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Pleasant Prairie, Wi, Us

Midwest Thermal-Vac has become a leader in vacuum carburizing for the Aerospace, Motor sports, and Commercial Industries with multiple quenching capabilities to handle just about any commercial material.Review customer orders and develop control plans/shop routers for production personnel to process production materials. Perform job audits and final review of batch record processing parameters to ensure products are processed to customer and/or industry specifications prior to product shipment. Responsible for generating accurate heat treat certificates.Manage calibration activities by performing calibrations of the furnace controllers to meet internal requirements. Responsible for scheduling outsourced calibrations and approving calibration certificates from outsourced providers to meet Nadcap/Aerospace regulations. Perform System Accuracy Tests (SAT) and Temperature Uniformity Surveys (TUS) to ensure furnaces are operating within required tolerances in accordance with Aerospace Material Specification AMS2750. Responsible for validating heat treating processes to ensure the desired outcomes are maintained. Manage the Document Change Control process to ensure revised documents are available for use and older versions are maintained and removed from operations. Revise/create procedures, work instructions, training aids, special instructions, and control plans. Developed and implemented a Microsoft Access database to simplify and automate the Nonconformance-CAPA process. The database replaced a manual paper process, eliminating redundancies resulting in easier monitoring, tracking, and reporting of Corrective and Preventative Action records.Manage the training process to ensure employee training records are kept current.Perform internal audits of the quality system to ensure practices and procedures are maintained to meet ISO9001/AS9100, and Nadcap requirements. Also responsible for supporting customer and external third-party audits.

Abbott Park, Illinois, Us

Quality assurance professional with extensive experience in the medical diagnostics industry. Responsible for maintaining the effectiveness of the quality system. Manage daily queue and provide final quality approval of nonconformance exception reports (ER) to ensure compliance to operating procedures. Responsible for the management and oversight of the CAPA database and retention of CAPA records. Recommended process improvements to increase efficiencies. Provided Subject Matter Expertise and consult to the Corrective and Preventative Action (CAPA) Review Board. Participated in board discussions with nonconformance exception reports, root cause investigations, and corrective and preventative actions. Supported the CAPA Help Desk as a CAPA III database administrator. Mentored staff and provided guidance through consultations, resulting in increased learning and performance, while driving consistency in reviews. Executed Gap Analysis of Site level operating procedures to assure compliance to Corporate/Division policies and procedures. Completed data mining inquiries and data analysis with multiple systems; compiled and verified site metrics for executive management review to ensure the integrity of data. Key contributor that overhauled and simplified the Quality Management System across all sites: implemented the Genesis Quality System Nonconformance/CAPA process into one global system, eliminating the differences between site level procedures. Team contributor in the global remodeling of the process for handling inter-site quality issues; as; significantly decreased suspect product assessments initiated at the LC Site (95% decrease of reports from affiliate sites). Supported effort to retire the Lotus Notes CAPA III database. Delivered subject matter expertise to identify a method to archive records in the Records Information Management System (RIMS), eliminate duplicates and ensure accuracy.

Abbott Park, Illinois, Us

Implemented and oversaw a proactive assessment process. Provided guidance on protocols and assessment outcomes through consultations. Subject matter expert for the development of the suspect product process. Managed oversight and tracking of manufacturing related customer complaints.Document Change Request (CR) Author and Approver. Authored and approved changes to quality systems documents to ensure that changes align with requirements of governing documents andregulations. Created and developed a proactive assessment process, which includes tracking metrics for continuous improvement efforts that ensured all data and resolutions were captured related to potential nonconformance issues. Managed a customer complaint tracking system that analyzed various aspects of the issue and ensured implementation of resolutions throughout the manufacturing and/or distribution chain.

Abbott Park, Illinois, Us

Multiple roles supporting ADD manufacturing