Joseph Leahy
Phoenix,AZ
Summary
I am a Quality Assurance Specialist with over 10 years of experience in this industry. I have a proven track record of ensuring product quality and safety, with a focus on optimizing processes and procedures to increase efficiency.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Quality Control Inspector
Ball Corporation
Waddell, AZ
03.2021 - Current
- Perform tasks and provide services to support the plant’s production goals
- Follow the guidelines for the food safety system
- Perform required duties to stay in compliance with the plant’s standards of quality
- Performing on the job training to new personnel
- Review, initiate and follow all SOPs and control plans
- I have an amazing work relationship with all departments and crews
- Compile with all established job safety practices, policies and procedures specified in plant safely
- Completing all preventive maintenance on production equipment monthly or as required
- Troubleshooting and communicating on all production equipment as required
- Maintain house keeping duties
- Following food safety
- Filling all PPE stations per needed
- Attention to detail and identifying defects
Quality Management Technician
Sysco
11.2013 - Current
- RESPONSIBILITIES
- Check produce in slots daily to make certain product that is set up for shipping is up to acceptable standards
- Communicate with buyers all quality issues and assists them in resolving them to ensure the customer receives the highest quality products possible
- Ensure products are being rotated properly during daily slot checking and communicate any problems with rotation to the stockers and/or supervisors responsible
- Monitor variance reports for accurate accounting of spoilage, warehouse damage, truck damage, etc
- Greet all internal and external customers in a friendly and efficient manner to ensure that proper customer service is maintained, and customer satisfaction and organizational efficiency are enhanced
- Inspect inbound freight, warehoused product, and/or outbound product and document product condition
- Correspond regularly with necessary parties on the company's status on product quality Analyze, identify, and propose action to the solution of problems associated with Quality Assurance
- Observe all safety rules, regulations, and sanitation policies
Quality Management Technician
Target Corporation
01.2010 - 10.2013
- Responsibilities
- Inspect all incoming product for quality
- Process rejection documents and reports for all incoming produce
- Communicate with business analyst at HQ for disposition of product
- Manage weekly reports to ensure that product inventory and date standards are maintained
- Current HACCP captain for the entire warehouse
- Daily monitoring of the temperature of the warehouse for the different temperature zones that are supported for the product carried
- Member of the safety committee
- Respond to feedback regarding the quality received at store level
- Monitor the quality of product in the pick slots in the warehouse and determine what product can be salvaged, donated, or dumped
- As well as set up pick slot locations for incoming product, real time
- Applications used: Nextgen, Swiss log, Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook
Education
High school diploma - undefined
Skills
- Quality Management
- Quality Assurance
- HACCP
- Computer skills
- Manufacturing
- Quality Inspection
- Organizational skills
- Communication skills
- Quality control
- Microsoft Excel
- English
- Microsoft Office
- Partnership
- Safety
- Food safety
Accomplishments
Stand in lead for C crew for many years and switched crews per need of the company and became the stand in lead on that crew as well
Timeline
Quality Control Inspector
Ball Corporation
03.2021 - Current
Quality Management Technician
Sysco
11.2013 - Current
Quality Management Technician
Target Corporation
01.2010 - 10.2013