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Fort Worth, Tx, Us

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Burleson County, Texas, United States

- Established and updated work schedules to account for changing staff levels and customer demand.- Expanded cross-functional organizational capacity by collaborating across departments on priorities,functions and common goals.- Controlled costs and optimized spending via restructuring of budgets for labor, capital assets,inventory purchasing and technology upgrades.- Established and administered annual budget with controls to prevent overages and supportsustainability objectives.- Maximized productivity by keeping detailed records of daily progress and identifying and rectifying areas for improvement.- Improved operational planning and business frameworks to enhance resource utilization andreduce waste.- Reviewed performance data to monitor and measure productivity, goal progress and activitylevels.- Adjusted job assignments and schedules to keep pace with dynamic business needs, factoring inprocesses, employee knowledge and customer demands.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

- Directed manufacturing in high volume operations of more than 200 sku's.- Determined suitable crew requirements, scheduled employees and worked with Human Resources to meet changing production schedules.- Responsible for the output of 175+ personnel including processing, manufacturing, and shipping and receiving.- Improved safety culture by implementing safety improvement plans; development of JSAs for all hourly employees.- Assessed manufacturing processes and recommended improvements to increase productivity.- Addressed personnel issues and scheduling conflicts promptly.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

- Direct and manage daily activities for the effectiveness of the plant's quality assurance function throughout the 110,000 sq. ft. Food facility.- Communicated non conformances and ensured RCAs were completed.- Coordinated and worked with Customers, Engineering and Marketing Departments providing technical support to meet and fulfill customer expectations.- Developed a highly successful Quality Assurance department that consistently exceeded stretchgoals for all quality metrics.- Part of the vendor selection and performance evaluation team.- Headed GFSI audits, internal audits, Corrective Action Teams, and acted as PCQI and HARPC practitoner for site.- Prepared internal and corporate quality documentation and reports by collecting, analyzing,and summarizing trends for failed processes, stability studies, and corrective actions.- Implemented GFSI quality systems, defining business practices, leading to certification and betterbusiness practices.- Chaired quality review meetings to review effectiveness of performance mitigating risk,improving throughput and achieving customer satisfaction.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

- Provide leadership to the QC team by focusing on continuous improvement efforts in efficiencies, coordinating and overseeing all production related quality programs and procedures for compliance.- Develops and analyzes statistical data and product specifications to determine present standards and establish proposed quality and reliability expectancy of finished product.- Creates and implements quality inspection criteria and procedures.- Coordinates objectives with production procedures to maximize product reliability and minimize costs.- Applies quality management tools and approaches to analytical and reporting processes within each department.- Directs and trains workers engaged in inspection and testing activities to ensure continuous controlover materials, facilities and product.- Creates and directs environmental test functions.- Play active role on quality management team within organization.- Designs and implements quality control training programs to key personnel in conjunction with manager.- Investigates and responds to customer complaints regarding quality.- Lead daily quality operations through staff.- Coordinate and organize all documentation for third party audits and customer business reviews.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

- Supervised and coordinated activities of all production team members involved in themanufacturing of coffee and tea including cross functional departments.- Maintain good employee relations and adherence to company policies and procedures.- Took proper and judicious disciplinary measures when required.- Coordinate activities of workers engaged in setting up, cleaning and maintaining equipment.- Worked with Maintenance in addressing equipment and processing needs to ensure operational effectiveness.- Develop manpower planning and utilization programs to satisfy actual and projectedrequirements.- Includes the scheduling of overtime and the cost-effective use of temporary services.- Communicate shift performance and address issues including but not limited to safety, quality adherence, equipment efficiency, schedule adherence, operator performance and material usage.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

- Accountable to deliver key performance indicators for assigned production area (labor costs, meatcosts, yield, outputs) to budgeted standards.- Adherence to customer product specifications. - Compliance with all required, labor, HACCP, FSIS-USDA, and OSHA regulations and policies.- Accurate and timely production reporting.- Retention, training and development of 30-45 employees.- Appropriate working relationships with internal and external customers and regulatory agency employees. - Safe operation of entire processes.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biology

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