Chemical Process Engineer
Muscatine, Ia
• Provided engineering support to manufacturing unit including statistical monitoring of production metrics and identification, definition, and cost analysis of improvement projects. • Delivered technical support to troubleshoot and solve problems impacting raw material yields, capacity, quality, environmental compliance, and safety. • Led a 3-million-dollar project involving cleanout, hazardous waste disposal, inspection of an equalization tank, and a total of more than $400,000 saved by business. • Implemented Advance Seed Production tools to optimize seed cleaning, conditioning, and sizing operations at Monsanto Grinnell site, resulting in 30% improvement in seed loss. • Monitored and analyzed operating data to generate, interpret and analyze critical manufacturing process performance indicators, optimizing energy consumption, yields, raw material usages, and track process health performance. • Created and enhanced business documentation related to operations and regulations as necessary.