposal. Direct reports 8 and indirect reports 37. Successfully reduced overtime costs from £500k to £100k over 3 years with no reduction in output Increased RFT and quality levels by implementation of Process Deviation Investigation procedure to eliminate recurring problems leading to subsequent decrease of faulty batches by 80% Increased Inventory accuracy and materials movement control by managing project to install racking in 2 warehouses and introducing perpetual stock counting. Monthly stock accuracy is now above 99.5% Successfully negotiated off site storage of finished products to allow for above warehousing improvements As a member of the design & implementation team, successfully replaced old bespoke computerised inventory system with a modern ERP business management system (Movex) Reduced waste volumes by 50% and costs by 30k over 2 years Redesigned finished product bulk tank storage farm which introduced greater flexibility, eliminated potential for contamination and removed bottlenecks Improved attitude to safety amongst plant operators by introducing plant safety representatives and regular plant audits in which all operator levels participate. This scheme had the full support of the GMB Union Successfully introduced Team Briefings in order to improve relationships between staff and hourly paid personnel Introduced Standard Operating Procedures to all plant areas enabling a full operator training plan to be implemented for both existing personnel and new recruits Significantly reduced absenteeism by implementing and managing a new attendance policy. Show less



Jeyes

• United Kingdom
• Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Production Manager

  • Apr 1986 - May 1995