Grant Ball
Angie,LA
Summary
-Detail-oriented Quality Control Technician adept at reviewing materials and finished items for compliance with specifications and standards. Skilled in reporting and problem-solving with a history of making a positive impact on operations.
-Skilled Production Worker offering 8 years of experience in manufacturing environments. Focused on being productive and safety-minded at all times. Reliable
-Paper Machine Operator with work history of good performance in fast-paced production environments. Knowledgeable in quality control measures and manufacturing quality standards. Demonstrated expertise in equipment operation and maintenance.
-Dependable retail sales professional with experience in dynamic, high-performance environments. Skilled in processing transactions, handling cash, using registers and arranging merchandise. Maintains high-level customer satisfaction by smoothly resolving customer requests, needs and problems.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
2nd Utility Operator
Georgia-Pacific
Monticello, MS
03.2024 - Current
- Inspect bed cameras and clean camera ports
- Clean and inspect primary air port and observation doors
- Perform housekeeping duties
- Evaluate and control smelt bed using primary and secondary air ports
- Fail safe load carrying and starting burners
- Clean and inspect load carrier burner air port
- Perform a manual mud drum blowdown
- Manually operate port punchers
- Isolate a single and/or bank of port punchers
- Follow Digital control system (DCS) what must be true to access the spout deck page
- Inspect and clean spouts and shatter sprays
- Line up spout cooling water system
- Swap spout cooling water pumps
- Line up and valve out spout cooling water heat exchanger
- Line up emergency make-up water to the dissolving tanks
- Effectively perform LOTO on my respective equipment
- Startup/ shutdown dissolving tank agitators
- Valve in emergency steam agitators for dissolving tanks
- Bypass the dissolving tank scrubbers
- Unplug and flush dissolving tank scrubbers
- Line up/start up green liquor system
- Swap green liquor transfer pumps
- Measure black liquor density
- Record results of baume test in control room
- Bypass black liquor fiber filter
- Swap from 80% liquor to 65% liquor at indirect liquor heater/ be able to swap back
- Line up dump tank to heavy, weak, and ditch liquor line
- Line up sweetening liquor to evaporators
- Open/ close recovery boiler ring header recirculation valves for liquor washes
- Latch recovery boilers up to natural gas system
- Collect Soap from #2 weak tank and document soap level
- LIne up MEE product to heavy, weak tanks and ditch
Quality Assurance Technician
Diversified Foods And Seasonings Inc.
10.2023 - 03.2024
- Conduct pre-operational and post-operational SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) and SSOP (Sanitation Standard Operating Procedure), HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) and GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices inspections and document the results.
- Conduct raw, in-process, and finished product testing (chemical and microbiological), along with product review of products against customer and company specifications and documenting the results.
- Upper management of product failures and place product on hold as well as release product upon final disposition by management.
- Issue corrective action reports for SOP/ SSOP/HACCP deviations and document follow-up.
- Train employees and all other duties as required.
Retail Associate/ Assistant Manager
1.50 Golf
Covington, LA
06.2021 - 10.2023
- Help customers find what they need and assists with questions
- Fit golf clubs to customers specs
- Cleans store
- Customer service
- Closes down store and retail system
- Custom club building
- Knowledge of all golf products and brands
- Club bending
- Putter fitting
Powerhouse Steam, Power, and Recovery Operator
Hood Container of Louisiana
St. Francisville, LA
08.2019 - 06.2021
- Runs water treatment plant of the powerhouse consisting of: -testing water turbidity and chlorine residual -make rounds on all 4 water clarifiers, sludge press, check aerators in pond and insure they are running, check pumps in effluent plant, river pump, and sanitation sewer -maintain and operate mill air and steam
- Power/ Recovery Boiler Tender
- Make rounds checking all equipment for leaks and proper working order
- Take water samples
- Take black liquor and green liquor samples
- Punch boiler on every round knocking off all black liquor buildup
- Line up demin (demineralization) system each shift involving caustic and sulfuric acid
- Forklift certified
- Use of Microsoft word and excel each shift
Paper Machine Dry End Operator
International Paper
Bogalusa, LA
10.2014 - 07.2019
- Operating rewinder
- Making turn-ups
- Loading spools
- Operating 60 ton overhead crane
- Cutting cores
- Setting up rewinder for certain size sets of paper
- Performs clothing change on outages and assists wet end operator
- Performs lock-outs on outages (steam lock-outs, dryer lock-outs, winder lock-outs)
- Installing clothing on machine
- Confined space certified
- Bobcat and forklift certified
- Experience as safety man on outages (confined space, hot work, etc.)
- Knowledge of writing safety work orders, pre-job safety analysis, and safe work observations
- Rigging experience
- Experience with Microsoft excel
Customer Service/ Retail Associate
Home Hardware
05.2013 - 01.2014
- Assists and help customers find what they need
- Stock shelves with product
- Assists customers with any problems with products/ returns
- Run cash register
- Close store and retail system
Education
High School Diploma -
Bowling Green School
Franklinton, LA05.2013
Skills
- Sample Collecting
- System Monitoring
- Calibrating Instruments
- Analyzing Water Quality
- Safety Compliance
- Heavy Equipment Operation
- Production Work
- Quality Assurance Requirements
- Routing Inspections
- Lab Equipment Maintenance
- Measurement Accuracy
- Equipment Calibration
Timeline
2nd Utility Operator
Georgia-Pacific
03.2024 - Current
Quality Assurance Technician
Diversified Foods And Seasonings Inc.
10.2023 - 03.2024
Retail Associate/ Assistant Manager
1.50 Golf
06.2021 - 10.2023
Powerhouse Steam, Power, and Recovery Operator
Hood Container of Louisiana
08.2019 - 06.2021
Paper Machine Dry End Operator
International Paper
10.2014 - 07.2019
Customer Service/ Retail Associate
Home Hardware
05.2013 - 01.2014
High School Diploma -
Bowling Green School
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