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Accountable for the overall management of the facility Mechanical, Electrical & Instrument/Control activities at a Waste to Energy Facility. This includes long term planning & scheduling of all maintenance activities on boilers, turbines and associated equipment. Responsible for providing annual budgeting information and monthly forecasting up-dates. Direct the mechanical supervisor/lead technicians and contractors on all daily and long term maintenance activities including prioritizing work activities, preventive maintenance scheduling, scheduled/unscheduled boiler, turbine generator outages and plant preservation projects. Identifies deficiencies and implementing cost effective repairs, this is accomplished by directing Supervisors, Planners and Technical maintenance employees to troubleshoot, repair, inspect, improve, maintain and predict equipment condition using PM and predictive tools.

E&I SuperintendentManage all electrical and instrumentation systems across the mill; which includes repairs, preventative maintenance, equipment inspections, and maintenance records, safety, work and material standards. • Develop and drive to completion, action plans to address inefficiencies and repeat equipment failures. Focus on finding and eliminating root causes of problems. • Coordinate shift E&I activities with Day maintenance to ensure effective problem resolution• Set department objectives to improve reliability, safety, training, quality, cost and productivity.• Responsible for a total of 50 salaried and hourly personnel's development. Has direct responsibility for Process Control Engineers, E&I supervisors and E&I technicians.• Act as a resource for safety and technical issues and participate comply and support safety programs to achieve Company goals.• Support and comply with environmental management policies and systems. • Create an environment of respect and trust for our co-workers and customers.• Empower and engage co-workers to improve our performance and lower our costs.Experience:-5S Program Development-Asset Care-Asset Management-Auditing-Budgeting including Capital-Capital Projects-Condition Based Monitoring-Continuous Improvement Management-Curriculum Development-Curriculum Management-Equipment Reliability-Establishment and Analysis of CMMS -Estimates-Failure Analysis-Instructional Development-Kaizen-KPI Development-Lean Manufacturing-Logistics-Maintenance Management-Management-Maintenance Supervision-Mentor-Negotiations-Operations Supervision-Performance Evaluation-Predictive Maintenance-Preventative Maintenance-Process Improvement-Program Development-Project Management-Quality Assurance-Sarbanes-Oxley-Six Sigma-Strategic Planning-Subordinate Management-Talent Acquisition-Training-Trend Analysis-World Class Manufacturing

• Supervise and coordinate for Power Plant major overhauls. Oversee various contractors (GE, Siemens, Mitsubishi, Electrical & Instrument Control contractors), in Steam and Combustion Turbine Overhauls, Generator Testing / Rewind / Re-wedge, Transformers, ESP, Balance of Plant activities, Digital Control upgrades and DCS installations.• Plan, coordinate and execute Major Plant Outage Turnarounds that will minimize cost, while adhering to our team’s safety culture and quality objective.• Lead, and strongly advocate safety in all activities. Lead by example including execution of regular safety audits, safety contacts, near miss reports, safety meetings, incident investigation, and a member of the plant safety committee.• Strives for “Continuous improvements” by evaluating performance systematically. Solves process problems and implement solutions. Verify improvement by measuring the results.• Develop key metrics to track performance in a balanced scorecard manner with emphasis on “leading indicators”.• Partners with Engineering Fleet Teams on large capital projects and executes projects to expand plant production capacity, cost and quality. • Demonstrates excellent interpersonal and teambuilding skills.• Solid communication, planning, and organizational skills, always maintaining a clear and transparent objective with the team.• Ability to perform training in both one-on-one and group settings.• Ability to lead effective meetings. Strong desire to exceed expectations.• Ensure Contractor teams are orientated properly to our safe work practices and policies. Manage and establish various required Clearances (LOTO) and permits are implemented for appropriate compliance.• Large role is resolving “Major Exceptions”, utilizing Engineering Fleet Teams, OEM’s and field techs personnel towards sound solutions. • Supervise Union Craft employees, maintaining good work relationship and adhering to Bargaining Agreement Contract.

PRAXAIR INC., (N.J.) 6/2001 – 4/2005• Instrument Control Supervisor for multiple Cryogenic Air Separation Plants that supply product (Nitrogen and Oxygen) to our critical customers over a 40 mile pipeline. • Handled routine and non-routine problems associated with the operation and optimization for a variety of plants. Duties were complex in nature and critical to the support of external customers. • Resolved problems for unattended plants through remote operations using advanced control systems. Provided troubleshooting assistant to plant technicians, start and shut down plants per customer requests, and communicate with other functions to insure 100% product supply. • Performed quality assurance reviews; managed customer calls, crisis management calls, power curtailment calls, and customer service calls. • Consistently maintained compliance of product reliability, quality assurance, environmental and government programs. • Managed and Implemented Quality Assurance Program to maintain compliance to ISO and contractual commitments. • Utilized tools such as “Cornerstone” software and “FLUKE” Docking Calibrator to manage Quality Matrix, and generate the supporting reports.• Maintained, repaired and calibrated Process Analyzers. Also experienced in the following Analyzers; Teledyne, Servomex, Rosemount, Ametek, Beckman, MSA.• Implemented and supported new Predictive/Preventative Maintenance software. Valid in giving appropriate users the ability to review, schedule, material inventory, plan availability and budget project. • Serviced and maintained Data Base for Operator Interface Unit (OIU), Windows NT, FIX INTELLUTION software.• Serviced and maintained PLC (Allen Bradley) and logic on Engineering Work Station.• Performed Meter Calibrations/ Proof at customer sights for billing purposes.

GAYLORD CONTAINER CORP, (CA.) 4/1997 – 6/2001Instrument/Electrical Shift Supervisor• Instrument and Electrical Shift Supervisor for a recycle Paper Mill and Cogen facility (67 Megawatt) ranging in repairs and maintenance on automated valves/positioners, various transmitters( Dp,psi), I/P's, pH meters, flow meters, 2300/480 vac motor starters and controls, VFD's PLC's• Demonstrated at a commendable level; troubleshooting and maintenance skills relative to DCS, PLC, Medium voltage electricity, electrical distribution systems and related modular controls systems. Competent computer background on PCs, Windows 98 and Windows NT, emission controls, distributed logic controllers and pneumatics.• Completed Journeyman Plus 3 program, combining a variety of skill sets in electrical, instrumentation and mechanical.• Programmable Logic Controllers, PLC Interpret, edit and format logic programs.• AC and DC Variable Speed Drives and Soft Starters, maintain and troubleshoot.• Operated and maintained 60 Hz main distribution system.• Gas Turbine and Conventional generation plants.• Air Condition and Refrigeration Plants.• Elevators/conveyors logic circuitry.• Proficient in AC / DC Motor maintenance and diagnostic.