Hector Michel
Reedley,CA
Summary
Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Operations Lead
Ruiz Foods Products
Tulare, CA
01.2024 - Current
- Developing and implementing effective strategies to optimize operational performance.
- Identified cost savings opportunities through process optimization initiatives.
- Ensuring all staff members have the necessary resources, training and support to carry out their roles successfully.
- Creating reports on operational activities, performance metrics and customer feedback.
- Providing guidance and mentorship for junior staff members.
- Performing root cause analysis of any problems encountered in operations.
- Leading a team to ensure operational processes and procedures are followed efficiently and effectively.
- Ensuring compliance with USDA regulations and industry standards.
- Identifying process inefficiencies or bottlenecks and developing solutions to improve them.
- Managed scheduling and staffing, optimizing labor costs while ensuring operational demands were met.
- Coordinated maintenance and repair schedules for equipment, ensuring minimal downtime.
QA Auditor
Ruiz Foods Products
Dinuba, CA
12.2021 - 12.2023
- Examined products and materials for defects or deviations to remove or discard non-conforming items.
- Documented inspection results by completing reports and logs and summarizing and entering data into quality database.
- Completed non-destructive tests and conducted continuous inspections.
- Documented nonconformities and recommended techniques for prompt resolution.
- Inspected, tested and measured materials for conformance to specifications and regulatory requirements.
- Identified production concerns and worked with supervisors to understand and remedy situations.
- Oversaw disposal of products, materials and equipment not in compliance with tolerances, safety standards or quality levels.
- Matched arriving materials with purchase orders, submitted discrepancy forms as necessary.
- Monitored daily performance of production team to identify and address issues affecting quality product output.
- Provided quality support to ensure that products met quality standards and customer requirements.
- Completed routine inspections of components and products to fulfill quality assurance requirements.
- Conducted frequent quality and compliance reviews of production work.
- Monitored and upheld safe operating procedures and clean area mandates to meet regulatory requirements.
Operations Supervisor
Papelera del Nevado
Toluca, MX
01.2021 - 09.2021
- Kraft Paper Mill
- Make the diagrams of water pipes, pulp and steam lines, refiners, vacuum pumps, dryers of paper machine
- Worked successfully with diverse group of coworkers to accomplish goals and address issues related to our products.
- Check the operating conditions of cooling towers, manometers, vacuometers, vacuum pumps, steam flow, water flow and pulp to paper machine
- Support the work team members to change the press felts, dryer fabrics and forming fabrics.
- Check the kraft paper quality meets the clients specifications.
- Determined correct processes needed to manufacture materials to proper capacity.
Cellulose Supervisor
BioPappel
Jalisco, MX
06.2014 - 07.2016
- Kraft Pulp & Paper Mill
- Coordinate the team members at the digesters, washers and screens in order to assure the required cellulose quantity and quality to the paper machine.
- Assure a continuous black liquor flow with the required quality to the evaporators
- Planning the production for the 3 shifts
- Determined correct processes needed to manufacture materials to proper capacity.
- Suggested proper methods for maintenance to prevent failures and minimize repair requirements.
- Supervised several chemical processing plant employees to verify overall quality of materials.
- Demonstrated leadership by making improvements to work processes and helping to train others.
Quality Control Coordinator
Copamex
Chihuahua, MX
02.2012 - 06.2014
- Bond Paper Mill
- Assure that the refining process is in its optimum value.
- Optimize chemicals application in the wet-end process at the papermaking process.
- Collaborated with quality team members and leaders to monitor conformance to quality standards.
- Develop new paper types aside the bond paper.
- Check the degrees brix in the slurry and the cooked starch through microscope to be sure that the starch is correctly swollen.
- Compiled laboratory test data and performed analyses.
Education
Lean Six Sigma - Green Belt
Six Sigma Global Institute
03-2023
Master of Science - Sustainable Biomaterials
University of Guadalajara
Guadalajara, Mexico01-2021
Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering
University of Guadalajara
Guadalajara01.2012
Skills
- Problem Anticipation and Resolution
- Time Management
- Decision Making
- Data Analysis
- Critical Thinking
- Mathematical Calculation
- Sample Collection
- Quality Control
- GMPs
- Documentation and Recordkeeping
- HACCP Enforcement
Accomplishments
- Chemical Engineer
- Industry and manufacturing experience
- Involved in production, quality assurance, laboratory and process chemical dosage.
Timeline
Operations Lead
Ruiz Foods Products
01.2024 - Current
QA Auditor
Ruiz Foods Products
12.2021 - 12.2023
Operations Supervisor
Papelera del Nevado
01.2021 - 09.2021
Cellulose Supervisor
BioPappel
06.2014 - 07.2016
Quality Control Coordinator
Copamex
02.2012 - 06.2014
Lean Six Sigma - Green Belt
Six Sigma Global Institute
Master of Science - Sustainable Biomaterials
University of Guadalajara
Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering
University of Guadalajara
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