Develop short and long term capital plans to meet Safety, Quality, and Production needs for five manufacturing facilities of growing company in collaboration with Senior and Plant Leadership.Drive improvement of company technical skills and ability to solve complex problems in an effective, timely and cost constrained manner.Create company equipment and processing standards to comply with safety, quality and production needs. Improve company CAR process and project execution by clearly defining project scope and utilizing robust tracking tools and performing post-mortem project assessment.Implement effective asset care program and track via asset scorecard.

Member of Plant Leadership Team responsible for delivering key productivity, quality and safety metrics. Develop company capability in new technologies. Train and coach operations and maintenance personnel in troubleshooting and problem resolution. Utilize Lean Tools and Statistical methods to boost product throughput and to ensure safe, quality products.

Supervise and coach four lab technicians including training, scheduling and prioritization of workloadFace of department in daily Plant Leadership meetings. Develop product specifications, Quality plan design, Engineering change protocols, ISO compliance, Customer Complaint Investigation, Process/Production Troubleshooting, subcontractor supervision, SPC, Lead process capability study for R&D product.

Face of department in daily Plant Leadership meetings.Lead & support continuous improvement projectsAutomating SIP process to reduce planned downtime on Aseptic packing line.Local process expert for corporate project to reduce top consumer complaint issue.Standardizing data collection across 3 lines to better understand process capability.Identify areas of opportunity using SPC and continuous improvement tools.Responsible for achievement of quality goals and standards of performance.Coach 8 Micro and lab technicians on a daily basis.Member of HACCP team.Co-ordinate audits of Standard Operating Procedures and Product Safety & Process Control documents.With Quality Manager, screen and interview new technicians to fill vacant positions.Educate plant in GMP, analytical testing, lab practices, auditing and food safety.Assist with supplier site audits.Maintain and update Gagetalker SPC and Excel "Specsheet" programs.Co-ordinate with corporate for innovative and renovative product changes. Co-ordinate sampling and inspection.

Responsible for system and process improvements in 30MM case juice blending and bottling facility.Responsible for changeover of line for new 96 oz package.Installation of spray glue systems on labelers for two hotfill packaging lines.Hot water set to improve condensate recovery and operational stability.Bulk concentrate unloading station to improve batching capability.New control system (ControlLogix) for blending operation.New case coders for three production lines.Introduction of new product line to blend operation requiring more precise material delivery.Team leader for reduction of CIP time for hot fill bottling line (Green Belt Project)Ammonia system regulatory compliance. Technical resource for pasteurization, control and HMI systems. (24 hr on call)Three HTST hot fill multiserve packaging lines.One aseptic multiserve packaging lines. (TetraPak Pasteurization)AB PLCs including PLC5 and ControlLogixIntellution iFIX HMI

Engineer productivity and system improvements in 1800 tpd sugar refinery.Improvements include controller loop tuning and programming software, time studies and scheduling of batches in continuous flow environment, resizing piping, pumps, tanks, heat exchangers, and related equipment; capital projects such as new equipment installation and automation of operator stations. Unit operation improvements including:$350,000 annual maintenance savings by replacing plate and frame heater with wide gap plate and frame heater & CIP system.Eliminated 400 annual man hours ($10,000) by automating transfer of diatomaceous earth from storage silo to day holding vessel.4% increased mingling efficiency by replacing steam fired spiral heater with two step steam-water, water-molasses plate and frame heaters & CIP system.12% increase in refinery feed flow through mechanical, operational and automation improvements of batch centrifugal machines.Minimized start up time of Sucrose evaporator by retuning startup parameters and documenting startup procedures. Saves 3-5 hours per startup.25% increase in operator performance of regenerating ion exchange resin beds for liquid sucrose production through automation and operation improvements.Designed / managed $100,000 project to provide DCS communications in granular carbon station to free up operator. Combined 2 jobs into 1. Worth $120,000/yr.Provide technical and DCS (ABB MOD 300, Allen Bradley PLC 530) support to process supervisors and operators, including 24-hr "on-call" status.Coordinate and/or conduct training for process supervisors and operators in regards to unit operations, control strategy, safety, and environmental compliance. Perform regular safety and GMP audits of different areas of facility.Rotated into shift supervision and raw sugar unloading supervisor roles overseeing daily performance of 10-30 employees

Designed direct-fired heaters for petrochemical industry using proprietary software and Excel based on user specifications. Required extensive knowledge of heat transfer and thermodynamics.Created P&ID and compiled bill of materials for instrumentation and controls of process heaters including burner management systems.Constructed spreadsheets to perform complex design calculations. Used Excel tools to curve fit heat exchanger design curves.Used Visual Basic to automate iterative design routines.Constructed proposal binders for direct-fired heaters.Obtained field data of direct fired process heaters in oil refineries using hand held equipment and refinery data collection resources.Constructed computer simulations of process heaters using data obtained and Microsoft Excel and Petro-Chem proprietary simulation software.Met with clients to discuss proposed improvements for process heaters.Constructed computer simulation and GUI of process heater upgrade schedule to determine best course of action to meet with California Clean Air Regulations for two refineries.

Provided 24-hr emergency response to oil and chemical spills in a region 100 miles end to end.Investigated 200+ spill reports for investigation per year.Provided support to and cooperated with various government agencies such as FD (Professional and Volunteer), PD, Health Department and DOT.Investigated sources of oil spills using both field investigation and records search.Directed oil spill cleanups and remediations including sampling techniques and schedules and installation of on site observation and recovery wells.Responsible for reviewing and approving responsible party clean up plans.