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Scott Rice, President and Chief Operating Officer of Powerlink Facilities Management started his career while attending college job coaching special needs students in a packaging consumer products for a small manufacturer. He was so successful at implementing process improvements that he soon began consulting for the company making other parts of the operation more efficient. Rice completed his undergraduate degree in business administration from Walsh College while he worked full time. Before he joined Powerlink, Rice also succeeded in turning around two plastic injection molding plants in the automotive and consumer products industries. Rice managed capital investments in new equipment and cut the workforce to a size that matched the volume of business and new efficiencies in processes. He shed contracts that were not profitable and applied metrics to gauge quality, productivity and customer satisfaction. A combination of new equipment and employee suggestions cut the time to change molds by 80%. When space opened up as inventory was trimmed, it was used to build capacity. As a result of the turnaround, plants that had been losing money exceeded company targets by achieving a 38% contributed profit margin.