George Katzaras
Chief Operating Officer at Mineral Development, LLC
- Role
- Chief Operating Officer at Mineral Development, Llc
- Location
- Lakeland, FL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About George Katzaras
Executive/Leadership level experience in managing mining and chemical processing facilities. General management experience managing multiple operating facilities with 400+ employees, multi-million dollar expense and capital budgets, and greater than $1B in annual revenues. Strong leadership and communication skills with focus on employee career development, placement, and succession planning. Highly collaborative and team oriented approach to leadership. Results driven with heavy reliance on KPI/metrics. Strong continuous improvement background with emphasis in the following areas: 4DX, RCFA, process mapping, lean manufacturing, 5S housekeeping/management systems, 8-step and 5 why problem solving, waste elimination, and sustaining past CI successes with management systems.
Experience
Chief Operating Officer
Dec 2018 — Present · Lakeland, FL, US
Mineral Development, LLC is a secondary recovery phosphate mining company located in Central Florida which utilizes dual extraction column flotation technology to recovery phosphate from previously mined lands. As the Chief Operating Officer of the corporation, my responsibilities include leading the design, build, and operation of all facets of the mining and beneficiation process for the Phase 1 mine, its expansion, and the Phase 2 and 3 mines.
Education
University of Florida
Engineer’s Degree, Chemical Engineering
1992 — 1999
Florida Southern College
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General
2006 — 2009
Skills
- Operations Management
- Fun at Work
- Manufacturing
- Team Leadership
- Continuous Improvement Culture
- Collaborative Leadership
- Team Building
- Technical Analysis
- Project Planning
- Root Cause Analysis
- Management
- Strong Business Acumen
- Continuous Improvement
- Driven by Results
- Engineering
- Problem Solving
- Lean Manufacturing
- 5s
- Chemical Engineering
- Contract Negotiation
- Strategic Leadership
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