CORY BRYAN ROCHE

6167 West Log Home Lane

Herriman Utah 84096

Home-801-996-3713 Cell- 801-362-4423

E-Mail: coryroche@yahoo.com

 

QUALIFICATION PROFILE

·  Highly motivated and dynamic Manufacturing Manager with over 16 years experience in manufacturing, including 12 years experience in Food manufacturing management. Excellent Team player. Exceptional leadership ability.

·  Excellent verbal and written communication skills, great negotiator with strong presentation skills.

·  Excellent ability to counsel employees, strong interpersonal skills.

·  Excellent at building cross functional process improvement teams.

·  Great ability leading company vision and change management. Strong motivational skills

·  Proven accuracy in inventory control. Proven accuracy in company forecasting and budgeting.

·  Strong Knowledge of Kan Ban, Kaizen, and 5 S lean manufacturing systems.

·  Exceptional ability to handle multiple issues.

·  Excellent Root Cause Analysis and problem solving skills

·  OSHA 10 Certification, Hazmat and IATA Shipping certification, Safety Manager, and Auditor

·  HACCP and SQF Development.

 

Food For Health International                               Sr. Director Of Plant Operations - 2013 - Present

·  Lead a team of 4 operational Directors and 6 managers in the day to day operations of a pouched entre and dietary supplement manufacturing facility.

·  Lead team in cost savings and budget initiatives to ensure our Salt Lake City operation is operating below our annual budget.

·  Ensure all departments are performing to schedule and that all open orders are closed within a 3 day time frame.

·  Over see the quality department and participate in all revisions to processes to ensure we are compliant with OTCO, FDA, USDA, USDA Organic, HALAL, KOSHER, and NON-GMO requirements.

·  Led a team to improve our assembly department and processes. In 6 months time we have improved our units per labor hour from 7.5 UPL per 40 employees to 50 UPL per 10 employees.

·  Member of the Emergency Response team, HACCP development team, SQF Development and HAZMAT training team.

·  Current Safety Manager.

 

Horizon Snack Foods - Salt Lake City Utah                                     Plant Manager -2013 (8 Months)

·  Managed all aspects of a high speed snack food manufacturing facility.

·  Led 1 manager and 4 Supervisors in day to day operations of producing high quality snacks and pies.

·  Responsible for the Salt Lake City location budget and that it was adhered to.

·  Responsible for ensuring that all quality programs were followed.

·  Responsible for implementing cost savings initiatives and led the Continuous Improvement team.

·  Led team to receive Level II SQF certification.

·  Led a team to receive a KOSHER certification.

·  Through one of my CI projects, I discovered why our pie crust was "egg shelling" and causing a high amount of waste. The reason was due to a high humidity rate in the dough prep room. After I discovered this, I reformulated the amount of water that went into the dough mixes relative to the amount of humidity in the room. If the humidity was high, we reduced the water. If the humidity was low, we used the basic formulation. This led to a 5% reduction in our scrap rate and put us back under the threshold of 2%.

·  Revamped the Sanitation department and processes to put them back to a 40 hour work week, eliminating 12 hours of overtime per employee, per week.

 

Greencore USA - Salt Lake City Utah                                              Production Manager 2008-2013

·   Managed all aspects and over-see production of fast paced frozen and fresh food manufacturing company.

·   Offer support and direction to 5 departments and their Supervisors and Leads to ensure that daily production goals are met.

·   Ensure employees are following the safety, quality, hygiene, GMP’s, and environmental standards through day-to-day interaction, inspections, and training of personnel. Ensures production schedules and quality specifications are met.

·   Worked with Maintenance department to develop the Preventative Maintenance program for all production equipment in order to predict and minimize down time.

·   Work with Maintenance and QA on all capital expenditures for equipment and plant improvements.

·   Prepare and adhere to the Production Budget every year. Manage all expenditures that correlate with production. .

·   Created daily production report, waste report, SIC hourly process controls and layered process audits that are updated every day.

·   Implemented and audit S.I.C or short, interval, control process boards to provide an hourly measurement with standard run goals vs. actual units attained and waste monitoring.

·   Oversee each department’s variances and efficiencies to ensure that they  are in line with our company standards and the budget.

·   Chaired several lean manufacturing Projects, using TPM or TPS tools such as 5 S, and KAIZEN, to cut cost, reduce scrap and waste, and increase efficiencies.

·   Ensure that the company safety programs are followed.

·   Meet daily with USDA to ensure that USDA regulations are being followed.

·   Meet daily with Maintenance leads to ensure work orders and other issues are being addressed.

·   Member of the Safety Team, Food Security and Defense Team, HACCP Team and SQF Team.

·   Greencore USA Lean Academy,

 

Kraftmaid Cabinetry WJ-Utah                                       Assembly & Shipping Manager 2007-2008

·   Managed the over-all production and shipping and receiving duties on the third shift at a fast paced semi-custom cabinetry facility.

·   Offered Supply Chain Support to 6 supervisors and their respected assembly lines along with support to the shipping and receiving department as well.

·   Responsible for cost savings initiatives, employee reviews and disciplinary actions, company safety programs and daily reporting to the plant manager.

·  Ensured all OIT boards were up to date with correct metrics, company and employee news, and all safety and quality alerts.

·   Member of the Kraftmaid Continuous Improvement team to ensure lean initiative were being followed and that training in the company's lean manufacturing program was done.

 

Wholesome & Hearty Foods(Gardenburger)  Clearfield UT        Production Supervisor 2005-2007

·   Managed all aspects of a vegetarian food processing facility.

·   Managed the daily duties of 20 to 45 full time and temp to hire employees which included production, quality, and maintenance personnel, along with warehouse personnel as well.

·   Responsible for the company MSDS system that it was updated and taken care of.

·   Identified and initiated several cost savings programs that resulted in scrap reduction and better lead times.

·   Led a Process Action Team that eliminated the number one consumer complaint that resulted in cost savings for the company.

·   Taught and enforced all company GMP’s.

·   Senior member of the company safety committee.

 

ConAgra Frozen Foods-Marshall-MO                                           Production Supervisor  2003-2005

·   Managed all aspects of a USDA regulated frozen and refrigerated food manufacturing facility.

·   Held daily production meetings with all leads, maintenance, and quality techs to ensure everything was ready to go.

·   Responsible for all pre-shipment paper work that it was correct and ready for product to ship.

·   Responsible for work assignments for up to 115 hourly personnel and quality control personnel.

·   Supervised all calibrations and change over's to ensure they were right and done on time.

·   Worked alongside or the USDA inspector to ensure that the product met the requirements of the USDA and that it was of good quality and safe for the consumer.

·   Responsible for new hire interviews, disciplinary reviews, vacations, and terminating employees as well.

 

ATK Promontory-UT                                                                    Production Technician 1999-2003

·   Member of a production team that produced illuminating flares for the military.

·   Responsible for all machine set up and tear down at the start and the end of a contract.

·   Actively performed daily PM’s and calibrations on all machines.

·   Responsible for all SPC documentation and that it was correct and turned in daily.

·   Attended safety and production meetings on a weekly basis.

·   Participated on several Kaizen teams to improve the facility and the processes.

ATK-TCR Composites Division Ogden-UT                                                    Crew Leader  1999-2001

·   Responsible for the production of pre-impregnated carbon tow fiber was met.

·   Responsible for the set up, tear down and calibrations, mixing of resin, preventative maintenance, and quality control.

·   Responsible for all new hire training on my assigned shift.

·   -Implemented a new EOP (equipment operating procedure) for the tensioner calibration.

 

 

EDUCATIUONAL BACKGROUND                                                      COMPUTER EXPERIENCE   

Dixie College-St. George, UT  1990-1992                                                 Microsoft Office, Outlook, Lotus

Box Elder High School- Brigham City, UT                                                ADP, Kronos, HR Apps, People

High School Diploma,  1990                                                                     Soft, Smart Draw, Ross, BANN,

                                                                                                                  FRX Forecasting and Budgeting