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Lethbridge, Ab, Ca

Prince Edward Island, Canada

- Supported day to day operations in the plants to troubleshoot issues while participating in the daily management system.- Investigated new technologies to trial in the plants to ensure product quality, reduce waste, and provide real time data to operations.- Provided process engineering support for the Appetizers plant in Wheatley, ON for new technologies being implemented as well as capital shutdown project support.

Prince Edward Island, Canada

Prince Edward Island, Canada

- Led a team of unionized employees on the production floor towards meeting production targets while making safe quality food products for customers.- Actively worked to reduce frozen and packaging waste by analyzing real time data and making process changes.- Led 5-Why problem-solving sessions with team members to determine root causes of a variety of issues related to production.

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

- Actively participated in three pillars of the Total Productive Maintenance program (Autonomous Maintenance, Preventative Maintenance, and Focused Improvement) and led weekly meetings to engage the frontline to aid with increasing operator knowledge and ownership of their equipment.- Worked on numerous process improvement projects including new product qualification, variety pack line commissioning, weekly audits of each machine center to identify issues, and implemented a package size changeover scorecard to allow the maintenance and production teams to easily analyze the first hours start-up following a changeover.

Lantz, Ns

- Created and distributed daily production schedules and managed projects from scheduling to quality control.- Trialed concrete maturity sensors for the purpose of replacing traditional thermocouples while gaining useful insight into the concrete curing process. - Implemented the use of maturity sensors to reduce the amount of concrete cylinder breaks required by quality personnel, and to achieve earlier form stripping times which can increase production and reduce overtime hours.

Lantz, Ns

- Analyzed water contents of concrete mixes by developing a water balance and highlighted areas that could be improved through daily testing and moisture probes.- Created and updated concrete records on a daily basis, prepared weekly summaries to distribute to the Quality Team, and highlighted possible areas of concern which were addressed at daily/weekly meetings and handled accordingly- Developed and revised Standard Operating Procedures by communicating with operators in the plant and initiated the requirement to test aggregate moisture content daily.