Keith Traver
- Role
- Manager of Operations - Adhesives at Sonoco
- Location
- Hartsville, SC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Keith Traver
Employee selection, hiring & development • Team builder / leadership coach & …
Experience
Manager of Operations - Adhesives
Jun 2004 — Present
Operational responsibility for 4 domestic plants with annual sales of 48 million dollars (10 million EBIT)\\\\n• Played key role growing the business from 19 million (3 million EBIT) to current level\\\\n• Direct reporting responsibility for 30 employees + 12 indirect.\\\\n• Employee selection, hiring, development and promotion\\\\n• Establish new job specification, play key role in pay rate evaluation\\\\n• Develop leaders and implement pillar teams to drive continuous improvement for Safety, Quality, Productivity, Maintenance Excellence, Continuous Skills Development & Housekeeping\\\\n• Implement Standard Work For Leaders to drive employee engagement and ownership of the business\\\\n• Develop, maintain, and effectively employ safety programs and procedures to maintain an injury-free work environment\\\\n• Play key role in development of adhesives division annual budget, 5 year strategic plan and marketing plan\\\\n• Experience in developing and delivering formal presentations to upper management (VP level and above)\\\\n• Experience in developing and presenting key division level performance reports to upper management (financial commentary, financial bridge and analysis, variance report)\\\\n• Responsible for capitol project planning, project funding proposals, on time & on budget project completion\\\\n• Negotiate price and service agreements with logistics suppliers and management of on-going relationships\\\\n• Drive EBIT growth through increasing manufacturing capacity and capabilities\\\\n• Drive working capital reduction through inventory management and business financial process\\\\n• Develop new products and services such as in-plant cooking systems and bulk tank cleaning services\\\\n• Successfully built the business case, obtained project funding, oversaw engineering, construction and start-up for a west coast adhesives production and distribution facility - Winner of Sonoco 2012 Growth award for Industrial Segment\\\\n• Lead the ERP System upgrade team\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n
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