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Candidates from the newsletter of May 8, 2017

 

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

Email  doug@swiftrecruiters.com

56001 Industrial Film Sales Representative – Candidate has experience selling blown film and bags to manufacturing, as well as other pressure sensitive material to the flexo industry in the Midwest

  • Territory manager for California, Arizona, Nevada, Washington and Oregon

  • Sold pressure sensitive films directly to flexographic printers

  • Custom and specialty coatings

  • Brought territory sales from $0 to $100,000 per month in 12 months

  • Sold through distribution and directly to end users

  • Created new territory from a partial territory

  • Increased territory 40% the first year

  • Specialized in manufactured, extruded and converted printable plastics for the printing and OEM industries

  • BS in Marketing Management

73973 Production Manager – This production manager making paper cans for food products is experienced with lean manufacturing and also as a production planner for blister pack and plastic cups, and is seeking a new opportunity in the Southeast or Texas

  • 25 years of sales experience, including equipment sales, solution presentations, contract/price negotiations, consumable sales account management and networking/cold calling managing distributors
  • Application experience includes engineering assistance material handling, factory automation hand tools, date/lot coding, stretch film, automated strapping and tape/carton sealing
  • Industries served include steel, pharmaceuticals, automotive aerospace, packaging, food processing, printing, horticultural and construction textile
  • Skills include value-added selling, value-added negotiating, total quality management, ISO 9000 and Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
  • Provides companies with an end-to-end packaging solution to increase productivity and maximize the effectiveness of packaging materials and equipment
  • Analyzes and reviews all aspects of primary and secondary packaging with engineers, management, operators, maintenance and purchasing personnel
  • Provides scheduled vendor managed inventory
  • Oversees all aspects of sales process from cold call, initial meeting and testing to formal presentation

67735 Regional Sales Representative – Candidate has excellent experience selling poly bags and bags on a roll, VFFS and tape machines, tubes and cores, consumables and service agreements in an eastern territory

  • Sales and marketing of all vertically integrated paperboard products, such as cores, tubes, headers and paperboard
  • Responsible for lead generation, contact and sales process for new and existing customer base
  • $8 million territory responsibility includes CT, western MA, VT, NY and NJ
  • Reports all activities via the company CRM and directly to the sales manager
  • Sold and marketed product catalog, including machinery, materials and services to numerous accounts within southern New England
  • Responsible for lead generation, contact and sales process
  • Demonstrated the ability to close new business on key accounts
  • Provided consultative sales techniques while demonstrating the value-added materials and services of the company
  • Located and developed new accounts, as well as growing and maintaining existing accounts
  • Developed and increased company sales revenue while promoting the company’s consultative and value-added sales approach
  • Reviewed client packaging applications and proposed system solutions that included machinery and/or materials
  • Supported clients with all additional needs after sale, including new materials, machinery service, quality issues and market concerns

68868 Label Sales Representative – This label sales representative has excellent experience selling roll fed, pressure sensitive, shrink sleeve and other types of labels in a western territory

  • Results-driven senior sales professional with a stellar, 20+ year record of advancement and achievement
  • Generates dramatic revenue growth by locating and securing lucrative new clients in competitive markets
  • Leverages technical and engineering background to expertly relay value of complex products and services
  • Draws on uniquely consultative style to build trust and confidence of customers
  • Forges productive relations with all organization levels
  • Skills include revenue and profit expansion, labels and packaging, business needs assessment, hunter sales leader, creative problem solving and strategic business development

74026 Corrugated Production Supervisor – Candidate has experience supervising production shifts and experience with Bobst, J&L,  38” and 66” Ward flexo machines, 50” Evol machines,  4-color flexo, folder gluers and more, making custom boxes, stitch boxes, 2-piece glue boxes, sheets and more in the Southeast

  • Oversees all production, material receiving, shipping and waste disposal for 3rd shift converting, including staging for all sheets from in-house corrugator and outside vendors
  • Experience with shift staffing, payroll, team managing and maintaining a safety-focused environment
  • Responsible for all loads and dock departures from 1 am to 6 am
  • Supervisor over seven pieces of converting equipment
  • Duties include all team managing, shift staffing, goal setting, payroll, safety toolbox and department meetings
  • Supervised employees on the manufacturing floor for an assigned shift
  • Coached and counseled team members to develop performance to company standards
  • Controlled load factors and workflow to ensure maximum use of available capacity and effective use of labor, tools and equipment
  • Maintained an effective, ongoing safety plan
  • Coordinated maintenance work with customer and manufacturing needs
  • First point of contact for all hourly employee concerns
  • Ensured that all company standards and customer commitments (i.e., R&A, safety, output and on-time delivery) were followed within the plant on a daily basis
  • Monitored all control procedures
  • Altered schedules to meet unforeseen conditions
  • Acted as liaison with union/union employees and production superintendent
  • Built effective relationships with all internal departments to produce a superior product
  • Enforced plant safety regulations and housekeeping practices, and encouraged employees to become safety conscious
  • Coordinated production operations and requirements for finished products and needs for materials and labor
  • Maintained effective departmental quality procedures
  • Supervised employees to accomplish productivity, safety, quality and efficiency goals

73416 Industrial Maintenance Electrician – This candidate is experienced with electrical and mechanical testing to troubleshoot faults in equipment, as well as PLC troubleshooting, AC/DC servo motors, controllers, variable frequency drives, pneumatics and more in southern North Carolina

  • Wide knowledge of electrical safety inspections and electrical code violation corrections
  • Electrical troubleshooting such as AC, DC and servo motors, servo controllers, variable frequency drives, AC and DC control circuits, PLC communications networks, pneumatic components, hydraulic components and other interrelated process equipment
  • In-depth knowledge of outdoor outlets and fixture installation
  • Able to diagnose electrical issues on equipment and install new electrical equipment
  • Able to work independently
  • Performs a variety of electrical NS mechanical tests to determine exact cause of issue
  • Performs scheduled maintenance as instructed on all equipment and machinery at facility
  • Performs unscheduled maintenance on equipment and machinery to repair or replace defective parts
  • Performs adjustments and calibration procedures on various forms of process equipment
  • Makes necessary temporary or permanent electrical installations, repairs or modifications in line with plant policies
  • Works with each department, providing necessary support to ensure day-to-day maintenance issues are resolved
  • Assists engineering or other departments in the development of new ideas and experimental work
  • Assists in large equipment installations and modifications
  • Diagnosed and troubleshot defects and errors in electronic circuitry and components
  • Identified and solved problems related to broken and defective electronic and mechanical components, products and equipment
  • Completed or modified electronic and mechanical assembly of components, sub-assemblies and finished goods
  • Ensured that circuit and component performance conformed to specifications

36895 Purchasing Manager/Director – This candidate has experience purchasing and sourcing for paperboard material and controlling costs, with experience covering skin care tubes, labels, folding cartons and more in the NY/NJ area

  • Sourcer for skin care tubes, eliminating contract filler for internal filling operations, saving $38,000
  • Project manager for private brand label, managing $65,000 spend from conceptual to approvals, packaging and filling operations, resulting in $1,000,000 sales promotion for new product launch
  • Rejuvenated an existing product life cycle for $1,000,000 sales yearly
  • Sourcer for certification program, approving paperboard material while controlling cost for a cleaner environment and higher quality white paper, folding carton and packaging operation
  • Packaging manager for revitalizing an existing family brand label with three month sell out sales
  • Production manager for packaging, both domestic and international from China, Mexico and Europe, resulting in 50% cost reduction
  • Buyer for components, plastic bottles, caps and shrink wraps
  • Corrugated and new product development
  • Buyer for folding cartons and vacuum forming, setup boxes and displays, analyzing cost of goods (COG)
  • Decorator for primary packaging EVOH 5-layer and  3-layer tubes, PETE and LLDPE, PP and HDPE, silk screening operations, palladium deco glass jars and bottles providing successful TQM

  • Sourcing manager for secondary packaging labels and folding cartons, foil stamping and embossing, UV and litho lamination, saving 50% COGs for various product lines’ mix and inventory control operations

  • Purchaser controlling for shipping lanes between Korea, Spain, France, England and Sweden, saving $100,000 through competitive bidding and contractual agreements with overseas carriers

74012 Die Cut Operator/Mark Andy Press Operator – Candidate has experience with laminate die cut work, with previous experience operating a Mark Andy 2200 and extrusion machine operation related work, and is seeking a day shift opportunity in South Carolina

  • Over 13 years in flexographic printing with solvent-based and water-based inks
  • Excellent troubleshooting skills
  • Qualified W&H, PCMC and Mark Andy rotary die cutter operator
  • Assisted with audits and a process print guide to aid in resolving process print issues
  • Operated an eight extruder manufacturing line in a 5S industry
  • Laminates and die cuts to specifications of the customer
  • Meets production goals and maintains minimal waste
  • Makes sure that all products were inspected and cut correctly before sending to the customer
  • Achieved quality expectations and met department rates and yields that company had set for this task
  • Demonstrated on-time delivery goals and worked continuously to meet expectations set by the company
  • Determines proper anilox rollers and color adjustments as needed for customer specifications

74174 Estimator/Project Manager – This candidate has experience as an estimator for folding cartons, setup boxes, corrugated and other products, and is seeking an opportunity in the East

  • Experienced packaging industry manager with oversight of product development, account management and production
  • Strong analytical skills, critical in problem identification/resolution
  • Strong work ethic, adept at prioritizing and multitasking, while driven to meet deadlines
  • Recognized for superior customer relationship management
  • Comprehensive experience with product launch – design through production to customer delivery

73574 Bobst Folder/Gluer Operator – This machine operator has over three years of experience running complex folder gluer equipment – six and four corner, lock bottom, etc. and is seeking an opportunity on a first shift in the Southeast

  • Maintains, sets up and runs complex folder gluers
  • Able to set up six corner, four corner, lock bottom and straight line cartons
  • Troubleshoots quality problems while working safely to make production standards
  • Sets up and operated complex paperboard gluing machines, including Bobst and Jagenberg gluers
  • Able to troubleshoot machines and make adjustments to ensure good quality products
  • Sets up and runs tray machine

73614 Retail Bag and Packaging Supply Sales Representative – The sales representative has 20 years of experience selling retail bags, paper, tissue, ribbon, paper and supplies in the Midwest

  • Results-oriented professional, rooted in a management by objective philosophy, with a quantifiable record of unprecedented growth and business development in the consumer and packaging goods industry
  • Able to lead diverse teams in the areas of new business creation, client retention and same store sales growth in cutting edge markets with fast-paced dynamics
  • High-energy producer focused on company net profit goals
  • Initiated programs and strategic plans that delivered 15% net profit goals
  • Hired, trained and developed six new associates to maximize territory profit performance, resulting in a reduction in overhead costs and traveling expenses
  • Personally directed and established over 400 new customers, increasing company volume by $2.1M
  • Developed a company trade show format that was truly a game changer, resulting in showcasing top vendor partners and enhancing mutual sales to end users

34828 Corrugated Replenishment/Inventory Planner – Candidate has experience with replenishment planning in a corrugated production facility and has experience with setup reduction techniques and plant operations in the Southeast

  • Talented professional with over 11 years of experience in positions progressively growing in responsibility in the paper and packaging industry
  • Strong relationship building and customer focus skills developed through working with large, industry-leading customers and accounts
  • Works daily to replenish seven corrugate box plants with their paper needs by following from point of order to delivery
  • Works through every point of the supply chain
  • Adjusts forecast based on current trends to help keep inventory at an ideal stocking point to supply box plants and to help prevent old aged material
  • Works to adjust shipping modes and or transportation lanes as needed between mills and box plants to reduce costs as possible

74251 Corrugated Plant Manager – This plant manager has experience running a corrugated box operation with over 100 employees, leading the group toward increased performance by waste reduction, efficiency improvement and maintaining a safety culture

  • Results-driven, high energy manager with over 25 years of manufacturing experience in both union and non-union operations
  • Strong organizational, interpersonal and operational skill set with a proven track record for process improvements in the areas of safety, quality, productivity and waste
  • Responsible for managing corrugated box operation that generated $63MM in annual sales and employed over 140 salaried and hourly union employees
  • Led team in safety efforts, resulting in improved safety performance from a TIR of 4.64 and eight OSHA recordable injuries to a TIR of 1.39 and zero OSHA recordable injuries
  • Led waste reduction efforts, resulting in 74% reduction in plant waste
  • Led production improvements to realize 25% improvement in plant efficiencies
  • Responsible for managing corrugated box operation with over 130 employees
  • Led team in safety efforts, resulting in improved safety performance from 22 OSHA recordable injuries to three minor First Aid injuries
  • Led waste reduction efforts, resulting in more than 45% improvement in plant waste and an annual savings in excess of $253,000 per year
  • Reduced plant average machine setup time from 45 minutes to 16 minutes
  • Installed a fully computerized, plant-wide Kiwi Scheduling/PCS system

 

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