Rico Smith

Maintenance and machine operations professional with extensive experience in industrial production, preventive and corrective maintenance, pneumatic machinery, conveyor systems, troubleshooting, and equipment repair. Skilled in hand and power tools, machine setup and adjustment, safety procedures, quality checks, and maintaining equipment reliability in fast-paced warehouse and manufacturing environments. Experienced in supporting production teams, reducing downtime, and completing scheduled maintenance documentation.

Lead Maintenance Technician - Technicolor

(2005-01 - 2022)

• Mechanically repair/adjust pneumatic machinery to run efficient
• Preventive maintenance
• Conveyors, motors, gear boxes, boxing machine, labelers, belt drives
• More than 10 years of warehouse production and quality experience with forklift operating experience
• Quickly responding to internal service calls regarding malfunctioning equipment and completed repairs effectively.

Maintenance Technician - GXO

(2020 - 2022)

• Part Replacement
• Ensuring emergency stops, limits switches, and interlocks are working properly.
• Preventive maintenance
• Inspections of vents, rollers,, conveyors, pulleys, motors, sensors, and other conveyor components for wear or damage
• Performing alignment checks

Maintenance - Visible Supply Chain Management

(2022 - 2023)

• Assessed equipment operating conditions and mechanically adjust settings to improve performance and equipment longevity.
• Review technical documentation to perform equipment maintenance and repairs.
• Use of hand power tools to perform duties.
• Troubleshooting to locate any mechanical or electrical errors

Mechanical Technician - Prairie Farms

(2023 - 2025)

• Performed duties on carton machinery, cooler rooms, vacuum pumps, silo tanks.
• Loading dock repairs
• Followed safety guidelines while performing repairs in a food grade environment.
• Minor repairs in boiler rooms.
• Forklift operations
• Scissor lift

High School Diploma - Overton High (2004)