Plant Manager at Atlas Energy (2025-03 – Present)
Directed all operations for a 12-million-ton-per-year frac sand facility, overseeing production, maintenance, mining, dredging, safety, and logistics functions.
- Lead a team consisting of 144 hourly employees, six managers, 18 supervisors between the dredge, mine, wet plant, dry plant, maintenance, and safety.
- Reduced overall operating expenses by $1.32 per ton through process optimization, workforce development, reliability improvements, and cost-control initiatives.
- Built and developed a maintenance department from the ground up, establishing organizational structure, maintenance standards, preventive maintenance programs, and reliability-focused practices.
- Developed and implemented standardized operating procedures (SOPs) for dryer operations, improving operational consistency, equipment reliability, and production efficiency.
- Managed annual operating and capital budgets while maintaining safe, efficient, and profitable plant operations.
- Implemented and enforced a strong safety culture, tracking key KPIS, and setting up safety initiatives for the teams' buy in.
- Reduced useable product in waste from 40%-19%.
- Increased wet production from 25,000 TPD-36,00TPD with limited spend.
- Managed a monthly budget of $7.5 million.
Sr. Maintenance Manager at CHS (2022-11 – 2025-03)
Overall maintenance management of a 220 million bushel a year grain terminal.
- Commissioned $110 million dollar expansion project.
- Reduced unplanned downtime by 39%.
- Managed the mechanical, electrical, and reliability maintenance department. Responsible for 5 salaried, 22 union member, and 12 permanent contractors.
- Cultivated and drove a culture of planned and predictive maintenance within the department, enhancing operational efficiency and minimizing downtime.
- Implemented innovative techniques to streamline critical preventive maintenance (PM) processes, reducing man-hours and enhancing safety by minimizing employee exposure to high-risk tasks.
- Provided oversight, leadership, mentorship, and training to continue development and improvement of plant personnel, and maintenance leadership team.
- Developed and implemented a comprehensive reliability program, utilizing advanced techniques such as vibration analysis, oil analysis, thermography, online motor testing, GoPro inspections, automatic lubrication, and ultrasound lubrication to optimize equipment performance and reduce downtime.
- Developed long term vision for maintenance department that consists of goals and direction towards sustainability and reliability of operations.
- Developed, implemented, and tracked long-term projects, utilizing key performance indicators (KPIs) to identify areas for improvement and ensure successful outcomes.
- Experience with barge unloading equipment such as; CBU, barge haul system, gates, scales, belt conveyors, bucket elevators, trippers.
Maintenance Manager at Lehigh Hanson (2021-12 – 2022-11)
Overall management of both mechanical and electrical maintenance systems throughout plant.
- Responsible for 20 crew members, and allocation of all duties in daily plant operations.
- Provided oversight, leadership, mentorship, and training to continue development and improvement of plant personnel.
- Developed long term vision for maintenance department that consists of goals and direction towards sustainability and reliability of operations.
- Delivering continuous improvement of MTBF.
- Reviewed and approved bid documents, aided in the plant's maintenance budget; helping to provide a cost-effective and efficient budget.
- Development and refinement of the overall maintenance plan to maximize productivity and minimize downtime.
- Daily, weekly, maintenance planning, scheduling, and coordinating.
- Developed reliability inspection program for all plant operations to include both production and maintenance pm's.
- Buying, purchasing, evaluating vendors, and maintaining great working relationships.
- Creative problem solving and on-the-job flexibility to continue operations in a high stakes environment.
- Complying with MSHA regulations, safety guidelines and company guidelines by proactively managing health and safety.
Sr. Reliability Engineer at Lehigh Hanson (2021-02 – 2021-11)
- Deliver continuous improvement of OEE and MTBF (mean time between failures).
- Developed reliability inspection program, to decrease downtime and increase longevity of machinery.
- Ensured the preventative inspection program is being executed.
- Perform root cause analysis on equipment failures.
- Experienced in SAP system in planning, budgeting, purchasing and parts categorization; worked with SAP to procure and support projects with orders of services and materials.
- Developed and refined the preventative maintenance program.
- Manage, control and analyze data, records, and equipment histories to continually review and refine inspection frequencies.
- Developed vibration measurements and analysis capabilities and ensured a comprehensive program.
- Developed, planned and managed small and large scale projects; including project planning and project management for Outage.
- Managed the lubrication program, including inspection of oil analysis and testing.
- Managed union and non-union employees on small to large scale projects to meet and improve equipment safety, regulatory compliance, reliability, performance, and maintenance costs, to achieve desired product quality and production rates.
- Knowledge in kilns, rotary, ball mills, crushers, fans, conveyors, elevators, slurry pumps, f.k. pumps, and separators.
Maintenance Supervisor at Lehigh Hanson (2020-08 – 2021-02)
- Supervised crew of over a dozen union employees.
- Experience with kilns, raw grinding and finishing mills, crushers, fans, material conveying systems, bucket elevators both chain and belt, air slides, slurry pumps, f.k pumps.
- Lead a union orientated workforce and assigned specific daily work activities on the approved schedule and set expectations, oversight, and coordination of daily work.
- Worked closely with maintenance managers, plant managers, productions managers, maintenance planners and other staff to meet plant's goals.
- Ordered equipment parts and put in work orders using the SAP software.
- Provided training, mentoring, performance improvement and career development to hourly union millwrights.
Wet Plant Production Supervisor at Signal Peak Silica (2018-01 – 2020-03)
Strong understanding of production strategies for a large-scale mining operations.
- Lead two crews of ten plus over a 2M TPY wash plant frac sand operation.
- Kept accurate and detailed records of personnel progress and productivity.
- Maintained clean and well-organized production areas to avoid violations or unnecessary work delays due to hazards or equipment failure.
- Trained all employees and supervisors on plant process.
- Communicated issues, quality specifications with departments and customers.
- Set and made aggressive targets for employees to drive company success and strengthen motivation.
- Constantly worked with quality control to ensure top line production.
- Conducted safety audits and investigated plant quality issues.
- Assisted managerial duties such as scheduling, payroll, employee relations and coordination with department heads.
- Performed repairs, replacements and general maintenance on mining equipment.
- Ensure compliance of both company and MSHA guidelines.
Maintenance Tech III at Signal Peak Silica (2018-01 – 2020-03)
- Inspected and tested machinery and equipment to diagnose malfunctions.
- Installed replacement parts and components as well as entire systems.
- Used problem-solving skills to alleviate issues efficiently with minimal supervision.
- Worked with production to predict failures.
- Completed partial or full dismantling of equipment to quickly repair or replace defective components and restore functionality.
- Trained junior maintenance professionals on correct repair and cleaning procedures.
- Worked heavily with conveyors, pumps, dryers, and rotex to complete knowledgeable inspections and skilled repair.
Maintenance Tech at Fairmount Santrol (2016-01 – 2018-01)
- Performed electrical and mechanical repairs of production equipment.
- Worked with conveyors, pumps, crushers, dewatering screens, dryers, hydrosizers and rotex to complete knowledgeable inspections and skilled repairs.
- Fabricated and welded structural repairs.
