RECRUITER NOTES:
Jarema is a Project & Process Manager experience & expertise with over 25 years of experience, dating from 1976. Includes chemicals operations & maintenance.
He holds Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering.
He managed multiple simultaneous projects on time and budget with Contractors and sub-Contractors on projects $ 50K thru $ 2MM, and planning projects to $ 100MM.
He has used extensive Regulatory Compliance, Chemical, and Engineering background to provide innovative solutions in hazardous-materials chemical manufacture, including surpassing all norms in timely Schedule and thrifty and effective Budget considerations
He also initiated all Regulatory Compliance and Medical Affairs activities. cGMP documentation.
His current location is Monmouth Jct., NJ
Note polymer & monomers experience 1976 – 1982, as well as 2005 – 2019 Ethyl Corp., Stauffer, Dow Corning, more: Extensive knowledge of polymer structure-property relationship, concepts, and applications of chemical and polymer engineering.
Comprehensive knowledge of polymer characterization, fabrication processes, and product validation processes.
In-depth knowledge of polymer science, materials sourcing, surface modification, and product testing techniques.
Well-versed in polymer processing, physical properties of polymers, and hands-on testing methods.
Skilled in handling multiple tasks with strong analytical and problem solving skills.
Possess outstanding communication, organizational, and management skills.
Responsible for developing operating instructions, via design concepts of polymer materials and provide necessary recommendations to improve product specifications
Develop new processes for new applications for manufactured polymer products.
Supporting development teams towards product improvement and application feasibility, operations, and maintenance.
Managing projects and analysing root-cause-failures in the developed products, including performing failure investigation and root-cause-analysis of failures.
Responsible for preparing drawings, determining feasibility of design, and reviewing and generating product manuals.
Ensure that the manufactured and delivered product meets quality standards and guidelines, hands-on.
Analysing materials of polymers and update the report to senior engineers
Optimize product manufacturing process by developing standard development processes.
Coordinated with research and development teams in bring products to production, and in testing products, and ensuring quality standards
Writing polymer and product development procedures.
Jarema N. Kraus
Monmouth Jct., NJ
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jarema-n-kraus-958220/
Process, Project, and HSSE Manager
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Providing Technological Expertise, equipment application, and problem-solving ability to enable the construction of manufacturing facilities that are easy to maintain and are easy to operate by skilled operators with a minimum of engineering oversight.
Leader in coordinating harmonious internal detail design and project teams, PSM, engineering and construction contractors, funding management, and local plant ops and maintenance teams in alignment with and implementation of project goals.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Sanofi Pasteur, Remote & Hybrid 02/2022 to Date
Senior Process Manager
Vaccine Upstream & Downstream Production & Laboratory; All varieties of Technical Documentation, SOPs, etc.; cGxP Validation, Purchasing, and all manner of Engineering Support and liaison between Lab, Operations, Research, and Engineering. Introduce new and technical transfer production methods & equipment.
Initiated all Regulatory Compliance and Medical Affairs activities. cGMP documentation.
Ramrod and mentor Sanofi specialists on time and urgency for the project
Manage project timeline via MS Project schedule and budget. Authored operational & maintenance protocols.
Procured Lab Instrumentation and Vaccine upstream & downstream production equipment.
Exercised all aspects of sterile cGMP processes.
Responsible for the widest variety of all other support activity.
Merck, Remote 7/2020 to 10/2021
Project Manager
Secondary pharma (packaging, cartoning, fill capsules, tablets, vials, bottles); All varieties of Technical Documentation, SOPs, etc.; cGxP Validation. Introduce modular BioNTech production methods & equipment.
Initiated all Regulatory Compliance and Medical Affairs activities. cGMP documentation.
Ramrod and mentor Merck specialists on time and urgency for the project
Manage project timeline via MS Project and budget. Authored operational & maintenance protocols.
Procured Tablets & Capsules, bottles, blisters.
Exercised all aspects of Granulation processes.
Responsible for Packaging drug product bottles & blisters, including molnupiravir, 2 vaccines, Pilot Plant facility.
Eastman Chem, NJ 9/2019 to 12/2019
Process Project Manager
Successfully concluded Consulting assignment in small Unionized plant all-around operations, maintenance, chemical & packaging engineering, fill-finish, HSSE, Regulatory Compliance, Process, Project Consulting, SAP.
IMTT Pipeline & Liquid Terminals Plant, Bayonne, NJ 2/2018 to 6/2019
Project & Process Manager
SME piping, pipeline, surge, rotating equipment, HazAn in Stage-Gate storage & new pipeline projects nationwide, all involving Regulatory Compliance.
Reliability Engineering of Pumps, Blowers, vapor-capture & vapor-destruction devices, LNG terminal, agitators, interstate pipeline.
Managed multiple simultaneous projects on time and budget with Contractors and sub-Contractors on projects $ 50K thru $ 2MM, and planning projects to $ 100MM. SAP.
Note direct-facing with Customers of successful problem-solving and troubleshooting with filtration issues, pumping, and purity; cGxP Validation of cGMP Food-Grade & Kosher FDA CAPA documentation.
Infineum: formerly ExxonMobil / Shell Chemical, Linden, NJ 3/2017 to 12/2017
Process/Project Manager/ SME / Mentor
Used extensive Regulatory Compliance, Chemical, and Engineering background to provide innovative solutions in hazardous-materials chemical manufacture, including surpassing all norms in timely Schedule and thrifty and effective Budget considerations.
Mentored via Stage-Gate Process other Process Engineers in all aspects of manufacturing support for the formulation, reaction, and blending of fuel, oil, and lubricant chemicals. SAP, PHA, HAZOP.
Managed multiple simultaneous syntheses, flare, truck rack, rail, barge, PRV, and production facilities improvements each totaling $25MM across dozens of projects, on time and budget.
Authored all manner of Technical Documentation. Projects employed multiple Contractors and sub-Contractors.
Kinder Morgan Liquid Terminals, multi-site Carteret, NJ 5/2013 to 2/2017
Project Manager
Utilized EHSS background, responsible for all aspects process& project Stage-Gate manufacturinginterstate pipeline, LNG terminal, scheduling, budget, and contract engineering for petro-chem and other hazardous storage & processing, pipelines, and environmental implementation at 6 NE Region sites, all involving Regulatory Compliance.
Included Regional equipment design responsibilities, Preventative Maintenance PM, and Stoner Surge software study.
Reliability Engineering of Pumps, Blowers, PSVs. PHA. HAZAN. HAZOP.
Managed multiple simultaneous projects on time and budget with Contractors and sub-Contractors on projects $ 20K thru $ 2MM. Pump / Piping / Rotating Equipment SME / Mentor.
Note Customer interactions on industrial hygiene and safety issues, and document Corrective and Preventative Actions.
FCMG / NY Terminals & WAS Terminals / IFI, Elizabeth/Newark, NJ 4/2009 to 5/2013
EHSS Manager, FSO, QI, PIC, and Principal Process Engineer
All-around process manufacturing support and managing EHSS for distillation, and reactions, including antifreeze, biofuels, biodiesel, other chemicals, managing truck rack, rail, barge, and production facilities improvements totaling $2.5MM across a dozen projects, including yield recovery, pilot processing, toll Tech Transfer, shift supervision of 2 Engineers and 2 designers, with construction/maintenance crew, small-scale projects, writing production-level and Federal and NJ Permits documents, operating Kf and Gas Chromatograph, and Blue Seal Boiler License and operation, HAZMAT License. HAZOP. PHA.
Note successful root-cause processing investigations with Customers and successful problem-solving and troubleshooting with filtration issues, pumping, and purity.
Troy Chemical, Newark, NJ & Phoenix & Thailand 2005 to 2009 Site Senior Process Engineer & Project Manager
All-around process manufacturing savings for antimicrobials, powder coatings, paint additives, pharmaceutical additives, and specialty chemicals.
Saved over $687,000/year in labor-saving solids-handling innovations, $500,000/year in fractionation recovery/waste avoidance/energy savings, pilot processing, also saved $50,000/year in recovered raw materials, toll Tech Transfer, PSM, shift supervision in union environment of 1 Engineer and 5 operators, small-scale <$500,000 projects on-cost and on-schedule, writing production-level documents, and Blue Seal Boiler License.
Includes spray-drying polymers, OSHA HAZWOPER Hazan HAZOP PHA submittals, Regulatory Compliance.
Note the use of 6-Sigma and other techniques in resolving CAPAs for Food-Grade and other technical transfers and other processing, quality, and safety-related issues, together with Customers, while reducing inventory cost.
AMGEN / Wyeth / Professional Services Group 2004 to 2005
Consulting Project Manager, cGxP Validation & CIP Commissioning
Rhode Island Commissioning, IQ, OQ, PQ, and cGxP Validation; incl. both Enbrel(R) processes, including process improvement, debugging Delta-V system; Environmental.
Facilitated, trained, and counseled professionals.
OTHER PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE
Jacobs Engineering, Conshohocken, PA
Lead Process Engineer
Lockwood Greene, Somerset, NJ
Principal Process Engineer
Merck & Co., Rahway, NJ & Worldwide
Process Project Engineer
Stauffer Chem: pesticides, nerve gas, fertilizer.
EDUCATION
Bachelors in Chemical Engineering, Wayne State U, Detroit
Adjunct Professor, Stevens Institute Grad-Level Pharma-Chem Engineering
AFFILIATIONS
Self-taught Six-Sigma for evaluation and troubleshooting
Speak 7 languages: French, Spanish, English, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, German, others.
Published Author numerous Chemical Engineering & INTERPHEX Technical Articles.
Full-Array of Merck & Co. Training Courses thru Manager Level; Blue Seal Boiler License; SAP; GENCADD 6; AutoCad 12; MS Office Suite; PowerPoint; SharePoint; MicroSoft Project; FRI; HTRI; more
AIChE & ISPE & PDA & Black Belt TKD & USAF Aux CAP
BASF-Certified Safety and Environmental Training; HAZMAT License