John Bruce

Experience

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  Hitachi Chemical-Electrical Products

  Sept 1988 - Jun 1991

  Manufacturing Engineer

  Developed and implemented manufacturing processes for high-end prototype circuit boards.

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  Kimberly-Clark

  Jun 1991 - Jun 2014

  Managed 200 direct and 115 contract employees serving 6 internal and over 30 external customers. Responsible for EHS, Quality, Production, Cost Budget, Cost Results, Capital Budget and Project Execution. Key Results have been a 50% reduction in safety incident rate, continuous year-over-year cost reductions, ISO certification, Implementation of LEAN manufacturing and culture. LEAN strategy deployment for raw material yield resulted in significant cost savings in 2011 and 2012. Managed 165 direct employees on a multi-site team serving 6 internal and over 50 external customers.Responsible for EHS, Quality, Production, Cost Budget, Cost Results, Capital Budget and Project Execution. Key Results: - OSHA VPP Star Site certification.- LEAN manufacturing implementation.- A manufacturing streamlining strategy was developed and implemented with siginifacant cost savings to keep the mill a viable part of the corporation. Led a team of 24 engineers to provide global project and business support.Led 11 major global process start-ups in Mexico, Korea, England and the US.Developed an implemented key process improvements to support customers' strategies and needs.Provided talent aqcuisition and development for sector process engineers. Meltblown Team Manager. Coached, Managed and Developed 50 Employees. Responsible for EHS, Quality, Asset Management and Production Cost results. Other responsibilities include capital planning and budgeting, customer partnerships, business strategy development. Operations consultant for two asset teams. Provided organizational and individual development and coaching for a team of 50 people. Led several successful manufacturing process start-ups for major first-of-a-kind products. Provided troubleshooting & continuous improvement support for daily production. Key deliverables were process allocations, SPC tools, operator training, troubleshooting guidelines, product qualification and customer partnerships.

  • Plant Manager

    May 2007 - Jun 2014

  • Plant Manager

    Jan 2004 - May 2007

  • Process Engineering Manager

    Jan 2000 - Dec 2003

  • Operations Team Manager

    Feb 1998 - Jan 2000

  • Operations Consultant

    Apr 1997 - Feb 1998

  • Process Engineer

    Jun 1991 - Apr 1997
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  Performex, LLC

  Jun 2014 - now

  Co-owner and Chief Operations Officer

  My responsibilities are running the day-day operations of Performex, a full service provider of talent management and talent development services especially skilled at transforming technical specialists, engineers and other subject matter experts into business leaders. Performex offers customers a range of high impact programs and services to address the leadership development needs of industries and companies that rely heavily on deep intellectual expertise as a source of competitive advantage. Performex's understanding and experience in serving this unique market is unparalleled. Show less