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Nathan A Kitners

**** ******* **** **., ************, FL USA

Personal 970-***-****

adudak@r.postjobfree.com

PROFILE SUMMARY

Process engineer and team leader with over twelve years of quality, technical and operation support experience. Responsible for evaluating existing processes and manufacturing systems to reduce cost, improve sustainability and develop best practices within the production process. Helpful and trustworthy, deliberately proactive and dependably organized.

EDUCATION

B.Sc. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Graduated May 2007

Colorado School of Mines Golden, Colorado USA

M.Sc. in Engineering Management Expected Graduation in December 2022

University of Massachusetts - Lowell Lowell, Massachusetts USA

CERTIFICATIONS

ASQ Certified Quality Engineer March 2021

ASQ Credential ID: 31772075 Expires May 2025

Six Sigma Lean Green Belt Certified (LGBC)™ April 2017

Management and Strategy Institute

ISO9001:2015 Internal Auditor July 2020

Central Connecticut State University

Corrective Action and Root Cause Analysis August 2020

Axeon

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Anheuser-Busch [1.5 years] May 2021 – November 2022

Business Process Manager

Metal Container Corporation Jacksonville, FL

Support manufacture of aluminum cans through focus on auxiliary support systems and building maintenance. Lead team of skilled maintenance personnel responsible for the plant support equipment and general facilities maintenance. This includes compressed air, process cooling loops, chillers. HVAC, vacuum, process piping, custodial and landscaping. Provide technical engineering assistance for equipment operation and maintenance. Plan short term through long term maintenance activities. Manage department budget. Coordinate contractor management activities. High profile. High responsibility job with emphasis on Health, Safety and Environmental compliance.

Freeport-McMoRan [9.5 years] May 2011 – October 2020

Technical and Operational support as a Process Engineer, Plant Metallurgist and Assay Lab Supervisor with international mining and metal company. Experience at Molybdenum concentrators in Colorado, and a Copper rod plant in Connecticut.

Process Engineer - Quality Assurance October 2017 – October 2020

Freeport-McMoRan [Norwich Rod Mill] Norwich, CT

Technical support for continuous cast copper rod process. Support Plant Operations through the collection and analysis of process data for data-based decision making. Interface with downstream customers to address quality issues and enhance improvement efforts. Support quality management system.

Highlights include:

-Facilitating weekly Optimum Meeting with the mission to minimize unplanned downtime and improve product quality through team collaboration and problem solving

-Steered the Roll Life Improvement cross functional Team to successfully increase operating life of mill rolling dies

oBased on joint recommendations from the Team, die life was improved by 400%, saving $50K/year

-Coordinated Low Oxygen process optimization project, decreasing customer coil rejection rate from 20% to 2%

-Assumed role of plant technical expert during plant conversion from semi-synthetic oil to fully synthetic mill rolling fluid

Plant Metallurgist II - Assay Laboratory Supervisor July 2014– October 2017

Freeport-McMoRan [Henderson Mill] Parshall, CO

Provide elemental and metallurgical analysis for Mill Operations and other support services. Supervise crew of eight technicians to provide daily analysis of production assay samples. Perform routine testing and procedures, process auditing, and safety auditing. Deliver downstream customer quality communications. Maintain vendor contracts, department Quality Management System and StarLIMS [Laboratory Information Management System.] Regularly review process data with plant management to evaluate plant KPI performance. Gained proficiency with PI ProcessBook, PI Datalink and MiniTab.

-Lab responsibilities include sampler maintenance, slurry sample preparation, particle size analysis, acid digestion with analysis by flame AA and ICP-OES, and gravimetric determination of molybdenum concentration

-Supervisor responsibilities include daily safety tailgates, assigning daily tasks, managing employee scheduling and time approvals, direct employee development including training and correction efforts

Plant Metallurgist I May 2011 – July 2014

Freeport-McMoRan [Climax Mine and Mill] Leadville, CO

Technical process support at a Climax Molybdenum high elevation (11,400 ft.) primary molybdenum mine and mill. Entry level position with primary focus on collaborating with Mill Operators, Maintenance, Electricians and Laboratory Crews.

-Developed and wrote numerous operating procedures.

-Plant commissioning experience during site start-up. Primary duties: troubleshoot reagent system, commission complex slurry sampling system and sampling instrumentation, operate and maintain on-stream x-ray analyzers

-Worked with Training Department to develop classes and training for employees including: Introduction to Mine and Metallurgy, reagent training, sample system maintenance, EDXRF on-stream X-ray analyzer operation

Schlumberger Drilling and Measurements [1 year] August 2007 – October 2008

Junior Field Engineer (International Mobile) Stavanger, Norway and Cabinda, Angola

Member of the Drilling and Measurements crew aboard offshore petroleum drilling installations. Responsible for managing field equipment and data retrieval for directional drilling operations.

-Experience with: working in remote, adverse conditions; working with operating crews of different origins; working with radioactive sources; critical data management

SKILLS AND TRAINING

Corrective Action [CAPA], Root Cause Analysis [RCA], Statistical Process Control [SPC], continuous process improvement, Design of Experiments [DOE], statistical data analysis, DMAIC, sampling theory, mineral processing, technical writing, laboratory work, maintenance planning. Computer skills: MS Office 365, PI Datalink, Pi ProcessBook, Minitab, SAP ERM, Business Objects, LIMS, NWA Quality Analyst.

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