Mark Layton
Sr. Plant Director at Niagara Bottling
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Layton is a results-driven Sr. Plant Director with nine years of leadership experience overseeing high-volume food manufacturing operations and P&L accountability. He has a strong track record driving Safety, Quality, Budget, and Productivity improvements across union and non-union sites, having led plants at Nestlé Purina and Niagara Bottling with responsibility for hundreds of associates. Trained as an industrial engineer with an MBA, he combines technical rigor (NQMS/ISO 22001 internal auditor, SAP/Globe manufacturing expertise) with hands-on continuous improvement practices like TPM. Known for developing frontline leaders and embedding a zero-incident safety culture, he regularly translates strategic capital and people initiatives into measurable operational gains. Based in Kansas City, he brings a rare blend of manufacturing systems knowledge and people-first management that scales reliably across complex production networks. An early background in manufacturing engineering and co-op experience at Harley-Davidson signals long-standing commitment to safety and quality-driven process improvement.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Industrial Engineering, BS, Industrial Engineering at Missouri University of Science and TechnologyMasters of Business Administration, Master of Business Administration, Masters of Business Administration, Master of Business Administration at The University of South Dakota
Github Skills (3)
vaadin4
chrome-extension4
crm2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
90301/Crescent-CRM-V
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
the vaadian version of Crescent CRM.
Contributions:31 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
crescentvaadincrm
90301/Crescent-Selenium-Testing
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
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