02 / Delivered work
Operations Manager — Allmine Paving / Tamko
Full plant accountability for safety, quality, production, cost, and people. $242K/year in documented annual savings, 35% downtime reduction, zero OSHA recordables.
The work
End-to-end plant accountability — safety, quality, production, cost, people. Two-year tenure, promoted in twelve months.
Documented impact
- $189,000 / year — Real-time analytics deployment through BrainCube cut process waste by 70%.
- $37,000 / year — AI-based PID tuning system stabilized control loops that operators had been hand-tuning for years.
- $16,000 / year — Power Apps + AI shift briefs eliminated 15 minutes of manual handover every single shift.
- 35% reduction in unplanned downtime via SCADA digital twin monitoring.
- Zero OSHA recordables across the operations leadership tenure.
The pattern
Every one of these is the same shape: instrument the process, give the AI the right signal, then engineer the human workflow around what the model can actually do reliably. PID tuning is not the interesting part. The interesting part is the operators trusting the new control loop enough to leave it alone.
Why it scaled
This is the playbook that earned me the corporate AI and Six Sigma Lead role. Tamko corporate watched a single subsidiary go from “we should probably do something with AI” to documented annual savings on the back of a small set of focused integrations. Scaling it across nine plants is the current job.