Fernando Escobar

Supervise employees to ensure effective selection, retention, development, and performance management. Drive productivity within the department and report variances in a timely manner. Audit machine settings and housekeeping. Engage in production planning, team organization, and delegation. Complete paperwork accurately and on time. Collaborate interdepartmentally to improve communication and teamwork. Assist in food safety and quality programs. Lead department sanitation and pre-operational inspections.
Maintain a presence on the floor for at least 75% of the time. Supervisor Responsibilities: Interview, hire, and train employees. Plan, assign, and direct work. Appraise performance, reward, and discipline employees. Address complaints and resolve problems.

• Responsible for planning, controlling, and coordinating all manufacturing activities across shifts.
• Ensures increasing levels of customer and employee satisfaction while improving efficiency of labor, materials, and machines.
• Evaluated team member performance and productivity, provided feedback, and implemented corrective actions. Increased productivity by 60% in months.
• Conducted root cause analysis in deficient areas to identify and resolve issues.
• Motivated and trained employees to maximize team productivity.
• Evaluated team member performance and productivity, provided feedback and implemented corrective actions.

• Supervises and coordinates activities of QA/QC Technicians assigned to shift.
• Monitors product quality attributes; applies and maintains quality specifications; conducts statistical analysis of quality and process data; evaluates trends; documents performance measures; and recommends process changes.
• Oversees pre-operational and operational inspections and performs other activities required to maintain and document regulatory compliance.
• Ensures compliance with USDA regulations, company programs and policies, and SQF requirements.
• Acts as Food Safety Representative; GMP Audits
• Trained workers in different departments in improved procedures designed to enhance quality and eliminate errors.
• Supported audits and led teams to fully investigate quality control processes and root out deficiencies.
• Established and tracked quality department goals and objectives.
• Decreased rework by 10% and increased quality productivity by 80%
• Supervised and directed quality control personnel through effective mentoring, coaching and work delegation
• Reported production malfunctions to managers and production supervisors
• Coordinated disposal of discrepant materials unsuitable for rework or recycling.

• Coach all team members on Company's '8 Basic Expectations of Team Members'.
• Adhere by Hansen Team Leader Expectations: Respectful of Others/Team Players/Good Listeners/Reliable and Dependable/Lead by Example/Accept Responsibility/Have Positive Attitude/Accept Constructive Criticism Lead team in continual improvement as way of doing business.
• Monitor breaks, changeovers, and downtime for opportunities to improve.
• Identify key metrics and lead teams in setting goals, measuring their progress and holding team members accountable.
• Emphasize development of team and technical skills to provide depth in all positions.
• Implement policies in Team Member Handbook.
• Be consistent in applying discipline when needed.
• Coordinate efforts with other shift and leaders of production and sanitation.
• Supervises and coordinates activities of production leads and team members assigned to shift.
• Monitors product quality attributes; applies and maintains quality specifications; conducts statistical analysis of quality and process data; evaluates trends; documents performance measures; and recommends process changes.
• Oversees operational inspections and performs other activities required to maintain and document regulatory compliance.
• Ensures compliance with USDA regulations, company programs and policies, and SQF requirements.
• Resolved issues quickly to maintain productivity goals.
• Coordinated with other departments to maintain smooth and efficient product flow.
• Evaluated team member performance regularly to identify and resolve productivity concerns.

• Supervises and coordinates activities of QA Technicians assigned to shift.
• Monitors product quality attributes; applies and maintains quality specifications; conducts statistical analysis of quality and process data; evaluates trends; documents performance measures; and recommends process changes.
• Oversees pre-operational and operational inspections and performs other activities required to maintain and document regulatory compliance.
• Ensures compliance with USDA regulations, company programs and policies, and SQF requirements.
• Acts as Food Safety Representative; data loggers; GMP Audits, etc.
• Fixed identified issues to increase productivity and boost workflows.
• Assessed investigation reports of subordinate quality assurance personnel and addressed any procedural deviations.
• Reduced quality deficiency by 40%.

• 2nd shift Quality Assurance Lead, QA Department; established strict implementation and enforcement of Food Quality Safety Program; implementation of HACCP and monitoring of entire QA process on shift.
• Responsible for communicating and working with customers and suppliers as needed; verifying and completing daily HACCP and QA documents; conducts ground beef audits; assist USDA inspectors; works with IEH laboratories; monitoring procedures; pre-operational sanitation; signing off COA's and pre-shipment review; tares and specifications of products; food sprayers and sanitizers; shelf life studies as needed; preparation of cooler for sample shipment; make product labels; conduct worker locker inspections; look up license plate numbers when needed; account for tools, utensils and other potentially dangerous equipment that are distributed on daily basis; monitor lines that transfer products, water, oil and other ingredients for integrity; encourage teamwork and learning amongst QA Personnel; monitor cleanliness of production area; ensure all food safety, SQF, and safety policies are followed; making sure all employees are wearing proper PPE specific to their job areas; active food security and defense surveillance inside facility and its operation.
• Performed Q-Vision weekly calibration, air flow monitoring, rework procedure monitoring, establishment label check, per-acetic acid concentration check and FOSS/CEM calibration check.
• Directed day-to-day quality assurance department activities, establishing rapport with team members to facilitate effective communication and coordination.
• Enforced compliance with federal, state, local and internal regulations related to product quality and operational activities.

• Quality Assurance Technician, responsibilities: inspecting product, ensuring compliance with food handling guidelines, and documentation.
• Daily monitoring of sanitation Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), responsible for identifying deficiencies, issued and implement any needed corrective actions, training and enforcement of needed preventative measure dispositions.
• Responsible for recording and documenting rework product deficiencies and need corrective action.
• Responsible for preparing and shipping samples of meat products requested by marketing departments to potential or existing customers.
• Operate Robot Coupe, Gun Core, Scale and Anayl-Ray Fat Analyzer, Canister, and Clamps ensuring accuracy of fat content of boneless beef trim.
• N=60 E
• Coli Sample trained.
• (On-Line Inspection of Boneless Beef Fabrication) MID Inspection trained.
• Specified Risk Material (SRM); Lockout/Tag out trained.
• Conducted following audits: Fabrication Process Audit, Fabrication Sterilizer Audit, Cooler Spinal Cord/Dura Removal and Miss-split Audit, Fabrication Report Belt Sterilizer Verification, Inspexx 200, Inspexx Process Audit Verification Audit, and Inspexx 200 Monitoring of Spray By hand.
• Temperature verification audit, fabrication sterilized audit, fabrication process audit, cooler spinal cord/dura removal and miss-split audit, metal detector audit, and belt sanitizer verification audit.
• Audit, label, and scan tongue exports to Japan
• Audits trailers, verifying refrigeration unit and ambient temp and set temperatures.
• Acting QA Supervisor.

• Audit product being packed, re-packed, re-boxed, wrapped and stocked to ensure process was complying with customer's quality specifications.
• Check quality hourly and document deficiencies and corrective actions in accordance with customer's specification and SP quality standards.
• Train employees to understand and follow work instructions and SP quality standards, decreasing quality incidents by 65%.
• Communicate any discrepancies or quality concerns to production shift supervisor(s), and employees as directed by Quality Control Coordinator or QC Manager.
• Ensure quality work instructions were ready for next shift production lines as well as quality worksheets for next shift quality auditor.
• Support other departments as needed.
• Identified issues of non-compliance and elevated reports to senior personnel.
• Participated in compliance inquiries and provided interpretation of data to guide investigators in creation of Corrective and Preventive Actions.
• Trained and reviewed work of junior personnel on departmental responsibilities.