Jason Cadman

Sr Production Manager @Entegris

Hillsboro, OR, US

Leads a team of 150 employees in the manufacture of Chemical Mechanical Planarization Pads supporting the semiconductor industry in a High Volume Manufacturing environment. Leads multiple functions including Production, Warehouse, and Training with a focus on team development, continuous improvement, and strong cross functional partnership across Engineering, Quality, New Product Introduction, Research & Development, and Logistics.\\\\n- Led COVID pandemic response for Hillsboro site including communication, policy implementation, and enhanced safety regimes while ramping production.\\\\n- Guided leadership team development that increased early retention rate to 95% of front line supervisors and shift managers, leading to stabilization of work force turnover during record low employment and competition from other local employers.\\\\n- Owned site safety performance for manufacturing, including developing a confined space program, role modeling Behavior Based Safety practices across all four shifts, and guiding weekly safety site review.\\\\n- Created comprehensive career development path for employees from entry level through shift manager.\\\\n- Implemented a Tiering program to improve skill level and flexibility of the work force.\\\\n- Piloted creation of Continuous Improvement team separate from direct labor and shift structure for rapid and sustained improvement to operational metrics: quality, cycle time, and on-time delivery.\\\\n- Steered production and support teams to achieve record efficiency in labor hours per unit manufactured.\\\\n- Transitioned Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system from Oracle to SAP with minimal disruption.\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n

University of Washington

Bachelor’s Degree, Chemical Engineering, Fuel Cells