Shawn Keiser

Background

About Shawn Keiser

Performance-driven Operations Professional in manufacturing with 20 plus years of comprehensive achievements within operations, projects, and production planning. Leadership and the use of employee engagement in the strategic planning and implementation ensured continuous process improvements and revenue gains. The bakery in Rocky Mount was 39th of 39 bakeries in the Hostess organization when I started as Plant Manager. Using employee engagement in the strategic planning and implementation to ensure continuous process improvements and revenue gains, we were 16th of 36 bakeries when Hostess closed the bakeries in November 2012. • Improved plant ranking from 39th of 39 to 16th in the Hostess organization by using Root Cause Analysis and employee engagement for continuous improvements to change the scoreboard. o Reduced finish waste by 39%, saving over in FY’12 o Reduced CPM by 50.7% in 2012 o Reduced unauthorized hours by 35% over the two years • Responsible for the daily operations of a 300 person bakery, with 4 direct reports and 4 dotted line reports producing 98MM, serving depots in three states • Prepared and presented AOP to vice presidents of operations and engineering Strong record of cost reductions and demonstrated success in: • Managing the daily operations and production planning of a 600 person plant • Saving $6.8 million annually in raw material costs by changing materials, while improving quality • Reducing labor by 17% per line • Reducing raw inventory by 40% by consolidating suppliers and changing procurement • Reducing packaging waste by 40% through employee engagement used lean manufacturing (Toyota Way) wrote and implemented a labor saving project, Managed union and non-union plants. Worked with ISO 9001 and Kaizen. Specialties: Planning and scheduling production and raw materials Iowa State Univ. Meat/Poultry Black Belt Program Franklin Covey 4-Disciplines Front Line Leadership Statistical Process Control