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Candidates from the newsletter of February 9, 2017

 

To speak with any of these candidates contact Doug Swiatecki at 800-548-3506 ext. 3278 or

Email  doug@swiftrecruiters.com

 

72623 Electronic/PLC Programmer – The candidate has experience with automation equipment, mechanical PLCs (Allen-Bradley, etc.) HMI’s, VSD’s, ABB robots, various controllers, conveyors and other equipment types used in a production environment in North Carolina

 

  • Installed, designed and maintained automation equipment, including a wide array of mechanical components and conveyers, as well as a variety of AC/DC motors, relays, timers, sensors, vision systems, PLCs, HMIs, hydraulic and pneumatic systems

  • Repaired industrial systems such as flamers, dumpers and air supplied transportation

  • Successfully completed many complex projects, which have benefitted daily production in a timely manner

  • Applied troubleshooting skills to determine root cause analysis of various problems

  • Highly organized, self-motivated individual who is dedicated, organized and safety conscious

  • Eager to expand knowledge and contribute to a team

  • Maintain a positive attitude under stressful environments

  • Provide creative and logical solutions to a wide array of engineering challenges

 

71179 Sales Director, FIBC/Protective Packaging – Experienced and adept sales manager/director with experience selling and managing sales staff for manufacturers related to FIBC and protective packaging products in the Midwest

 

  • Senior executive with more than 25 years in strategic management, with proven sales and sales management ability and a strong background in complex negotiations, competitive engagements, high level business analysis, forecasting sales revenues, volumes, profitability and a proven ability to consistently exceed company goals at every level

  • Work with and direct a team of seven sales executives and staff that spanned 15 states with sales in excess of $30M

  • Spearheaded strategic sales initiative targeting significant new business opportunities that resulted in an increase of customers and delivered sales growth for many consecutive years

  • Interacted and engaged with key executives to identify problems and create custom solutions that create a positive impact to a customer’s bottom line, ultimately ensuring project success

  • Worked with internal management to influence and systematically execute corporate strategy and vision for sustainable revenue growth at key customers

  • Experience with large scale projects and complex, multiplatform processing environments

  • Personally manage accounts with revenue of $12M

 

65209 Structural Designer – Corrugated structural designer with experience using ArtiosCAD to design new structures and modify pre-existing designs is seeking a new opportunity in central or northern California

 

  • Conceptual and structural design services for packaging and displays

  • Design with both temporary and permanent substrates

  • Offer consultancy services for marketing/retail experiences, print methodology and warehouse fulfillment as well

  • Provide holistic approaches and solutions

  • SolidWorks, Graphite, Cobalt CAD and ArtiosCAD software programs

  • BobCAD-CAM – G code writing program for CNC equipment

  • Adobe Illustrator CS, Photoshop CS, Adobe Acrobat and Fetch

  • Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage

 

72915 Structural Designer, Folding Cartons and Corrugated – Designer has experience with paper-based folding carton design and with the design of corrugated products, including POP, and has designed using ArtiosCAD and CimPack

 

  • ArtiosCAD (7 years), Illustrator (10+ years), Photoshop (10+ years), Excel (10+ years) and Word (10+ years)

  • Designed packaging for bathroom and kitchen fixtures and ceramics

  • Managed engineering change notifications

  • Negotiated with suppliers to lower costs

  • Utilized advanced cost analysis to estimate profitability

  • Created and updated design specifications and assembly drawings

  • Utilized a CAD-based system integrated with both Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator

  • ISTA performance testing performed on packaging using a LAB vertical linear motion table and LAB drop tester

 

70090 Sales Representative – This candidate has experience selling labels, decals, packaging and printed materials, with additional experience with metal injection molding sales

 

  • Consistent, top performing sales professional with experience selling international manufacturing of metal parts and promotional products, and high quality printing

  • Highly skilled at qualifying sales opportunities, identifying decision makers, relationship building, executing follow-up, making presentations and creating ROI

  • Successful sales management of five-state regions

  • Sales representative for a contract manufacturer supplying engineered mechanical products to a variety of customers from manufacturing facilities in China

  • Capabilities include MIM metal injection molding, screw machine parts, die casting and rheocast processing

  • Responsible for developing new clients nationally and internationally

  • Achieved and maintained sales growth of over 100% from 2013 to present

 

72660 Sales Representative – Candidate is selling for a distributor of materials (vinyl, tape and adhesive) in the Northeast and is seeking a new opportunity selling for either a great distributor or manufacturer

  • Sales and business development executive with 25 years of experience generating profits, realizing new business opportunities and driving sales productivity

  • People person with a reputation for assembling, developing and guiding teams toward achieving targets, profit margins and client bases

  • Known for enhancing performance by introducing training, incentive and compensation programs

  • Adept in building and elevating market positioning, closing business deals and performing sales follow-ups

  • Skills include budget management, forecasting and projections, strategic sales planning, marketing and promotions, tradeshows and presentations, industry networking, integrity-based selling, contract management, staff retention, profit and loss, and sales negotiations

47126 Sales Representative – Candidate has experience selling SBS laminates, foils, metals and barrier laminates for tubes and related items to converters, end users and other packaging houses in the Midwest

 

  • Responsible for development of Midwest region sales by targeting end users and converters in the high end packaging industry

  • Sold company’s environmentally friendly substrates for custom packaging needs as an alternative to foil board

  • Developed a constant presence in the Midwest by networking, cold calling and servicing solution-focused sales, targeting manufactures of high value packaging

  • Provided strategic direction to clients by understating their objectives, resulting in leveraging company’s value proposition to sell a profitable mix of high end papers and paper boards

 

68451 Engineer, Corrugated and Related – Candidate is highly experienced with capital budgets, installation of corrugated and finishing equipment, building expansion, die cutter builds, maintenance and more, and will relocate to warmer climates

 

  • Responsible for every aspect of project management from assisting the plants in writing their capital requests to capital investment detail to final acceptance test on machinery or final walk through on building addition

  • In the last 15 years, put together teams for the successful installation of all corrugating and finishing equipment as well as building expansions

  • Successfully built a sheet plant that is now one of company’s top sheet plants

  • Recently completed the largest corrugated division project to date that included a four-building expansion, machinery relocation and adding a shipping department

 

71268 Structural Designer – This designer has experience with corrugated and foam design, ISTA testing requirements and 3D design packages in Texas

 

  • Experienced packaging design manager with strong leadership and relationship-building skills

  • Extensive experience with fabricated foam and corrugated packaging design

  • Knowledge of ISTA testing requirements

  • Develop and implement new, cost-effective protective packaging

  • Create 3D package drawings for all new designs

  • Negotiate with packaging suppliers to reduce cost for current packaging part numbers

  • Test and validate new packaging per ISTA standard

  • Work closely with various facilities to ensure new packaging meets requirements

  • SolidWorks, Inventor 8 – 2012, AutoCAD 12 – 2012, Artios, Vellum, SCORE!, Impact CAD 2013, TOPS, CAPE, Oracle and ASK (10+ years)

  • 17 years of experience with fabricated foam and corrugated packaging design

  • 20 years of experience with AutoCAD

  • Knowledge of ISTA testing requirements

  • Project management

 

66974 Paperboard Carton Sales Representative – Energetic sales representative with experience selling paperboard/folding cartons, including high-end foil and embossed paperboard cartons is willing to relocate to CA, CO, or WA for a great opportunity

  • Create business opportunities and manage current customers for paperboard folding carton division

  • Focus on new business, growth and margin enhancement

  • Aid in helping customers find solutions to their needs

  • Microsoft: Office, Word, Excel and PowerPoint

  • Esko: ArtiosCAD and Kongsberg

  • Adobe Creative Suite: Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop

  • Autodesk: AutoCAD and Fusion 360

72800 Designer – This candidate has experience designing POP and protective returnable packaging, experience with ISTA test plans, and assembly and pack out instructions in NC and TN, and may consider nearby states for a great opportunity

 

  • Worked with suppliers to design and implement protective returnable packaging to improve part quality, reduce associated part reject costs, and ensure all parts meet established quality standards

  • Researched and calculated total cost of packaging projects to ensure feasibility and establish a timeline for payback or ROI

  • Collaborated with logistics control, cost planning and assembly to implement packaging changes aimed at improving handling costs, overall handling efficiency and ease of assembly

  • Participated on packaging committee and new model committees as packaging specialist

  • Impact CAD, ArtiosCAD, Cape Pack/TOPS, Microsoft Office, Illustrator and SolidWorks

 

71703 Technical Sales Representative – This highly experienced sales representative has experience selling LLDPE blown film, LLDPE barrier film and adhesive laminated film throughout North America, selling from a home office

 

  • Highly professional with extensive experience in technical sales within the polyethylene blown film printing and converting packaging industry in Canada

  • Very organized and self-motivated, articulate, goal driven, team player, excellent relationships with customers and outstanding communication skills

  • Welcome the challenge of solving technical and mechanical problems, experience in providing oral and written presentations, and computer literate

  • Superior technical skills in blown extruded LLDPE films, LDPE shrink film materials, flexo and process printing, printed adhesive laminated film materials, printed adhesive laminated pouch bags, printed LLDPE wicketed bags, printed LLDPE sheeting film materials, automated high speed polyethylene bag and adhesive laminated pouch bag machinery equipment, and wide web 6 to 10 colors flexographic gearless printing presses

 

65842 Packaging Sales Representative – This experienced representative has experience selling industrial supplies, shipping and packaging, cartons and janitorial supplies, and is seeking an opportunity in the west

 

  • Proven sales manager with 15 years of leadership in best of class Fortune 500 businesses, broad-line distributor and logistical company

  • Influential business consultant  that has created strategic sales and marketing plans and successfully executed through consultative selling, trade management, P&L analysis and the creation of value for the customer

  • Highly driven, performance-focused leader with experience in managing best in class direct sales teams and the broker community that consistently reached and exceeded sales and profit goals that positively impacted the company’s bottom line

  • Successful relationship builder that thrived in creating and maintaining sustainable relationships with key customers by delivering polished presentations and having a superb business acumen

 

72795 Structural Packaging Designer – This designer has experience with designing corrugated structures with ArtiosCAD, CAPE, ISTA standards, ECT testing, working with sales on design parameters and working with production to deliver the best product for the client; candidate is seeking an opportunity in the Southeast, with TN being of particular interest

 

  • Hired as first design engineer to create initial package design program

  • Performed research and development on current and prospective products

  • Assisted sales force with new product ideas and marketing tools

  • Worked with customer service on products currently in circulation

  • Managed all designs for fulfillment plant and created new designs for potential clients

  • Created designs for multi-billion dollar corporations and assisted in implementation

  • Communicated daily with sales and production team to ensure efficient processes

  • Created pallet patterns in CAPE, analyzed board grades and performed ECT testing

  • Utilized ArtiosCAD/EnterpriseCAD programs during design process

  • Trained lab assistant into current role as a designer

  • Coordinated design project timelines in order to maintain 100% on-time completion

  • Performed time studies and created assembly instructions for fulfillment projects

 

72112 Carton Sales Representative – Representative has experience selling in the areas of folding cartons, corrugated, flexible and rigid packaging in a western territory

 

  • Highly productive sales and marketing executive experienced in all aspects of business optimization and profit improvement

  • Strong executive credibility and presence coupled with verbal and written communication skills for regular interaction and presentation to executive level groups/teams

  • Skilled business strategist and tactician who is able to develop and maintain productive client relationships, make decisions that ensure optimal use of capital and translate business strategy into profitable results (EBITA)

  • DPS (Dimensions Of Professional Selling), Carew International

  • CPS (Certified Packaging Specialist)

  • BBA in Management and Marketing

 

72652 Packaging Customer Service Representative – This CSR has worked for packaging groups, providing customers with product information, creating written quotes and orders, doing inventory reports, purchasing materials, delinquent account collection, and much more in the DFW area

 

  • 18 years of experience providing customer service and general office support in a high-paced, complex sales environment

  • Seven years of research relating to prospective and current clients

  • Multi-task, problem solve, time management, handle pressure, strong work ethic, accuracy, conflict resolution, detail oriented, written and verbal communications

  • Prioritization, confidence, tact, adaptability, friendliness, responsible, internal and external support

  • Quality, retention, teamwork and positivity

  • Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, PSI, Label Traxx, Amtech and Prodoc

 

71370 Project Manager/Sales Project Manager – This project manager has experience in corrugated, printing, paper, assisting with B-to-B sales and relationship development; the candidate is seeking opportunities in the lower Ohio region or in Florida

 

  • Manage projects along a strict time line for production in several different assembly locations throughout the US, working with the client and vendors to ensure quality products

  • Estimate all aspects of the project

  • Set up work orders and write SOW if required for new displays

  • Managed projects from conception through implementation, working with customers, design engineers and vendors

  • Worked with customers on design ideas, then oversaw that specifications were met for production runs

  • Sourced and evaluated vendors for production

  • Managed $3.5 million project for major retailer

  • Worked with clients to meet all of their POP needs

  • AutoCAD 2009, Vector, Drillmate, Pattern Systems – Product Planner, DrawPOWER, Licom – Alphacam, Cabinet Visions and Microsoft Office, including Excel and PMP_c

  • CNC, table saws, edge banders, panel saws and digital template machine (Proliner)

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