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New York, NY, US

St. Paul, MN, US

St. Paul, MN, US

St. Paul, MN, US

Purchase, New York, US

• Led 24/7 team of technicians driving results in food safety, GMP, and consumer complaint metrics, delivering excellent scores on multiple internal and external audits and the best consumer complaint results in plant.
• Instituted cross-functional processes to effectively meet all regulatory requirements for transportation of chilled products
• Planned batching schedules, utilizing demand planning to eliminate ingredient shortages and flavoring expiration
• Managed material and supplies, and labor budgets for QC department to deliver plant business plan
• Created administrative and engineering solutions to eliminate end date code non-compliance, saving the plant $28M YOY in breakage and repack
• Solved complex technical issues related to water purification, UV light systems, microbiology, and sanitation

Purchase, New York, US

• Managed cross-functional team to maximize volume output while driving a "Zero Zone" safety and TPM culture
• Coordinated with multiple departments and shifts to reconcile production inventory in SAP, PTS, and NIS, ensuring accurate inventory and downtime data
• Facilitated cross functional, daily Solve By Sundown meetings to drive running efficiency and solutions to problems on the manufacturing floor

Purchase, New York, US

• Oversaw 40 member team, ensuring adherence to GMP’s and internal quality regulations, executing production schedules to meet production targets, and driving KPI’s such as finished waste
• Trained to backfill in production scheduling, utilizing SAP and DPP to schedule over 100 different SKU's for the Bakery department
• Minimized overtime costs by managing team members time in Kronos, training to address outages, and crewing shift correctly
• Utilized Business Objects to track waste performance and process mapping to identify opportunities, driving a 56% reduction in finished waste year over year
• Interviewed candidates for on-campus recruiting and for frontline team member positions

Houston, Texas, US

• Minimized costs due to supply chain issues by tracking material usage in real time, making changes due to changing specifications and circumstances, and ordering new materials as necessary
• Ensured compliance with all federal, state, and internal regulations for HAZMAT transportation
• Collaborated with clients to design engineering changes to fracturing jobs based on changing specifications
• Evaluated and controlled fracturing job quality using lab techniques
• Attended intensive 7 week training school, learning technical and operational aspects of fracturing jobs

Houston, Texas, US

• Analyzed non-productive time and operational costs for a backup, on-location generator
• Operated and maintained hydraulic fracturing equipment including continuous mixers and pumps
• Learned fracturing process, safety procedures, HAZMAT policies, and well-site operational standards
• Created proposal for an on-site backup generator to reduce non productive time and operational costs