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KIMELA CORNETT

**** ******** ***** ******* ****, Tennessee 37604

423-***-**** ac2c7z@r.postjobfree.com

OPERATIONS MANAGER

Extensive experience in pharmaceutical and nuclear manufacturing management including streamlining processing, customer relations, continuous improvement, regulatory compliance, Human Performance techniques, critical thinking, team building, positive reinforcement and improving safety awareness. Assisted in managing a $120 million budget. Personally responsible for managing a budget of $5 million. Managed a team of 72 unionized employees and 12 supervisors. Completed nuclear waste clean-up of over 10 acres to regulatory limits.

Operations Logistics Materials Management Assembly Workflows MRP Six Sigma Yellow Belt ISO Purchasing Materials Planning Inventory Management Continuous Improvement Forecasting Department Goals Leadership Recruiting Quality and Engineering Customer Deliverables Safety Capital Procurement

NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES INC. Erwin, Tennessee 11/2016 to Present Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., is a BWX Technologies, Inc. company that provides specialty nuclear materials for the US Navy's nuclear fleet and other customers.

Senior Technical Specialist

Technical responsibility for manufacturing processes to yield technically accurate product. Group leader for four other employees engaged in technical work. Apply intensive and diversified knowledge in manufacturing areas. Represent company in conferences to resolve questions and plan and coordinate work. Administer presentations to Senior Management on departmental successes, challenges, and needs. Accomplishments:

Identified technically inaccurate procedures. Researched technical specifications with process engineering, nuclear safety engineering, operations, and quality control to achieve technically and operationally accurate procedure.

Faced conflicting requirements between process engineering, nuclear safety engineering, and operations. Provided forum for open dialogue to identify, address, and successfully resolve conflicts. NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES INC. Erwin, Tennessee 8/2008 to 11/2016 Decommissioning Operations Manager

Managed 72 union employees and 12 supervisors. Managed 10 acres of nuclear waste clean up to EPA, State of Tennessee, and federal standards. Managed company and federal government assets and procurements to meet Federal Acquisition Regulation requirements. Provided recruitment, training, and staff development. Developed and managed departmental metrics. Managed departmental transition to perform inactive plutonium facility cleanup to Class C requirements. Managed safety practices to meet safety goal of less than one Lost Time Accident (LTA) per year. Managed departmental budget of $105 million. Managed nuclear waste excavation, packaging, and environmental sampling. Created waste packaging spreadsheet to track inventory. Approved departmental labor reporting in KRONOS.

Accomplishments:

70% increase in production. Developed departmental metrics to achieve annual production goal. Included employee comments while designing metrics and addressed concerns to remove error precursors. Operations Director challenged other departments to develop and implement metrics in their respective departments.

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Department recognized throughout facility as the team producing results. Volunteered to be the Human Performance facilitator in Decommissioning Department. Ensured Human Performance training for every departmental employee.

Several departments requested to sit in on team meetings to better understand how Human Performance techniques were being applied differently. Two governmental oversight agencies were so impressed with department in reducing errors and increasing productivity and efficiency that they implemented Human Performance techniques in their respective offices.

Developed enthusiastic staff. Identified departmental staffing training needs. Encouraged staff to attend educational seminars. Staff returned from individual, off-site training with enthusiasm to utilize their newly found information.

Attained 100% inventory accuracy. Managed company and governmental assets. Created spreadsheet to track assets.

NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES INC. Erwin, Tennessee 4/2007 to 8/2008 Operations Specialist

Managed contracted employees and maintained heavy equipment in optimal condition. Completed $5 million project $100,000 under budget.

Accomplishments:

Received “Good Catch” Award. Identified contracted personnel performing unsafe work practices. Stopped work, contacted Industrial Safety for safety brief with contractors. As a result work was completed safely and on schedule.

Completed Legacy project $100,000 under budget and on schedule. Led team of contracted employees to decommission equipment from legacy project. Performed daily safety meetings and work-site walk- downs. Utilized team building methods and positive reinforcement. NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES INC. Erwin, Tennessee 3/2002 to 4/2007 Supervisor III

Integrated a joint venture between partnership companies to lead multi-departmental unionized employees. Developed training lessons plans and procedures for new process start-up. Trained employees on new processes and heavy equipment. Maintained governmental records for nuclear material reporting. Completed initial process validation with 100% accuracy.

Accomplishments:

Completed process validation at 100% accuracy. Trained and supervised union staff to perform new process start-up validation testing.

Identified and corrected nuclear shipping non-compliance. Identified inferior seals that did not meet governmental requirements. Brought non-compliance to both partnership companies and led communication about requirements for securing nuclear material shipments. A seal meeting nuclear requirements was explored and procured.

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Successfully developed multi-departmental employees. Challenged by company president to supervise multi-departmental employees, which had never been attempted. Communicated individually and departmentally with all unionized employees and implemented "teams" concept. Positively reinforced team attributes.

Streamlined process, reduced nuclear exposure and process downtime. Identified production hindered from not having a centralized listing of containers to process and processing information was not readily available. Created a spreadsheet to easily track containers available for use an operational runsheet that identified stage of processsing at any given time. NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES INC. Erwin, Tennessee 6/1998 to 2/2000 Supervisor II / Operations Specialist

Designed performance review procedures. Strategized and developed departmental goals to expedite customer expectations. Initiated supervisor development training. Completed production reporting to reflect actual cost center charges. Streamlined excavation and waste packaging process. Accomplishments:

Exceeded annual shipping goal by 30,000 cubic feet. With 75% of the year passed annual production was behind by 60,000 cubic feet. Recommended by Unit Manager to become “acting departmental manager.” Implemented performance review process, shift turn-over meetings and “teamwork.” Developed, along with American Management Association, a training workshop entitled “Embracing Competing Priorities” and procured for all departmental supervisors. Implemented shift turn-over log.

Broke barriers to become first female supervisor for the company. Developed open communication with work force. Worked to prove ability and worth to develop trust. Quickly became a "favorite" as shift supervised consistently produced at least one more batch than other shifts. EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration

King University, Bristol, Tennessee

Bachelor of General Studies

East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee CERTIFICATIONS / CLEARANCES

Procedure Professionals Association Procedure Writer Certification Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) "U" Clearance

Department of Energy (DOE) "Q" Clearance

COMPUTER SKILLS

MS Office Suite, Kronos, Enterprise Bridge (Bentley), SAP, SharePoint