Manager Food Safety

Sandra Lea Hughes

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Quality Assurance/Control ~ Environmental ~ Lean Manufacturing ~Six-Sigma ~ Black Belt

SUMMARY

Experienced in leading various opportunities to drive the organization to achieve substantial cost and efficiency improvements, by coordinating and leading continuous improvement methods within the business and operational environments.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Six-Sigma Black Belt and Lean Manufacturing, with multiple completed events

Quality, Food Safety, Laboratory, FDA, USDA, OSHA ISO, procedure development and training to site employees

Experience in using operating systems JDE/Oracle, AS400/ Prism, Baan, Product Vision, Office,

Analytical instruments, including, UV-Vis, XRF, HPLC, MS/GC, NIR, Spectrophotometers, and many others

Statistical tools, including repeatable reproducible capability, design of experiments,

Customer support, root cause, corrective action preventive action

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Quality Assurance Manager,

Lozier, Joplin, MO ~2017-2020

Quality system development including hold system, first pass, calibration

Driving quality including customer problems and corrective action and preventive action.

Manage technicians that cover operations from incoming raw materials to shipping finished products

Quality Food/Safety Manager, Laboratory Manager

Archer Daniel Midland, Carthage, MO ~2014-2017

FSMA development and maintenance.

Internal and peer audits, SOP generation and maintenance.

Manage the testing laboratory that operated 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Calibration Manager and International Regulation and Raw Material Chemist

Carboline Company a division of RPM, St. Louis, MO ~ 2010-2014

Work with sales and R&D to determine feasibility of international use of domestic products

Performed laboratory projects to qualify new raw materials. Either from a supply/cost side or international regulation side

Manage the calibration program, to ensure that we are meeting nuclear requirements

Work with customers to complete environmental reporting to meet state and federal requirements.

Quality Assurance Supervisor

KV Pharmaceutical, St. Louis, MO ~ 2009-2010

Partnered with operations to ensure that processes were being executed in compliance with regulations and SOP’s

Supervised six coordinators that over saw operations in creams, blending, compression and coating

Worked on team to improve incoming SOP’s

Six Sigma Manager / Quality Control Supervisor / Confectionery Chemist

Sensient Colors, Inc., St. Louis, MO ~ 2002-2009

Worked in R&D group as a Confectionary Chemist, developed hundreds of formulas for the sensory division

Led the QC for custom blending operation which was the highest growth highest profit area

Supervised 13 technicians that support operations, in addition used six-sigma to increase capacity and output

Environmental Health and Safety Manager

Premier Turbines, a subsidiary of Sabreliner Corporation, Neosho, MO ~ 2000-2002

Performed environmental audits, prepared quarterly shipments of hazardous waste and completed reporting to federal and state agencies

Facilitated safety and environmental training to the sites’ 250 employees to maintain OSHA compliant

Reported cradle to grave tracking of site chemicals, maintained and updated the sites material safety data

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Biology 1998

Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, MO

Masters of Environmental Management with a Emphasis on Sustainability 2015

Webster University,

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