Engineer Chemical Engineering

ELEAZAR VILLA MOLINA **** Alburtis Ave., Whittier, CA 90606 *******.*****@****.*** 562-***-****

SKILLS SUMMARY

+25 years experience as a Manufacturing and Process Engineer. Experience in plastics manufacturing (extrusion, injection molding, blow molding, blow film extrusion, calendering, compounding). Experience in the management of resins, plastics additives, especially in the manufacturing of pvc, pp, pet, hdpe, ldpe, mixing process and operating conditions of machines. Teamwork, pleasant or environment and leadership.

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

Amcor Flexibles North America / 3rd Shift Production Supervisor / Commerce, CA 07/2018 – Present

Training, mentoring, and guiding plant personnel to success Converting, Printing, Laminating and Slitting processes while maintaining morale and safety. Responsible for assuring adequate level of performance, discipline, integrity, and productivity of hourly employees. Scheduling and assuring an adequate level of trained employees on the plant floor. Reporting and resolving operational, manufacturing, and maintenance problems to ensure minimum costs and prevent operational delays to maintain alignment with budget expectations. Performing production reporting on incentives and productivity. Inspecting machines and equipment to ensure specific operational performance and optimum utilization, according with OEE process. Working with the General Manager to develop or revise standard operational and working practices and observe workers to ensure compliance with company, federal, and state safety and occupational regulations. Implementing quality programs communicated by the quality system and quality policy.

Systems Solding Inc- 3T Holding / Production Manager / Compton, CA 08/2015 – 06/2018

Directs and coordinates activities relating to production of company contact products. Responsible for the supervision of hourly employees performing high speed, automated, and manual production of recycling process. Confers with leads supervisors to establish production and quality control standards develop budget and cost controls, and to obtain data regarding types, quantities, specification, and delivery dates of product ordered. Plans and directs production activities and establishes production priorities for products in keeping with effective operations and cost factors. Develops and implements operating methods and training procedures designed to eliminate operating problems and improve product quality. Implement training and direct subordinates. Revise production schedules and priorities as result of equipment failure or operating problems. Compiles stores and retrieves daily production reports and follows up on discrepancies. Helps promote a safe working environment, enforce safety rules and regulations. Insure that work quality standards and procedures are adhered to for in process and finished components. Keeps plant operations manager informed of all operating conditions. Performs all other duties and functions as assigned or required. Establish manpower requirements for department.

Sabert Corporation /Shift Supervisor/ Riverside, CA 01/2013 – 07/2015

Provide management, guidance and direction to production staff while overseeing all extrusion and thermoforming operations that occur during the assigned shift. Ensure production schedule is achieved at expected costs, while meeting standards for safety and quality.

Manage the production schedule: Identifies and secures necessary resources (people, materials, etc). Schedules and assigns work to staff, managing and adjusting priorities. Manage direct labor, materials and other related cost to budget. Monitor production process and progress in terms of meeting production goals, trouble-shoots problems as necessary. Ensure proper functioning of equipment by coordinating with maintenance and other departments as needed. Coordinates with incoming/outgoing shift supervisor and other staff as needed to ensure a smooth transition between shifts.

Provide People Leadership: Participates in the recruitment and selection of staff as needed. Provide ongoing training and development of staff members on the shift. Foster a positive work environment through open and ongoing communications and an atmosphere of teamwork for staff. Provides performance feedback to staff, recognizes good performance through multiple means; provides coaching, counseling or progressive discipline as needed. Resolves work and interpersonal conflicts as needed. Establish an environment which motivates and engages the staff to achieve desired results.

Ensure Compliant Operations: Ensures a safe work environment by operating within and enforcing organizations standards; ensures staff follows all safety policies and procedures. Maintains clean work areas consistent with GMP guidelines. Maintain quality production by operating within and enforcing organization standards. Maintains a continuous improvement atmosphere; seeks to identify and recommend ways to streamline processes, reduce waste or enhance production.

Reporting and Record –keeping: Ensures that all production hours and entered in SAP for each line on each shift. Ensures work hours are accurately reported and maintained in the time-keeping system. Ensure that all weights checks are completed for each line during each shift. Ensure that all quality checks are completed for each line during each shift. Sends out required shift update once information is entered at the end of shift.

American Renolit Corporation / Shift Supervisor / Commerce, CA 11/2009 – 12/2012

Responsible for the safety, quality, efficiencies and effectiveness of an assigned focus factory and/or departments. Ensures that company policies and guidelines are accurately interpreted and implemented. Monitors process, quality and quantity of production. Technical skills in manufacturing process and methods including flow, layout, assembly and production equipment. Able to clearly share expertise and transfer technical knowledge to others; Management of problem solving team; Communicates technical knowledge and expertise. Responsible for directing and managing Manufacturing Supervisors and other department employees as needed; provide the necessary tools, knowledge, and support to ensure success in their job.Develop as needed a vision, strategy, and key objectives in line with the Company’s goals and having the leadership skills to “lead by example" the execution efforts against these key objectives.Ensure within reason that assignments, tasks assigned, concerns affecting quality of the product, and established agreed upon objectives are completed on time or in those cases they cannot be completed within a specified period, notify upper management. Provides insightful leadership that generally creates positive morale. Assigns machines and manpower to meet production schedules and provide on-time delivery to customers. Manage the manufacturing of products to meet deadlines and production goals. Manages production to meet goals and monthly budgets. Responsible for preventive maintenance and machine uptime.Devise Departmental Action Plans that support achievement of the Company’s and Department’s long-term goals and objectives. Assigns and schedules work to production employees, including supervisors and manufacturing engineering. Observes equipment usage and employee quality of work and takes corrective action when necessary. Ensures that all manufacturing problems are resolved. Determines corrective actions and confirms full cycle of problem solving and prevention. Organize and maintain high standards of performance, quality and customer service within all departments. Utilizes SPC and other tools within the system to manage the factory quality. Implement and maintain training for job related functions.

Crown Poly / Coextrusion Specialist-Process Engineer / Huntington Park, CA 07/2006 – 11/2009

As the Lead Process Engineer, I managed a team of two young engineers and a department of 16 extrusion operators and 30+ blown film extrusion equipment that process several million pounds of polyethylene, both HDPE and LLDPE.

My objective as a process engineer is to improve product quality and production efficiency through design and execution of development trials, analytical physical testing, and thorough analysis of the different sets of data that become available every day in Production. This is managed through large-scale projects and a daily set of tasks that are prioritized with the above-mentioned objective in mind.

Technical Service Manager /Arkema (formerly Atofina) / Mexico City, Mex. 02/1990 – 05/2006

Support sales efforts with technical service calls and facilities visits, plant trials, and lab support. Presents technical information on PLASTIC ADDITIVES products to customers, and obtains information on customers’ needs. Prepare technical references and reports to submit to customers. Visits customer’s sites to assist in testing and plant trials when trouble occurs at their sites. Performs physical and chemical tests, and logically analyzes and determine causes, and troubleshoots. Conduct experiments, analysis, and investigations to support the development of new products according to customers’ needs. Assist commercialization of the new products. Maintains experiments/evaluation results, and customers’ evaluation results and reports. Develops procedures for sample preparations to be used in the R & D King of Prussia lab, and evaluates and analyzes samples. Maintains all required documents. Performs analysis/evaluation of PLASTIC ADDITIVES products and competitors’ products, identifies competitor’s weaknesses, strengths, and issues, and utilizes the information to support Sales Department, and for new product development. Assist QA Department in development of specifications for PLASTIC ADDITIVES products and raw materials. Support Customer Service and QA Department to resolve customer’s complaints on product quality and product processing problems. Inspects inventory and customer returns and recommends disposition of such inventory. Assist in inspection and startup of new test equipment and processes, and modification of processes. Responsible for conforming to all health, safety, and environmental requirements and regulations. Assist actively in training new members. Responsible for any other task associated with the support of the PLASTIC ADDITIVES business as may be reasonably assigned.

EDUCATION

Chemical Engineering Career (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) Graduated in 1986

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