1. NICHOLAS BRADAC
244 S Sycamore St, Genoa, IL 60135
nbradac@gmail.com – (678) 939-8559
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/nick-bradac/23/60/3b6
Seeking a continuous improvement and EH&S leadership role working with a high capacity group of results driven teammates.
Strengths: Team development, resource coordination, strategy development, loss reduction, reliability enhancement, written and
verbal communication
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
• Identified and implemented, as team leader, a new Risk Management Information System for entire company, yielding
significant cost reductions related to incident management and audit follow-up.
• Managed high capacity team of reliability technicians & support personnel.
• Earned and maintained over 2.2 million work hours without a lost time injury.
• Teamed with production owners to cut unscheduled downtime in half.
• Achieved zero OSHA recordable safety incidents as safety manager at Fresno Fold-Pak.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
RTS & Merchandising Displays Safety Manager; Chicago, IL – WestRock Company Sep 2015 – Current
Develop and implement sustainable Health and Safety systems to entire company, as well as specific business unit, working on a
corporate team of Health and Safety engineers. Provide support to facility safety personnel including onsite training focusing on
injury reduction, safety audit action completion, development of facility specific safety goals. Manage a proactively focused
divisional team of safety professionals and division management to develop effective solutions to division wide opportunities.
Significant Accomplishments
 Coordinated with facility and division leadership to ensure strategic alignment as primary resource for safety managers.
 Coordinated and planned multiple company specific OSHA 30-Hour classes, and Advanced Safety Leadership courses, as
well as yearly company safety conferences.
 Led Kaizen/SWAT Team events focusing on Behavioral Based Safety, Ergonomics, Machine Guarding, LOTO, Industrial
Hygiene, HazREC.
Reliability & Maintenance Manager; Joplin, MO – RockTenn Company (now WestRock) Mar 2013 – Sep 2015
Support production personnel and reliability team to surpass safety, quality and production goals. Develop a culture of 100%
responsibility and a team of safety minded, quality conscious reliability technicians and support staff. Maintain effective involvement
on facility steering team. Improve storeroom operations, purchasing processes (JD Edwards Enterprise), equipment maintenance,
and building and grounds management (HVAC, fire suppression, security, utilities, etc.). Identify inefficiencies and optimize
department processes such as planning and scheduling, preventive and predictive maintenance, RCFA and emergency work control.
Significant Accomplishments
 Coached a team that installed a $500K electron beam dryer in three months from project inception.
 Led cross-functional Equipment Reliability improvement team to cut unscheduled downtime in half.
 Identified, with production managers, the most effective capital and monthly spend to achieve year over year increase in
OEE, MTBF, and reduction in quality complaints and production waste on all equipment.
 Completed Sheet Fed Printer feed head improvement project yielding monthly savings of $25K.

2. Folding Carton Division Reliability Manager; Norcross, GA – RockTenn Company Jun 2012 – Feb 2013
Support reliability managers at folding division facilities, working with corporate engineers and six sigma black belts. Provide support
to facility leaders including onsite reliability training, audits and PM Optimizations. Manage a proactively focused divisional team to
develop effective solutions to division wide opportunities. Work with division management on facility specific and division wide
goals to reduce cost and loss exposure.
Significant Accomplishments
 Integrated sustainable and effective reliability practices with RockTenn Performance Excellence system working with folding
division reliability team and Marshall Institute (consultant).
 Worked with facility and division leadership to ensure alignment as primary resource for reliability managers.
 Coordinated and planned company specific Reliability Improvement Methods classes, as well as yearly company reliability
managers conference.
 Led PMO Teams to optimize time spent on PMs, working to move as many tasks to running PMs, increasing run time.
Folding Carton Division Safety Manager & RockTenn DOT Safety Manager; Norcross, GA Sep 2008 – May 2012
Develop and implement sustainable Health and Safety systems to entire company, as well as specific business unit, working on a
corporate team of Health and Safety engineers. Provide support to facility safety personnel including onsite training focusing on
injury reduction, safety audit action completion, development of facility specific safety goals. Manage a proactively focused
divisional team of safety professionals and division management to develop effective solutions to division wide opportunities.
Oversee DOT Safety functions for entire company (24 facilities in the US and Canada, 160 drivers).
Significant Accomplishments
 Coordinated with facility and division leadership to ensure alignment as primary resource for safety managers.
 Implemented standardized Folder-Gluer guarding plan, working with division engineers and operations VPs, to eliminate
caught-ins. Achieved 95% reduction in related work comp costs after first year of implementation.
 Successfully identified and implemented, as project lead, a new RMIS for entire company, yielding significant cost
reductions related to incident management and safety / compliance audit follow-up.
 Coordinated and planned multiple company specific OSHA 30-Hour classes, introduction to environmental compliance
courses, as well as yearly company safety conferences.
 Led Kaizen/SWAT Team events focusing on Behavioral Based Safety (SafeStart), Ergonomics (MoveSMART), Machine
Guarding, LOTO, Industrial Hygiene, HazREC.
Safety, Environmental & AIB Manager; Fresno, CA – RockTenn Company Jan 2008 – Aug 2008
Develop and maintain all safety, environmental and AIB programs for 100+ employee facility including ergonomics, behavior based
safety, OSHA compliance, environmental compliance, employee training, safety team leadership. Achieved zero recordable
incidents; developed and implemented machine guarding practices for over 90 machines across RockTenn allowing operators and
mechanics to more efficiently troubleshoot and fix problems; earned first AIB certification for facility; achieved highest third party
validated safety audit score of all plants.
Safety/Technical Intern; Aurora, IL – RockTenn Company Jan 2007 – Dec 2007
Assist facility Technical Manager in safety program development focusing on LOTO, Arc-Flash and training programs. Exposure to
quality control, six sigma and team leadership practices. Developed and implemented safety training schedule for 200+ employees;
designed standardized LOTO format including procedures, labels and equipment; led bulk oil tank containment project.
CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAINING
OSHA 30 Hour Card
Project Management
Six Sigma Black Belt
AutoCAD
MoveSMART Trainer
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
Microsoft SharePoint
ProcessMAP EHS Software
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science: Industrial Technology - Occupational Safety from Northern Illinois University – DeKalb, IL 2007