Matthew Newfield

(Formally Ralcorp Holdings) -Directly Responsible for production scheduling of 5 interdependent condiment production lines. -2 direct reports (procurement facilitators) for all ingredients, packaging, & labels for the 5 production line. -1 direct report who manages production scheduling & procurement for 1 line. - Responsible for packaging/ingredient changes in ERP, post-production holds, and post-customer approval releases. -Developing/Teaching scheduling tools in excel to simplify process and allow procurement facilitators ability to schedule and order necessary packaging/ingredients. Developing best practices within our ERP (JDE) to more efficiently utilize time spent in the system.

Direct supervision daily of 3 production lines with an average of 35 employees including machine operators, cooks, leads, and maintenance personnel. -Managed employee time, vacation, monthly safety training, monthly quality and safety check sheets, daily paperwork, washouts, change overs, daily staffing, and personnel utilization during downtime. -Involved in Lean Manufacturing training, events, and department leadership. -Worked interdepartmentally to improve ease of use for all employees with monthly safety training records and quality and safety forms. -Other duties: ensure product quality, food safety standards adherence (GMP’s, color coding, allergen control, etc.), employee safety, company policy adherence, employee disciplinary actions, incident reports, daily safety & team meetings, and employee on the job training.

Maintain production efficiencies through the placement & flexing of up to 90 employees, ensuring machine uptime, and product quality checks -Problem solving and decision making any issues that occur with materials, product, finished goods, or scheduling. Lead and participated in A3 problem solving activities for re-occurring and catastrophic issues in packaging facility with intradepartmental cooperation. -Developed and a shift schedule that eliminates overtime cost, reduces over staffing, and increases production time by 1.5 hours per line each day. -Led team in ceilings and walls section of building cleaning event. Team was able to safely and efficiently complete task ahead of schedule allowing for them to be utilized for other areas that were struggling. Also assisted in leading group Lock Out Tag Out exercises with employees.

Seasonal Position- worked in position during the summers of 2008, 2009, and 2010 Floor management of daily operations for seasonal blueberry packing/processing operation -Performed routine and preventative maintenance on machinery, managed production efficiencies, coordinated product variable to ensure product quality. Oversaw two productions lines (each includes blower cleaners, , five fillers, six labels -Compiled end of season data through Microsoft Excel -Annually reduced indirect labor cost by increasing throughput while reducing non-value added activities. Effectively able to increase throughput at the production line bottleneck up to 25% by developing custom settings in both machine setup and computer programming on packing equipment in 2010. -Developed custom automated time keeping program in Excel that accounted for days off, pay rate, overtime rate, and different shifts. Also developed custom automated packout reports in Excel that reported yield loss, packing efficiencies, and other value added information that was sent directly to outside grower on a daily basis. -Was directly involved in current and future line expansion planning and the implementation of the new equipment in 2008, 2009, and 2010.

Corresponded directly with core classes (Marketing, Finance, and Management) -Oversaw the manufacturer selection, product distribution and Inventory Controls -Delegated responsibilities of the operations division -Our team was able to coordinate multiple suppliers and provided a product that was the fastest selling individual item with 100% profit margins.

Picked Salmon from set nets up to 16 hours a day -Skiff Driver- in charge of the general flow of the boat operation and one other crewman -Anchor Crew- placing anchors for the set nets including tying safety lines and ensuring safety of others in boat