JEFFREY EVANS
**** ******* ******, ********* **, Highland, Indiana 46322
*********@*****.***
PRODUCTION/EQUIPMENT OPERATOR
QUALIFICATIONS PROFILE
Hardworking, detailed, and highly organized professional, with comprehensive experience and hands-on skills in equipment and production operations, succession planning and execution, regulatory compliance, and site management. Equipped with extensive knowledge in utilizing and maintaining equipment, quality tools, and various materials.
- Known for delivering high-quality work on time, managing a broad range of responsibilities, and thriving under pressure.
- Thorough and detail- and process-oriented operator with the capability of developing efficient processes and overseeing complex functions for equipment and business operations.
- Technically proficient with Microsoft Office applications such as Excel, Word, and Access.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Maintenance, Repair, and Operations
General Management and Supervision
Quality Assurance Processes
Continuous Improvement
Regulatory Compliance and Standards
Safety and Risk Management
Rapid Conflict Resolution
Team Building and Leadership
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Journeyman Machine Setup Operator - Magnequench, Valparaiso, IN, USA: 2000–2003
- Took charge of organizing manufacturing presses with specific sets of tooling to ensure compliance with customer’s work orders by developing more than 100 different types of magnets used in various motors to computer disc drives
- Directly collaborated with operators in troubleshooting and removing any yield discrepancies
- Managed the processing of laboratory samples to identify process run specifications based on output results
- Provided help in conducting maintenance to ensure repair of all equipment
- Necessarily worked as operator due to personnel shortages
- Demonstrated effectiveness in solving various yield problems by fixing equipment parameters
Operating Technician (Production Operator) - Cerestar, Hammond, IN USA: 1998–2000
- Handled two computer-automated production lines making corn syrup while overseeing run parameters and conducting adjustments as necessary to maintain products within specifications
- Performed laboratory tests to all collected hourly field samples to ensure product specifications; which included sweetness, viscosity, preservative levels, and color clarity
- Aided in carrying out maintenance tasks to execute general field repairs to equipment
- Served as a loader, responsible for loading product into railroad tanker cars and semi-truck tankers
- Guaranteed maintenance and supervision of two computerized automated production lines
Operating Technician (Production/Chemical Operator) - ISK Magnetics, Valparaiso, IN USA: 1995–1998
- Worked on two automated production lines making magnetic iron oxide for cassette tapes and computer disc drives
- Provided oversight to the operating reactors, storage tanks, filtration presses, dryers, kilns, and various liquid and dry product conveyor systems
- Operated the waste water system, containing storage tanks, filtration presses, and deep well injection pumps
- Displayed expertise in working with maintenance to conduct field repairs of broken equipment
- Gathered all hourly samples and equipment readings and carried out necessary adjustments in accordance with statistical process control plans and Six Sigma procedures while maintaining finished product rates at 97% quality level
OTHER EXPERIENCE
Telecommunications Technician - Franciscan Alliance (St. James Hospital), Olympia Fields, IL, USA: 2008–2013
Bio-Medical Technician - Franciscan Alliance (St. Margaret’s Hospital), Dyer IN, USA: 2005–2008
Aviation Electrician and Life Support Technician - United States Marine Corps, Lemoore, CA, USA Iwakuni, Japan
EDUCATION
Associate of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology
PURDUE UNIVERSITY, HAMMOND, IN
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Journeyman Machine Set-up Operator Certification - Magnequench: Jan 2003
AWARDS
Employee of the Month - Sep 2012 Navy Achievement Medal