Jennifer McKern
ROYSTON,GA
Summary
Quality Laboratory Technician with 13 years experience in quality inspection. Consistently exceeds company standards, and productivity goals. Highly flexible and capable team player with experience using SAP, defect tracking and test planning, reporting and data creation.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Powder Attendant
Etcon Staffing Solutions (Pharma Tech Industries)
Royston, GA
01.2015 - 12.2015
Responsible for inspecting bottles for quality and consumer safety on an assembly line for Johnson & Johnson's Baby Powders and Shower to Shower Body Powders as a certified powder attendant. Also as a packer in the company's many Pharma suite departments.
Rural Route Carrier Substitute Mail Carrier
United States Postal Service
Toccoa, GA
09.2014 - 11.2014
Rural route carrier (temporary substitute) Responsible for casing, sorting & the delivery of mail and packages to rural areas in Toccoa 1 day a week or as needed.
Quality Laboratory Technician III-Process Controller II-Process Monitor I
BASF Corporation
Hartwell, GA
02.2008 - 06.2014
and testing of raw materials and finished products for production areas. Areas of my responsibilities include operations of waste water treatment and management, operating and maintaining measuring instruments and devices, maintaining calibration status on laboratory equipment, training, quality assurance development, product quality assurance, cosmetic batch coatings, mixed mica with lacquer to make a 20% draw down sample to read on a color meter, shipping and inventory control. Responsible for controlling the process and making the necessary adjustments needed while keeping the process stable and keeping the wet processes moving to their finished process state. MSHA certified licensed fork lift operator. Cross trained in other departments within site, with SAP access for work notifications, ordering chemicals, to keep track of inventory stock and material for shipment, checked the CofA paperwork for shipping, staged and prepared orders for shipment. Also, I collected cosmetic samples for metals testing and prepared chain of custody report for metals testing, loaded trucks for shipment and loaded containers for overseas shipments. In addition, I was part of a multi-functional team that served as a liaison between quality, production and shipping team areas implementing lean and 5S areas throughout the mining facility, active participant in the "Step Team" on site program and the leader for the quality team for the most behavioral safety observations and for finding and correcting the most at risk behaviors in the sites BOBCATS safety program for six years. This company is ISO certified.
Shipping and Receiving-Quality Control
TI Automotive
Lavonia, GA
02.2007 - 09.2007
Temporary employee – Perform quality assurance tests on manufactured products. Maintain inventory records of recyclable materials. Assembled and distributed the inventory records to management team. Maintain and distribute accurate account of all scrap materials checked material as received in and before shipped.
Clerical
City of Toccoa
Toccoa, GA
10.2006 - 12.2006
Temporary employee for the City of Toccoa's Planning Department & Downtown Development as part of an eight week program provided by the Georgia Department of Labor. The Georgia Works Program was an opportunity offered by the Georgia Department of Labor for displaced workers. (This was a non-paying non-hire training program).
Order Selector
Auto Zone Distribution Center
Lavonia, GA
12.1996 - 08.1999
Filled orders from pick sheet. Drove forklift and motorized pallet jack, exceeding production nightly. Maintained and kept the aisle ways clear for production.
Education
High School Diploma - undefined
1996
Skills
- Advance SAP
- ISO9001 certified
- Knowledgeable in ASTM specifications
- Familiar with MMO products
- Calibration equipment validation
- Chemical processing skillfulness
- Production procedures
- Mining operations
- MSHA and OSHA regulatory knowledge and standards
- Process improvement
- Quality assurance and control
- Process implementation
- Risk management processes and analysis
- Water treatment operations
- DCS systems (Delta V and Wonderware)
- Process improvements
- Forklift operation
- Lean Six Sigma operations
- Shipping and receiving
- Materials accountability
- Trained in lab safety
- ISO9001 environment
Timeline
Powder Attendant - Etcon Staffing Solutions (Pharma Tech Industries)
01.2015 - 12.2015
Rural Route Carrier Substitute Mail Carrier - United States Postal Service
09.2014 - 11.2014
Quality Laboratory Technician III-Process Controller II-Process Monitor I - BASF Corporation
02.2008 - 06.2014
Shipping and Receiving-Quality Control - TI Automotive
02.2007 - 09.2007
Clerical - City of Toccoa
10.2006 - 12.2006
Order Selector - Auto Zone Distribution Center
12.1996 - 08.1999
Franklin County High School - High School Diploma,
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