Saheed Odunola
Suwanee,MI
Summary
Dedicated Senior Process Engineer with over 12 years of experience in the Manufacturing Industry, spearheading innovative process improvements and enhancing operational efficiency. Recognized for Award winning continuous improvement Engineer, in process improvement with effective team performances, safety, cost reductions and overall plant efficiency improvement. Experienced with process optimization, having implemented strategies that improve production efficiency and reduce waste. Utilizes analytical skills and technical knowledge to identify and solve complex issues. Strong understanding of industry best practices and regulatory standards, ensuring high-quality outcomes in all projects.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Process Engineer/Maintenance Engineer
Hormel Foods
01.2020 - Current
- Evaluate production process daily and Integrate improvement opportunities for to enhance efficiency, reduce waste and cost, increase quality and safety effectively
- Resource Allocation: Manage staffing, hiring, training, and workload prioritization to meet departmental and project goals
- Optimized and maintained existing legacy system- lead the technical team to design, improve and optimized such as PLC, to reduces process roadblocks.
- Provide functional direction and technical support to reliability, operations, and maintenance team
- Execute Requisitions and Generate Purchase Order for project work for Contractors.
- Performance Management: Set annual goals, conduct performance reviews, create individual development plans (IDP), and provide continuous feedback.
- Collaborate with other departmental leaders and team on architecture, deployment, and management of new system integration, optimization of the process
- Collaborate with Project engineers on project development from planning, execution, and evaluation or any plant site initiatives from inception.
- Developed and designed layout for work flows, and identify appropriate machines to achieve production lines cost effectives, safety, and high throughput.
- Timeline Compliance: Ensure projects are completed according to agreed timelines and within budget constraints.
- Maintenance Strategy: Ensure 24/7 support availability for critical production systems, addressing upsets and outages.
- Implement Standard Operating procedure for Update Standard Operating procedure for the plant process and equipment
- Daily tracking of Unplanned Downtime or Incident Rate: Number of unplanned stops and mean time to recovery (MTTR).
- Validation and Testing: Lead Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) activities for new systems in our plant.
- Facilitated Extensive technical support for production, and Maintenance teams as the SME
- Continuous Improvement (CI): Drive initiatives to enhance system performance, stability, and reliability through advanced control strategies
- Improve utilization of predictive technologies to reduce unscheduled downtime of the machinery
- System Reliability: Oversee routine inspections and troubleshooting to ensure maximum uptime for PLC/SCADA and manufacturing equipment
- Implement timely, effective corrective actions after the RCA findings.
- Integrate documentation and reporting procedures, cycle time analyses, capacity studies and line balancing data
- Track KPI daily to monitor the progress of process and identify any inefficiencies/gap in the process and implement optimization strategies to remove the bottleneck from the process.
- Upgrade field devices, communications
- Proficient in implementation/optimization and utilization of automation software ,hardware and mechanical control system.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensure all automated systems adhere to internal standards, safety regulations (e.g., OSHA, ANSI), and industry standards.
- Supervise Contractor projects to ensure the projects adhere to design plans, safety regulation and site qualities standards.
- Identify, Implement, effective projects to reduce losses and increase OEE: rates, yields, capacity, schedule attainment
- Attend meetings, established, and maintain close relationship with other departmental managers, and their teams (Project Engineering, Plant Operations, Plant Quality)
- Strengthened safety and compliance in regulated manufacturing environments.
- Query/Utilization of Asset Center to track any programming modification/ changes.
- Improved Mean Time Between Failure and reduce Mean Time To Repair through data-driven strategies.
- Foster Autonomous operation all across the plant which improve the plant efficiency.
Automation/Electro-mechanical Engineer
Alcon Manufacturing
12.2010 - 03.2020
- Collaborate with R&D on new projects/designs from inception stages to Factory acceptance testing and ensure effective transition of the implementation into our process
- Implementing projects that drastically reduce production downtime of the equipment and save the cost of electricity usage
- Authored Advance PLC and process training for maintenance teams to reduce downtimes, and increase product quality.
- Improve utilization of predictive technologies to reduce unscheduled downtime of the machinery
- Facilitate implementation of continuous improvement actions.
- Established, and monitor reliability Key performance Indicator using SAP/ MRP
- Lead production downtime event in troubleshooting and diagnose difficult, infrequent problems with process equipment. Air Logic/Pneumatics/Hydraulic/Mechanical troubleshooting/ Plc
- Directed and monitor maintenance team progression while contributing to their needs, as the first line of escalation list on site support on any production issues)
- Design or Build a prototype for projects for full understanding of the equipment's .
- Design and program appropriate Human Machine Interface (HMI).
- Coach, and mentor the maintenance teams in troubleshooting
- Review schematics of new equipment's before installation and after of the packaging lines.
- Orchestrated continuous improvement process, capital projects from the engineering stand point to equipment's modifications, and all other aspect involved.
- Provide Technical support, and analysis of KPI for better production efficiency
- Attend daily, weekly and monthly meetings on PI that are impacting the KPI, and providing constructive feedback on it.
- Collaborated fully in new designing and development of engineering projects from inception to completions
- Attend Stakeholders meeting to discuss improvement progression, and the sustainability of the modifications and any other concerns like variations, non-conformities.
- Programming and Configuration of HMI/Graphics Software: Factory-Talk ME for Panel-View+, RS-View Supervisory Edition (SE)
- Supervising contractors on-site at Alcon Johns-creek, as well as Personnel.
- Crafted, and starts up industrial control systems used for controlling equipment, machinery and de-bugging of all equipment
- Programming of PAC, and troubleshooting of the hardware, including CPUs, I/O modules, and bus interfaces
- Supervising contractors on-site at Alcon Johns-creek, as well as Personnel.
- Carried out mechanical modification of the packaging line for higher production efficiency
- Actively involve in all phase of automation system from design, development, test ,installation, start-up and support.
- Planned 6 Extraction Module projects from beginning to end, focusing on timelines, budgets and mechanical feasibility.
Packaging/Continous Imp. Engineer
Peachtree Packaging &Display
07.2006 - 12.2010
- Leverage my Analytical skills, Problem solving skills, process mapping skills, (causes and effect, methodologies skills-Six-Sigma) to innovatively streamline the process.
- Leverage Risk and Lifecycle management to evaluate potential risks, predict system performance using modelling, and optimize asset lifespans.
- Leverage Process mapping skills to Identify projects related to cost reduction, quality improvement and increase in production efficiency (Product Divergent issues on packaging line)
- Provide support when an issue occurs that is beyond the maintenance technician’s ability to resolve.
- Supervised the teams on assigned tasks and followed through task executions.
- Collectively work with upper management to keep the plant and all manufacturing assets on a continuous improvement path for quality and efficiency.
- Engage with area leaders and team members to help them understand their areas of opportunity through effective communication of wastes and losses through effective data communication and communicates the status of all productivity efforts to both the plant management. Provides documentation of results and benefits achieved to the plant staff.
- Design process control systems, create/modify site specific drawings, specify/order material and develop supporting documentation.
- Knowledge of opportunities that drive incorporation of appropriate Lean tool usage such as 5S, time study, capacity modeling, standard work, material flow and value stream mapping.
- Support new equipment installations, and existing equipment relocations as needed.
- Design and implement components and devices that improve our equipment.
- Identify weak points in equipment’s automation and assist with developing and implementing solutions to resolve the weak points.
- Provide support for mechanical/ control troubleshooting to reduce downtime and enhance production efficiency by understanding the major cause of downtime and finding a greater resolution.
- Implements process improvement, and collaborate collectively with the teams, and the leaders to reduce equipment’s down-time, and eliminate fire hazards, production loss, and eliminate unsafe working environments at the bay production floor.
- Led design and development of packaging solutions to enhance product visibility and customer engagement.
Mechanical Engineer
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL
04.2003 - 10.2003
- Perform quality inspection, reviews protocols, qualification, and validation procedures documented by the organization and follows those procedures.
- Collaborates, and cross function with other teams to support productivity, quality, process.
- Review and analyze the sustainability of the modifications made.
- Review all available engineering, geoscience, and field data to help define risk and strategy for new bonding opportunities and existing commercial surety accounts.
- Conducting engineering and economic analysis to determine viability of proposals as well as the short- and long-term benefits to the Company.
- Participating in environmental analysis and other environmental and land use planning documents
- Created, prototyped boiler and tested Simulation systems for UCH clients.
Education
Bachelor’s Degree - Science
KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY
Kennesaw, GA01-2021
Associate Degree - Mechanical Engineering
THE POLYTECHNIC IB. NIGERIA
Ibadan, Nigeria01-2004
Skills
- Proficient in analytical, and problem-solving Skills
- Proficient in Allen Bradley Software packages
- Process Optimization
- Programming languages such has Structure text, functional block, ladder logic, C
- Lean manufacturing principles
- Project management
- Expert in Allen-Bradley (software packages) Control Logix, Compact Logix and Beck-hoff Plc’s packages
- Profound knowledge of Auto-Card
- Proficient in Communication protocol such as Ethernet/IP, Serial Com and so on
- Skilled in root cause failure analysis of the equipment (RCA)
- GMPs, CAPA, HACCP, SAP, cGMP, SPC, HAZMAT and OSHA regulations
- Competent understanding of production metrics in compliance with FDA regulations
- Process development
- Team collaboration
- Process flow analysis
- Documents and reports
- Continuous improvement
- Manufacturing execution system
- Equipment optimization
Accomplishments
- Optimizing Efficiency Lead a cross functional team to enhance production system, reduce cost(rework), and improve safety system resulting in 35% increase in operational efficiency.
- Innovative and Design Award Winning Process Engineer for driving 2025 Initiative that improve overal plant efficiency that has surpassed current Benchmark all across the Hormel Plant in the U.S.
- Collaboration and Communication. Improved project outcomes by cultivating effective communication between cross-functional teams and external partners
Certification
- Refrigerating Engineers and Technician Association Certified.
- Allen-Bradley Certified.
- Lean Six Sigma Trained (Black Belt)
Timeline
Process Engineer/Maintenance Engineer
Hormel Foods
01.2020 - Current
Automation/Electro-mechanical Engineer
Alcon Manufacturing
12.2010 - 03.2020
Packaging/Continous Imp. Engineer
Peachtree Packaging &Display
07.2006 - 12.2010
Mechanical Engineer
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL
04.2003 - 10.2003
Bachelor’s Degree - Science
KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY
Associate Degree - Mechanical Engineering
THE POLYTECHNIC IB. NIGERIA