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Delta, Ut, Us

Leamington, Utah, United States

• Setup quality and product targets considering internal and external stakeholders• Fulfill product specifications and product targets according to standards and certificates• Optimize quality process and product quality• Plan, organize and manage sampling, measurements, and analysis throughout the production process.• Ensure proper calibration and maintenance of equipment.• Carefully evaluate plant quality performance, timely identify any deviation from standards and investigate potential root causes in collaboration with other departments to define corrective and preventive actions.• Prepare the annual budget and capital expenditure budget (CAPEX) for the quality department.• Investigate and validate impact of product, production, and process changes on quality.• Organize quality audits and initiate actions in anticipation of quality problems.• Ensure consistency of management systems concerning quality department through QA/QC manual and CRH quality and lab audit compliances.• Serve as the Radiation Safety Officer on plant site.• Communicate and implement regulations, company goals, local permits, policies and procedures, optimize the internal processes and structures. Supervise personnel to apply them consistently and ensure compliance for related activities.

Leamington, Utah

• Setup quality and product targets considering internal and external stakeholders• Fulfill product specifications and product targets according to standards and certificates• Optimize quality process and product quality• Plan, organize and manage sampling, measurements, and analysis throughout the production process.• Ensure proper calibration and maintenance of equipment.• Carefully evaluate plant quality performance, timely identify any deviation from standards and investigate potential root causes in collaboration with other departments to define corrective and preventive actions.• Prepare the annual budget and capital expenditure budget (CAPEX) for the quality department.• Investigate and validate impact of product, production, and process changes on quality.• Organize quality audits and initiate actions in anticipation of quality problems.• Ensure consistency of management systems concerning quality department through QA/QC manual and CRH quality and lab audit compliances.• Serve as the Radiation Safety Officer on plant site.• Communicate and implement regulations, company goals, local permits, policies and procedures, optimize the internal processes and structures. Supervise personnel to apply them consistently and ensure compliance for related activities.

Leamington, Ut

• Conduct audits on major plant equipment including raw mill, coal mill, finish mill, and pyroprocess. • Optimize and integrate key process parameters to maintain a highly productive process flow. • Evaluate automated process control systems and tune automation control loops (PID type) • Develop and maintain statistical process control charts and records for various operating parameters within the major operating systems resulting in optimal system performance and faster troubleshooting.• Develop and produce computerized reports for accurate monthly operational accounting and auditing purposes.

Leamington, Ut

• Conducted special quality projects, audits, reports.• Created and implement SOPs for new methods and equipment.• Performed chemical and physical analysis for product and raw material samples.• Quality oversight of all product.• Supervised 2 lab analysts under the direction of the plant Quality Manager

Louisville, Ne; Overland Park, Ks; Leamington, Ut

• Trained under the Chief Chemist at the Louisville, NE plant and the Leamington, UT plant in controlling cement chemistry and running a successful laboratory department.• Spent 4 months training at the Technical Center in Overland Park, KS to receive guidance from Laboratory/Quality Managers and Technical service staff. Training was centered around quality control chemistry and manufacturing process effects on product quality.

Leamington,Ut

• Maintained housekeeping for the plant by operating Bobcat skid steers, forklifts, Guzzler vacuum trucks, loaders, Skytrack forklifts, and various sweepers.• As a lab relief, I analyzed the chemical and physical properties of cement on a daily basis. • Tested cement for compressive cube strengths, set times, air contents, autoclave bar expansions, insoluble residues, loss on ignitions, Blaines, and 30 and 45 micron sieves. • Tested the chemical matrices and concentrations in cement using an XRF machine.

Ogden, Ut

Ogden, Ut

Bachelor'S Degree, Microbiology, General

Associate Of Science (A.S.)

High School Diploma