Eric C. Rivard
Westfield
Summary
A top-performing leader with experience in manufacturing. Highly skilled in directing all aspects of daily operations, directing cross-functional teams to ensure adherence to strategies, policies, procedures, and best practices across multiple locations. Proven record in evaluating operations to show inefficiencies, redundancies, and risks, innovating process improvements to optimize workflow, maintain internal controls, and drive profitability. Recognized for effective communication with C-suite executives. Delivered key insights in strategic planning, setting objectives, and implementing operational directives to achievement of goals.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Multi-Site Director
Amcor Rigid Packaging
08.2023 - Current
- Responsibility for P&L for multiple high volume beverage facilities utilizing injection and two step blow molding processes. Develop and direct leadership teams and workforce in process improvement, defect reduction, optimizing production output while driving adherence to budgeted targets. High interaction with customer base to improve business relationship as well as land new business through different channels.
- Increased year over year EBIT by 140%, overcoming a 12% decrease in sales through streamlining processes and implementing effective cost reduction strategies.
- Delivered 25.5% reduction in scrap.
- Increased safety focus and awareness, resulting in 600% increase in behavior-based safety observations.
- Directed CI program delivering $1.2M in savings.
- Led attrition reduction of 18% and engagement increase of 14% through revamped on-boarding processes, establishment of engagement activities, and recognition events.
Managing Director
Mayr-Melnhof/Essentra Packaging
04.2021 - 06.2023
- Maintain full P&L accountability for a high volume, secondary pharmaceutical packaging facility, encompassing Flexographic and Lithographic printing and finishing. The customer base includes eight of the world’s top fifteen pharmaceutical organizations. Direct internal teams to deliver effective strategies and actions to execute budgeted targets. Forge partnership with divisional leaders to develop initiatives to leverage key competitive advantages across all facilities.
- Delivered 2023 YTD EBITDA at 124% of budget.
- Delivered 28% improvement in throughput in a key constrained department.
- Realized $962K+ in savings in 2021 and $1.03M+ in 2022 through continuous improvement initiatives.
- Overhauled onboarding process to improve employee engagement and retention by 65%.
- Standardized 8D process for quality issues, decreasing Cost of Poor Quality to 0.12% of revenue.
- Increased safety education to achieve no Lost Time Accidents in 2021 and 2022 and zero OSHA recordable incidents in 2022.
Director, Operations
Multi-Color Corporation
05.2017 - 03.2021
- Directed all facets of daily operations for high-volume, pressure-sensitive label printing facilities across Food & Beverage, Home & Personal Care, Healthcare, and Consumer Durables segments. Developed synergies across multiple facilities to optimize production output, asset utilization, and continuous improvement. Established and monitored KPIs. Delivered industry-leading technologies and facilitated successful new product launches.
- Delivered 44.5% EBITDA improvement in CY2019 to budget.
- Delivered 24.9% EBITDA improvement in 2020.
- Consolidated Green Bay, WI facility into multiple facilities.
- Delivered $930K+ in continuous improvement savings for 2020.
- Implemented anti-diversion technologies/coding.
- Led $16M acquisition and transitioned into three facilities.
Plant Manager
Lifetouch
06.2004 - 04.2017
- Full operational responsibility of a multi-shift, high volume manufacturing operation consisting of three product lines representing revenues of more than $110 million. Directed all manufacturing operations, materials, purchasing, process engineering, quality control, information, and applications support, as well as creation and adherence to plant and divisional budgets.
- Led implementation of product line/value stream-based teams focusing on lean principles, reducing cycle time by 20% and improving on time delivery by 16%.
- Directed and took part in several key plant Lean initiatives resulting in more than $1,500,000 in savings 2015-2017.
- Increased focus on Safety resulting in total recordable incident rate reduction of 43%; 1.5 million hours and 40 months without a lost time accident.
- Led development of improved onboarding process as well as improved employee engagement, reducing attrition by 37%, and improving productivity by 14%, resulting in first year total labor savings in excess of $727,000. Received Excellence in Practice citation by the Association for Training Development.
- Decreased overall plant product waste by 51% using Lean Manufacturing Processes, including Standard Work, Overall Equipment Effectiveness, SMED, and Six Sigma principles.
Education
Master of Business Administration - Executive MBA Program
The College of William & Mary
Williamsburg, VABachelor of Arts - Economics/Management
Albion College
Albion, MISkills
- Operations Management
- Manufacturing & Production
- Strategic Planning & Analysis
- Lean Manufacturing
- Servant Leadership
- Team Leadership & Development
- Project Management
- Process Improvement
- Supply Chain & Logistics
- Financial Analysis
- Revenue & Profit Growth
- Budgeting & Forecasting
- Regulatory Compliance
- Global Food Safety (SQF, BRC)
- Product Safety (GMP, HACCP)
Additional Experience
- Plant Manager, Lifetouch National School Photos, Tulsa, OK
- Plant Manager, M&G Electronics, Virginia Beach, VA
- Plant Manager, CII Technologies, Asheville, NC/Waynesboro, VA
Timeline
Multi-Site Director
Amcor Rigid Packaging
08.2023 - Current
Managing Director
Mayr-Melnhof/Essentra Packaging
04.2021 - 06.2023
Director, Operations
Multi-Color Corporation
05.2017 - 03.2021
Plant Manager
Lifetouch
06.2004 - 04.2017
Master of Business Administration - Executive MBA Program
The College of William & Mary
Bachelor of Arts - Economics/Management
Albion College