Director of Manufacturing Operations

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Candidate No.
1913841

About this Candidate

DAVRON CV: Candidate 1913841

OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE LEADER | RELIABILITY, CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT & PLANT OPERATIONS

Core Expertise

  • Plant operations leadership across 24/7 manufacturing, distribution, and processing facilities.
  • Maintenance and reliability strategy delivering sustained downtime reductions and equipment uptime improvements.
  • Continuous improvement using Lean Six Sigma, root cause analysis, and KPI-driven problem solving.
  • Team leadership including union relations, training programs, and talent development for hourly staff.
  • ERP and CMMS implementation and super-user experience supporting production reporting and work management.

Project Background

  • Led global reliability excellence initiatives across 30+ sites, establishing standard maintenance roadmaps.
  • Transformed reactive maintenance into proactive predictive programs, achieving significant schedule compliance gains.
  • Delivered cost control through capital planning, expenditure management, and stakeholder collaboration.
  • Drove production improvements and set site production records through data-driven reliability actions.
  • Managed safety and regulatory compliance programs, achieving extended periods without recordable incidents.

Key Skills

  • Reliability Engineering | Predictive Maintenance | Root Cause Analysis
  • CMMS | Planned Maintenance Programs | ERP (ROSS) implementation
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt | Continuous Improvement
  • KPI Development & Data-Driven Decision Making
  • Team Leadership | Union Labor Relations | Training & Development
  • Safety Management | Regulatory Compliance | Incident Reduction

Education

  • BASc, Mechanical Engineering (Honours), University of Windsor
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt — Corporate College

Awards & Recognition

  • Leadership Excellence Award — employer recognition for operational leadership
  • Site production record and recognition for exceptional throughput and uptime

Why Interview this Candidate?

A seasoned operations and maintenance leader with 20+ years driving reliability and production improvements across heavy manufacturing and processing plants. Proven ability to reduce maintenance downtime by half, improve schedule compliance, and deliver record production through data-driven maintenance, RCA, and continuous improvement. Experienced in ERP/CMMS deployments, union environments, and developing high-performing teams ready to scale operations.

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