Plastics Extrusion Specialist
C. Scott Whiteside
C. Scott Whiteside
Scott is a manufacturing professional with twenty-five years experience who has a consistent record of success in establishing, improving, and maintaining production and quality systems. He is proficient in quality and production operations including calibrations, preventive maintenance, standardization, documentation, traceability, and ISO. Scott is improvement focused, a continuous learner, and always eager to make processes more effective and efficient.
CERTIFICATIONS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
August 2022 - Presend
Technical Manager - Extrusion Concepts
North America
Oversee multi-million-dollar installations of complete compounding/extrusion lines including feeding, conveying and pelletizing systems. Coordinating with mechanical, electrical, and rigging contractors to lay out, assemble, and power the production line. This includes electrical cabling, compressed air, domestic and cooling water connections. Read P&IDs, schematics and drawings. Assist with commissioning of the production line once installation is completed.
July 2017 - May 2022
Plant Manager/Investment Manager - Silon LLCl
Peachtree City, GA
Provide leadership for the successful day-to-day operation of the facility. Work closely with quality personnel to review product consistency while monitoring scrap rates to determine trends and areas of improvement. Establish production schedules for all manufacturing departments to ensure inventory levels are met while operating at the highest efficiency possible. Coordinate the hiring and training of all manufacturing personnel. Monitor operation expenses and research ways to reduce costs while maintaining product quality. Provide a safe workplace for employees. Conduct performance appraisals and provide coaching and guidance to all operations employees. Encourage and promote operating in a continuous improvement environment. Remove production constraints; allocate human and equipment resources and direct production employees to attain all established goals. Develop and improve supplier relationships. Responsible for general supervision of all phases of plant operations including: production, maintenance, safety, environmental, receiving and shipping. Responsibilities also include recruiting, hiring and training personnel and facility/physical plant up-keep, capital improvements and annual budget planning and execution.
November 2010 - July 2017
Production Supervisor - Viega LLC
Peachtree City, GA - McPherson, KS
Responsible for production and raw material scheduling, inventory control, ordering safety, manufacturing and lab supplies, writing lab and production procedures, troubleshooting production and lab equipment, scheduling calibrations, supervision of eight employees, conflict resolution, training and green belt projects. Familiar with Lean manufacturing principles.
February 2010 - November 2010
Plant Supervisor - Lubrizol
Louisville, KY
Supervise employees in a department that chlorinates PVC resin. Able to fill in for two other departments when the need arises.Responsible for supervising up to 12 operators in a variety of manufacturing processes. Also, supervising maintenance tasks, troubleshooting equipment, lock out - tag out, responding to emergencies, core problem solving and environmental surveys.
2006 - 2009
Quality Control Lead/Lead Operator - Noveon/Lubrisol
Peachtree City, GA
Responsible for leading the quality efforts and interfacing with corporate R&D, plant personnel and vendors. Trained new hires in production and lab duties. Responsible for extrusion and CPVC process and guiding other operators to guarantee a fluent performance with minimal staff.
2006 - 2006
Operator - Noveon/Lubrisol
Peachtree City, GA
Operate and maintain polyethylene extrusion and CPVC processes.
2002 - 2006
Lab Technician - Equistar Chemicals
Beaumont, TX
Responsible for processed and finished product testing of mono, di and triethylene glycol.
- Six Sigma Green Belt
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
August 2022 - Presend
Technical Manager - Extrusion Concepts
North America
Oversee multi-million-dollar installations of complete compounding/extrusion lines including feeding, conveying and pelletizing systems. Coordinating with mechanical, electrical, and rigging contractors to lay out, assemble, and power the production line. This includes electrical cabling, compressed air, domestic and cooling water connections. Read P&IDs, schematics and drawings. Assist with commissioning of the production line once installation is completed.
July 2017 - May 2022
Plant Manager/Investment Manager - Silon LLCl
Peachtree City, GA
Provide leadership for the successful day-to-day operation of the facility. Work closely with quality personnel to review product consistency while monitoring scrap rates to determine trends and areas of improvement. Establish production schedules for all manufacturing departments to ensure inventory levels are met while operating at the highest efficiency possible. Coordinate the hiring and training of all manufacturing personnel. Monitor operation expenses and research ways to reduce costs while maintaining product quality. Provide a safe workplace for employees. Conduct performance appraisals and provide coaching and guidance to all operations employees. Encourage and promote operating in a continuous improvement environment. Remove production constraints; allocate human and equipment resources and direct production employees to attain all established goals. Develop and improve supplier relationships. Responsible for general supervision of all phases of plant operations including: production, maintenance, safety, environmental, receiving and shipping. Responsibilities also include recruiting, hiring and training personnel and facility/physical plant up-keep, capital improvements and annual budget planning and execution.
November 2010 - July 2017
Production Supervisor - Viega LLC
Peachtree City, GA - McPherson, KS
Responsible for production and raw material scheduling, inventory control, ordering safety, manufacturing and lab supplies, writing lab and production procedures, troubleshooting production and lab equipment, scheduling calibrations, supervision of eight employees, conflict resolution, training and green belt projects. Familiar with Lean manufacturing principles.
February 2010 - November 2010
Plant Supervisor - Lubrizol
Louisville, KY
Supervise employees in a department that chlorinates PVC resin. Able to fill in for two other departments when the need arises.Responsible for supervising up to 12 operators in a variety of manufacturing processes. Also, supervising maintenance tasks, troubleshooting equipment, lock out - tag out, responding to emergencies, core problem solving and environmental surveys.
2006 - 2009
Quality Control Lead/Lead Operator - Noveon/Lubrisol
Peachtree City, GA
Responsible for leading the quality efforts and interfacing with corporate R&D, plant personnel and vendors. Trained new hires in production and lab duties. Responsible for extrusion and CPVC process and guiding other operators to guarantee a fluent performance with minimal staff.
- Promoted to QC lead and lead operator in just 8 months.
- Developed calibration manual for lab equipment. Increasing efficiency and consistency in testing apparatus.
- Assisted in reducing customer complaints by creating more robust test methods and minimizing inconsistency across shifts.
- Directed and managed lab functions including testing procedures, maintaining lab documentation and calibration records, production reporting, quality data reporting and training.
2006 - 2006
Operator - Noveon/Lubrisol
Peachtree City, GA
Operate and maintain polyethylene extrusion and CPVC processes.
- Initiated the setup of the facility laboratory, advised on equipment purchases, wrote and revised standard operating procedures, and developed a system for tracking quality results.
- Created initial start up procedure for extrusion process for training purposes. Trained and coached other operators resulting in effective extruder start up
- Developed numerous spreadsheet calculations for inventory tracking, silo levels, extrusion adjustments, and lab methods providing consistent, concise tracking methods used throughout the plant.
2002 - 2006
Lab Technician - Equistar Chemicals
Beaumont, TX
Responsible for processed and finished product testing of mono, di and triethylene glycol.
- Primary contact for vendor that calibrated UV spectrometer
- Performed internal calibration of GCs and pH meters
- Volunteer member of the emergency response team.
- Applied chemical synthesis to improve gas chromatograph accuracy to reduce carrier gas consumption.
- Revised lab procedure manual.