David Erspamer has over 30 years of experience managing manufacturing operations. He has held positions as Plant Manager, Production Manager, and Superintendent at various food processing companies. Some of his responsibilities have included overseeing production, quality control, inventory management, safety, and continuous improvement programs. He is skilled in areas like production planning, new product development, workforce training, and statistical process control.

1. David C. Erspamer
210 W Rollin Street Edgerton Wisconsin 53534
Home Phone (608) 931-9186
E-mail: david.erspamer@yahoo.com
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
* Complete profit and loss of a manufacturing profit center
* Multi facility planning and multi distribution center inventory management
* Trained and practiced in use of 5S Six Sigma and Kaizen tools and analysis
* Supervisor of over 300+ employees
* Specialized training and development skills
* Team building and consensus building expertise
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Iowa Drying & Processing April 2014-Current
Plant Manager
Sibley Iowa
Supervise and Manage total plant operations including liquid receiving, spray drying and blending, packaging
and shipping operations. Implemented new downtime program and inventory control system.
Received a 96% on October SQF Audit. Installed tower dryer and grinding system as a capital build out
program. Designed and contracted to install second blending room and packaging system. Designed third
blending room for planned expansion. Spearheaded USDA approval to run food grade product and run blending
for major new customers.
Axium Foods Oct 2012- April 2014
Team Leader Supervisor
South Beloit Illinois
Supervise the Day Shift Packaging Operation packaging private and company owned Tortilla,
Crunchy, Baked Curl, and Corn Chips for client companies. Company packaged over 50 million dollars in Sales
in 2013. Worked in processing to produce products during vacations and leaves as necessary. Axium works as a
three shift operation sometimes six and seven days as necessary. Responsible for Safety, Security, Quality and
Continuous Improvement for the packaging Department. Instituted 5S program, training standards for
employees and on-boarding procedure. Standardized use of Temporary labor for increases in volume during
seasonal and promotional projects.
Milk Specialties Global July 2010-August 2011
Plant Manager
Adell Wisconsin
Supervised all plant operations for over 60 union personnel. Duties included budgeting, downtime
analysis, training and development, quality control, maintenance, warehouse and packing production. Peak
volumes exceeded 1.6 million pounds per week. Receiving over 22 million pounds of liquid solids processing
and drying them into 60 million pounds dried Lactose, WPC and Permeate. Capital Budgets exceeded one
million dollars. Liaison with sales to reduce inventory and plan production requirements to optimize markets.
Set Production records on each dryer within the first six months of managing the operations.

2. Power Packaging Oct 2008 - April 2010
Production Manager
Geneva, IL
Operations responsibility for production which represented 80% of General Mills/Betty Crocker cakes
and brownies for the US and Canada. Directed three shift managers, three supervisors and the training manager.
Accomplishments include: Highest recorded cases/week produced 566K, Longest safety record - one year no
accidents, two years no lost time. Development and implementation of Continuous Improvement program
which included total employee involvement. Facilitated and lead work and discovery teams - (PM, Vertical
starts, Work standards, Purchasing, Overuse). Savings of over 600k in 2009. Turnover rates of less than 0.5%
per year, overuse rates of less than 1.4%. Lead training programs for all management in continuous
improvement principles and techniques.
IBC Hostess Mar 2008 - Oct 2008
Production Manager
Schiller Park, IL
Responsibilities include on time production of all Hostess products including mixing, blending, baking
and packaging. Staff includes three assistant production managers and 15 supervisors and 315 associates. Union
Plant Local One. Accomplishments include the formation of a new Daily Production Report. Introduction of
5S principles to all of 7 production lines and completion of the Ho Ho line 5S Project. Reorganized corporate
reporting process and shipping reconciliation programs. Introduced new Quality Program and Validation system
for production. Increased production efficiencies from 80% to 97-98% in the first four months.
X-PAC Mar 2007 - Mar 2008
Six Sigma Black Belt / Quality Manager
Yorkville, IL
Responsibilities include planning, formulating, creating and executing effective metrics to measure and
monitor Quality Performance. To identify, investigate and problem solve projects in order to improve supplier
and internal non-conformance. Participating in customer/supplier weekly meetings and identifying opportunities
for their improvement as well. Direction of Quality Department, sampling inspection and auditing. Direction of
Caterpillar Production System initiative, implementation of line balancing and 5S. Other areas of direction
include the maintenance team, tool room, safety coordinator, training and lead for employee retention team.
Accomplishments
1. Completed Caterpillar Green Belt training
2. Reduced DPU (defects per unit) 50%. Reduction from 1.43 DPU to 0.74
3. Implementation of Kaizen approach to problem solving
4. Formulated, rewrote and implemented new training program
5. Restructured maintenance and tool crib with 50% labor reduction and increased productivity
6. Instituted Quality Auditing program

3. Lebanon-Seaboard 1995 -2006
Plant Manager
Bristol, IL
Responsible for 65-85 million pounds of packaged production. Duties include planning, scheduling,
budgeting, direction of production supervisors, and inventory management of the offsite distribution centers.
More specifically, production scheduling, raw ingredient forecasting, ordering and grain contract analysis and
the planning and monitoring of a 5 year build out program to 120 million pounds.
Accomplishments
1. New product and packaging designs and implementation
2. Reduction of downtime 15% and increased production volumes 30%
Safeguard Business Systems 1992-1995
Production Supervisor / Quality Assurance Coordinator
Addison, IL
Supervised shipping, receiving, finishing and assembly departments. Assignment included development
and implementation of a Total Quality Management program.
Accomplishments
1. The reduction of rework 37%
2. Formation of Process Improvement Teams
Borden Foods 1989-1992
Plant Superintendent
Northbrook, IL
Supervised all plant operations for over 200 union personnel. Duties included budgeting, downtime
analysis, training and development, quality control, maintenance, warehouse and packing production. Peak
volumes exceeded 25-30 thousand cases per week.
Accomplishments
1. Set nine consecutive monthly performance records
2. Designed and implemented production facilities for Butter Toffee/ Cracker Jack
SKILLS
* Extensive experience with lost time control tools
* Training and development identification and implementation
* New product design, development and implementation
* Quality control instrument design and implementation
* Organizational design and coordination
* Leadership and coaching expertise in multiple managerial situations
EDUCATION
BA Science in Commerce, Management Major, DePaul University, Chicago, IL 1981
MA Science in Management, National-Louis University, Wheaton, IL 1996
American Society for Quality Control, St. Charles/Fox Valley Section 1208
Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) 1994
Green Belt Certification 2007