About Michelle Owen

Michelle Owen is a plant operations and manufacturing executive with a 20-year record of transforming underperforming facilities, driving large-scale operational turnarounds, and delivering significant profit and efficiency gains across cement, materials, composting, and advanced manufacturing environments. She has led multimillion-dollar plant startups, major expansion projects, and multi-site operations while managing P&Ls up to $100 million and teams of more than 150 employees. Michelle consistently achieves step-change performance improvements, often 100–250 percent profit increases within a year, through Lean systems, cost-reduction programs, process redesign, and safety excellence, including multi-year perfect safety records. Her leadership spans roles at ICON Technology, Synagro, DYNA Energetics, Lehigh Hanson, and CEMEX, where she delivered major cost savings, doubled production capacity, optimized quality systems, and executed complex regulatory, environmental, and capital programs. Known for bringing order to chaotic environments, Michelle builds high-performing teams, executes with discipline, and restores operational and financial health across diverse industrial settings.