Quality Assurance Plant

Denise Fluharty

Halifax, NC ***** H: 252-***-****

**********@*****.*** C: 252-***-****

Professional Summary

A dedicated, results driven manufacturing professional with 25+ years of experience in all aspects of operations including: quality assurance, process improvements, plant optimization, cost reduction, and reliability centered maintenance.

Key Strengths

Leadership: Ability to lead and motivate cross functional and area teams to identify and formulate solutions to operational, mechanical, and quality issues

Effective Communicator: Proven work history in building long term relationships with internal and external customers by establishing a high level of confidence and trust. Poised interfacing with individual at all levels in the organization

Process Improvement: Strength in improving process and work procedures to maximize production capabilities while maintaining product standards and cost structure

Troubleshooting: Trained in cause mapping and facilitated plant root cause failure analysis with regard to equipment failure, reliability issues, production slow backs, quality variations and safety incidents

Customer Focused: Collaborate with internal and external customers to identify and remedy quality issues and customer’s needs. Regularly visited customers’ site to formulate new products to meet their specific end use and address quality/manufacturing issues

Plant Manufacturing Accomplishments

•Decreased Downtime by more than 5% from 2007 to 2011 by utilizing the cross functional teams to find solutions to downtime and reoccurring reliability problems

•Increased Production Volumes by over 75,000 feet per shift from 2007 to 2011 by identifying production slowdowns and forming area production teams to correct problems

•Generated Cost Saving and Revenue since 2007 of approximately three million dollars through capital improvements, production gains, reliability improvements and raw material savings

•Decreased Target Weight by .5 lbs. per panel through conversion of plant’s nuclear weight control system to x-ray based system, which provided decreased variation and lower target weight and allowed the facility to go from a costly site specific nuclear regulatory licensee to a general use

•Collaborated with sales to move and develop target manufactured products from commodity to specialty. Utilized customer performance specifications to addressed and meet the need for customer specific manufactured products, delivering Increased Profits Margins

•Single recipient of the Chairman’s Award for the Development and Implementation of Plant Quality Standards

•Consistently maintained Low Claims Rates to near zero for all product lines through implementation of customer focused response system that effectively addressed customer concern/issues and worked toward suitable resolution to prevent future reoccurrence

•Successfully trained in and served as interim HR and Environmental Manager as needed

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Professional Experience

Georgia-Pacific LLC

1985 – July, 2011

Oriented Strand Board, Skippers, VA

Optimizer/Asset Availability Leader, Skippers OSB (2007- July 2011)

•Responsible for optimization of plant assets and analyzing and resolving performance gaps

•Championed and led the Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) process thru developing, validating, and completion of RCM strategies for all critical equipment in the operating plant

•Facilitated capital investments request across the plant by validating savings or revenue generation and submitting completed proposal to division management teams for approval

•Site implementation leader as the plant transitioned into a new work process with all maintenance activities scheduled based on operational priorities and pro-active maintenance

Technical Manager, Skippers OSB (1994-2007)

•Directed facility’s continuous improvement program by ensuring all products manufactured met performance standards

•Led plant efforts to decrease process and product variability to maximize the profit margins for all products

•Collaborated with manufacturing, sales and customers to transition the plant from a commodity plant to a specialty plant

•Developed a mass flow program to generate real time product costing for the sales group and accounting

Assistant Technical Manager, Skippers OSB (1986-1994)

•Led the operations of plant Quality Assurance Lab, managing process control technicians on each production team. Oversaw for all plant trials and training programs that increased plant wide skill and process knowledge

Process Control Technician, Skippers OSB (1985-1986)

•Production team Shift Process Control Technician during plant start-up. Verified product quality through testing, ensured raw material met specifications, resolved quality issues, and served as back-up to the Production Team Leader

Education

Bachelor of Science in Wood Science and Technology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Professional Development

Asset Reliability Training

Leadership for Rapid Transformation

Georgia Pacific Safety Leadership

Behavior Based Selection

Cause Map Training,

Georgia Pacific Executive Development Program

Market Based Management Academy Training

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