Kenneth Porter

Mr. Porter has 36 years of experience in high-speed food and beverage production, managing multiple plants, maintenance, equipment & processes. Mr. Porter has worked as a manager for Pepsi Bottling Group, Universal Food & Beverage, Summit Beverage Group, and prior to joining Greene Concepts, Ice River Springs, a bottling company with an annual volume of 25 million cases and 125 employees.

His career began in 1983 working as Production Manager for Coca-Cola Bottling Co Consolidated. In 1994 he was promoted to Plant Manager for a facility with an annual volume of 20 MM cases and managed 105 hourly employees and 12 managers.

Mr. Porter’s skills include PM systems, PLCs, Predictive maintenance, inferred & vibration analysis, Strong people/ coaching skills, Strong problem-solving skills, P&L, and budgets, Costing of products, Cost analysis, Capital Appropriations, Managed multi-million dollar projects, Removed and installed complete bottling lines, Personally installed over 20 pieces of major bottling, blow molding and support equipment, Master sanitation programs, Warehouse management, inventory control & Union Plants. He has training/certification in Computers, T.Q.M, S.P.C, T.P.M, Team Building, Self-directed work teams, M.R.P, E.R.P, OSHA & GMP regulations, USDA, FDA, HACCP, SQF, NSF, Six Sigma Black Belt and lean manufacturing champion, Safety Committees and Pepsi CQV process.