Paul Lee
Demopolis,AL
Summary
- Understand how customers' orders are loaded into trailers and rail cars and the associated paperwork including the vehicle number, load number and order number.
- Can look up a customer order and go back to time of manufacture process conditions to search for explanations of potential root cause of quality issues with a customer's order.
- Can use MicroSoft tools to arrange & analyze data, can write reports in Word and make Presentation in Power Point.
- Can use PI to search if process trends can identify root causes for specific incidents or explain shifts in some quality aspect or if a process parameter shift cause a shift in production rates.
Overview
41
41
years of professional experience
Work History
Market Pulp and Finishing ^ Shipping Supt
Smurfit Westrock
01.2022 - 01.2025
- Managed the Pulp Dryer and Finishing & Shipping Operations, including guiding/providing the crews on safety & process training, production schedules and coordinating maintenance outages between the crews and the maintenance department.
- Perform daily process analyzes focusing on improving performance in terms of production, in reducing loss time, in reducing waste and ensuring customer needs are met.
- Trouble shoot process issues looking for root causes to develop process improvements either through changes in procedures, identifying routine maintenance needs or via justifying equipment upgrades &/or via process control modifications.
Coating and Market Pulp Supt
WestRock
01.2007 - 01.2022
- Manage the Additive Room's operation for proving Wet End Starch, Size Press Starch and various coating formulations for 3 different coaters. These activities included working with Maintenance to keep starch cookers running, starch slurry process equipment running, various pumps and tank agitators and flow meters functioning to produce coating using various ingredients.
- Maintain raw materials for the Board Machine for the Wet End operation, for the Size Press & Coater Section as well as for all roll packaging and loading supplies for Bale Pulp as well as for Rolls of Paperboard.
- Maintain the Additive Room Coating Formulation Book for all the receipts for starch, coatings and dyes.
- Ran many machine trials (Wet End, Size Press and Coater) to improve final board quality and and reduced cost.
- Coordinated efforts to flatten the CD Moisture profile by performing nip impressions on the 1st & 2nd Wet End Presses to re-crown rolls which greatly improved the pulp bales.
- Guide SMEs to develop and write ISO Procedures for operations in the Additive Room, at the Pulp Dryer and for the Roll Line & Loading Docks.
Coating Assistant Supt
Gulf States Paper Corporation
01.2005 - 01.2007
- Maintained additive room operations for supplying starch and coating and wet end additives.
- Coordinated efforts with Maintenance to repair equipment as needed as well as during planned outages.
- Coordinated annual tank cleaning of pigment and latex tanks.
- Maintained the Additive Room Formulation Book for starches and coatings.
- Conducted Size Press & Coater Section chemical boilouts during outages.
- Worked with and trained operators on maintaining and cleaning filters and strainers for starch and coating.
- Coordinated Machine trials for quality improvements and cost reduction.
- Conducted Raw Material usage analyzes to maintain Online Coat Weight Scanners measurements.
Product Group Section Head
Gulf States Paper Corporation
03.1988 - 01.2005
- Maintain the Additive Room Formulation Book containing recipes for preparing starch and coating for the machine,
- Answered customer quality complaints while at the same time communicated issues mostly likely root cause to operations to help reduce off quality incidents.
- Tracked and reported statistics for quality off grade reasons, raw material usages, customer complaints and final quality characteristics by grade.
- Coordinated many successful machine trials for starch, coating, rosin, dye trials.
- Coordinated the first ceramic coater blade trial which was very successful.
- Coordinated the coating trials that led the mill away from traditional clay coatings to CaCO3 containing formulations which reduced costs and improved quality and reduced off grade.
Process Engineer I
Gulf States Paper Corporation
06.1984 - 03.1988
- Assisted Maintenance to optimize the mill's chip size by analyzing chip size distribution after mechanical changes were made on blade designs and duct work to reduce pin chips.
- Assisted the Environmental Group with powerhouse stack testing for emissions and making routine river trips to perform routine water testing looking at pH, oxygen and color.
- Samples and analyzed coal to keep our suppliers' quality in check.
- Sampled, tested and reported various mill drains for sodium content to reflect chemical losses in the Pulp Mill.
- Checked and maintain pulp viscosity preservative chemical addition as well as tested & reported pulp samples on a daily basis.
- Prepared routine titration chemicals for the Pulp Mill White Liquor ABC testing.
- Made routine Mill control Room pH meter rounds to replace buffers and check/recalibrate each pH meter.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering
Auburn University
Auburn, AL06.1984
Skills
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Inspection and quality control
- Shipment tracking
- Warehouse safety
- Equipment maintenance
- Attention to detail
- Shipping and receiving
- Verbal and written communication
Timeline
Market Pulp and Finishing ^ Shipping Supt
Smurfit Westrock
01.2022 - 01.2025
Coating and Market Pulp Supt
WestRock
01.2007 - 01.2022
Coating Assistant Supt
Gulf States Paper Corporation
01.2005 - 01.2007
Product Group Section Head
Gulf States Paper Corporation
03.1988 - 01.2005
Process Engineer I
Gulf States Paper Corporation
06.1984 - 03.1988
Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering
Auburn University
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