Steve Kindschuh

About Steve Kindschuh

Cheese has been my life for 40 years. Started working at Park Cheese when I was 15 and have been fascinated with the cheese making process ever since. From those beginnings in making Provolone, Romano, and Parmesan in a very manual operation - to my recent history of large automated production lines I have been lucky to experience a wide range of how to make cheese. I\'ve been a facilitator of projects in food manufacturing facilities. Specializing in process design and start up environments in the cheese industry. I have worked in the Technical Services area for many years. In my 16+ years at Leprino Foods I worked with engineering, production, quality, R&D, and production planning to help start up multiple multi-million dollar process lines and factories. Additionally I wrote SOP\'s, trained production employees, and performed process audits. I joined Tetra Pak in 2019 after 3 years serving as GEA\'s North American Cheese Expert for 3 years. Prior to that I led the Pasta Filata (mozzarella/pizza cheese/provolone) Technical Services group for Saputo Cheese USA. In this role I worked with Plant Management to maximize plant profitability and implement new technologies to the factories. Colleagues know me as honest and trustworthy, always putting their interests ahead of my own. I work well alone, but am at my best collaborating with others in making process improvements. I can be reached at s••••••••@yahoo.com.

Experience

1. Sr Cheese Application Expert

   Tetra Pak

   Jun 2019 — Present · Visalia, CA, US

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Bachelor of Science (BS)

  1984 — 1988

• Oakfield High School

  High School diploma

  1979 — 1983

Skills

• Manufacturing
• Project Engineering
• Food Microbiology
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Business Process Improvement
• Haccp
• Microsoft Excel
• Continuous Improvement
• Ingredients
• R&D
• Dairy Products
• Gmp
• Dairy
• Food Science
• Extrusion
• Food Manufacturing
• Sop Development
• Instrumentation
• Food
• Food Safety
• Production Planning
• Process Control
• Product Development
• Enzymes
• Food Processing
• Food Engineering
• Food Technology
• Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (Haccp)
• Cheese
• Kepner-Tregoe
• Food Industry
• Start-Ups
• Sensory Evaluation
• Pasteurization
• Process Engineering
• Technical Support
• Technical Training
• Process Improvement