Register for the 2025 GBIG 5P Expo Feb. 25th and 26th!

Register Here!
Green Bay Innovation Group
GBIG News

5P Expo Showcase Speaker: Mark Hunter

5P Expo Showcase Speaker: Mark Hunter

Twenty-five years of pulp and paper experience as an Asset Manager, Production Manager, and Process Engineering/Technical Superintendent.

Mark Hunter

Professional Strengths and Certifications

MBA, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2006. GPA: 3.9/4.0
BS Chemical Engineering, University of Maine, 1995. GPA: 3.6/4.0

Professional Strengths and Training Certifications

PI – Process-Book Digital Historian. ParcView. Statistical Process Control. Reliability Solutions Asset Essential Care. Kepner-Tregoe ATS. Situational Leadership – Ken Blanchard Training Program. Safe-Start Safety and Management Execution. OSHA 1910. OSHA Machine Guarding.

Professional Experience

Hoffmaster Group Inc.
Value Stream Manager and Director Technology Innovation 2017-Present

  • Led a cross-functional team in designing new embossing technology and tissue machine centerlines to increase an Ultra-Premium Private Label product by 10 points of TSA softness, while maintaining full converting speeds. The project delivered $25 million-year in incremental revenue.
  • Developed technology upgrades in paperboard and paper plate manufacturing reducing fiber use and improving productivity, resulting in cost savings of $4.3 million per year.
  • Responsible for leading a team of 32 maintenance and engineering employees to achieve business goals at a leading printed napkin and paper plate Plant with 420 employees.
  • Increased Plate Forming Overall Equipment Effectiveness by 8 percent by implementing an Asset Maintenance Work Process and Operator Basic Care Implementation. Improvements were also driven by a Plan-of-Control on Paper Board Material Supply, based on board analyses, and partnerships with suppliers to optimize the board for Paper Plate Manufacturing.
  • Reduced the weekly pitstop from 8-hours to 4-hours on a world-class Bobst Printing Presses through SMED techniques, operator training, and engineering improvements.

Neenah Paper, Neenah, WI
Operations Manager 2016-2017

  • Responsible for the safe, reliable, premium-quality manufacturing of a 100-employee specialty paper products plant.
  • Responsibility for 4 direct reports: 3 machine managers and 1 process engineer.
  • Leadership and implementation of Non-Routine and Upset-Condition Work Processes.
  • Sponsored water removal improvement changes, reducing energy and enabling a new product to be produced, saving $300,000/year.

First Quality LLC, Anderson, SC
Operations Manager 2015-2016

  • Responsible for the safe, reliable, premium-quality manufacturing at a 450-employee consumer products plant.
  • Responsible for 100 employees in the manufacturing area.
  • Leadership of changes that led to a 12% increase in machine production through chemical systems changes and optimization.

Fox River Fiber, DePere, WI.
Production Manager 2013-2015

  • Responsible for the safe, reliable production performance of a modern paper recycling operation.
  • Responsible for managing 4 shift team leaders and mentoring them to improve operational performance.
  • Increased production 10% through improved reliability via implementing a digital centerlining system and Operator Asset Care Program.

Georgia Pacific, Crossett, AR and Port Hudson, LA
Process Technology Leader 2010-2013

  • Process Technology Leader for a $100 million-dollar investment to rebuild two machines to improve quality from premium to ultra-premium in the consumer products (tissue) market.
  • Responsible for the development and implementation of asset operating strategies for the new machines.
  • Responsible for technology transfer between the existing technology site and startup sites.
  • Developed an encapsulated, low-water usage fabric cleaning system, which eliminated major cleaning and machine contamination issues. The new-to-the-industry, patented system allowed a more structured, complex fabric design to be utilized, significantly improving product quality and cost. Estimated value creation of $1.7 million dollars per year.

Georgia Pacific, Green Bay, WI
Machine Manager 2003-2010
Technical Manager 2001-2003

  • Operational leadership and management of a $40 million-dollar, major machine rebuild to create capability to produce premium-quality commercial products.
  • Increased average machine Overall-Equipment-Efficiency from 60% to 92% through leadership in the following areas: operator training and skills development; process optimization and capital project implementation. Created $2.0 million dollars per year of incremental profit.
  • Optimized incoming raw materials mix and machine changes and adjustment necessary to support, reducing cost by $1.7 million dollars/year.
  • Redesigned plant steam systems through re-compressor design changes and steam-header pressure changes. Overall plant savings were $10 million dollars per year.
  • Decreased air-systems energy loss through material and energy balances, driving equipment and process changes, reducing cost by $1.4 million dollars per year. The Project was awarded the Governor’s Annual Energy-Reduction Project Honor.
  • Decreased process rejects from 4% to under 1% through process simulation and equipment optimization, reducing cost by $420,000 per year.
  • Leadership and management of 3 Salaried Supervisors & 28 Hourly Employees.
  • Implemented procedures to increase uptime – Housekeeping, Machine Cleaning, Grade Change Standard Operating Procedures and Equipment and Process Rounds.

Georgia Pacific, Camas, WA
Assistant Superintendent 1997-2000
Shift Supervisor
Technical Assistant

  • Led chemical recovery optimization, implementing changes and new Standard Operating Procedures, reducing fuel use by 6%, lime chemical makeup by 20%, and increasing chemical recovery system capacity by 5%. Overall the project reduced chemical and energy cost by $900,000/year.
  • Optimized washing systems, shifting water use from 3-stage to 4-stage wash line, reducing chemical and energy cost by $700,000/year.
  • Shift Supervision responsibility for 60 employees. Coached operators to ensure mill performance metrics were achieved. Conducted operator performance reviews.
Green Bay Innovation Group

Bringing Green Bay Companies Together. Green Bay Innovation Group is committed to building an authentic networking experience where innovation can thrive.

Contact Information

Phone: 608-698-3333 
martinpochs@gmail.com
Subscribe to Newsletter


© 2021 Green Bay Innovation Group

LinkedIn
Share