Tom Waites
Global Director, Facilities and EHS
- Role
- Global Director, Facilities and Ehs at Azenta Life Sciences
- Location
- Indianapolis, IN, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Tom Waites
Highly motivated professional with 20+ years experience in Operations/Facilities Maintenance. Positions held include Supervisor, Operations Manager, Facilities Manager, Sr Facilities Manager and Global Director of Facilities and EHS. Industries have included Food Processing, Automotive Teir I & II supplier, Construction and currently Life Sciences. Skills acquired include Lean Manufacturing and concepts. Process Improvement, 5S and Six Sigma Greenbelt certification. Creating and managing Capital/Operating budgets over $20M. Leadership development, Talent assessment. Risk analysis and mitigation. Strategic Growth planning and execution. Achievements include successful integration of recently acquired sites. Sponsored and led scrap reduction team with 30% reduction target. Team achieved 68% with dollar savings over $120k annually. Built multiple state of the art Biorepositories designed to keep patient and research samples safe and protected. Contributed to the growth and expansion of Facilities globally during record growth of 20+% for 12 straight quarters. This included increasing my portfolio from 3 facilities globally to 12 globally while supporting other parts of the business that realized revenue growth from $45M annually to over $90M in less than 24 months.
Experience
Global Director, Facilities and Ehs
Nov 2016 — Present · Indianapolis, IN, US
Education
Purdue University
Bachelor of Science - BS
1989 — 1994
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