Carlos Valenzuela Orozco

Chemical Engineer, experience in food industry (QA, Food Safety and Production) and gas/oil industry (process engineer).

Raw Milk/Cheese Production Supervisor – Panhandle Products (August 2024 – current, TX)

• Supervision of operators and processes of the Raw Milk plant: milk receiving dairy lines, receiving and loading bays,

centrifugal separators, ultra filtration membranes, standardizing system and HTST unit.

• Supervision of operators and processes in the different areas of cheese floor: vats (cheese cooking), draining belts, salt

addition belt, block former towers, auto-baggers and betavac sealing, collator, vacuum chambers, 640 seal line, box maker

rooms and robot stacker.

• Process analysis to identify causes of equipment failure.

• Equipment troubleshooting.

• Meetings with Production, Maintenance, QA-Food safety departments.

• Meeting of regulatory procedures, GMPs and food safety-ccp compliances.

• Personnel management and staff training.

• HMI Production and CIP operation.

• Milk and cheese FOSS analysis, lab sampling, Charm Milk Drug Residue and titration testing.

UF Operator – Panhandle Products (April 2024 – July 2024, TX)

• Monitoring and operating Ultra filtration units, centrifugal separators, HTST, standardization/blending and CIP systems in

Raw milk plant. Production and/or processing of Raw milk, UF Skim, Cream, Raw skim, Permeate and milk blends for

cheese production.

• Mass balances for production planning (considering yields) and inventory rotation proposals.

• General support in Raw Milk and Cheese plant.

• Meeting of regulatory procedures, GMPs and food safety compliances.

• Equipment troubleshooting and diagnosis of equipment failures.

• HMI Production and CIP operation.

• Milk FOSS analysis, lab sampling and titration testing.

Production Supervisor – Kansas Dairy Ingredients Cheese Co (July 2023 – Jan 2024, KS)

• Supervision of operators and processes in raw milk plant: Unload and storage of raw milk, storage and load of final products;

HTST pasteurization, Ultra filtration units, Reverse Osmosis Water Polishing systems, Centrifugal Separation and CIP

systems. Production and processing of UF Skim, UF Milk, Cream, Raw Skim, Permeate, Liquid WPC and milk blends for

cheese and coffee cream production.

• Mass balances for production planning and inventory rotation decisions.

• Personnel management and staff training.

• Collaboration with QA, maintenance staff and upper management to ensure productivity.

• Meeting of regulatory procedures, GMPs and food safety compliances.

• Equipment troubleshooting and diagnosis of equipment failures.

• HMI Production and CIP operations.

• Milk FOSS analysis, lab sampling, Charm Milk Drug Residue and titration testing.

Quality Assurance Tech - Seaboard Foods (Jan 2019 – June 2023, OK)

• Conducting audits to ensure compliance of quality and safety specifications.

• Maintaining accurate records in compliance of QA/HACCP department and regulatory agencies (USDA, SQF). Experience in

cut floor, kill floor (including Harvest), coolers, storage, packing and shipping areas.

• Monitoring Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP's), Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) and Critical Control Points

(CCP's).

• Sampling for lab tests.

• Active communication with QA, production and maintenance teams.

• Safety walks.

Process Engineer/Gas and oil facilities analyst - IPN (Sept 2016 - Dec 2018, Mexico)

• Inspections in gas and oil facilities to analyze processes and systems to describe them in an operational context report as

part of PEMEX’s operational reliability system. Worked with gas/oil separation units, gun barrel tanks, gas collection stations

and gas compression stations, gas sweetening plants and dehydration gas plants (absorption and distillation columns).

• Meetings with maintenance and operative personnel.

• Quality Assurance: Review and correction of documents, diagrams, drawings and plans.

• Interpretation and drawing of PID, PFD, tanks, silos, vessels and piping.

• Personnel supervision.

• General support/consulting to drawing, internal/external corrosion, and non-destructive testing departments.

Process Engineer (Intern) - Engineering & Business Process Consultant (Jan 2016 - June 2016, Mexico)

• Quality Assurance: Review and correction of documents, diagrams (PID/PFD), drawings, data sheets and plans.

• Development of calculations and control logic diagrams to validate engineering designs.

• Dynamic simulation of control systems, fluid transportation and centrifugal pumping processes.

• Sizing of valves, pipes and pumps.

• General support to process, mechanical, safety, drawing, control and instrumentation engineering departments.

Chemical Engineer 

Instituto Tecnológico de Veracruz