Quality Engineer

Jonathan Correa 787-***-****

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

Amherst, NY, 14228

http://www.linkedin.com/in/joncor

SUMMARY

Highly motivated Quality Engineer with two years of experience in the food manufacturing industry. Innovative individual who values the importance of teamwork to get results, working hard to instill trust and commitment from peers. Experience in:

Resolution of Regulatory and Consumer Contacts

Statistical Process Control

GMP

Maintaining Supplier Relations

Bilingual: English & Spanish

HACCP

Sensory Program Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

General Mills, Buffalo, NY 2014-2016

Quality Engineer, 2014 – 2016

Accountable for the quality, food safety and regulatory compliance of an FDA regulated FSSC ISO 22000 Certified cereal production system. System ownership encompassed raw materials, production and packing processes. Led 3rd party inspections such as NYS, FDA, AIB, and Corporate in addition to monthly Food Safety and Regulatory Audits.

Led recovery efforts through collaborative partnership with suppliers resulting in over $350,000 restituted to facility.

Resolved FDA and CFIA regulatory contacts as well as consumer contacts by analyzing data from various quality inputs such as analytical testing, process trends, raw material lot tracking and production reports.

Led site sensory program, worked with cross-functional teams to identify and improve process anomalies that resulted in out of spec product decreasing overall consumer complaints.

Implemented visual/manual interface for product code date process at packing lines that increased efficiency and accuracy of product code changes.

Designed label verification program, which improved the reliability of packaging material changeovers.

Led cross-functional team in corrective and preventive action plans for production system, assigning and supporting key tasks in order to correct GMP and Food safety issues in a timely manner.

Created and delivered HACCP Operator training for 250 employees.

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General Mills, Lodi, CA 2013

Quality Associate Intern, 2013

Quality and Regulatory Operations intern leading efforts to reduce changeover contamination.

Design, documentation, execution and validation of micro and allergen sanitation procedures.

Implemented procedural and design changes, decreasing contamination in process areas by 50% using data provided by analytical tools such as: APC, EB and Elisa testing.

Built the bulk ingredient HACCP plan and hazard analysis, developing a document detailing the process and its control points that will be used to gain understanding and troubleshoot the area.

Lead cross-functional team for verification of Hazard Analysis.

Kimberly-Clark, Roswell, GA 2012

R&D Global Non-woven Coop, 2012

Development and commercialization Co-op supporting a wide range of technical process and material improvement efforts.

Developed and lead process improvement methods to reduce material variability for diaper side panel production line.

Identified significant defects in primary testing method that lead to discerning information.

Identified and led the implementation of an innovative test method to increase accuracy and precision of material consistency, which resulted in the exhibited four times the accuracy of the previously used one.

Discovered process improvement opportunities in which the same material properties could be achieved utilizing 33% less raw material.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR

SOFTWARE SKILLS

SAP (HIFI – Hold Management Database)

PLM (Product Lifecycle Management - Product Specification Database)

Wonderware (Process control HMI)

CAD

Microsoft Office XP (Word, Excel, PPT)

Spec Manager (Temporary Exception Database)

Business Objects (Consumer Complaint Database)

MQIS Administrator

Netstat (Statistical analysis software)

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