Ken Tse

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About Ken Tse

I’m a Plant Operations Manager with 18 years of experience leading maintenance, engineering, processing, fulfillment, and compliance operations.I currently preside over a $82MM, 24/7 food processing department at Frito Lay in Vancouver, Washington, producing over 100 million pounds of product per year.I also bring an additional 7 years of leadership and production engineering experience in the windowmanufacturing sector. My primary areas of expertise are plant management, continuous improvement, lean manufacturing,and capital project management.SELECT CAREER HIGHLIGHTS• Steered multimillion-dollar capital improvement projects for national food brand, PepsiCo.• Championed cost-saving initiatives that generated hundreds of thousands of dollars in efficiencyimprovements across maintenance, processing, energy consumption, and emissions.• As Maintenance Manager at PepsiCo/Frito-Lay, I planned and directed safety protocols during theCovid19 pandemic that prevented severe and prolonged plant shutdowns.• I bring expertise in leading the planning and execution of ERP integration projects across multipleoperational divisions.• I’m passionate about seeing others grow and invest a substantial amount of my time and energyinto my team, providing career progression-related guidance.Some of the things I love doing include traveling, cooking, reading, and spending time with those close to me (and my dogs).