Manager Resume
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Kankakee, IL
SUMMARY
- Mechanical Engineer offering “hands - on” processing and management experience within pharmaceutical operations in an FDA regulated environment.
- Leading and supervising teams responsible for driving improvements.
- Successful in using a solid foundation of manufacturing and quality disciplines to solve problems in a fast paced and ever changing environment.
Areas of Expertise
- Knowledge of DCMS, TrackWise, SAP, Athena and MSOffice programs
- Experience in change control, risk assessment and IQ/OQ/PQ of new and existing equipment
- Experience working with fully automated, high speed filling, inspection, and packaging lines as well as semi-automated mechanical lines
- Experience with product serialization
- OSHA training and certification
- Experience working with hydraulics/pneumatics
- Experience supervising 100+ union Production Operators
- Experience developing and maintaining a production schedule
- Experience writing and revising SOP’s (Standard Operating Procedures)
- Working knowledge of cGMP’s, CFR’s, change control
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Kankakee, IL
Manager
Responsibilities:
- Manage 75 union/hourly, 9 company/salary personnel
- Support deviation investigations
- Develop and implement CAPAs
- Develop and maintain yearly budget
- PCS board/lean/5s implementation to department
- Developed justification for multi-million dollar expansion project to meet production demands
- Develop employee performance objectives
- Ensure quality products are released to consumers
- Develop, empower, mentor direct reports
Confidential, Kankakee, IL
Process Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Provide front line engineering support for equipment in 3 aseptic filling areas and an isolator vial filling line
- Handle project technical lead duties on multiple projects dealing with equipment, facility upgrades and repairs
- Have experience troubleshooting autoclaves, depyrogenation tunnels, time/pressure filling vessels, sterile filtration setups, load/weighing cells, print/inspection equipment
- Lean team leader experience for breakdown reduction and minor stops
- Have implemented process changes to eliminate a number of production stoppages resulting in an increase in yields and a major decrease in downtimes
- Have implemented modifications to equipment to eliminate variability in the setup process between operators
Confidential, Kankakee, IL
Lead Production Supervisor/Project Engineer/Process Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Manufacturing technical lead on serialization implementation team for automated packaging line
- In charge of 5-8 supervisors and 70-100 union production crew within a pharmaceutical manufacturer
- In charge of production scheduling and achieved 99% on-time deliveries with minimal overtime
- In charge of departmental safety, including but not limited to job safety analysis, monthly audits and operator communications
- Involved in numerous risk assessments, optimizing equipment and writing/modifying current Standard Operating Procedures(SOP's) as well as SOP's for new equipment
- Handle day to day communications between departments and outside contractors
- Hands-on experience working with high-speed “state-of-the-art”, 100% automated equipment manufactured in Italy, Germany and the United States
- In charge of maintaining accurate documents required by the FDA and other international health organizations
- Experience with (HMI’s) Human-Machine-Interfaces
- Ability to learn/train employees on new equipment, problem solve and troubleshoot equipment thereforeeliminating the need for vendor support which reduces costs
- Installed a semi-automated inspection line and qualified an automated packaging line. As well as separating the inspection and packaging equipment into two separate processes
- Worked as a process engineer on an automated, high speed syringe packaging line handling communications with vendors and optimization of individual machines that make up the system
- Coordinate work being performed by maintenance and manufacturing to complete projects by their given deadlines
- Have a working knowledge of cGMP’s, SOP’s, DCMS, Athena, SAP, GDRS, Trackwise and Plateau