According to President and CEO Harold Bevis, "Xerium has two objectives with this move. First, we want to instill stronger pay-for-performance regimens across all people and processes. Xerium has begun a multi-year journey to create an enterprise that sets and meets its commitments to shareholders, customers, and employees. The markets that Xerium serves have fundamentally changed in the past few years and we must change our human resource approaches to compete and win in this environment.
"Second, we need to establish more contemporary regimens within the human resource function itself. Many of our current habits are outdated and need to be brought up to contemporary standards. We have a big opportunity to leverage our scale better, simplify our network of activities, and organize and group common areas of work. This organizational move will enable that to happen naturally. All human resource personnel will report to Mike with dotted line reporting to the regional presidents."
Bly has 28 years of experience leading human resource and manufacturing functions, quality, supply chain, lean manufacturing, materials optimization and substitution, standardized manufacturing systems, per unit cost reduction, customer service, and M&A operational integrations. He formerly was VP of human resources for Bevis at Pliant Corp., and most recently was VP of human resources at Berry Plastics (acquired Pliant Corp. in 2009), where he had responsibility for the Flexible Packaging Division's human resource function.
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