Trenton T. Kittrell
Production Director, Vinyl siding trim
Anderson, SC · (864) 555 0184 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/trentontkittrell
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Eighteen years in building products manufacturing, five directing production across five plants
INDUSTRIES
Vinyl siding and trim, extruded profiles, exterior building products
SPECIALTIES
Multiple plant leadership, network capacity planning, manufacturing operating system deployment, plant manager development
SYSTEMS
SAP, Power BI, Minitab, Microsoft Excel
CREDENTIALS
Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, American Society for Quality; Occupational Safety and Health Administration 30 hour general industry certification
EDUCATION
Master of Business Administration, University of South Carolina
Results at a Glance
63%
Percent across five
11%
Four years
$7.8m
Fixed cost
9001
Certification within eighteen
Executive Summary
Production director for a building products manufacturer, accountable for manufacturing output across five plants in the Southeast with 1,450 employees and 410 million dollars of revenue. Five plant managers report to him. Eighteen years in the industry, five of them directing a network after five years running a single site.
Signature Achievements
- Lifted network overall equipment effectiveness from 63 percent to 76 percent across five plants in three years, releasing capacity worth about 48 million dollars of annual revenue.
- Cut cost per unit across the network by 11 percent over four years while volume grew 19 percent.
- Brought the network recordable incident rate down from 4.4 to 1.2 through a common safety standard and a shared machine guarding program.
- Reduced scrap and rework across five plants from 6.2 percent of sales to 3.4 percent by putting the same value stream mapping discipline into every site.
- Consolidated two underused plants into one without losing a delivery date, taking 7.8 million dollars of fixed cost out of the network.
- Built a plant manager bench of six people, four of whom now run sites, ending outside hiring for site leadership.
- Held all five plants through International Organization for Standardization 9001 certification within eighteen months.
Professional Experience
Production Director
Piedmont Building Products Group, Anderson, SC 2021 to present
Manufacturing across five plants in South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee, 1,450 employees and 410 million dollars of revenue, with five plant managers reporting in.
- Accountable to the chief operating officer for safety, quality, service, cost and people across the whole manufacturing network.
- Sets the manufacturing operating system that all five plants run to, covering daily management, standard work and improvement governance.
- Owns network capacity planning and decides where each product family is made as demand shifts between regions.
- Consolidates the plant operating budgets into a manufacturing plan and defends the combined cost per unit and labor and material variance position with the chief financial officer.
- Prioritizes a 34 million dollar capital portfolio across the sites and sponsors the projects above five million dollars.
- Represents manufacturing in monthly sales and operations planning and commits the network build plan.
- Selects, coaches and appraises the five plant managers and owns succession for site leadership.
Plant Manager
Piedmont Building Products Partners, Spartanburg, SC 2016 to 2021
Single extrusion and fabrication site of 340 employees and 96 million dollars of revenue.
- Held full site accountability for safety, quality, delivery, cost and the operating budget.
- Raised site overall equipment effectiveness by 14 points and cut scrap by a third.
- Delivered a 6.2 million dollar extrusion line installation inside the planned outage window.
- Built the daily management system later adopted as the network standard.
Production Manager
Broad River Extrusion Works, Gaffney, SC 2011 to 2016
Ran extrusion and packaging departments with 180 employees across three shifts.
- Improved schedule attainment from 84 percent to 96 percent over two years.
- Reduced changeover time on eight extrusion lines by 45 percent.
- Developed four supervisors and ran the department improvement plan.
Production Supervisor
Broad River Extrusion Works Group, Gaffney, SC 2008 to 2011
Second shift supervision of extrusion with 45 operators.
- Delivered shift output to plan and cut startup scrap by 38 percent.
- Trained as a green belt and led the first kaizen event held at the site.
Licensure and Certification
Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, American Society for Quality
Occupational Safety and Health Administration 30 hour general industry certification
Member, Association for Manufacturing Excellence
Education
Master of Business Administration, University of South Carolina, 2015
Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering, Clemson University, 2008
Core Skills
Multiple plant manufacturing leadership · Network capacity planning · Manufacturing operating system deployment · Capital portfolio prioritization · Cost per unit management · Lean manufacturing · Sales and operations planning · SAP · Plant manager development · Safety strategy · Footprint consolidation