Packaging Corporation of America September 30 2024 to April 2026
Mechanical Maintenance Planner Area 2 ( Power and Recovery)
- Manage all Contractor Mechanical Maintenance activities in Power and Recovery, which includes 5 Boilers and all the support equipment.
- Write Scopes of work, Receive Quotes, Submit Requisitions for Purchase Orders for work and Parts required for Projects.
- Work with Supervisor and others to create Plans and Schedules for Daily work as well as Outage Projects.
- Manage Bill of Materials for Equipment in Area, Spare parts and Vendors
- Build Outage schedules in Microsoft Project
- Manage and Schedule 5 Annual Outages throughout the Year,
- Fill in for area Supervisor when needed.
ECO Water Riply MS August 2024 to September 2024
Maintenance Manager
- Lead a team of Technicians over 3 Shifts of operation
- Manage all maintenance activities at the Plant
- Mentored the technicians, train and inspired them to create a better Team environment.
- Attend Daily and Weekly Management Staff Meetings, to Report out on Equipment Status and Projects Updates.
Brown Forman / Independent Stave Company Clifton Mill Clifton TN March 2018 to June 28 2024
Maintenance Supervisor
- Lead a team of Technicians over 3 Shifts of operation
- Manage all maintenance activities at the Mill
- Manage CMMS system for Work Orders and PM Tracking
- Manage Projects for Equipment replacement and new equipment Installation from concept to completion.
- I have written Standard Work and Job Risk Assessments for maintenance.
- Managed Spare parts inventory. Ordering and vendor selection for various supplies needed for manufacturing repairs and Projects.
- Mentored the technicians, train and inspired them to create a better Team environment.
- Attend Weekly Management Staff Meetings, to Report out on Projects and Discuss upcoming Projects.
- When necessary, I jump in and lend a hand, assist technicians with troubleshooting and making repairs.
- All Projects were completed on time and on or below budget, with the least amount of impact to production possible.
Praxis Industries Savannah, TN December 2016 to September 2017
Maintenance Manager
- Lead a team of Technicians for coverage for 12 to 14 hours of operation.
- Implement a CMMS system for Work order, and PM tracking.
- Reduced overtime by 20% by staggering maintenance shifts and increased productivity
- Gather Quotes for various Projects and manage the project from concept to completion
- Setup a vendor and implemented an automatic / consigned stocking system for hardware, common electrical / plumbing supplies and hydraulic fittings / hoses with press and fittings.
o This has eliminated wasted time spent daily on easter egg hunts for common need parts.
- I have written up standard work for maintenance.
- Control Spare parts inventory. Ordering and vendor selection for various supplies needed for manufacturing repairs.
- Mentored the technicians, train and inspired them to create a better Team environment.
- Attend daily Staff Meetings, to understand production demands and issues.
- Attend and sometime lead the Employee Engagement meetings, to gain better employee relations and improve employee retention, as well as learn different way to engage the employees.
- Proactively engage with production to schedule maintenance that needs to be performed.
- When necessary, I jump in and lend a hand, assist technicians with troubleshooting and making repairs.
AeCom / ATS Caterpillar Corinth MS Plant Contracted Maintenance 2009 to Nov 2016
AeCom June 2015 – November 2016
Maintenance Contracting Company for Caterpillar
Lead Tech.
- Dispatching of work orders to the technicians according to their skill levels.
- Troubleshooting and repair of Test Cell, Fanuc Robot, Mazak, Cincinnati Mills with Fanuc controls, and many other types of equipment used with in the Caterpillar facility our contract supports.
- Maintaining 800 pieces of equipment including 40 CNC Machines and robots.
- Became acting Maintenance Manager for 9 months leading a maintenance team of 9 on day shift and 4 on 2nd shift and 3 on 3rd shift.
- Left for promotion.
ATS December 2009 – June 2015
Maintenance Contracting Company for Caterpillar Plant Operations
Maintenance Technician II-
- Primarily responsible for Test Cells at CAT Corinth.
- These duties consist of Calibrations, PM’s, as well as, troubleshooting any equipment issues.
- When I started the test cells were having 6 to 7 trouble calls per day and 1 to 2 hours of downtime per day o Reduced downtime by installing preprogrammed parts.
o Reduced trouble calls and increased production by 25%.
- Secondary responsibilities were to assist taking trouble calls throughout the Caterpillar site.
- I have work experience with Fanuc Robots, Mazak, Cincinnati Mills, Ingersoll-Rand washers, G&L Mills, and many other types of equipment used at the Caterpillar facility.
- Maintaining 800 pieces of equipment including 40 CNC Machines and robots.
- Predictive Maintenance duties; Vibratory Analysis, Thermal Scanning and Ultrasonic Scanning, collecting data and generating report on a semi- annual basis.
- Company lost the contract and AeCom picked it up.
United Stainless, Inc. September 2003 – December 2009
Manufacturer of pipe and tubes for automotive, marine industries
Maintenance Technician-
- Responsible for troubleshooting and maintaining computerized and programmable controlled equipment.
o Among these were 7 Stainless Steel Tubing Mills with support equipment, 2 Link 6800, and 4 4900 Ink Jet Printers, and Rofin Laser for welding.
- On the job experience with program modifications, program replacement and troubleshooting with Allen-Bradley PLC-5 and SLC 500, Electrical wiring of 110v and 480v,
- Installation of new equipment, along with all general maintenance duties.
- Paycut of 25% and eliminated profit sharing in downturn and I was recruited to ATS
Applied Materials July 1995 – November 2001
May 2001 – November 2001- Austin, Texas
Manufacturing Engineer - Responsible for Updating drawing for manufacturability.
- (DMR) Defective Material Return for refurbish line and work with Materials Handling department on all return products through the (DMR) Defective Material Return process.
- Laid off after 9/11.
March 2000 – May 2001 – Austin, Texas
Project Manager –
- Responsible for Managing (DMR) Process and (RTS) Return to Stock Process for Building 32 Final Test.
- Leading the 5S Team for the building cleanroom and Safety Team for Manufacturing.
- Accomplishments:
o Reduced Variance Accounts for DMR’s from $1.8 million to under $100k.
o Reduced RTS Materials variances from 200 + items to under 30 items.
December 1997 – March 2000 – Austin, Texas
Factory Product Support Engineer –
- Responsible for Technical Support for Manufacturing and being Divisional Representative for Manufacturing.
- Duties included: Divisional Representative for all Zero Defect Control and Cycle Time Reduction projects to ensure all Field found issues were addressed and evaluated value add of projects.
- Assisted Project Managers as Technical Advisor with Critical Customer Source Inspections and Configuration Issues.
- Core Team Member for two Installation and Warranty Steering Committee Projects.
- Gather and distribute technical information to the appropriate personnel for New Products, and Field Issues.
- Support Manufacturing Engineering organization with Cycle Time Reduction efforts and Implementation of Red Book.
- Rewrite the Tier I Start up procedure with the help of LSO Group and Field Inputs.
- Worked with the field on Start up Non-conformances to resolve them in a timely manner.
July 1995 – December 1997 – Dallas, Texas / Orlando, Florida
Customer Engineer –
- Responsible for Startup, Maintaining and Troubleshooting Simi- Conductor Processing Equipment on Customer Sites. Systems Champion on 5500, 5200 and P5000 Applied Materials Mainframes for Start up and assisted three other 5500, one 5200, and one P5000 Start ups.
- Also, Assisted with WXZ Chamber retrofits.
- Assisted Total Product Support Engineers with numerous WXZ problem systems in Florida, Maine, Texas and Belgium. Primary Shift coverage for Etch, DCVD, PVD and MCVD on various contracts.
- Assisted customer with site preparations prior to system arrival.
- Worked in 5500 PVD Final test for 5 weeks and 4 weeks Final Test to expedite first 2 5500’s for Twinstar.
Purodenso – Jackson, Tennessee October 1993 – July 1995
Maintenance Technician B – manufacturing oil filters for the automotive industry
- Responsible for maintaining and troubleshooting computerized and programmable controlled equipment.
- Among these were 12 each 150-ton automated plastic injection molding presses and 8 each 550-ton plastic injection molding presses, as well as all of the production inspection equipment.
- On the job experience with program modifications, program replacement and troubleshooting with Allen-Bradley PLC-2, PLC-5, Slc-150, SLC-500 and Mitsubishi F1 Series and A Series programmable controllers.
- Electrical wiring of 110v, 220v and 480v, along with all general Maintenance duties.
