Looking for work in production, quality, laboratory, management, heavy

Dennis D. Robins, Jr.

Contact

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West Paducah, Kentucky 42086

Cell: 270-***-****

Home: 270-***-****

Work: 270-***-****

E-mail: *********@*******.***

Objective

Seeking a full-time position with responsibilities including problem solving, planning, organizing, and will maximize my thirty-five plus years of work experience.

Education

Paducah Community College

Paducah, Kentucky 42001

Associate Degree:

Art / Architect Engineering

Graduated: 1990

GPA: 3.0

West Kentucky Community and

Technical College

Paducah, Kentucky 42001

Associate Degree:

Respiratory Therapy Technician /

Health Business Administration

Graduated: 1990

GPA: 3.0

Heath High School

West Paducah, Kentucky 42086

High School Diploma:

General Studies / Science

Graduated: 1988

GPA: 3.0

Experience

March 2016 – Present

Affordable Mowing & Landscaping, LLC.

Lawn Production First Line Supervisor • Customer Service Field Accounts Manager

March 2008 - February 2016

Calvert City Metal Alloys, LLC.

Material Operations Specialist Assistant Supervisor • Laboratory Analyst Technician

May 1999 -February 2016

U.S.E.C. (On-Site Environmental) Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Laboratory Purchasing Supplies Manager • Assistant Environmental Laboratory Operations Supervisor

August 1999 – March 2008

Degussa-Huls International Catalyst Technologies Corporation Continuous Flow Chemical Manufacturing First Line Assistant Supervisor • Chemical Processing Catalyst Laboratory Technician September 1999 – January 2004

Liquid Waste Disposal Incorporated

Continuous Improvement Quality Control Assistant Manager • Lead- Man Chemical Processing Production Furnace Incinerator Operator September 1993 – April 1999

Harvey Benjamin Fuller Company

Chemical Processing Production First Line Group Leader • Chemical Processing Production Laboratory Technician

Key Skills

First Line Supervisor

Project Implementation

Safety Assurance

Quality Control

Inventory Control

Effectively Monitors Production

Flexibility

Good Judgement

Data Management

Strong Communication Skills

Operations Specialist

Chemical Processing

Waste Management

Summary

In-depth knowledge of maintenance repair, troubleshooting, and engineering upgrades required for chemical or production plant machinery.

Ability to work in rotational shifts, holidays, overtime, and on weekends if required.

Excellent communication, collaborator building, quality assurance, and safety training skills.

Confident and patient individual who can easily manage unexpected or emergency situations with ease.

Enthusiastic about achieving perfection through consistent learning and hard work, safety is an utmost priority.

Also, I have never missed a day of work, never been late for work, never turned down overtime including emergency call ins for work, and never been hurt at work.

More in-depth

Please view the following pages for a more in-depth description of work performed during each of my employments.

References

Available upon request

Affordable Mowing and Landscaping, LLC.

West Paducah, Kentucky 42086

Lawn Production First Line Supervisor/Landscape Maintenance Operations Project Manager/Quality Assurance Enhancement Supervisor/Customer Service Field Accounts Manager

• Lead in performing or training all tasks of operations including but not limited to scheduling, planning, coaching, mowing, line trimming, blowing, leaf/debris removal, weeding, edging, hedging, raking, and mulch installation.

• Confer with other supervisors to coordinate work activities with those of other departments/units to plan employee work schedule for crews, depending on work priorities, crew/equipment availability, or weather conditions.

• Perform personnel related activities, such as hiring workers, evaluating staff performance, taking disciplinary actions when performance problems occur with current/prospective maintenance employees in order the performance of corrective work when problems occur, and recommend procedural changes to avoid such problems.

• Review contracts/work assignments to determine service, machine, workforce requirements for jobs to determine resource needs to prepare service estimates based on labor/material/machine costs, maintain budgets for individual projects, and estimate maintenance service requirements.

• Design or supervise the installation of sprinkler systems, calculating water pressure, valve, pipe coverage needs, estimate maintenance service requirement costs, and supervise maintenance workers doing the work.

• Lead the team in washing dirty equipment (including all mower decks), return to their approved storage location, report damaged/broken equipment to management immediately, and schedule equipment drop off at shop location for repair.

• Investigate work related complaints to verify problems, determine corrective actions, establish work standards, order the performance of corrective work when problems occur, maintain required records, such as personnel information or project records, document work hours/activities, and recommend procedural changes to avoid such problems.

• Monitor project activities to ensure that instructions are followed, deadlines are met, schedules are maintained, establish work standards to enforce operating procedures, work standards that will ensure adequate performance, personnel safety, inspect completed work to ensure conformance to specifications, standards, and contract requirements are met.

• Recommend changes in working conditions or equipment use to increase crew efficiency, confer with managers/landscape architects to develop plans/schedules for landscaping maintenance improvement, confer with coworkers to coordinate from maintenance to cleaning activities, and provide workers with assistance in performing duties as necessary to meet deadlines.

• Negotiate with customers regarding fees for landscaping, lawn service, grounds keeping work, answer inquiries from current or prospective customers regarding methods, materials, price ranges, provide information about landscaping services or costs, address questions on concerns with the clients as needed, and communicate customer opportunities immediately with their Account Representative.

• Schedule work or plan employee work schedules for crews depending on work priorities, crew, equipment availability, or weather conditions; prepare or maintain required records such as work activity, personnel reports, document work hours, or activities; perform administrative duties such as authorizing leaves, processing time sheets, document work hours, or activities; inventory supplies of tools, equipment, or materials to ensure that sufficient supplies are available and items are in usable condition.

Calvert City Metal and Alloys, LLC.

Calvert City, Kentucky 42029

Material Operations Specialist Assistant Supervisor/Lead-Man Submerged Arc Electric Furnace Operator/Finished Material Shipping-Receiving Specialist/Laboratory Analyst Technician

• Responsible for maintaining/ordering of all raw materials needed for production, plan all production/schedule for all employees, maintaining a monthly budget, schedule daily production/weekly shipping, data entry of customer releases, monthly consumption adjustments, inventory audits for management adjustments, and receipt entry for all incoming products.

• Experience including Microsoft Office, managed implemented ordering systems, and inventory management for on time delivery performance for just in time/material requirements planning for customers.

• Responsible for delivery performance tracking of multiple suppliers, responsible for leading/directing departments in implementation/control, leadership responsibilities for the direction of production control clerks/coordination clerks, responsible for ordering, scheduling/identification of trial, and pilot run parts.

• Direct or coordinate plant materials activities to ensure customer delivery performance, identify areas for productivity, quality, safety improvement, and implement production planning or scheduling.

• Manage engineering changes for internal component changes, manage customer portals, and maintain engineering bills of material for accuracy.

• Operated and maintained 15 to 35-megawatt submerged arc electric furnace controls to set electrodes in raw materials for start of melting process.

• Observes melting operations and instruments such as voltmeter, ammeter, rheostats, watt meter, hydro meter, or adjusts controls to maintain specified temperature.

• Brought raw materials into the furnace by running Microsoft windows operating through Genesis, Honeywell, Allen Bradley, and Rockwell operating systems.

• Tapping and casting liquid metal at 2600 to 3300 Fahrenheit degrees into casting beds.

• Operating knowledge of multiple pieces of heavy equipment include bobcat loaders, forklifts, pallet jacks, power lifts, track excavators, bull dozers, or front-end loaders.

• Loading metal, raw/finished material, and other heavy items onto John Deere, Hyundai, Komatsu, Caterpillar, or Euclid articulated dump trucks for shipping to smelters or other recycled finished materials processing facilities. United States Enrichment Corporation (On-Site Environmental) Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant

Kevil, Kentucky 42053

Laboratory Purchasing Supplies Manager/Warehouse Inventory Control Coordinator/Environmental Laboratory Technologist/Assistant Environmental Laboratory Operations Supervisor

• Responsible for just-in-time scheduling of components from multiple suppliers, manages component inventory, inventory accuracy for cost efficiency, manages bill of materials, change control with appropriate departments, handle details of special or expedited shipments, departmental key metrics, involved in all accounts payable, and accounts.

• Directed warehouse and the administration of activities, bill of materials, and change control with appropriate departments.

• Manages component inventory for inventory accuracy to reduce cost efficiency, handle details of special or expedited shipments, work closely with shipping, services, and receiving personnel to help reduce costs in the warehouse.

• Preparation of solvent reagents in extractions, documented, prepared disposal of organic chemical wastes, operate, calibrate, maintain equipment used in quantitative, and qualitative analysis.

• Directed or trained lab assistants to utilize critical thinking skills for time management techniques to follow established standards and practices to resolve basic technical problems.

• Extracted environmental waste, air, soil, or water samples to be analyzed for microbiological, metals, organic/inorganic compounds, and volatile/semi volatile compounds to be completed by Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standard methods.

• Characterized waste streams, provided oversight of hazardous/nonhazardous manufacturing waste storage, disposal, transport to approved treatment, and recycling facilities.

• Comply with all laboratory procedures to ensure safety and prevent cross contamination; Analyze collected samples though NITON XRF (X-ray Fluorescence) Analyzer and input data on computer data sheet using Microsoft Excel; Generate samples for testing of Poly Chlorinated Biphenyl (PCBs).

• Coordinate shipment/delivery of samples to the appropriate laboratory in accordance with offsite sample shipping including obtaining proper radioactive screening tests and Department of Transportation (DOT) approval.

• Complied with all personal protective equipment (PPE), all area postings, applicable permits, the verbal direction of Industrial Safety/Health Physics (HP), as established in the Project Specific Health/Safety (H&S) Plans, and Facility Specific Procedures of the Worker H&S Program.

• Specialty trained to safely implement decontamination/decommission operations at Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant/USEC, strictly adhering to Department of Energy, EPA, OSHA, DOT, USEC, and Onsite Environmental Laboratories guidelines. Degussa-Huls International Catalyst Technologies Corporation Calvert City, Kentucky 42029

Continuous Flow Chemical Manufacturing First Line Assistant Supervisor/Lead-Man Chemical Processing Catalyst Operator/Distribution Warehouse Operations Assistant Manager/Chemical Processing Catalyst Laboratory Technician

• Chief Senior Operator acting as a liaison between management/operators while working on rotating shifts to direct activities of workers for assisting in control/verification of processes in unloading of materials to operate/monitor reactors, filters, pumps, compressors, calciners, impregnators, etc.

• Observe safety precautions to prevent fires/explosions and inspect equipment or units to detect leaks/malfunctions for shutting equipment down if necessary.

• Daily preparation/testing of precious metal catalyst samples observe the progress of chemical production and report any malfunctions.

• Fill, unload, transport containers of raw/auxiliary materials to insure they are stored properly/safely, adjust controls to regulate temperature, pressure, feed, flow of liquids/gases, and times of prescribed reactions according to knowledge of equipment processes.

• Monitor gauges, recording instruments, flow meters, test product samples for specific gravity, chemical characteristics, pH levels, concentrations, viscosity, and send them to the laboratories for assessing the product samples to ensure that specified conditions are maintained.

• Measure, weigh, and mix chemical ingredients according to recipe batch specifications to control/operate equipment in which chemical changes or reactions take place during the processing of industrial consumer products.

• Control the manufacturing process of applying precious metal slurry to coat automotive catalysts that allow gasoline and diesel engines to meet environmental emission standards for customer requirements.

• Support plant objectives and targets by collaborating with team to implement Lean Manufacturing principles, 5S, value stream mapping, visual factory initiatives, which have resulted in significant savings, cost reductions, document process information to meet QS9000, ISO/TS16949, and ISO14001 global quality standard requirements.

• Participate in root cause analysis teams to troubleshoot problems, support preventative actions resulting in continual improvement, cost savings to input, control, monitor, maintain computer- controlled process/equipment to ensure quality, and achieve production demands.

• Setup, retool, control various robotic production, process equipment to meet the specifications, and requirements of diverse products.

• Monitor process parameters including density, viscosity, flow rate, cycle times, 100% visual inspection, calibrate, inspect, maintain process equipment to ensure maximum efficiency, and performance in which results in consistent quality control. Liquid Waste Disposal Incorporated

Calvert City, Kentucky 42029

Continuous Improvement Quality Control Assistant Manager/Assistant Chemical Laboratory Analyst Manager/Chemical Laboratory Analyst Technician/Lead-Man Chemical Processing Production Furnace Incinerator Operator

• Daily preparation for testing of environmental/chemical waste samples, calibration of instruments, and balances to maintain control limits.

• Analyzed samples of hazardous waste before incineration for quality control and performed administrative duties such as serving as department head.

• Knowledge sets include process control, environmental control, ISO 9000, ISO 9001, ISO 14,001, quality assurance, quality control, statistical process control, testing, process development, quality improvement, and quality management.

• Started automatic feed of solid/semi solid materials to dump pre-weighed ingredients through equipment units such as heating vessels or mixing tanks into tanks, hoppers, and onto conveyors for furnace incinerator operations to burn.

• Patrolled areas to inspect equipment for leaks/hazards, recorded gauge readings, received notifications from control laboratory, supervisor, and other workers to make specified operating adjustments.

• Directed activities of other workers assisting in control, verification of process, trained operators on furnaces/bag houses, and maintained shift schedule.

• Performed quality control tasks by comparing visual inspection of hazardous waste with analytical results, recommended appropriate solutions for noncomplying waste, and responsible for the approval or disapproval of all material to be processed through incinerators.

• Filled in when needed to help the safety department with various air monitoring, tank entry supervision, and various other tasks.

• Completed hazardous waste manifests, labels for outgoing material, and reviewed manifests for incoming material to ensure each manifest met required federal regulations.

• Also performed various laboratory tasks such as calculating densities, flash points, melting points, incompatibilities of material, and reviewed analytical results of material for fuel blending operations.

• Determined RCRA 8 metals through Atomic Absorption, determined heat content by use of oxygen bomb Calorimetry, and Microwave digestion of hazardous waste samples for the physical/chemical analysis of unknown waste products. Harvey Benjamin Fuller Company

Paducah, Kentucky 42001

Chemical Processing Production First Line Group Leader/Lead-Man Chemical Processing Production Operator/Material Control Logistics Assistant Supervisor/Chemical Processing Production Laboratory Technician

• Direct or coordinate the activities of employees engaged in the production or processing of goods such as inspectors, machine setters, and fabricators.

• Read and analyze charts, work orders, production schedules, other records, or reports to determine production requirements to evaluate current production estimates for outputs.

• Confer with other supervisors or management to coordinate operations for subordinates to resolve worker problems, complaints, grievances, and activities within or between departments.

• Responsible for interviewing, hiring, training, terminating, disciplining, promoting, evaluating, plan, establish work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet production goals.

• Demonstrate equipment operations and work safety procedures to new employees or assign employees to experienced workers for training.

• Observe work, monitor gauges, dials, and other indicators to ensure that operators conform to production or chemical processing standards.

• Maintain operations data, such as time, production, cost records, and prepare management reports of production results.

• Recommend or implement measures to motivate employees and to improve production methods, equipment performance, product quality, or efficiency.

• Oversaw manufacturing operations including product, planning, quality assurance, sanitation, maintenance, purchasing, safety, shipping, and receiving.

• Responsible for investigating bad batches, determining root causes, implementing corrective actions, organizing/maintaining production supply room, production vending machines including all PPE, production supplies, and some spare equipment/tool.

• Ensure applicable plans, such as the Sampling and Analysis Plan (SAP), the Quality Assurance Plan (QAP), Environmental Monitoring Plan (EMP), Waste Management Plan

(WMP), the Data Management Implementation Plan (DMIP) are in place, and all Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) are available.

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