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Alex Hamann

Kalamazoo,MI

Summary

Engaged and outgoing student seeking work experience in the pulp and paper industry with a background in both process engineering and sales.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Technical Sales Intern

Nalco Water, an Ecolab Company
05.2024 - 08.2024
  • Day-to-Day chemical inventory management for multi-million-dollar account at USG paper in Otsego, MI
  • Trial preparation, execution, and analysis for multi-million-dollar chemical trials,
  • Participation in pitch meetings for new products to mill executives and corporate executives
  • Mill reliability testing to provide process engineering value

Process Engineering Intern

Billerud North America
06.2023 - 08.2023
  • Day-to-day process and quality analysis in a mill site environment on a coated graphic paper machine.
  • Trial planning and coordination including work with operations and maintenance on multiple areas of a paper machine.
  • Multiple outage tasks, including analyzing headbox reliability and managing chemical inventories during power loss.

Process Engineering Co-Op

Billerud North America
01.2022 - 08.2022
  • Day-to-day data collection, testing, and problem-solving in a mill site environment, frequently working with operators and mechanics.
  • Long term project design and completion in multiple areas of the fiber line process, From woodyard, Recausticization, and Pulp Mill
  • 37 Day Cold Mill Outage Replacing many different machines throughout the Pulp Mill.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering

Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI
04-2025

Certification

  • ELA953 SAChE® Certificate - An Introduction to Managing Process Safety Hazards
  • ELA962 SAChE® Certificate Program - Chemical Reactivity Hazards
  • ELA974 SAChE® Hazards and Risk Introduction to Hazard Identification and Risk Analysis
  • ELA983 SAChE® Hazards and Risk: Hazard Identification and Risk Analysis
  • ELA975 SAChE® Certificate Program - Process Safety Ethics – A Brief Introduction
  • ELA984 SAChE® Certificate Program Inherently Safer Designs
  • ELA985 SAChE® Certificate Program Practical Process Safety 1

Timeline

Technical Sales Intern

Nalco Water, an Ecolab Company
05.2024 - 08.2024

Process Engineering Intern

Billerud North America
06.2023 - 08.2023

Process Engineering Co-Op

Billerud North America
01.2022 - 08.2022

Bachelor of Science - Paper Engineering, Chemical Engineering

Western Michigan University
Alex Hamann