Steven Huck
Vice President of Value Added Products and Services, Indy Fruit, Piazza, Garden Cut Indy, CIBUS at FreshEdge- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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FreshEdge
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United States
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Food and Beverage Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Vice President of Value Added Products and Services, Indy Fruit, Piazza, Garden Cut Indy, CIBUS
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Mar 2021 - Present
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Indianapolis Fruit Company
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United States
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Food and Beverage Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director, Value-Added Products & Services
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Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
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Caito Foods, LLC
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Food and Beverage Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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Director of Operations/Logistics
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Apr 2019 - Oct 2020
Drove efficient and lean plant operations for the facility with a focus on sustainability, profitability, and safety of over 300 employees with 20 direct reports. Established and championed preventative and predictive maintenance programs; implemented Kaizen, Six Sigma, and Lean processes to ensure company best practices. Enforced continued compliance with all health, safety, environmental, and regulatory policies, permits, and laws. Hired, trained, and mentored employees. Key Accomplishments:• Reduced direct labor costs from 19+ to a low of 14.2 and overtime by 20% plantwide while maintaining productivity.• Established and tracked KPI’s to reduce the piece-pick rate by 25% plantwide. • Designed and implemented SOP’s for both production and warehouse processes; initiated the Single Source of Truth (SSOT) for all customer specifications and SOP maintenance.• Removed the silo structure from production and introduced a cross-training program between fruit and vegetable production lines to ensure optimal levels of employee coverage for each line depending upon levels of demand. Show less
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Operations Manager
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Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
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Tipton Mills Foods
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Columbus, IN
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Operations Manager
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Feb 2016 - Feb 2019
Directed daily processing operations across several processing lines with 40+ employees. Analyzed and monitored employee and production workflows to optimize the day-to-day activities while minimizing costs. Focused on delivering products of maximum quality in a safe and profitable manner. Steered all safety policies and HR policies for the facility. Key Accomplishments: • Collaborated cross-functionally to implement ERP system that enhanced lot tracking and the utilization of FIFO; designed new warehouse layout; created multiple Kanban sections to ensure accurate products. • Established optimal production schedules for multiple high-speed packaging lines; set-up HARPC for aseptic line to ensure temperatures were tracked and kept at required levels. • Increased line output on all lines by approx. 19% through the establishment of a KPI system to track performance metrics for each production line. • Led team to increase on-time production from 72% to an unprecedented 96% during leadership Show less
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Sensient Technologies Corporation
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United States
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Chemical Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Production Manager
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Sep 1983 - Feb 2016
Provided operational leadership across multiple product lines for color production focused on safety, cost, quality, and on-time delivery. Led in the development, deployment, and continuous improvement of programs and systems in support of environmental, health, safety, and broader operational excellence. Fostered a culture of proactivity, accountability, engagement, and sustainability through robust programs and processes with the primary goal of reducing loss and liability throughout the facility. Headed up the Emergency Response team for the St. Louis Division. Lead Trainer to implement JD Edwards and ERP System for the St. Louis facility. Key Accomplishments: • Created an Operator Training Program to facilitate the use of DSI guns to improve inventory accuracy and reduce miscalculations from $80,000 to $2,000 within $2.3 million worth of inventory. • Rightsized the tech area to reduce headcount from 31 to 22 employees with zero impact to customers: at the same time increased tech manufacturing from $645,000 to $671,000. • Introduced Right Frist Time for all products to maintain an on-time delivery average of 97%; worked with the PIT group to target problem products and ensure up-to-date SOP’s to correct product defects. • Championed training and development and employee accountability; reduced fixed costs from $1.05 per pound of product to $0.78 in one year (2009/2010). • Created the database for tracking employee safety trainings and continually focused on employee safety to lead team in achieving zero recordable OSHA incidents in 2009. Show less
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Education
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Ranken Technical College
(HAC, HACR, HVAC, HVACR) -
Saint Louis Community College
Chemistry and Information Technology