Charles Chapman

About Charles Chapman

Strategically-focused operations leader who demonstrates that yesterday’s excellence is today’s standard and tomorrow’s mediocrity. Delivers sustainable growth by aligning internal and external resources in support of goal-focused process innovation to take organization to new levels of revenue and profit. Identifies organization-changing opportunities.Hands-on process improvement and efficiency SME; ongoing promotion from process/operations engineer to process innovation executive for market-dominating,$6B global manufacturer. Passion for going beyond incremental improvements to deliver industry-changing innovations that deliver new levels of financial performance.Powerful relationship builder, developing long-term, mutually supportive partnerships with vendors, customers, and staff. Negotiates favorable, reciprocally beneficial deals; ensures ongoing customer satisfaction; builds working cultures of support and accountability to facilitate associates\' ability to meet their targets. Certified in Six Sigma Greenbelt, Lean Six Sigma Blackbelt, TPM.Selected Achievements:• Lowered utility costs from baseline by average $23M/year through more efficient use of energy and water, and by negotiating better rates and commodity prices.• Achieved Department Of Energy Save Energy Now Leaders status 4 years ahead of schedule; won recognition as one of Energy Manager Today’s Top-50 US Energy Leaders in 2017.• Cut maintenance costs an average of $30M/year by leading operations, engineering, sourcing, accounting, and administrative teams in creating coordinated, enterprise-wide system of tools, practices, standards, and training to boost efficiencies.• Implemented strategy to cut $5M from annual energy costs while reducing carbon footprint by leading design and implementation of on-site combined heat and power (CHP) system at most strategically cost-effective production facility.

Experience

1. Engineering Leadership

   First Quality

   Sep 2021 — Present · Greenville, SC, US

   Providing leadership that drives business results through linkage of people, technical, and operational best practices.

Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  BME

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  Finance & Accounting for Non-Financial Managers