Mike Dugger

About Mike Dugger

Proven engineer (BSME/MBA/Lean 6S BB) passionate about profitable growth through innovation & process excellence! I am an entrepreneurial general manager & a highly technical business & engineering leader with a broad (functional) leadership background, 25+ years of leadership on foundation of 5 years of hands-on & “frontline” leadership including craftsman experience (70% Industrial/manufacturing & 30% Construction/Energy/Tech. Sales/Services). Most of my career has involved direct accountability for P&L plus “Tier 1” KPIs in Ops, Sales, & Innovation/Engineering. Performance accountabilities with P&L ownership to $200M with up to 30 direct & 400 indirect reports. I have had functional experiences developing multiple areas of expertise across global operations, multiple site leader & executive roles in Engineering /R&D, Operations, Sales/Marketing, & Quality/OPEX. I have lead businesses & high-performance teams as a \"GM\", driving several “turn-arounds”, navigating successful green-field start-ups, & deploying multiple profitable-growth transformations. In the most recent decade I have added a significant amount of “customer-facing”, “top-line” growth leadership experiences in Sales/Marketing (Biz dev, Product Mgt, etc), Enterprise-level Operations, & innovation leadership (Engineering & R&D Teams). I\'ve championed profitable growth strategies from developing enterprise roadmaps with C-level executives to deploying Lean-based operating systems across organizations starting on the “front lines” & tactically on the shop floor. I have an M.O. of building high-performance teams & inspiring cross-functional collaboration that has resulted in a track record of driving & directly influencing dramatic, breakthrough-level business transformations across diverse business environments both for global companies like ABB, Acuity Brands, & Ingersoll Rand and also for small-to-medium private (or PE-held/backed) companies like Goodcopy Printing, Advanced Vehicle Systems, Sunpro/ADT Solar, Buildpro Roofing, & Astec Industries.

Experience

1. Sr Engineering Leader

   Mueller Water Products

   Jan 2022 — Present · Chattanooga, TN, US

   Driving profitable growth through innovation-centered leadership in Engineering & Operations • Providing expert technical/engineering & leadership support, collaborating cross-functionally from customer facing leaders in Sales & Service to shop floor teams• Developing/Designing (using Solidworks, CREO, & AutoCAD) innovative valve products with a focus on design for impact to performance, manufacturability, reliability, serviceability, & profitability• Leading cross-functional team/s of Product, Manufacturing / Industrial Engineers & manufacturing leaders in technical aspects & oversight of water products & solutions value streams; key influencer engaged in NPD & product/lifecycle management & teams, operational excellence, & overseeing custom engineered orders/engineering process/es from RFQ/RFS to on-time delivery, driving to continuously improve not only our products but our processes & related KPIs• Producing engineering deliverables to enable manufacturing for “engineered-to-order” customized valves/spec’s based on customer’s system application/s while using tools such as “Design for Manufacturing”, 3D CAD modeling & analysis(Solidworks, CREO, AutoCad, Windchill+), value engineering, development of Bills of Materials, submittals & drawings development, routings, SOPs, tooling/jigs, product testing, & valve performance optimization to deliver world-class, engineered/MTO valves

Education

• Wake Forest University

  Executive MBA, Business Administration, Management and Operations

  2001 — 2003

• Lookout Valley High School, Chattanooga, TN

  Highschool, College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program

  1989 — 1993

• The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering

Skills

• Performance Management
• Engineering
• Business Planning
• Operations Management
• Continuous Improvement
• Product Development
• Production Process Development
• Supply Chain
• Strategic Planning
• Program Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Quality System
• Process Engineering
• 5s
• Manufacturing
• Business Strategy
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Team Building
• Management
• Six Sigma
• Turnaround Specialist
• Kaizen
• Supply Chain Optimization
• Lean Manufacturing
• Kaizen Facilitation
• Business Process Improvement
• Business Transformation
• Benchmarking
• Project Management
• Purchasing
• Value Stream Mapping
• Process Improvement
• Dmaic
• Operational Excellence
• Leadership
• Lean Initiatives
• Strategy
• Quality Management
• Root Cause Analysis
• Black Belt