Sr. Dir. Site Leader, Board Member Wacker Polysilicon NA @ Wacker Chemical Corporation (August 2021 - October 2025)
Plant Manager @ (December 2013 - July 2021)
Owner and Senior Management Consultant @ Ken Collins LLC (February 2013 - January 2014)
Senior Management Consultant @ (April 2013 - December 2013)
Operations Excellence Manager and Consultant @ (March 2012 - January 2013)
Director of Operations @ (February 2010 - February 2012)
Manufacturing Director @ (February 2008 - January 2010)
Plant Manager - Savannah @ (February 2005 - February 2008)
Corporate Reliability Manager @ (May 1997 - February 2005)
Plant Maintenance Manager @ (May 1995 - May 1997)
Tissue Maintenance Manager @ (May 1992 - May 1995)
Sr. Reliability Engineer @ (April 1990 - May 1992)
Pulping Maintenance Manager @ (April 1988 - April 1990)
Production Coordinator @ (January 1986 - April 1988)
Project and Process Engineer @ (May 1983 - January 1986)
Ken Collins Education
University of Florida
BSCHE (Chemical Engineering)
1979-1983
Ken Collins Skills
5S
Business Process Improvement
Capital Projects
Change Management
Chemical Engineering
Collaborative Leadership
Continuous Improvement
Cross-functional Team Leadership
Culture Change
DMAIC
Design of Experiments
Engineering
Executive Management
FMEA
Factory
ISO
Kaizen
Leadership
Lean Manufacturing
Logistics
Maintenance Management
Management
Manufacturing
Manufacturing Operations
Manufacturing Operations Management
Metrics
Operational Excellence
Paper Industry
Plant Maintenance
Polymers
Process Control
Process Engineering
Process Improvement
Process Optimization
Process Simulation
Production Planning
Project Management
Purchasing
Quality Management
Quality System
Reliability Engineering
Root Cause Analysis
SAP
SMED
SPC
Six Sigma
Strategy
Supply Chain
Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain Optimization
TPM
TQM
Value Stream Mapping
Microsoft Office
Capital
Support
Cross Functional Team Leadership
Business Analysis
Business Support
Ken Collins Summary
Ken Collins, based in Cleveland, TN, US, is currently a Sr. Manufacturing Leader - Interim Plant Manager and Consultant at Reliability LLC. Ken Collins brings experience from previous roles at Wacker Chemical Corporation, Owens Corning, Ken Collins LLC and The Sinclair Group. Ken Collins holds a 1979 - 1983 BSCHE in Chemical Engineering @ University of Florida. With a robust skill set that includes 5S, Business Process Improvement, Capital Projects, Change Management, Chemical Engineering and more. Ken Collins has 1 emails and 1 mobile phone numbers on RocketReach.
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