N**** County Road C, Seymour, WI ***** | 920-***-**** | Cell 920-***-**** | juj4y2@r.postjobfree.com

Ronald W. Roethlisberger, BSME

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Seymour Dairy Products, 124 E. Bronson Road, Seymour, WI 54165 920-***-****, 2009 - Present

Plant Superintendent, March 2011 – Present

• Provide leadership, direction, and guidance to plant personnel.

• Provide efficient scheduling and management of all plant personnel, including annual reviews, production meetings, and disciplinary actions when required for the following areas

Cheesemaking

Packaging, including all activities ensuring customer satisfaction and quality assurance.

Warehouse / Shipping & Receiving personnel

Sanitation personnel

Maintenance personnel

• Develop, implement, and manage personnel procedural programs.

• Implement, oversee and perform all necessary employee training necessary to meet WDATCP, USDA, FDA, MOSA, and OSHA standards.

• Manage cheese inventory.

• Oversee receipt of bulk milk, including initiating and monitoring all testing processes and procedures.

• Support plant operations specifically in food safety, raw material inventory quality control, and guidance in developing quality programs as required.

• Oversee contractors for plant and production equipment, including process evaluation and recommendation, sanitation programs, pest control programs, quality production sample processing.

• Maintain and control inventory of all raw materials and general plant supplies.

• Develop specifications and standards, packaging and labeling processes, and product storage and shipping/distribution processes.

• Initiate mechanical and electrical failure analysis of production equipment, to enable quick and efficient resolution to avoid equipment downtime.

• Direct and support preventive maintenance and repair activities.

• Manage key tasks with a cross-functional development and operational team to achieve high results.

• Responsible for financial R&D budget planning, and integrated project planning in cooperation with senior management.

Quality Systems Manager, 2009 – March 2011

• Oversee all aspects of cheese quality and company regulatory compliance, including quality reject processes, food safety compliance, and product and environmental microbiological testing and monitoring, and ensuring proper operating procedures and processes are in place to support such activities.

• Corporate liaison for all regulatory inspections, third party customer audits, guidelines and compliance reporting, including managing data and generating required reports as required (i.e., environmental, OSHA incident, product quality, etc.).

• Development and maintenance of all quality programs associated with the organization.

• Quality control testing and time sensitive distribution of test results, including analytical testing, and developing and maintaining all food safety programs including HACCP.

• Responsible for all safety programs, including training employees to meet compliance with all government mandated programs (OSHA).

• Coordinate Laboratory operation and ensure that proper documentation is maintained to ensure certification and calibration of all instruments according to Quality Manual.

• Lead and monitor company sanitation personnel in cleaning all processing equipment.

• Initiate and coordinate outside lab testing with qualified and approved lab testing suppliers.

• Develop lab budget and manage costs to meet budgetary and senior management expectations.

Luvata, 908 North Lawe Street, Appleton, WI 54911 920-***-****

Mechanical Project Engineer, 2002 – 2009

• Project Management for two copper alloy casting facilities in the Appleton area, which included managing all capital expansions, production equipment and plant projects.

• Research, design, and develop machines, mechanical products/tools, and production equipment to improve operations and improve processes.

• Integrate existing technologies with new equipment/technologies to improve facilities function.

• Install heavy equipment, facilities, and shop floor power distribution systems.

• Responsible for creation of ideas and implementation with equipment automation.

• Ensure compliance with all air, water, and waste regulations.

• Perform inspections, assess hazards, and recommend and implement necessary alterations.

• Machine design, specification, manufacture, installation and commissioning of production equipment, facility maintenance and engineering support of maintenance staff, PLC and drive programming.

• Environmental engineering (air emphasis).

• HVAC.

Belgioioso Cheese, Inc., 5810 County Road NN, Denmark, WI 54208-8730 920-***-****

Engineer, 2001 – 2002

• Lead Engineer for five (5) production specialty cheese plants in northeastern Wisconsin.

• Machine design, specification, manufacture, installation and commissioning of production equipment

• PLC and Drive Programming.

• Ensure plant and equipment compliance with all food, health, and safety regulations.

• Environmental engineering, HVAC.

Hartley Controls Corporation, Inc., Neenah, WI (Parent Company, Neenah Foundry)

Chief Engineer, 2000 – 2001; Project Engineer 1996 – 2000; Field Service Engineer 1994 – 1996

• System Design and machine layout.

• Quotations.

• Production of customized PLC control and material handling systems.

• Full cycle project management, including proposals, custom manufacture, and installation.

• Supervised technical design staff of four.

• Standardized product line resulting in streamlined sales effort and reduced manufacturing costs.

• Developed first automated molding sand lab tester from prototype to patented product.

• Achieved CE conformity for Hartley process control equipment facilitating export of 15 control systems in two years.

• Supervised installation of Hartley’s largest to date molding sand production system valued at ~$750K.

• Field commissioned 27 control systems in North America and Europe.

EDUCATION

• University of Wisconsin – Madison, College of Engineering, Madison, WI, B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1993

CHEESE SPECIFIC EDUCATION

• Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research & Department of Food Science, University of Wisconsin – Madison,

Wisconsin Cheese Tech Short Course, 2009

• University of Wisconsin – Madison, Department of Food Science College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Cooperative Extension Service

Wisconsin Cheese Grading Short Course, 2009

Applied Dairy Chemistry Short Course, 2011

CERTIFICATES

• Wisconsin Cheese Grader License No. 265329-CG, Department of Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection

• Wisconsin Cheesemaker, License No. 272059-F8, Department of Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection

• Trained Pasteurizer Operator, 2010, Department of Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection,

• Industry Supervisor, Appendix N of the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance, Oct 2009 & Oct 2011

• The Center for Public Health Education/NSF International, Implementing SQF Systems Training Course, 2010

• Hydrite Chemical Company, Safe Chemical Handling Training, 2010

• State of Wisconsin, Engineer in Training, Wisconsin Registration Number 151****-***

• Boy Scouts of America – Bay Lakes Council, Appleton, WI, Basic Leader Training, 2008

• Faith Technologies, Appleton, WI, NFPA 70E Workshop, 2008

• University of Wisconsin – Madison, College of Engineering, Professional Development, Madison, WI, Engineer In Transition To Management 2.1 CEU , 1999

• Associated General Contractors of America/Supervisory Training Program, Contract Documents & Construction Law, 2004

PATENTS

United States of America Patent, Sand Testing Method and Apparatus, Patent Number 6,161,422 awarded December 2000.

SKILLS

AutoCAD

Pneumatics

Hydraulics

Instrumentation

PLC Programming

AC & DC Drives

Servo Drives

Power Transmission Systems

P&ID Diagrams & Schematics

Electrical Troubleshooting

Business Software: Microsoft Office; Microsoft PowerPoint; Microsoft Outlook; Microsoft Access; BPCS; AS400

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