1. EDWARD HOCKWATER
edhockwater@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/edwardhockwater
Fairport, NY Cell (585) 507-5652
Executive Summary
 Senior leader with significant operations experience spanning all major disciplines in industrial manufacturing for a global market leader.
 Passionate process-oriented business professional with proven abilities in system level optimization.
 Extensive operational knowledge in “make to forecast” and “highly engineered make to order” manufacturing environments.
 A perfect fit for a skilled manufacturing organization committed to improving profitability, cash flow, through put and team effectiveness—driving
bottom line results with and through people.
 Ability to identify and target opportunities that will impact the business and employees in a positive way.
 Very hands on individual with solid experience in rapid operational transformations, Engineering Management, Project Management, team
building and goals deployment.
 Full Operational responsibility for leading a $165M global business focusing on employee safety, customer excellence, cost reduction and continually
increasing profitability.
Strengths and Core Competencies
 Revenue Forecasting - financial modeling, weekly - monthly - quarterly sales and revenue projections.
 Production Planning - ERP/SAP, supply chain, capacity planning and quality control.
 Relationship Management - working closely to turnaround internal & external customers.
 Strategic Planning - project management, tactical / strategic planning and execution.
 Leading Employees - 25+ years of experience team building and motivating employees.
Critical Contributions
 Operations Productivity - Maintained 20 percent plus operating profit on a $165M global business, with reduced manpower of 50 percent over ten
Years, by increasing automation and employing Lean manufacturing techniques.
 Maintained 85 percent OTP while reducing product cycle time 20 percent in a challenging engineered product environment and changing customer
delivery mindset.
 Developed a safe production environment reducing the frequency and severity incident rates from 200 to 35 percent of the national average.
 Transformed operations to a more responsive organization supporting economic swings and customer requirements.
Professional Experience
Spxflow (Spx Corporation) Lightnin Mixer Division, Rochester, NY
Director of Operations, Facilities, QA, Shipping/Receiving 2002 - 2016
Key Responsibilities
 Reporting to this function were approximately 200 employees supporting weld / fabrication, machine shop, assembly, quality assurance, shipping /
receiving, maintenance, plant engineering, facilities, material handling and environmental health and safety.
 Ensuring a safe working environment, achieving 100% customer satisfaction, continually increasing profitability and productivity and decreasing
product cycle times for unit and aftermarket business.
 Managing large customer projects (>$2,000,000) to ensure cost / margin targets were achieved and shipments were made according to the project
schedule.
 Estimating labor hours / costs / outsourcing requirements for large special projects (>$2,000,000).
 Maintaining the facility infrastructure and manufacturing equipment.
 Maintaining the companies ISO 9001 – 1998 ISO certification.
 Planning inventory delivery schedules for large customer projects minimizing gross inventory levels and maximizing inventory turns.
 Specifying and purchasing of capital goods manufacturing equipment.
 Forecasting period / quarterly revenue and labor / outsourcing requirements for manufacture to forecast and custom engineered manufacture to
order product lines.
 While in this position, I was responsible for relocating the $10,000,000 Plenty mixer business from Houston, TX to our main plant in Rochester, NY, a
$20,000,000 B&L pump business from Chicago, IL to our main plant in Rochester, NY, and moving our $30,000,000 Portables mixer business from our
main facility on Mt Read Blvd. to a newly acquired facility off Paul Rd in Scottsville. All moves were completed on time and budget while seamlessly
delivering on all key performance measures.
Key Achievements
 Managed to maintain productivity, profitability and all key customer metrics through several economic declines over ten years.
 Implemented a full ERP (SAP) system in 2007 while continuing to deliver on all key customer metrics.
 Developed a capacity planning to facilitate production requirements and outsourcing needs.
 Introduced Lean manufacturing concepts / tools to the production floor.
 Implemented several programs significantly reducing product lead times (20 to 5 days) for key high volume after market components.
 Implemented cellular manufacturing in key production areas utilizing empowered work teams thus reducing labor cost and component cycle time.
 Implements 5S initiatives improving facility appearance, productivity and product cycle time.
 Reduced warranty costs 20% by formulating warranty ownership programs on top six warranty claims.
CSST Director 2000 – 2002
Key Responsibilities
 Reporting to this function were approximately 80 employees supporting order entry, order engineering, warranty service, applications engineering,
domestic/export shipping logistics, and customer service representatives.
 Ensuring safe, reliable, low cost, manufacturable and innovative designs were developed supporting customer requirements.

2.  Analyze warranty trends and implement programs to eliminate warranty issues.
 Work closely with manufacturing to ensure milestone delivery and invoicing dates were achieved.
 Work closely and communicate with customers on key project milestones and status updates.
 Negotiate milestone delivery, invoicing and inspection dates on large customer projects.
 Ensure customer orders are entered, designed and engineered per schedule.
 Provide detailed analytics on large customer projects.
Portables Business Unit Manager (Focus Factory) 1997 - 2000
 Reporting to this function were approximately 80 employees supporting order entry, design engineering, order engineering, manufacturing
engineering, production (machine and weld/fabrication shops), assembly and shipment of industrial mixers ranging from fractional to 10 horsepower.
 Forecasting period / quarterly revenue and labor / outsourcing requirements for production.
 Position had profit/loss responsibility.
 Portables mixer product is high volume mix of 60% standard / 40% engineered, build to forecast and build to order business.
 Ensuring a safe working environment, achieving 100% customer satisfaction, continually increasing profitability and productivity and decreasing
product cycle times for unit and aftermarket business.
 Planning inventory delivery schedules for large customer projects minimizing gross inventory levels and maximizing inventory turns.
Heavies Business Unit Manager (Focus Factory) 1994 – 1997
 Reporting to this function were approximately 110 employees supporting order entry, design engineering, order engineering, manufacturing
engineering, production (machine and weld/fabrication shops), assembly and shipment of industrial mixers ranging in size from 5 to 3000 horsepower.
 Ensuring a safe working environment, achieving 100% customer satisfaction, continually increasing profitability and productivity and decreasing
product cycle times for unit and aftermarket business.
 Forecasting period / quarterly revenue and labor / outsourcing requirements for production.
 Planning inventory delivery schedules for large customer projects minimizing gross inventory levels and maximizing inventory turns.
 Heavies mixer product is high volume mix of 20% standard / 80% engineered, build to order business.
Production Director 1989 – 1994
 Reporting to this function were approximately 600 employees supporting weld / fabrication, machine shop, assembly, shipping / receiving,
maintenance, plant engineering, facilities, material handling and environmental health and safety.
 Responsibilities of this position were similar to the Operations Director position.
 While in this position, I was responsible for moving the Portables mixer division from Avon, NY to our main facility in Rochester. The move
consisted of relocating 120 employees, 50 production machines, inventory, and assembly, shipping/receiving and was completed on schedule
and budget in three months while seamlessly delivering on all key performance measures.
Engineering Manager 1986 – 1989
 Reporting to this function were approximately 25 employees supporting design engineering, ERP technicians and office services.
 The position was responsible for developing safe, reliable, low cost, manufacturable and innovative designs supporting customer requirements in addition
to maintaining existing standard product lines.
Sr. Project / Project Engineer 1979 – 1986
 Ensuring safe, reliable, low cost, manufacturable and innovative designs were developed supporting customer requirements.
Development Engineer - Carrier Corporation, Syracuse, NY 1977 – 1979
 Working with a team of Engineers, developed the industry’s first high side reciprocating hermetical sealed AC compressor resulting in a step
function increase in SEER efficiencies.
Education - Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering – Rochester Institute of Technology, 1977
Training and Certifications
 SPX Innovation Training
 University of Kentucky Lean Systems / Lean Leaders
 Toyota Production System
 CPR , AED, First Aid
 OSHA – General Industry Safety and Health