Steven_Taylor_Resume_12 2016

STEVEN E. TAYLOR

151 Conewago Street [email protected] (717) 677-6515: home Biglerville, PA 17307

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Current Position

Production Supervisor September 12, 2016

The Production Supervisor manages and coordinates the activities of production personnel engaged in packaging beverage products for storage & shipment, including providing leadership, direction, and facilitation on multiple high speed production lines. Position Responsibilities

Direct and coach production operators in the execution of daily/weekly production schedules for multiple packaging lines.

Manage within labor and operating expense budget.

Coordinate beverages packaging ensuring safety, quality and productivity while minimizing waste.

Meet the productivity, quality, safety, health, environmental and morale goals established for the site.

Complete and update all necessary production paperwork and record.

Ensure equipment in the area assigned is in working order and that working conditions are safe at all times.

Review and analyze production records to identify opportunities for improvement.

Make recommendations for long term solutions, including recommendations for replacing equipment, refurbishing equipment, procedural changes, productivity improvement, material change, etc., related to the area of accountability.

Drive the continuous improvement agenda in area of responsibility through teamwork, skills, and capability development.

Staff, train, evaluate and develop team members.

Manage and facilitate employee and management relationship within the guidelines of the labor

contract and company policy.

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Previous Positions

PROJECT MANAGER / ESTIMATOR

PSI Pumping Solutions, Inc. is engaged in the construction, repair, and maintenance of water and

wastewater treatment facilities and pumping station.

Position Summary: Organize and Lead projects from initiation to completion. I am accountable for

managing the four key elements of all projects: scope, resources, time, and budget. I coordinate project

resources and facilitate the many relationships within projects including customers, team members,

internal and external personnel, and a variety of stakeholders.

MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS / ASSET CARE / MAINTENANCE

Seasoned Operations and Maintenance Management and leader with diversified experience in the

food/beverage manufacturing. During my 26 years of experience my responsibilities have included

operations management, project management, safety, quality, finance and manufacturing management.

As a Manager I had 365-day total responsibility for a mini business unit. Expertise includes continuous

process improvement, developing teams that stress efficiency gains, and maximizing productivity and

quality.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Coaching Developing People Continuous Improvement

Low Acid Aseptic Filling Aseptic Filling High Speed Packaging

Maintenance Planning Lean Six Sigma OSHA/Safety Training

HACCP PET Blow Molding Forecasting/Budgeting

Better Process Control Clean Room Operations SAP

Rockwell Automation Red Cross First Responder/CPR/AED KPI’s

ISO 14001 EMS Auditor

Proven operations professional with a track record of steady promotion through results-oriented

management techniques. Successful Continuous Improvement initiatives and results.

Strong leadership and communication skills.


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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Dr Pepper Snapple Group Formerly CADBURY SCHWEPPES AMERICAS BEVERAGES

Aspers, PA August 2006 - 2013

Dr Pepper Snapple Group (NYSE: DPS) is one of the largest beverage companies in the Americas.

DPSG manufactures, markets and distributes more than 50 brands of carbonated soft drinks, juices,

ready-to-drink teas, mixers and other premium beverages across the United States, Canada, Mexico and

the Caribbean.

Operations Manager

Manage all aspects of manufacturing on seven Tetra Aseptic and Low Acid Aseptic filling lines

with some responsibility for site wide activities. The Aspers site consist of one TBA/19 high acid

Tetra filling lines, four Low Acid TBA/19 Tetra filling lines, two Low Acid A3 Speed Tetra filling

lines, two Aseptic cold fill PET filling lines, one preserved PET filling line and one hot fill glass

filling line.

I am responsible for administrative duties such performance management, communication

meetings and Continuous Improvement.

I am Accountable for meeting and exceeding the productivity, efficiency, customer service, cost,

quality, safety, health, environmental and morale goals established for the site.

Direct and/or coordinate warehousing activities to limit cost and improve accuracy, customer

service and safety.

KPI responsibility includes Developing People, Coaching, Safety, Quality, Cost, Yield, Production,

and Maintenance.

Selected Achievements

Increased average operational efficiency from 75% to 91% on low acid production and increased

the high acid production from 46% to 92% efficiency in a four-year period. For 2010 returned

$127K positive labor variance.

Reduced yield losses to within 1% of perfection for ingredients and packaging. For 2010 returned

$287K positive ingredients and packaging variance.

I am also commissioned a $9M project to expand production using the latest technologies. My

contributions include advising on equipment selection, line design, coordinating contractors,

preparing staff, developing spare parts stock, maintenance plans, operational and maintenance

procedures, and training of operations and maintenance staff. This project exceeded expectations

for quality product, efficiency, and operational cost.


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ASSET CARE MANAGER February 2005 – August 2006

Manage maintenance of Plant Infrastructure, Building (structure and fire protection), Utilities

(power distribution, water, compressed air, steam generation and waste water treatment) and

Grounds.

In this role I advanced capital request for projects to replace and upgrade major infrastructure. I

managed these projects to minimize the impact to the plant's production and the community.

Projects that I managed included the following: $118K installation of an onsite Railroad Crossing

over which more than 1,500 tractor and trailers traveled each week; $389K repair of Underground

Waste Water Piping and handling systems; $280K Paving and Drop Lot project; $74K Steam

Pipe Insulation and many other cost savings and essential replacement projects. All of these

projects were completed without disruption to the plant operations.

I was accountable for the procurement of spare parts and services. In addition, I was accountable

for maintaining the Computerized Maintenance Management System and coordinating internal

and external technical support for all production areas.


One of my personal highlights during this time was the development and execution of a capital

project to restore a 72 valve Krones Mono-Block Rinser-Filler-Capper to OEM standards. The

OEM quoted $110K and 10 days down time to complete the task. I managed the task for $52K

and completed it in less than 48 hours avoiding extensive loss of production. In addition, this

project enabled the line standard to be increased by over 27%. This was accomplished by

planning, organizing and training existing staff, and incorporating support from a rigging company.

Shift Operations Manager August 2004 to February 2005

Responsible for managing Shift Operations for three PET production lines with accountability

including entire plant operations on the night shifts. Two of the lines were Aseptic operations and

one line was preserved operation. All three production lines included online blow molding.


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Line Manager March 2000 to August 2004

Challenged to commission the newly constructed low-acid manufacturing line for the Chocolate

Box line. Processes and programs were validated at a very high level and extensive operator

training was conducted resulting with the line in full production 40% earlier than scheduled.


I choreographed and drove a comprehensive and detailed training program involving vendors,

operators, and maintenance personnel.

I received a Recognition Award for Leadership, Vision, Tenacity and coordination of projects

completed on time and under budget with savings of approximately $4 million.

The new chocolate box line contributed a positive $400k operating variance the first full year.

Chocolate Box was viewed as the benchmark product area in terms of design, performance and

culture.

Team Leader / Electromechanical Technician July 1997 to March 2000

In July of 1997 I was promoted to Maintenance on seven Tetra filling lines.

In 1998 I was part of the ISO 14001 Environmental Team that developed the EMS and began

internal audits that lead to the Aspers, PA plant being recognized with the Green Dove Award

from the state of Pennsylvania.

In November of 1999 I was promoted to Team Lead over the second shift on the seven Tetra

filling lines.

Machine Operator / Utility July 1987 to July 1997

In August of 1988 I commissioned new Bucher-Guyer horizontal hydraulic fruit presses. My

contributions included developing Operational procedures, cleaning procedures, maintenance

plans, organizing spare parts and training Operators.

In August of 1990 I moved to juice processing and filtration. In this position I tracked fresh juice

inventories, ensure raw material blends to achieve specified attributes of finished juice, operated

centrifuges and filtration systems to meet final product specifications.

In March of 1995 I supported the commissioning of two new Tetra Pak TBA/9 filling lines. I

continued to support this operation as an Operator until July 1997.


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EDUCATION

Biglerville High School:

Focus on Vocational Agricultural Mechanics and Plant & Animal Sciences.

Four-year active member of the Future Farmers of America.

Harrisburg Area Community College:

Credits – Accounting

Beginning and Intermediate Algebra

TRAINING

Allen-Bradley PLC Fundamentals June 1999

Allen-Bradley PLC-5 Maintenance & Troubleshooting July 1999

Allen-Bradley SLC 500 Maintenance & Troubleshooting using RS Logix 500 Software – October 1999

Allen-Bradley AC Drives – October 1999

Maintaining & Troubleshooting Device Net Networks – October 2003

Siemens Measurement Systems, SPC – August 2002

Penn State Better Process Control school – April 2002

Red Cross First Responder – First Aid, CPR & AED

Tetra Pak Package Integrity – February 2000

Tetra Pak TBA/19 Operations – July 2001

Tetra Pak TBA Quality Practices – August 2002

Permit-Required Confined Space (Including Entrant, Attendant & Supervisor) – December 2000

Environmental Management System Internal Auditing – August 1998

Lean Online Quality – January 2008

Yellow Belt Lean Six Sigma – October 2007

Certificate-Basic Supervision – July 2000

Bay Group International Constructive Contention – July 2000

Other Interests

Support relief efforts for recent flooding in Covington, Virginia area through donations.

Support local Rescue Mission, YWCA, Church & Samaritan’s Purse through donations.

Currently serving as sound technician for local church.

Worked on a missions’ team, building a school in the Dominican Republic.

Licensed Amateur Radio Operator.

References and salary requirements available upon request


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