Josh Villella
Supervisor
Canton,OH
Summary
Dynamic professional with extensive experience in food processing and quality control at Minerva Dairy Inc. Proven ability to lead teams and ensure food safety compliance. Skilled in laboratory testing and sanitation, with a strong focus on achieving high standards in production and customer satisfaction. Committed to continuous improvement and mentoring others.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
6
6
Certification
Work History
Supervisor /Intake Specialist / Pasteurizer Operator / Buttermaker / Lab Technician
Minerva Dairy Inc
Minerva, OH
12.2016 - Current
- Unload milk tankers
- Testing and analysis of milk samples for freshness, drug residue, bacteria, antibiotics
- Verify seals, wash tags and weights from farm pick up slips
- Perform monitoring of equipment, temperatures, and sanitation to ensure milk quality
- Track data on testing, weights, truck numbers
- Follow all safety (food and workplace) policies and procedures
- Perform cream culturing process as needed to meet butter production requirements
- Operate automated CIP system to clean supply lines, receiving lines and cream vats/silos
- Reviews cream quality and start pump to transfer cream from silos to churns
- Operate churns to produce butter of specified grade and quality, and perform quality control test
- Record production, quality and test data on record sheet
- Remove sample from churn perform standardized test for moisture, butterfat, and color content
- Perform daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly sanitation duties in a correct and timely fashion
- I have my Ohio department of agriculture weigher, sampler, tester license (dairy division)
- Record daily information
- PH test butter, milk, Cream
- Antibiotic test
- DMC (direct microscopic counts)
- TA testing (tank acid)
- Record temperatures every hour
- Pull samples for ELS (eastern lab services)
- Run test for protein, fats, lactose
- Keep track of moister and salt content of butter
- Recalibrate everyday are equipment
Assistant Manager
Murphy USA
Canton, OH
09.2013 - 12.2016
- Answer customer's questions about merchandise and advise customers on merchandise selection.
- Itemize and total customer merchandise selection at checkout counter, using cash register, and accept cash or charge card for purchases.
- Take inventory or examine merchandise to identify items to be reordered or replenished.
- Pack customer purchases in bags or cartons.
- Stock shelves, racks, cases, bins, and tables with new or transferred merchandise.
- Clean display cases, shelves, and aisles.
- Take inventory or examine merchandise to identify items to be reordered or replenished.
- Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits.
- Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers.
- Assist customers by providing information and resolving their complaints.
- Establish or identify prices of goods, services or admission, and tabulate bills using calculators, cash registers, or optical price scanners.
- Greet customers entering establishments.
- Answer customers' questions, and provide information on procedures or policies.
- Sell tickets and other items to customers.
- Process merchandise returns and exchanges.
- Maintain clean and orderly checkout areas and complete other general cleaning duties, such as mopping floors and emptying trash cans.
- Stock shelves, and mark prices on shelves and items.
- Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change.
Y-Press Operator / Forklift Operator
Resco Products, Inc
East Canton, OH
11.2014 - 03.2015
- Operates machine to press clay into products
- Feels consistency of clay in hopper to determine that mixture meets texture and dampness specifications.
- Fills feedbox, shaker box, and die cavity with clay.
- Levels and removes excess clay from die, using cutting stick.
- Depresses pedal, moves lever, or turns hand wheel to lower top die and press out product.
- Removes product from die and measures thickness, using gauge.
- Adjusts press to obtain product of specified thickness.
- Cleans and oils die cavity and adjustsettling tools on off bearing belt.
- Moving controls, devices, and levers to drive forklifts of industry to transfer materials between unloading, processing, loading, and storage areas.
- Organizing and securing stored materials such as bales, super sacks, boxes, pallets, and so on.
- Loading or unloading materials manually, off or on to pallets, platforms, skills, or lifting devises.
- Performing routine post and pre inspections to ensure suitable working nature or forklift equipment.
- Reporting to supervisor regarding any damage to racks, faulty equipment, or any other safety hazards.
- Weighing products or materials, and recording weight and further production information on labels and tags.
- Consulting, working, and coordinating with supervisors, managers, equipment manufactures, and employees regarding unloading and loading operations.
- Wrapping material loads with a wrapper and making clean the warehouse premises.
- Completing forklift operator training provided by the industry annually.
- Performing other duties as allotted by a manager or supervisor.
Sanitation
Biery Cheese
Louisville, OH
07.2012 - 04.2013
- Clean and sanitize walls and floors
- Clean and sanitize all equipment used for production.
- Taking equipment apart and putting back together for cleaning.
- Work with dry-cleaning (air guns, brushing down/wiping down equipment).
- Work with wet-cleaning (water hoses and foamers).
Stock/Cashier
Marcs
Canton, OH
01.2010 - 07.2012
- Answer customers' questions about merchandise and advise customers on merchandise selection.
- Itemize and total customer merchandise selection at checkout counter, using cash register, and accept cash or charge card for purchases.
- Take inventory or examine merchandise to identify items to be reordered or replenished.
- Pack customer purchases in bags or cartons.
- Stock shelves, racks, cases, bins, and tables with new or transferred merchandise.
- Receive, open, unpack and issue sales floor merchandise.
- Sort, count, and wrap currency and coins.
- Compute and record totals of transactions.
- Compile and maintain non-monetary reports and records.
Education
High school or equivalent -
Glenoak High School
Canton, OH06-2012
Skills
- Quality control
- Management
- Conflict resolution
- Food processing
- Formal training programs
- Order fulfillment
- Team leadership
- Food handling
- Coaching
- Team leadership in food service
- Time management
- Team management
- Warehouse associate
- Forklift
- Performance management
- Sanitation
- Order puller
- Food safety management
- Unloading
- Laboratory experience
- Food service management - food service management experience (6 to 10 years)
- Load and unload
- Mentoring
- Shipping, receiving
- Self-directed learning
- General labor
- Food service inventory management
- On-the-job training (training delivery method)
- Supervising experience
- Food safety
- Assistant manager experience
- Job shadowing (employee development activity)
Certification
- Basic HACCP
- Advanced cheese making - American varieties from the Center of dairy research
- Appendix N Training Program from theOhio Department of Agriculture.
- Forklift Certification
- Ohio Department Of Agriculture Dairy Division Weigher,Sampler,Tester License
- Seller Server Certificate
- Driver's License
Additional Information
- Work well with others
- Accept responsibility
- I meet deadlines
- I have trained new employees
- Reliable quick learner
- Excellent teamwork skills.
- Ability to read labels and numbers.
- Ability to operate in high speed and fast-paced environment.
- Good physical health.
- Able to follow instructions as directed by the supervisor.
- Able to stand for a long time.
Timeline
Supervisor /Intake Specialist / Pasteurizer Operator / Buttermaker / Lab Technician
Minerva Dairy Inc
12.2016 - Current
Y-Press Operator / Forklift Operator
Resco Products, Inc
11.2014 - 03.2015
Assistant Manager
Murphy USA
09.2013 - 12.2016
Sanitation
Biery Cheese
07.2012 - 04.2013
Stock/Cashier
Marcs
01.2010 - 07.2012
High school or equivalent -
Glenoak High School