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Cottage Grove, Wisconsin, United States

• Drive safety improvements through investigation and corrective action efforts.• Participate in safety activities, including compliance checks, safe behavior visits and housekeeping audits.• Responsible for leading production and warehouse teams.• Manage raw material inventory and ordering to ensure customer orders are met.• Set schedule for blending and packaging operations.• Responsible for managing warehouse operation including cycle counting, inventory accuracy, SLOB inventory and yard management.• Lead annual NSF audit and food warehousing license, including all related activities.• Manage responses and corrective actions for customer complaints and approval of material returns.

Cottage Grove, Wisconsin, United States

• Lead a team of 10 chemists in Quality Control laboratory.• Oversee compliance to ISO9001:2015 standard.• Drive process improvements through investigation of non-conforming product and implementation of corrective actions.• Investigate and process customer complaints.

Cottage Grove, Wisconsin, United States

• Plan and direct daily activities in the production area.• Monitor plant equipment to ensure it is maintained to operate safely and efficiently.• Create and revise all commercial product specific SOP’s• Recommend required labor resources for efficient operation to meet the business objective.• Provide written communication to direct Shift Supervisors in meeting the production schedule.• Review expenses with the Plant Manager and Shift Supervisors to identify and implement cost reduction activities and ensure that expenses are controlled at or below budgeted levels.

Cottage Grove, Wisconsin, United States

• Operate processes, adjusting variables such as temperature, pressure, feed rate, etc. in accordance with SOPs.• Perform processing tasks such as tank transfers, bulk truck/railcar loading and unloading, drum and tote filling/emptying, material sampling, etc.• Work with engineering department to identify potential improvements to production and safety.• Complete required batch logs, reports, manifests, and other documentation as required.

Kenosha, Wi

Pilot Testing• Traveled to customer locations across the USA performing pilot tests of decanting centrifuges.• Locations included municipal water/wastewater plants, industrial wastewater plants, food productionfacilities, and rendering facilities.• Responsibilities included demonstration of equipment, process optimization, and sample collection.• Introduced engineers and operators to centrifuge background and operational procedures.• Improved field laboratory testing procedures.• Completed sample and data analysis after testing was complete.• Compiled thorough technical report on results and recommendations of pilot tests.Process Optimization• Performed initial testing to optimize centrifuge performance.• Troubleshot mechanical and process-related centrifuge issues.• Educated site personnel in centrifuge background and theory.• Provided in-person process support for various industrial applications.Laboratory Testing• Performed a wide variety of laboratory tests on customer samples including total solids, total suspended solids, settling rate, reactive phosphorus content, and hardness.• Completed reports for customers based on laboratory results.• Responsible for laboratory training of new employees.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Worked with other operators on the daily operation and control of all pilot plants within the laboratory.• Loaded and unloaded reactors with catalyst. Collected and analyzed samples during experiments.• Responsible for troubleshooting of pilot plants during unexpected behavior. Required strong problem solving skills. Needed to make decisions crucial to the success of experiments based on available system response data.• Modified pilot plants and equipment when the scope or scale of experiments had changed.• Worked closely with engineers to ensure successful and safe experimental procedures.• Participated in the pilot plant construction/modification standardization committee.• Improved multitasking and time management skills.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Conducted research in process development for the catalytic deconstruction of biomass to liquid fuels.• Responsible for experimental design based on the results of previous research.• Worked in the laboratory conducting experiments, collecting data, and analyzing samples.• Completed thorough analysis of experimental results to determine both the effectiveness of newprocesses and the direction of future research.• Greatly improved communication skills through both oral presentation and written reports.• Presented data to supervisors at weekly meetings. Also presented quarterly research updates during company-wide meetings.• Completed comprehensive technical reports of all experiments for permanent documentation of results.• Created several automated Excel documents for improved data analysis.• Learned to take initiative and work independently.

Bs, Chemical & Biological Engineering

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Supply Chain Management

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