Kathryn Morton

Summary Statement

Looking for a manufacturing assembler position, which will utilize my 20+ years of manufacturing experience.

Dependable - Motivated employee who maintains a perfect attendance record.

Thorough – and complete work and utilizes Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).

Implements – Looks for potential areas to improve, over the years has contributed to several implemented cost improvements.

Housekeeping/Safety - Constantly cleaning & maintains production line organization. Encourages safe practices among team.

Flexible – Can work flexible hours to maintain inventory levels, such as pre-shift set-up, daily or weekend overtime as needed.

Teamwork – Works with entire line to ensure all goals are met and line is ready for next day before leaving at the end of shift.

Experience:

Abbott Laboratories, Temecula, CA 02/20/1990 - 10/17/2012

Assembler III

Amazon 10/30/2014 – 12/27/2014

03/ 2015- Present

Assembler - Seasonal

Job Responsibilities:

Compliance:

Ensures entire line, including self, is up to date with training requirements

Notifies others when documents are updated, voluntarily prints document updates for the production line

Checks preventative maintenance/calibration dates on equipment & tooling prior to performing work.

Very attentive to following documentation to ensure compliance is always maintained.

Never leaves work unfinished

Assists others with quality concerns. Does not compromise quality for quantity.

Flexible and works to achieve production line goals:

Takes ownership of build requirements to achieve the scheduled goal

Voluntarily works when overtime is needed and follows through with the unwanted tasks such as coming in early to start up equipment.

Volunteers to cross train to multiple production stations

Works with a variety of small machines to manufacture product, such as packaging sealers, hot stamp machine, snap assembly machine, Dukane welder, vacuum/pressure test equipment, molding equipment, among others.

Adapted easily to Process Flow Maps (PFMs) and lean/5-s processes

Always a team player and available to help where needed.

Always maintains a can do attitude.

In addition to building product on the production line:

Performs inventory maintenance transactions, in SAP inventory tracking system

Packages product in shipping/boxing department as required

Routinely is asked to train employees due to level of expertise and experience

Performs material handling activities as needed

Assists Lead Production Operator with production scheduling and lot completion activities, such as taking inventory to boxing, transacting completed Finished Goods lots into inventory SAP system and performs review of the lot record

Accomplishments/Implemented Cost Improvements:

Voluntarily assists to troubleshoot potential non-compliances with Engineering

Implemented improvement ideas:

oRotator snap assembly/epoxy process - Worked with Engineering to rearrange the line so the snap assembly machine and the epoxy process are in close proximity to reduce steps taken between processes, improve efficiency

oPackage labeling final inspection – Worked with Engineering to add an inspection for contamination, package seal quality and missing components as this station periodically found these types of defects

oInflation device assembly line – Worked with Industrial Engineer to improve the line spacing. Current equipment used an ergonomic arm however this required 30inches of clearance, this space was not available, suggested to use a tool balancer to allow more work space.

Education

High School Diploma General, Hemet High School - Hemet, CA

Professional Development/Training & Software

Manufacturing Inventory management Software (SAP)

Label Control System – LCS

Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)

Abbott Training Management System (ATMS)

Computer Based Training (CBT) in ATMS

Microsoft Word

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