Run the whole plant, accountable for all the production, the people, safety, quality and cost.
Led a productivity and safety turnaround that lifted the output and cut downtime and incidents.
Manage all the production schedules and the teams and drive the lean and continuous improvement.
Own the plant P&L, the budgets and the capital improvement projects across the site.
Build a genuinely strong safety and a performance culture right across the whole plant daily.
Hit all the output, the efficiency and the safety targets under the constant production pressure daily.
Justin Harrison
Plant Manager
Running the plant safe, productive and profitable
Plant manager with eighteen years in manufacturing, the last seven running a production plant for a manufacturer in Indianapolis. Owns the whole plant — production, people, safety, quality and cost — and is accountable for hitting output, efficiency and safety targets. Led a productivity and safety turnaround that lifted output and cut both downtime and incidents. Manages production schedules and teams, drives lean and continuous improvement, owns the plant P&L and capital projects, and builds a strong safety and performance culture. Strong on both the operational and engineering depth and the leadership running a plant demands. Calm under production pressure and firm on safety. Looking for a plant-manager or operations-manager role with a manufacturer that wants its plant run well.
Work Experience
Indianapolis Manufacturing Co. - Indianapolis, IN
Plant Manager April 2016 to Present 10 years & 4 months
Midwest Industrial Group - Indianapolis, IN
Production / Operations Manager August 2006 to March 2016 9 years & 8 months
Managed the production lines, the teams and the improvement across the plant.
Progressed from engineer up to an operations manager steadily over the years.
Drove the lean improvements, safety and output gains across the plant.
Gained the operations certification and then moved into a plant-manager role.
Progressed from engineer up to an operations manager steadily over the years.
Drove the lean improvements, safety and output gains across the plant.
Gained the operations certification and then moved into a plant-manager role.
Midwest Industrial Group - Indianapolis, IN
Manufacturing Engineer June 2002 to July 2006 4 years & 2 months
Worked as a manufacturing engineer improving the production lines and the processes.
Learned the production, the lean and how a plant really runs.
Built up the engineering grounding that plant management is built on.
Then earned the move into a full production-manager role from there.
Learned the production, the lean and how a plant really runs.
Built up the engineering grounding that plant management is built on.
Then earned the move into a full production-manager role from there.
Education
Purdue University
BSc in Mechanical Engineering (August 2002 to May 2006)
ASQ / Lean Institute
Lean Manufacturing & Operations Leadership Certification (January 2012 to August 2012)
Highlights
Productivity and safety turnaround
Safe, performing culture
Key Initiatives
Lean Operations Programme
Plant Manager (January 2019 to December 2019)
Capital Line Upgrade
Plant Manager (February 2020 to October 2020)
Certifications
Lean Manufacturing & Operations Leadership
ASQ / Lean Institute (August 2012 to Present)
Six Sigma Black Belt & EHS
ASQ (April 2019 to Present)
Technical Skills
- Plant Operations
- Production Management
- Lean Manufacturing
- Safety Management
- Quality Management
- Plant P&L
- Team Leadership
- Continuous Improvement
- Capital Projects
- Performance Management
Langauges
English
Native or Bilingual ProficiencySpanish
Professional Working ProficiencyPersonal Info
Location
Indianapolis, INNationality
AmericanGender
MaleNotice Period
2 monthsDate of Birth
1984-08-14Personal Skills
