Quality Control Engineer

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James Brooks Engineer Resume

Skills

Process improvement, analysis information, strategic planning, verbal communication, pharmaceutical,

metallurgical, lab work, glass, water treatment, chemical, attention to detail, quality engineering and assurance,

Supervision, thoroughness, dealing with complaints, emphasizing excellence and safety, organization of

committees, process and project engineering, writing reports.

Obtained Skills

ISO9001, QS9000, ASTM, electroplating, acid etching, atomic absorption spectrometer, wet labs, photo etching,

micrometers, optical emission spectrometer, Rockwell testers, tensile testing machines, presses, plasma cleaner,

X-ray, cGMP, CFR, Freeweigh, Microsoft Works, ChemCAD, MathCAD, Distillation, Conductivity, SPC,

Distillation, Reactors, Electro Conductivity/Vacuum Leak detectors, Optical defect detectors, Vision Sensors,

Carton Formers, pH meters, heat treatment ovens, Specific gravity Meter, MSDS reports

Chemicals worked with: Sulfuric acid, Hydrochloric acid, Chromate, Sodium Hydroxide, Zinc, Copper Sulfate,

Nitric Acid, permanganate, ammonia, Polydimethylammonium chloride, Sodium Carbonate, Lime, Gypsum,

Benzene, Albuterol, Ipratropium, Aluminium, Polypropylene

Training: Pharmaceutical Batch Compounding, Rommelag Blow Fill Seal Machine Operations, maintenance

and Installation. Aseptic Sig Packaging Carton Former, Continuous Foil packaging, Confine Space, Proper

Respirator usage, Lock out tag out, CPR, Proper Personal Protection usage, PSM, and PHA, Furnace repair and

operating, Kettle and Filtration press operations.

Experience

2014 Gulbrandsen Chemicals Orangeburg SC

Process Solution Supervisor

Produced Aluminium Chloride and sustain weekly levels.

Organized product placement of outgoing and incoming shipments.

Recorded inventory levels on a daily and monthly basis.

Supervised up to 15 employees daily.

Create recipes for solutions in the kettles.

Promoted and enforced safety and general house cleaning of solution area.

Reduced waste materials and dispose of it properly.

Review and enforce SOPs with employees.

Help revise SOPs for antiperspiration gradient solution.

Help Increase the internal and external audit scores.

Create specialized solutions for customers needs.

Operated Kettles, filterpressess, and performed lab test on solution product when needed.

Ordered supplies when needed to fulfill the companies needs.

Manage maintenance's daily ongoing issues and any PMs.

Participate or Organized daily and weekly meetings.

2012-2012 Guardian Glass Industries Richburg SC.

Process Supervisor

• Supervised the Continuous float Glass Process from batch house operation to the annealing process.

• Coordinate manage and resolve non-compliance issues.

• Increased the efficiency of the plant furnace by decreasing reversal times of the regenerators.

• Quality Control Analysis of glass reflective qualities, tensile strength, thickness, and any other

inequalities.

• Managed up to 12 employees at any given time.

• Analyse and recommended solutions to ongoing problems in the batch house with the check weight

scales, elevators, and mixers.

• Conduct daily inspections on the furnace, batch house which prevented or necessitate repairs on furnace

generators, combustion air fan and soda ash delivery system.

• Perform Maintenance activities on the furnace, such as rebuilding the regenerator wall or adding

refractory blocks to the basement wall to increase the furnace lifetime.

• Calculate tonnage, machine angles and line speed through the help of quality control analysis.

• Supervised and coordinated activities of employees.

• Manually controlled the Molten Glass levels, charger speeds, temperatures, and pressures.

• Synchronize the delivery of limestone, sand, dolomite, and soda ash.

• Contribute advice within a committee to rewrite process standards when appropriate.

2008-2011 The Rite Dose Corporation Columbia SC

Process Control Engineer / Quality Control ( Bulk Process and Packaging)

• Supervised the quality and coordinated the manufacturing process of pharmaceutical delivery devises

from batching to packaging using FDA, cGMP, CFR, and AQL standards.

• Investigate all non-compliance issues in a timely manner and completed root cause analysis.

• Supervised on weekends and weeknights more than 50 workers in inspections, maintenance, operators,

and temp workers.

• Coordinate the change-over, cleanup, inspection, calibrations, line clearance, and startups of Batching,

Blow Fill Seal extruder Machines, leak detectors, and Aseptic Packaging machines.

• Increase production and capital gain by decreasing change-over down times and reducing non-

compliance issues by more than half.

• Conduct daily walk through investigations that prevented non-compliance issues from becoming

massive recalls.

• Improved the quality and processes for Benadryl, Robitussin quick spoons, and delivery devises for

Inhalers, ear drops, and eye drops.

• Create a safe team atmosphere with employees through incentives and cooperation to help improve

processes.

• Solved ongoing issue with Leaking Ampoules, Plastic wall thickness, occluded orifices, solution fill

volumes, and embossing.

• Refined and redefine standard operating procedures for better accuracy.

• Verify all procedures were followed in the SOPs and documented in batch records.

• Upgrade the Monitoring systems of critical plants processes.

• Verified on the building management system of each clean room’s sterile environment using HVAC

Utilities.

• Inspection of all aseptic packaging units follow AQL standards and timed properly.

• Resolved packaging issues with improper product placement, holes in pouches, deformed cartons,

Mislabeling, and inaccurate number of ampoules in a package.

• Participate with the validation Engineer, Chemist and Micro with Production start-ups of new product

and cleaning validations.

• Teach employees how to operate machines and implicate any changes made.

• Author documentation of Root Cause Analysis and Shift reports, and reviewed it with appropriate

personal.

1998-2007 Wheatland Tube Company Sharon PA

Chemical, Metallurgical Lab Technician/Water Treatment Engineer/Quality

Assurance

• Steel chemistry analysis using an optical emission spectrometer.

• Trained with an atomic absorption spectrometer.

• Wet lab analysis on pickling tubes.

• Analysis of boilers water chemistries and conductivity.

• Synthesis chemical solutions for test.

• Perform materials test on pipe such as the Rockwell and tensile test.

• Quality control analysis of galvanize pipe.

• Monitor Chemical treated water feed and flow rates to meet EPA standards

• Repaired and, calibrated pH monitors and pumps of reactors.

• Research and tested new material.

• Test for emissions in confine spaces and VOC’s given from paint station.

• Wrote quality assurance certificates and material test reports.

• Exposed to process safety management and process hazard analysis training.

Education

2002 Youngstown State University Youngstown OH

Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering

Minor in Mathematics and Chemistry

References

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