JORGE NAVARRETE

3403 Abbott Way SW, Edmonton, AB, T6W 0X3.

Email: navarrete72@gmail.com Tel: H- (780) 328 4248; M- (780) 938 2940

 

Languages: Spanish, English, FrenchCitizenship: Canadian.

Legend: GMP-Good Manufacturing practices; SOP-Standard Operation Protocols; BOM- Bill of Materials; CIP-Clean in Place; SIP- Sterilization in Place; PLC-Programmable logic controller, SAP-Data management software, Power Engineer.

Keywords: project, maintenance, manager, supervisor, management, engineer, design, Microsoft Projects.

Certifications: H2S alive (2010), TDG (2010), OSSA (2012, Keyano), PST/CSTS (2012, Keyano). “Course (Date issued)”

 

CAREER PROFILE______________________________________________________

 Leadership

·   Over ten years of management experience.

·   Worked in high paced/multicultural work environments.

·   Proficiency on organizing priorities to meet aggressive deadlines of multiple projects.

·   Able to negotiate internal and external projects details and scheduling conflicts.

 

Project Management

·   Participated in technological transfer, plant design, revamping of equipment and other projects to improve the production capacity.

·   Technological transfer and project design and execution experience.

·   Application of the validation protocols (IQ, OQ, PQ) in the new facilities products of the technological transfers and revamping.

·   Experience in Scaling Up of processes.

·   Sound Knowledge of performance of pressurized vessels, industrial equipment and valves.

 

ACHIEVEMENTS_______________________________________________________

·   Participated in a Technological Transfer, which result in a venture with China and the design of a new plant (Biotech pharmaceutical Ltd, Beijing) for the production of 15 kg/year of Mabs.

·   Plant Design. Capacity expansion of CIM´s facilities from 5 to 15 Kg/year for hR3 and from 0,4 to 6 million bulbs/year for EPO.

·   Modification in the software for the CHEMAP CPS fermenters resulting in an improvement of its operation.

·   Developed database in Access to track all spare part needed to improve maintenance schedules.

 

PROFESIONAL EXPERIENCE___________________________________________

Maintenance Scheduler 2013 - Current

TransAlta. Keephills Power Plants, Alberta.

·     Prioritize and schedule all maintenance work. • Create and plan maintenance work orders.

·     Coordinate forced outage orders execution including all necessary work permits.

·     Develop and modify Preventative Maintenance plans, PM, for the plant equipment.

·     Create equipment data, functional locations, and Material's Bills-of-Materials (BOMs) in SAP.

·     Estimate cost, duration and resources for job/projects, coordinate contractor work.

·     Schedule capital projects using Primavera P6, including FO and turnarounds.

·     Facilitate routine daily, weekly, and forced outage meetings.

·     Analysis of schedule variance, KPI trends, and critical paths.

 

Plant Maintenance Specialist 2012 - 2013

Utopia Inc. Fort McMurray, Alberta.

·     Review equipment data to determine relevant assemblies, sub-assemblies and spare parts.

·     Equipment validation, gather data from specified FLOCs or Equipment, of all the plants.

·     Populate new SAP data base with equipment and material information.

·     Recommend PM and part/equipment to place in stock.

·     Create Material’s Bills-of-Materials (BOMs).

·     SAP master data review, update and clean-up; work with JDE and Livelink.

 

 

 

 

Production Supervisor 2011 - 2012

Lucerne Ice Cream Plant, Edmonton, Canada. Safeway Inc.

·     Production planning, staff scheduling and performance appraisal.

·     Supervise production and warehouse activities; shipping and receiving.

·     Analyse/create cost performance data, and production reports.

·     Coach and lead work teams towards a quality and safe work environment.

·     Monitor change over times, and activities to achieve KPI values and company due dates.

 

 Process technologist (Contract) 2010 - 2011

AFDP (UofA) Edmonton, Canada www.afdp.ualberta.ca

·     Set up and start-up of the new fermentation and purification areas.

·     Work with fermenters, separators, process tanks and related manufacturing equipment.

 

Production Supervisor 2008 - 2009

QSVBiologics Edmonton, Canada (Company declared bankruptcy)

·     Working in several projects in parallel, discerning priorities of work.

·     Interact with clients; project updates, expectations, improve relationship.

·     Write SOP, and other quality control documentation. Prepare work schedules

·     Provide solutions to technical issues. Evaluate efficiency of processes.

·     Projects planning, schedule, BOM, and due dates.

·     Staff appraisal reviews, and recruitment of new personnel.

 

Manufacturing Technologist III (Team Leader) 2007 - 2008

QSVBiologics Edmonton, Canada www.qsvbiologics.com

·   Maintain project schedule and monitor team productivity.

·   Perform calibration, maintenance, and validation of all equipment in the manufacturing department.(reactors, homogenizers, centrifuges, and laboratory equipment)

·   Provide support in troubleshooting manufacturing equipment.

 

Plant Maintenance Manager (Engineering Manager) 2002 - 2006

Center of Molecular Immunology (CIM) Havana, Cuba www.cim.sld.cu

·   Planning of plant maintenance activities and control of maintenance budget

·   Planning and coordination of employee work assignments (12 employees)

·   Searching and commercial understanding with spare parts providers.

·   Experience in process simulation, process flow diagrams (PFDs), process and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), AutoCAD, energy and material balances.

·   Participated in technological transfer, plant design, revamping of bioreactors and other projects to improve the production capacity.

 

Biotechnical Process Supervisor1997 - 2001

Center of Molecular Immunology (CIM) Havana, Cuba www.cim.sld.cu

·   Supervise the plant operations (Up Stream/ Down Stream).

·   SOP creation and enforcement, master protocol execution and deviation reports creation.

·   Developed and implemented technology project improvements to support operations at large-scale bioreactors.

 

Process Supervisor 1995 - 1997

MedSol Laboratories (Solid Drug Industry) Havana, Cuba

·   To oversee the operation in powder blending/granulation and coating in the manufacturing of tablets.

·   To control the quality of the products, operation planning and staff scheduling.

 

EDUCATION___________________________________________________________

4th Class Power Engineer. CML Course, NAIT 2013

Special Boiler Operator Certificate. ABSA2008

French course. UQAM, Montreal, Canada     2006 – 2007

MSc. Biotechnological Processes. (GPA-3.71) Havana University. Havana, Cuba 2000 – 2002

B Eng. Process Engineer (GPA-3.56) Technical University. Havana, Cuba 1990 – 1995