Quality Manager

ANGEL AVALOS

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Summary of Qualification

Over 34 years of experience managing a Contract Manufacturing Operation in the Personal Care and Dietary Supplements Industry. Areas of responsibility included Safety, Quality, Manufacturing, Packaging, Maintenance, and Cost Control. Excellent interpersonal skills, collaborates effectively with both internal and external customers. Strong Team Building skills that help motivate and focus employees on goals. Actively involved in identifying and correcting safety and quality issues before they occur. Well versed in all aspects of operations including, quality improvement, safety programs, inventory management, scheduling and maintenance.

Professional Experience

Contractors Wardrobe – Valencia, California 2014 – March, 2016

-Inspection Supervisor

Managing the inspection personnel.

Training new hires on quality standards.

Coordinating with production to insure the quality requirements are achieved.

Insuring the glass racks count is accurate as well as racks are shipped to the correct location.

Conducting monthly safety training.

Keeping track of the glass defects, work with production to identify root causes and implement corrective actions in order to minimize scrap.

Paragon Laboratories – Torrance, California 2012 – August, 2014

-Packaging Manager

Coordinating with sales, manufacturing and purchasing to meet packaging production requirements.

Planning daily schedules.

Meeting packaging deadlines to insure on-time deliveries to customers.

Managing packaging personnel.

Ensuring accurate production/shipment counts.

Setting up equipment in various configurations as required

Coordinating with Quality Control to ensure unparalleled quality of finished products.

Troubleshooting packaging problems as they arise.

Managing the facilities and equipment preventive maintenance programs.

Tracking both department and personnel performance for continuous improvement and other duties as required.

Marietta Corporation – Los Angeles, California 1979 – November, 2012

-Packaging Manager

Managed day-to-day operations of packaging lines overseeing the largest variety of signature hair care products for customers such as J&J, Neutrogena, Clairol, Unilever, Clorox, P&G and many others – consisting of retail-size bottles, tube filling, sample-size bottles filling and packettes.

Duties Included:

•Responsible for overseeing all aspects of 3 productions shifts @ 75 personnel each including budgets.

•Planning and scheduling production activities to meet customer expectations

•Active participation in the Safety Program

•Ensuring that the high quality standards of the plant are met

•Meeting budgeted EBITDA goals

•Contain maintenance costs through preventative maintenance program

•Meeting budgeted cost reduction goals

•Actively participate in FDA and Customer Quality Audits

•New product costing

Skills Included:

•Excellent interpersonal skills with both internal and external customers

•Ability to simplify complex ideas and communicate them to employees

•Detail oriented

•Excellent planning and organizational skills

•Excellent problem solving skills while using good judgment

•Bilingual English - Spanish

Most Recent Accomplishments:

•In 3 years, helped improve EBITDA by $6MM.

•Three straight years of Safety improvement. Won Plant Safety award.

•Three straight years of Quality improvements. Won Plant Quality award

•Highest favorable DLV achieved in the company (2010).

Computer knowledge: Microsoft Word – Excel – Power Point and Outlook.

Education

High School

Attended various seminars and general courses throughout the last 30 years, such as; GMP’s 101 – Mastery of Business Apps- Course 3 – How to be a better trainer – OSHA Standards – Hygiene Awareness - Environmental Compliance – Tighten production costs – 5’s Training – Lean Manufacturing.

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