Benjamin Jakubowski Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Greater Chicago Area

Responsible for the direction and coordination of social media, fundraising, events, and brand management of Chicago's men's roller derby team.

● Run trials to validate and onboard new raw material suppliers; report observations and recommendations for improvement.● Maintain quality management system as defined by client specifications.● Provide quality input for new product development initiatives. ● Serve as safety manager: Lead monthly safety meeting with team, investigate and report safety incidents, drive projects to improve safety and address concerns, perform safety onboarding for new employees.● Conduct Design of Experiments (DOE) to identify opportunities for optimization and efficiency in production.● Manage production database, calculating OEE and displaying trends to support Operations with KPI metrics.● Assist with onboarding QA managers and establishing Quality system at new sites during plant openings; meet weekly with QA managers at all sites to build out and improve quality management system with goal of becoming ISO 9001 compliant.● Researching automated data collection, including downtime reason codes, to improve decision making.● Address customer complaints, determine root cause and report back to customer; investigate supplier issues.● Lead problem solving teams through use of Lean tools (Fishbone, A3, 5-Whys, 8D).

Cicero, Il

• Design, conduct, and lead the testing, analysis and reporting for LBP products and processes.• Use Root Cause and Trend Analysis to identify product defect patterns in terms of quality improvements, customer complaints and product noncompliance. Develop and implement corrective actions to resolve issues.• Responsible for maintaining company’s compliance to fiber certification (FSC, SFI, PEFC).• Assist Director of QA with maintenance and management of the HACCP/HARM Plans and all associated processes (e.g., HARM reviews).• Provide technical support for QA department in relation to laboratory and inline test equipment and tools for product inspection. Develop test procedures and fixtures for QA and production personnel to monitor product quality.• Participate in New Product Development activities by ensuring a robust testing process is in place to evaluate product and concept. • Develop the technical criteria and test procedures to validate all new raw materials.• Work with QA and manufacturing staff to identify opportunities for quality/cost improvements. Facilitate and lead Continuous Improvement teams.• Conduct bi-annual full or partial mock recalls to make sure all components required are in line in the event of an actual recall.• Manage customer complaint process; assure timely response to all complaints.• Provide daily, weekly and/or monthly KPI data and reporting on quality and food safety measures.• Conduct food safety training related to BRC compliance.

Sandwich, Il

• Support Operations Manager on initiatives involving application of lean manufacturing tools including hour-by-hour tracking of production; tooling changeover time improvement; applying 5S and SPC concepts; and improving daily production, process flow, efficiency, and safety.• Develop quality testing and standards on new and current products; determine process capability based on specifications provided by marketing and sales departments; test finished products and confirm processes.• Audit current manufacturing processes to validate time and costing standards.Investigate quality complaints and determine whether changes or additions can be made to manufacturing processes to reduce or eliminate reoccurrences of quality issues.• Calculate production, labor, and material costs; review production schedules; and estimate future requirements.

• Oversee the manufacturing of Polyiso insulation products including batching of raw materials, production, cutting, packaging and quality control testing.• Analyze complex production data to identify ways to improve overall quality and performance. • Assisted a Six Sigma Blackbelt in an SPC project that saved the company $215,000 in chemical costs in one year while reducing defects.• Support R&D with pilot testing of trial products with continued production support thereafter.• Ensure equipment is calibrated properly and perform troubleshooting to prevent downtime.• Write proposals to justify capital expenditures for quality control and process improvement projects.• Create monthly reports summarizing process improvement work.

• Tracked and analyzed downtime on robotic production line in Engine plant.• Implemented static warehousing and inventory tracking system.

• Member of project team for the DOORS database integration.• Supported migration of legacy SLATE requirements into new Telelogic database.