Experience

Faygo Beverages, Inc

• United States
• Food & Beverages
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Production Manager and Superintendent

  • 2022 - Present

  • Oversee manufacturing of carbonated soft drinks over a multi-shift operation.• Directly manage all daily activities and long-term objectives of production, in conjunction with managers across shifts or departments.• Provide proactive, efficient and reliable supervision for three shifts, in a seven-day working environment.• Monitoring overall quality of the product by performing periodic inspections.• Taking the lead and initiate resolution of technical, unusual or complex problems or issues.• Ensure the overall safety of several crews and temporary labor when applicable.• Provide supervision to staff that extends across more than one location, shift or building.• Conduct thorough investigations to identify and eliminate the root cause of manufacturing problems• Responsible for assisting the facilities in instilling the "Best Manufacturing Practices".• Ensure staff is following the work rules at all times. Ensure GMP compliance is adhered to at all times.• Deliver consistent superior product quality by enforcing quality standards, and maintaining HACCP and GMPs.• Improve quality results by studying, evaluating, and re-designing processes and implementing changes.• Maximize equipment operation by developing and scheduling preventive maintenance and organizing change-overs. • Establish manufacturing operational strategies by evaluating manufacturing trends; establishing critical measurements; determining production, productivity, quality, and customer-service strategies; designing manufacturing systems; accumulating resources; resolving problems; and implementing change.

• Quality Manager

  • 2019 - 2022

  • Led and developed action plans with production, engineering and division Quality Assurance to improve the product specifications, analytical procedures, and sampling programs to ensure that they were appropriate and met system capability and key consumer requirements.• Provided forward-thinking insights for future business improvements.• Served as a key statistical resource. Verified product and process improvements through the implementation and analysis of statistically designed experiments and capability studies.• Led food safety and compliance audits, including FSSC 22000, AIB, and QAS.• Ensured all sanitation was complete and properly met quality standards.• Designed and implemented programs to monitor calibration and accuracy of all analytical procedures and equipment in the plant.• Ensured compliance to the OSHA chemical hygiene plan and proper laboratory safety practices by involving all employees in an effective safety program; provided training, periodic review of hazards, and timely correction of hazardous situations.• Led risk assessment analysis throughout the plant. Managed issues with a non-conforming product to assure proper control, minimize loss, and provide analysis to drive elimination of future occurrences.• Provided training in the area of food science, regulatory requirements, and quality measurement systems to appropriate personnel.

• Production Supervisor

  • 2013 - 2019

  • Oversaw production workforce, of approximately 30 employees.• Ensured safety compliance and ensured associates followed plant GMPs.• Maintained and improved high quality standards.• Monitored and drove plant efficiencies.• Maintained high levels of plant sanitation.• Oversaw and supervised shipping, maintenance, and quality departments, as needed.• Analyzed processes to provide feedback and implemented improvements to increase production.• Supervised staff and production.



Target

• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Team Leader

  • 1999 - 2013

  • Managed a team of 60 employees. • Ensured that all employees were properly trained. • Unloaded and stocked merchandise from truck deliveries daily. • Ensured that the sales floor was fully stocked, ticketed and clean. • Ensured items in the backroom were properly stored, able to be located, and were in clean working order • Conducted interviews, hired new employees, completed employee reviews and evaluations, and when necessary, documented employee corrective action. • Managed a team of 60 employees. • Ensured that all employees were properly trained. • Unloaded and stocked merchandise from truck deliveries daily. • Ensured that the sales floor was fully stocked, ticketed and clean. • Ensured items in the backroom were properly stored, able to be located, and were in clean working order • Conducted interviews, hired new employees, completed employee reviews and evaluations, and when necessary, documented employee corrective action.



Progressive Tool & Die, Inc

• United States
• Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Quality Reliability Technician

  • 1995 - 2000

  • Implementation and maintenance of ISO 9001 Standards for manufacturing (250 employees) • Machine tool builder • Torque audits for fasteners • Overall final inspection of tooling • SPC training • Noise abatement of tooling • Blue print reading • Field Studies of tooling • Availability Surveys in customers facilities • Components Reliability data • Developed reports for Reliability, Availability, & Maintainability of tooling using Excel & Word • Implementation and maintenance of ISO 9001 Standards for manufacturing (250 employees) • Machine tool builder • Torque audits for fasteners • Overall final inspection of tooling • SPC training • Noise abatement of tooling • Blue print reading • Field Studies of tooling • Availability Surveys in customers facilities • Components Reliability data • Developed reports for Reliability, Availability, & Maintainability of tooling using Excel & Word