Quality Sales

Dave Plym

*** ******* ***** + Le Center, Minnesota 56057 + 507-***-**** +

*********@*****.***

PROFILE

A career in the food industry focused on producing high quality products.

Experience with production, process and mentoring others in a fast paced

work environment. Committed to food quality and safety. Results

orientated, high integrity and dedicated employee willing to go the extra

mile to produce a high quality food product.

EDUCATION

South Central College, Mankato

General Education Courses

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LeSueur Cheese Company, Davisco Foods International

LeSueur, MN

Lactose & Evaporator Operator

April 2004 - present

Responsible for the operation and production of a high quality food product

that involves refining, drying, and packaging. Experience purifying milk

sugar through separation.

Troubleshoot mechanical and quality issues that could potentially

compromise product quality and/or create unwanted downtime. Partner with

maintenance to ensure equipment is working properly and discuss preventive

maintenance to minimize down time. Work with plant management to ensure

plant equipment and processes are running at high efficiency, and

calibrating when needed, in order to meet the needs of production and

inventory schedules.

Assist in creating standard processes and procedures and then follow

through and implement on the production floor.

Responsible for various CIP (clean in place) systems. Monitor in-process

bacteria counts for specific departments on a daily basis. Notify and work

with management and quality department to determine root cause of various

bacteria counts and then use critical thinking and analysis to determine

where the issues are and work to resolve.

Train and mentor new hires on equipment, process and procedures.

Helped develop the job duties and functions for a new position within the

organization that is responsible for all paperwork and data entry such that

data retrieval and information is available within minutes in the event of

a recall.

Responsible for monthly inventory tracking of raw materials and finished

product.

Work with sales regarding production schedule and product availability.

Communicate with sales department on supply and demand of different lactose

products in order to effectively manage inventory.

Instrumental in the start-up phase and execution of pharmaceutical lactose.

Studied blue prints, automation logic, process, and on the team who worked

through the first several runs. Also responsible for the functional

description involving automation logic for the new pharmaceutical lactose

plant.

Filled in as temporary Supervisor for 8 months during a leadership

transition. Coordinated and managed employees schedule. Also held weekly

meetings to discuss production schedule, CIP times, drying schedule,

bacteria testing, and responsible for finished product quality.

Responsible for post clean inspections for wet processing and dry

processing systems.

Knowledge of GMP's, SOP's, SSOP's, and GLP's.

Knowledge of Dryer Systems (including Drum and Fluid bed dryers) Ultra

Filtration Systems, Reverse Osmosis Systems, Micro Systems, CIP Systems,

HTST pasteurization, sanitation, and chemical management.

Various Construction Positions

New Ulm & LeSueur, MN

2002-2004

Worked on various construction projects which included brick tendering and

carpentry work. Completed coursework towards a carpentry apprenticeship.

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