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Middleton, Wisconsin, United States

Baraboo, WI

Baraboo, WI

Richland Center, WI

• Oversaw plant maintenance and engineering departments with dotted line responsibility over plant controls and process excellence departments. Utilized capabilities of department to develop sustainable processes..
• Improved maintenance practices on the production floor through skills training for technicians. Reduced mean time to repair on production lines from 4.4 hours to 1.4 hours.
• Increased number of PM work orders by 435% with an on time completion rate of 85%, which reduced downtime due to equipment failure by 32%.
• Improved work order process flow, including scheduling, planning, and bin kitting, which improved EAM utilization by technicians from 47% to 73%.
• Guided SCADA deployment and implementation of electronic downtime reporting for production lines.
• Lead and facilitated Kaizen events to improve plant processes and performance

Richland Center, WI

• Served as Schreiber Foods representative on the Richland Center Renewable Energy Operating Committee. Provided guidance to RCRE leadership team around plant performance, equipment upgrades, and capital and operational.
• Developed and oversaw RCRE operating and capital budgets, monitored throughout the year and authorized additional or modified capital spending.
• Participated in board meetings to review facility and contractor performance and ratify RCRE budget.
• Member of the Sludge Disposal Working Group, which investigated alternative disposal methods for waste water treatment sludge to reduce operating costs.

Richland Center, WI

• Developed and executed capital projects to increase plant production capabilities, upgrade plant infrastructure, and launch new products in a contract manufacturing environment. Directed $20M in capital projects within.
• Evaluated process mass balance and executed $4.8M project to double strained Greek yogurt capacity from 25M lbs. to 50M lbs. within 8 months.
• Lead $2.4M project to install warm bowl separation and heat treatment process, saving $657k annually.
• Developed the concept for, and managed, $2.3M capital project to construct a mezzanine above an existing packaging line to support the launch of a new multipack product.
• Executed $940k project to upgrade all 6 plant pasteurized CIP systems to a custom user-defined control and reporting system.
• Hazwoper Incident Commander during ammonia release to atmosphere.

Le Mars, IA

• Process Engineer I - April 2005 - September 2006Plant Engineer I - September 2006 - May 2007Plant Engineer II - May 2007 - October 2008Plant Engineer III - October 2008 - September 2010 Managed over $7M in capital.
• Developed concept for, and managed, $1.7M project to increase plant production capabilities by shifting production lines to optimize run rates of high demand products, saving $1.4M annually.
• Developed concept for, and co-managed $750k project to optimize three extruded ice cream production lines, saving $3M annually.
• Assumed lead of, and completed, $14M project to improve ice cream sandwich manufacturing capabilities, including commissioning of 9 prototype sandwich fillers and 7 cartoners.
• Executed $580k project to install new extrusion technology to molded production line in support of new-to-market product launch.
• Participated in Kaizen events across multiple business units to improve manufacturing processes.

Kaukauna, WI

Ottawa, IL

Engineering Co-op position

Bs, Chemical Engineering

Technical Leadership Certificate, Chemical Engineering