Engineer Quality
Resume:
Jeffrey M. Conder
Estill SC 29918
Objective
Highly motivated, goal oriented and wanting to work with a stable company
that allows growth and development of new ideas and strategies in a team
environment.
Experience:
July 2010 to Present Panolam Industries Hampton SC
Quality Technician
Ensure daily production meets company quality standards through testing,
visual inspections, observations, and problem solving efforts. Work
directly with Manufacturing and Engineering to resolve quality problems and
provide weekly production scrap data. Maintain monthly scrap databases.
Test customer returned products for compliance to NEMA standards. Provide
testing reports for the same. ISO Coordinator for Hampton Facility.
Maintain certification through Internal Audits, Calibration of Monitoring
and Measuring instrumentation, and C of A files and databases. Perform and
maintain testing of Static Dissipative and Conductive Flooring products.
Maintain UL Certification through testing and audits with UL inspectors.
Certified Level 1 Ultrasonic NDT. Create Blitz Teams in order to address
specific quality issues for specific products. The goal is defect
elimination and once achieved the process is monitored and team is
disbanded. Very self motivated and work with very little managerial
direction. Report directly to Plant Manager.
May 2007 to July 2010 Owner / Operator East Coast Power Clean and
C&C Concessions
Direct daily business activities for pressure washing and a concessions
business. Providing job cost estimates to customers and ensuring work is
performed to customer satisfaction. Ordering and maintaining job materials
as well as bookkeeping and billing.
Customer satisfaction is always the key to business relationships.
April 2006 to May 2007 Grant Forest Products Fairfax, SC
Shift Team Leader
Direct daily OSB mill activities. Coordinate and schedule daily activities
with maintenance, quality, purchasing, and shipping managers. Hold daily
team meetings directing 25 associates. Ensure product quality and daily
production goals are achieved. Direct associates in process problem
elimination and tracking. Coordinate outside vendor activities in the mill.
Maintain product flow through stranding, drying, treating, forming,
pressing, and finishing operations. Lead emergency response team activities
which included fire mitigation, medical response, and chemical spill
mitigation. This position required the highest level of mill situational
awareness at all times.
Jan 2004 to March 2006 Panolam Industries (Formerly Nevamar
Company) Hampton, SC
Printing Supervisor, Color Analyst, Custom Print Manager
Supervisor over roto-gravure printing dept, 3 printing presses and 12
employees.
Produced 6 million pounds printed paper annually, tracking inventories,
production costs, setup times, color matching times, employee reviews.
Color Analyst judging paper and laminate outturns from 8 different printed
paper suppliers for entire company product line dealing directly with raw
material suppliers.
Managed custom print laminate process from sampling to completed order.
This requires a great deal of customer and supplier interface through
completion.
Jan 2001 to Dec 2003 Nevamar Company LLC (Formerly International Paper)
Process Engineer
Providing Engineering support for pressing, treating, resin making, and lay-
up departments.
Support includes; problem elimination, scrap reduction, cost reduction,
quality inspections, and new product follow-up.
Research and Development of new materials and products: Developed static
dissipative x-ray tabletop laminates, Melamine fuse tube prepreg, Aerospace
cargo liner prepreg, Storm Blocker laminated panels, Bullet resistive
laminates for armored personnel carriers.
Resin Development:
Working with Georgia Pacific Resins, developed 4 new resin systems to
replace 15 in-house cooked resins saving $750,000.
Compliance with 2003 Environmental MACT- maintain treater emissions
database.
Various other duties include: Raw material testing and certification,
developing testing criteria for substrates, resins, and physical
properties, approval of incoming materials, cost reduction projects with
major suppliers for better performing and lower cost raw materials, direct
customer field support for problem solving and cost reduction, government
contract specialist working with government inspectors for material
approval, return material dispositioning.
August 1989 to December 2000 Scotsman Ice Systems
Fairfax, SC
Manufacturing Engineer
Supervisory responsibilities in absence of Area Supervisor.
Bills of Material development and maintenance.
Development of Part Routings and Work Standards.
Fixture Design for Assembly and Packaging.
Line Balancing and Work Station Layouts
Self managed work team (SMT) resource for team development and problem
solving for 7 assembly lines
Specified and implemented the following equipment:
Orion Fully-Automatic Stretch Wrapping System for Finished Goods.
2 - Amada 345Q 58 Station CNC Turret Punch Presses for sheet metal
fabrication.
Designed part handling racks for sheet metal fabrication and assembly
departments.
1996 Developed and Implemented $50,600.00 in cost savings projects ranging
from material conversions to new process and new equipment introductions.
Team Leader of $500,000.00 Steel Blank Consolidation Project.
1988-1989 Joe Henry Company Columbia, SC
Graphic Designer
Designed and approved Camera-Ready artwork for four-color print process.
Education:
October 2012 Hellier Training & Consulting Auburn, ME
40 hours - Ultrasonic Testing Level 1 - Certified
March 2010 Midlands Technical College Columbia SC
16 hours - Internal Auditing ISO 9001:2008
April 2001 Mead - Westvaco Charleston, SC
2-day seminar "Introduction to Papermaking"
May 1997 Fred Pryor Seminars Savannah,
GA
1 day Seminar "How to Supervise People" - Strategies for Employee
Motivation
June 1994 Computer Aided Technology Wheeling, Ill
24-hour course in Cadkey Advanced 3-D Design.
October 1993 Clemson University Clemson, SC
Continuing Engineering Education. 32-hour course on Industrial Engineering
Work Methods and Standards.
May 1992 Scotsman Ice Systems Fairfax, SC
3M's Road Map to Problem Solving
3M's Managing Total Quality
May 1989 The University of South Carolina Columbia, SC
B.A., Graphic Design with an emphasis in Design.
References upon request.
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