Manager, Quality Engineer, Continuous Improvement, TPM, HACCP

Joshua Adkisson

**** *. ******* **. ******, CA **726 • 509-***-**** • ***********@*****.*** •

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Proven leader with 18 years of experience in operations.

MBA and professional development training seminars.

Unique combination of experience in Manufacturing, Quality Assurance and Business Development.

Able to lead and motivate teams to achieve excellent results.

Experience in lean manufacturing – Black Belt Certified

Subject Matter Expert in High Performance Organization (HPO) and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) concepts and principles.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2020-2021 Amazon Fulfillment Center

Production Manager (L6) Outbound Operations

Responsibilities include: Coordination of daily operations of up to 1200 hourly associates to perform picking, packing, and shipping operations. Coordinating activities and labor share in concert with other departments to meet daily goals and minimize unplanned downtime. Work with Virtual Central Flow team to ensure Critical Pull Time orders are processed and shipped on-time to meet customer promise. Recently made history and broke 1 Million orders in 1 day on 3 separate occasions during 2020 Peak Season.

2018-2019 Dolco Packaging, a division of Tekniplex – Wenatchee, Wa

Production Consultant

Responsibilities include: plant with 100+ associates on 24/7 schedule, all KPIs for Polystyrene plant (safety, quality, cost, delivery and organizational), setting plant objectives and priorities, Refocusing plant operations towards quality RFT, budgeting, staffing and regulatory/customer requirements.

Equipment: 10 Thermo-former lines, 4 extruders, 4 high-speed labelers

Key Accomplishments

Balanced production and maintenance workloads while meeting customer demands.

Created continuous improvement position to drive better performance.

Implemented TPM elements (5S, PM development) to increase team member ownership.

2013-2017 Access Business Group, a division of Amway

Production Manager, Nutrilite Botanical Concentrates – Quincy, WA

Responsibilities include: all KPIs (safety, quality, cost, delivery and organizational), setting plant objectives and priorities, budgeting, staffing, all regulatory requirements including Process Safety Management (PSM) and CFR21 Part 111 compliance.

Equipment: 2 Helical extractors, 2 extract hold tanks, 1 concentration feed tank, 2 evaporation/concentration units, 3 concentration hold tanks, 1 spray dryer mix tank, 1 spray dryer feed tank, 1 Spray Dryer, 1 refractance window dryer mix tank, 1 refractance window dryer, 1 jet mill, 1 fitz mill and 2 metal detectors.

Key Accomplishments

Responsible for start-up of new $50MM plant in Quincy, WA. Finished project on-time and on-budget to facilitate the closure of the existing facility in California.

Implemented safety and quality systems and achieved the highest 1st time Quality Assurance Capability (QAC) score.

Staff hired and trained to support equipment Comissioning, qualification and verification.

Design and implementation of new high performance work system.

2012-2013 Johnson Controls Automotive Battery Manufacturing – Canby, OR

Quality Engineer

2010-2012 SolarWorld Solar Panel Manufacturing – Hillsboro, OR

Production Manager

2006-2010 Gatorade (a division of PepsiCo) – Wytheville, VA

Supervisor & Organizational Development Lead

2001-2005 United States Air Force – Mildenhall, UK

Crew Chief – E-3 AWACS and KC-135 Refueler Aircraft

EDUCATION

Masters of Business Administration (2012)

University of Phoenix

Bachelors of Science in IT/Software Engineering (2010)

University of Phoenix

Training: Black Belt certification, Site Master Trainer, HACCP, cGMPs, High Performing Work System and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).

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