• Primary HR contact for 4 departments supporting over 120 employees.• Provide coaching and counseling at various levels around leadership, discipline and behaviors.• Participate in community outreach and recruitment events such as career fairs, facility visits and high school partnerships.• Involved in the hiring process from screening and interviewing to candidate selection and onboarding for hourly operators and maintenance employees.• Facilitate hourly employee promotion boards to ensure an equitable selection process.• Assist in professional development of college interns and recent college hires.• Lead and assists in investigations as necessary.• Provides training for employees surrounding company benefits and addresses questions during open enrollment.• University Ambassador for North Carolina State University focused on manufacturing

• Created content and developed training curriculums for the Fiberline Department.• Completed Department Learning Leader Curriculum.• Implemented the Core GMTI Concepts.• Established Departmental Steering Team Meetings in the Fiberline.• Established Progress Review Meetings for the Fiberline Department.• Created Departmental Training Tracker for Fiberline Employees in Training.• Assisted Fiberline Department in achieving Crew Readiness Target.• Instructor for New Hire Integration.• Yellow Belt Training

• Ensure safety is a core value in all work performed.• Manage daily operational decisions, to include rate, surge, grade and prime strategies throughout the entire mill.• Effectively manage/coach a team of up to 40 individuals• Ensure effective communication between operational teams and all support/leadership teams.• Set Priorities and flow resources as needed to address mill needs.• Troubleshoot issues and initiate additional resources as appropriate.• Grow team and individual performance through reviews, staffing, training, development and scheduling.• Lead high performance teams to accomplish common goals.• Provides feedback, coaching, support and ,when necessary, takes corrective measures, to ensure all team members have a positive, productive, and safe work environment.• Leads, provides guidance and/or supports team as needed to achieve small team goals, daily responsibilities, and overall achievement of mill goals.• Approves daily time, vacation and floater hour requests to ensure all employees are paid properly.

• Perform weekly wet end testing on the paper machine• Provide documentation through Wet End, Weekly and Monthly Reports.• Communicate with customers on a daily basis to optimize the customer-vendor relationship. • Manage chemical inventory.• Maintain an open relationship with the applications division for assistance through trials.• Monitor trial performance through Parkview data and retention values.• Perform chemical testing on field days to monitor boilout performance.• Lead chemical safety training for different shifts.• Support other Account Managers in the area.• Attend monthly Southeast Safety calls• Complete all mill and Solenis training requirements.

• Collect samples for boilers and cooling towers to monitor chemical programs and make alterations to chemical programs as needed.• Monitor microbial levels in cooling systems using sulfate reducing bacteria tests and dip slides.• Communicate with customers on a daily basis to optimize the customer-vendor relationship. • Evaluate different defoamers for waste treatment foaming issues. • Switched boiler chemical program from a manually feed system to a solid feed system to reduce safety risks associated with handling chemicals.• Work with outside contractors to bring new technologies for a customer’s waste treatment facility.• Performed an elution study to evaluate softener hardness issues.• Provide support for other Account Managers in the area.• Manage chemical inventory at different accounts.• Maintain an open relationship with the applications division for assistance at different accounts.• Attend monthly Mid-Atlantic Safety calls• Attend bi-weekly area calls• Complete all mill and LMS training requirements.

• Collect samples for boilers and cooling towers to monitor chemical programs and make alterations to chemical programs as needed.• Monitor microbial levels in cooling systems using sulfate reducing bacteria tests and dip slides.• Communicate with customers on a daily basis to optimize the customer-vendor relationship. • Evaluate different defoamers for waste treatment foaming issues. • Switched boiler chemical program from a manually feed system to a solid feed system to reduce safety risks associated with handling chemicals.• Work with outside contractors to bring new technologies for a customer’s waste treatment facility.• Performed an elution study to evaluate softener hardness issues.• Provide support for other Account Managers in the area.• Manage chemical inventory at different accounts.• Maintain an open relationship with the applications division for assistance at different accounts.• Attend monthly Mid-Atlantic Safety calls• Attend bi-weekly area calls• Complete all mill and LMS training requirements.

• Worked as a student lab assistant to help technical services program with current projects for other companies.• Perform pulping trials on a variety of nonwood raw materials (agave and tobacco stalk)• Make and test handsheets with different additive levels.• Have learned the challenge of producing accurate and unbiased laboratory data.

Ashland, Kimberly Clark – Mobile, Al• Collected samples around tissue and towel machines and did testing for freeness, consistency and charge demand.• Communicated with customers on a daily basis to optimize the customer-vendor relationship. • Performed weekly testing of free chlorine, ATP and anaerobic bug counts in filter plant to assess current water situations and look for improvements and possible new chemical use. • Monitored start up and follow up of a new cooling tower biocide by anaerobic plating and monitoring total chlorine levels during feed.• Collected samples from machines and OCC for profiles and test for bugs by methods of ATP and anaerobic plating. • Improved my knowledge of the chemical and chemical sales industry by working with a cross functional team.

• Sorted paperwork for morning meetings and entered data from the Recaust log sheet.• Created a Pi page that combined different pages from the control room DCS into one to allow for easier access to information.• Performed weekly lime kiln and cooler profiles.• Entered data from log sheets into Infocalc for chemical vendor to generate reports.• Worked on Quality Information Systems (QIS) by creating digital log sheets that can gather more data than the standard paper log sheet by sourcing data from Pi.• Worked as a safety coordinator for the Hog Fuel Boiler shutdown, identifying missing personal protective equipment, unsafe practices, mislabeled items and incorrect paperwork.• Learned a wealth of technical, interpersonal, and communication skills.