Experience

International Grains & Cereal

• United States
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Production Planner

  • Jul 2019 - Present

• Maintenance & Spare Part Planning Supervisor

  • Nov 2017 - Jul 2019



Empresas Polar

• Venezuela
• Food and Beverage Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manufacturing Operations Coordinator

  • Nov 2014 - Mar 2017

  - Develop team to solve routine operational issues.- Motivate team to achieve established performance targets.- Organize and facilitates team meetings using continuous improvement processes.- Administer policies and procedures.- Make presentations and formal training.- Support new innovation and product testing on the shift.- Determine priorities with data and with direction from plant leadership, using business systems to capture and analyze data for trouble-shooting, support of operations and justification of investments.- Ensure the seamless transition to new materials, ingredients, equipment of work processes and drives improvements in throughput, quality, safety and waste reduction.- Work hand-in-hand, on a daily basis with the key plant functions, including Quality, Operations, Maintenance, Finance, Production Planning.- Leverage and/or supports capital projects to drive process improvements in support of assignments.- Develop standard operating procedures, specification documents, protocols, training programs, trouble-shooting guides and other documents to establish, improve and sustain operational and maintenance processes.- Is responsible for developing their own skills and attaining knowledge of plant processes and equipment to allow development of improvement projects and to provide troubleshooting, problem analysis and technical support to the plant as requested.- Manage multiple projects and duties of varying priorities simultaneously. - Maintain communications with other facilities in sharing "best practices" to drive results and capability development. - Be flexible, capable and willing to change and take on additional responsibilities as the business requires and as assigned by manager.- Influence and coach pillar leaders to ensure progress towards goals.- Understand and apply financial drivers and KPI to help cost reduction and waste.- Maintains and updates information and data in module PP the SAP/ERP. Show less

• Supply Planning Specialist

  • May 2011 - Nov 2014

  - Coordinate daily and monthly inventory and transportation management activities. This includes collecting inventory levels, updating orders and shipments, forecasting and making recommendations for inventory planning.- Responsible for insuring adequate supply – no stock outs for customers, and maintaining KPI’s related.- Working with the sales and marketing teams to ensure accurate forecasting for all commercial wares.- Assisting in inventory management for commercial wares, and establishing systems to determine necessary inventory levels, reorder points, and reorder patterns.- Verify and confirm material needs with internal customers and managers.- Work with operations for proper scheduling of production to meet customer orders.- Provides support in the areas of demand management, forecast analysis and inventory control activities. - Prepare schedules and ensure timely completion of work orders for manufacturing processes.- Analyze product demand, sales patterns, forecasts, production specifications and plant capacity data.- Work with Supply Planner to identify proper allocation of scarce raw materials.- Ensure optimum mix of codes and quantities are scheduled within available capacity on a daily basis.- Coordinate with supply chain partners to ensure raw materials are available to achieve the production plan.- Review support documents for scheduling, such as route sheets, and enter all requirements into the planning system or process as required.- Monitor planning modules or production planning systems and related information.- Maintains and updates information and data in module MM the SAP/ERP and SNP (APO) Show less

• Packaging Process Optimizitaion Specialist

  • Mar 2008 - May 2011

  - Coordinate the timely updating of standards of production processes and primary services each production center of Cerveceria Polar.- Determine the planned costs of products in all production centers in different versions: operational, dynamic, flexible and replacement.- Validate reliability calculations based on actual rates of the primary services in the Production Centers.- Analyze the consolidated results of cost comparisons between actual and plan in different versions and Report explanations of operational changes.- Report and analyze cost comparisons between production centers for processes and productsTo execute the activities inherent to the optimization of production lines.- Assess the needs of capacity expansion.- Define and maintain indicators of production costs and costs for measuring the quality of management in the manufacturing area.- Define the basis for determining the operational efficiencies of Production Centers (beer, malt and packaging).- Maintains and updates information and data in in module PP and MM the SAP/ERP. Show less

• Maintenance Planner

  • Apr 2006 - Mar 2008

  - Evaluate and improve the preventive maintenance job plans (from supplier’s recommendation if existing), create and update the corresponding inspection job plans, in coordination with the planner for equipment.- Maximize equipment reliability by use of planned maintenance.- Collect data for each piece of equipment to determine the MTBF (Meantime Between Failure).Schedule all maintenance activities on the production line to ensure there are no breakdowns.- Print, assign, ensure completion of, confirm and all preventative maintenance tasks in SAP – on a daily / weekly basis.- Work with the facilities stock room to ensure parts are in stock or whether they need ordered in order to complete work orders.- Contact vendors for machine parts to obtain quotes.- Complete purchase requisitions for ordering of machine parts.- Work with the machine operators and mechanics to determine what is needed to complete repairs on the equipment.- Operate within the repairs and maintenance budget for the production line.- Identify maintenance related issues on the production equipment and create action plans to have them corrected.- Prepares time and cost estimates for work orders and jobs to optimize resources allocation.- Maintains and updates information and data in module PM the SAP/ERP.- Ability to interact with plant managers, operators and all other levels. Show less

• Raw Material Warehouse Storekeeper

  • Apr 2004 - Apr 2006

  - Planning Supply of raw materials and packaging according to consumption of the four (4) production plants.- Responsible for the receipt of raw and packaging materials in plant and its correct location in the corresponding storage area.- Return Management and Packaging Raw Material Supplier.- Supplier Development for timely supply of raw materials and packaging.- Responsible for the correct dispatch and delivery of raw materials or packaging to store production Production according to plan.- Definition of policies inventory of materials in stock Commodity.- Development tool for continuous monitoring of the Stock of raw materials in warehouses plant.- Purchasing of raw and packaging material through analysis of historical consumption and production projections.- Management vendor invoice verification for timely payment by credit conditions.- Using the MM module in SAP / ERP- Monitoring plans Production Weekly.- Responsible for the coordination and implementation of monthly inventories of plant and its correlation with the information yielded by contraloria for accounting closures month.- Responsible for the results of audits of BPF, AIB storage area of ​​raw material plant.- Monitoring Indicators Management area.- Development of action plans based on the deviations observed in the results of audits or indicators in the area.- Responsible for leading six (6) people daily payroll. Show less



Azucarera Río Turbio, C.A.

• Food Production
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Junior Supervisor Packaging

  • Oct 2002 - Apr 2004

  - Bottling sugar quality and safe manner in different forms complying with the standards of industrial health and safety, as well as ISO 9001 and meet the needs of all customers. - Responsible for packaging bags of sugar, management automatic packaging Big-Bag handling, packaging container liquid sugar and molasses. - Monitoring Indicators Management area. - Develop and monitor the Plan Production Weekly. - Responsible for Preventive Maintenance dosing machines, scales and hoists the area. - Responsible for finished product warehouse, ensuring safety and compliance with ISO 9001 in addition to the correct rotation and FIFO inventory through timely delivery to customers ensuring their quality standards. - Preparation, Control and Monitoring Annual Budget packaging area. - Purchasing of packaging materials and supplies. - Management Certification and Calibration of scales and measuring equipment packaging. - Supplier Management. - Responsible for leading team of four (4) people daily payroll. Show less