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Richvale, California, United States

Willows, Ca

Oversaw the operations of a cheese aging facility and forwarding warehouse, ensured optimal product quality and efficient logistics. Responsible for managing contract services, maintaining facility operations, and leading a dedicated team of affineurs. Focused on enhancing production processes and maintaining high standards of product care.

Led initiatives to ensure compliance with environmental, health, and safety regulations, fostering a safe workplace and sustainable practices. As Continuous Improvement Manager, spearheaded projects aimed at optimizing operational efficiency and reducing waste. Applied engineering solutions to enhance workflows, bringing work closer to employees and streamlining processes to support productivity and safety.

Willows, California, United States

Drive the overall implementation of Continuous Improvement Methodologies and lead the development and implementation of the Continuous Improvement Strategies. Create and implement departmental reporting metrics and optimize productivity, efficiency, safety, quality and customer service standards. Introduce new processes and products to create higher margin production streams.• Lead business improvement activities on key engineering business processes• Document and visually map the current and future state to identify, communicate, validate and gain consensus on process improvements• Initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control projects through project life cycle• Act as a liaison between technical, business, and project stakeholders• Lead creation of process standards and deploy training to team members• Identify, conduct, and complete process standardization optimizations• Drive product development from opportunity identification to launching solutions; testing products around desirability, feasibility, and viability.

Responsible for the leadership and oversight of daily operations across two sites. Including unloading, batching, extrusion, and packaging of nutritional crisps and milled rice products. • Perform required safety audits, Safety training, incident investigations and participate on Safety teams. • Manage production activities to achieve the quality standards for products. • Monitor and review all production records.• Analyze production job releases with respect to proper sequencing, capacity planning and material requirements.• Drive resolution to materials issues which includes working with purchasing, warehousing, QA and Production personnel to evaluate material shortages, perform root cause analysis, and coordinate the proper corrective actions• Provide leadership and support continuous improvement and cost saving Initiatives by providing leadership in Team Management.• Work closely with the Site Management and Group Engineering Teams to identify, design and implement Capital Projects. • Manage direct and indirect labor to achieve department labor goals• Identify, conduct, and complete process standardization optimizations using value-stream mapping and detailed process control analysis. Implement improvement plans to achieve significant and sustainable improvements in efficiencies, product quality and product consistency.

Pleasent Grove, Ca

Responsible for maintaining and coordinating all slotting processes in a cost efficient manner. Coordinate between the operations and sales team to ensure proper ordering practices and efficient warehousing. • Prepare a slot change memo identifying the rearrangement of products.• Enter slot changes into the inventory tracking system to ensure that all product locations can be identified.• Approve the deletion of the item code numbers if the product is removed to ensure that no product is wasted due to deletion from the inventory tracking system.• Create reports within business intelligence and present my findings to the senior management team.• Plan and prepare a draft of warehouse racking expansion, as request, to ensure the fullest utilization of warehouse space

Yuba City, California Area

Yuba City, California Area

Yuba City, California Area

Yuba City, California Area

Yuba City, California Area

Yuba City, California Area

Yuba City, California Area

Lean Manufacturing

Computer Science