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Christian M. Ward
(336) 905-0749
EDUCATION
North Carolina State University | High Point, NC
Industrial Extension Service
Six Sigma Green Belt Certified, 2011
Urbana University | Urbana, OH
B.S. Business Administration, 2000
Emphasis in H.R. Management & General Management
Abbott Laboratories | Altavista, VA
2016 – Present Front Line Leader Manage all facets of the CAM aseptic nutritional filling line including ingredient
weighing, blending, pasteurization and heat treatment of all aseptic liquid feeding
tube products. Select, train, and supervise employees and manage daily shift
operations. Initiating and completing a RCA when line incurs major downtime.
Responsible for proper staffing levels, overtime, scrap, material variances, OEE,
BRFT, maintain a high level of positive employee relations while ensuring staff
safety.
Banner Pharmacaps | High Point, NC Aquired by Patheon in 2012
2007 – 2016
Production Supervisor Directed daily production operations to achieve quality and cost objectives.
Accountable for all department KPIs including safety, quality, deviations,
CAPAs, RFP, employee morale, and on time delivery. Provide forward-focused
leadership to skilled labor force. Collaborated with other departments such as
human resources, planning, purchasing, warehouse, quality assurance,
engineering, and finance to achieve corporate goals. Built relationships with
cross functional manufacturing departments to optimize performance to help
achieve on time delivery goals. Ordered all print tooling supplies and ensured
delivery and receipt of all new print scale-up gravure rolls and acetates.
Nine years of pharmaceutical manufacturing experience with technical experience in inspection, printing, and packaging of Rx
and OTC single dose capsules. Over two years in food and beverage experience in manufacturing of dairy and frozen foods.
Easily adaptable to diverse industries. Committed to the goals of improvement and excellence; always looking for continuous
improvement in professional and personal life.
EXPERIENCE
ABOUT ME
Kroger Company | Fort Worth, TX Vandervoorts Dairy
2005 – 2007
Kroger Company | Indianapolis, IN Crossroads Farms Dairy
2005 – 2007
Reliability Coordinator Facilitated plan reliability efforts through lean manufacturing techniques.
Reviewed daily up time and down time production line results. Set and achieved
short and long term goals (Glide Paths) for each production line. Created and
championed focus teams as necessary to achieve goals and improve efficiency.
Documented improvement efforts and results by completing Root Cause
Analysis (RCAs) that included Power Point presentations, action registers,
charts, and graphs. Communicated progress widely through all levels of the
organization. Worked with consultants, internal & external, to assist in the
implementation of the reliability effort.
Operations Supervisor Managed daily production operations and employees within guidelines of union
contract. Upheld all GMPs and facilitated bi-weekly production meetings.
Prepared daily personnel schedule and monitored overtime. Trained and
developed workforce. Monitored the Checkware weight system to ensure it was
calibrated to alleviate product impounds. Produced and updated SOPs.
KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators)
RFT (Right First Time)
OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness)
On Time Delivery (OTD)
GEMBA
Six Sigma Green Belt Certified
Team Leadership
Staff Development
Regulatory Compliance
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Led all other shifts in packaging and inspection efficiency on a monthly basis from December 2014 to September 2015. These are
the departments two key KPI’s for productivity- Patheon, Inc.
- Awarded Quarterly Shift Award in January 2015 by plant leadership for exceeding both inspection and packaging results.
Inspection results 1.32 stacks of product inspected per hour average with no AQL failures (yearly goal 1.2 stacks); packaging
results 74% OEE average (yearly goal 70% OEE) - Patheon, Inc.
- Foreign capsule drying tunnel project, aided in helping eliminate all foreign capsule drying tunnel events starting May 2014-
Patheon, Inc.
- Awarded star of the week (week of 9/14/15-9/18/15), for a successful presentation and department tour presented to executive
corporate leadership- Patheon, Inc.
- Championed inspection project to improve individual product inspection productivity by 71% from 0.7 stacks per hour (2012
average) to 1.2 stacks per hour (December 2013)- Patheon, Inc.
- Aided packaging champion to help increase packaging OEE from 36% in 2012 to 69% in December 2013-Patheon, Inc.
- Print Defect Project, Reduced print associated rework by 50% in 2011 with a verified cost savings of over $50,000- Banner
Pharmacaps.
- Reduced documentation errors by 35% in 2009- Banner Pharmacaps.
- Saved Vandervoorts Dairy $28,000 in 2006 by finding the root cause of an Alpine conveyor system- Kroger Co.
- Developed employee matrix and power point presentations for Crossroad Farms Dairy on how to operate production lines to help
train new employees- Kroger Co.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
CAPA’s Yield and Accountability Discrepancies
SAP
TrackWise
Customer Complaints
ADP ezLabor Manager
Compliance Wire
DEA Certified
Christian M. Ward