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London, Ontario, Canada

As a Department Manager for Consumer Product Division accountable for performance of Safety, Quality, Production, Plant Reliability, CPU, Yield, and Continuous Improvement. Lead a team of four production managers along with 150+ production employees.

London, Ontario, Canada

As a Training and Development Manager work in collaboration with production, quality, and safety departments to develop, maintain, and continuously improve the operations Development programs along with Regulatory & Compliance Training.

London, Canada Area

As a Production Manager at McCormick I am accountable for quality, safety, productivity, sanitation, continuous improvement and all aspects of people management for three production lines across a 24 hour operation.

Springfield, Missouri Area

Introduced Total Productive Maintenance tools and methodologies to improve overall equipment efficiencies and leadership skill set• Implement a 3 Tier Daily Direction Setting structure at our Springfield Facility. Created a daily performance structure to engage the organization in actual performance vs target and to identify & prioritize critical problems for root cause solutions. Involved training a leadership team of 19 individuals and 350 plant floor employees. • Collaborated with plant floor employees to drive a culture change and empower the workforce in creating a tactical plan for the day to achieve the key performance indicators with the use of machine boards.• Led key continuous improvement processes such as Leader Standard Work, RCCA tools, CIL calendars to ensure overall equipment efficiencies remain sustainable.

As a Production Supervisor I am responsible for efficient and safe operation of the production line, ensuring maximum efficiency and compliance with all standards• Plan, organize, and control production operations to achieve and maintain scheduled production objectives.• Implement Health & Safety, Security, Housekeeping and Environmental programs in the production department. Ensure that a safe work environment exists and that the company’s safety and environmental objectives are achieved. • Establish and maintain productive relationships with peers, internal and external contacts, so that coordination of effort is optimal, facilitating the achievement of production standards of performance.• Lead and supervise production employees in accordance with the company policies while meeting all required employment standards. • Establish and implement development action plans for individual employee and ensure that employees follow through training commitments.

Brampton, On

As a Technical Services Supervisor, I oversee testing and research activities in the laboratory while monitoring all processes and development activities in the plant and quarry.• Develop process and product improvements in a timely manner that satisfies the external customer needs while maximizing cost margins• Develop products that are simple, robust, low cost, and repeatable to manufacture variations with quantifiable parameters• Ensure the consistent quality of the products and maintain communication of issues to plant management, sales department, and operators.• Supervise Technologists to ensure correct and timely testing of incoming, in-process, and finished products• Analyze plant processes and product trends to identify opportunities for improvement• Develop and improve current brick and concrete formulations in accordance with stakeholders needs• Test and plan the extraction activities at the quarry to ensure consistent quality of raw materials for production• Maintenance and calibration of laboratory and plant testing and monitoring equipment• Plan and execute plant process trials, ensuring all trial information is documented and quality incident procedures are followedPROJECTS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS• Responsible for new product development: create clay and concrete products through research, testing, and data analysis; Developed new colour palettes for brick panels and batch designs for concrete products.• Continuously optimize plant operations by decreasing amount of chemical additives resulting in significant cost savings.• Responsible for implementing new vision system for operators to further enhance process optimization and reduce production loss including managing contractors, PLC programming and physical set up.• Incorporating recycled material into the brick making process through benchmark testing and plant trials creating a sustainable product and increasing quarry life time.

Lab Technicians are responsible for performing daily analytical lab experiments and assist with product development.• Perform physical and chemical tests on raw materials and finished products to ensure they are in accordance with Quality System based on ISO 9001, CSA, and ASTM standards. • Assist Colour Room Operators with spray gun booths for bricks including atomization, viscosity, and specific gravity for slurries.• Assist with coordinating for Corrective and Preventive Action Plans in order to further optimize plant operations and correct customer complaints. • Perform analysis on recycled aggregates to create new batch designs, including particle size distribution, analysis, and compatibility for concrete products.• Develop standard operational procedures for plant operations and lab test. • Work alongside Quality Manager to ensure the plant is up-to-date with quality standards and audits.• Assigned duties including daily plant inspections, equipment calibrations, and responsible for quality incidence reporting. • Work alongside Environmental Coordinator to ensure the plant is up to date with environmental regulations and audits. Assigned duties included water and air sampling.

Timmins, On

Provided support in the operations of the milling circuit and worked under a team of engineers and technologists.•Using sound organizational skills, managed sampling campaigns and daily instrumental inspections following regulatory standards and procedures.•Improved milling circuit deficiencies through scheduling work requests, and coordinating with instrumentation technicians and operators resulting in a decrease in plant downtime.•Heavily exposed to plant environment as well as health and safety regulatory safeguards and precautions.•Participated in troubleshooting, applying chemical reactions, HAZOP, and Design of Experiment (DOE) for a Tailings Management Area (TMA) project to treat final effluent water for thiosalt.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Chemical Engineering

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Lean Six Sigma Certificate

Environmental Control, Environmental Control Technologies/Technicians