Dan Popa Email & Phone Number

Brampton, Ontario, Ca

• New meat processing plant over 140000 sqf, around 120 employees of which 6 maintenance millwrights, electricians and technicians.• Dealing on daily basis with grinders, choppers, casing fillers, meat ball machines, spiral freezers, coolers, chillers, slicers, dicers, vacuum packaging machines, printer, rollup doors, steam generator, compressors, heat exchanger.• Reporting to the owner.• Flexible and working overtime, always on call • Proficient with CMMS, MS Office.• Strong organizational, communication, troubleshooting skills and leadership.• Cooperating with the production team to achieve the plant efficiency in operation and quality maintenance.• Ensure employees adhere to safety regulations and compliance with company policies and procedures.• Supervised the assembly of the new12 frames smoke/cook houses and the commissioning by the Romanian team of specialists. • Reinforced GMP practices in the maintenance procedures• Managed, coached, and supported a small team and motivated the members through recognition and reinforcement.• Purchasing parts and materials being in the limits of the budget making sure I am in the budget limit at all times. • Dealing with contractors and calling for service, ordering parts.• Managed contracted services such as refrigeration, steam boiler assembly and the construction of the steam lines, installation of air compressors and air lines, etc• Managed parts of the construction to accommodate the smoke houses assembly and installation.• Ensure the plant complies with the environmental regulation.

• Flexible, capable and willing to perform maintenance tasks as the circumstances require• Create implement and maintain both the equipment and building maintenance program compliance and documentation as per SQF HACCP and CFIA standards.• Ensure project work for machinery maintenance is done on a timely and cost efficient basis.• Assist with new equipment design and start-up.• Provide day- to- day assistance with performance issues in all the production lines.• Discuss issues at managers/supervisory meetings. Undertake follow-ups as required.• Ensure facility project work is done on time and cost efficient basis.• Supervise outside contractors to ensure work is complete and done to specification.• Ensure PM's are complete as per schedule and tracked.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Responsible for the set up and operation of various packaging and production pieces of equipment .Adjust equipment to ensure production runs are executed efficiently, with high quality and minimal waste. Set up packaging lines. Perform changeovers. Responsible for the operation of the Line from a mechanical and production standpoint partnering with QA, Machine Operators and Line Leaders. Troubleshoot and repair packaging and production equipment. Perform regular preventative maintenance on packaging and production equipment. Supervise cleaning protocols for all packaging equipment. Assist with/undertake facilities maintenance as needed.  Perform packaging tasks associated with packaging pharmaceutical products. Participate in projects as assigned: e.g. installation and moving of equipment. Implement safe work practices. Adhere to standard SOP’s and job specific packaging procedures. Assist in writing of equipment related SOPs and validation/calibration documents Other duties as assigned.

Mississauga, On, Ca

Maintain, daily, weekly, and or monthly reports and inspections as required.•Have daily meetings with Maintenance morning, afternoon personnel and Sanitation crew.•Assign work orders for the day to mechanics based on previous shift information and planned activities.•Source spare parts suppliers and look for technical information for new parts.•Access CMMS to make WOs, review delivery times, review requisition status.•Manage maintenance vendors for the unit and obtain approval from Ops Manager before requests are completed.•Contact contractors for new jobs.•Follow up with contractors and mechanics on current maintenance/repair projects in the building.•Respond to service calls from all departments and assign new work orders.•Responsible for managing and/or performing preventative, diagnostic, and corrective maintenance on facility systems and company equipment at the unit.•Oversee and/or perform mechanical, HVAC, plumbing and electrical maintenance as needed.•Responsible for troubleshooting facility systems and the production equipment in the unit•Participate in development, upgrades and implement preventative maintenance programs.•Review all PMs, work orders and failure reports done from previous day, order parts or contact contractors based on the information gathered, update PM in the computer.•Troubleshoot, repair, modify, overhaul or refurbish standard and special purpose equipment and facility systems.•Respond after hours calls from the building and contact contractors and suppliers to fix problems.•Complete weekly food checklist with Quality Assurance•Work extended hours as needed including week-ends.•Ensure employees adhere to safety regulations and compliance with company policies and procedures.•Perform monthly SQF and Safety audits.•Follow up Join Health and Safety Team requests.•Responsible for coaching, counseling and preparing corrective action for employees

Burnaby, British Columbia, Ca

• Responsible for set up, troubleshooting , fixing roaster, elevators, vibrating tables, grinders, pumps, ribbon blender, votators, fillers, cappers, jar printer, labeller, induction sealer, traypacker, shrink wrapper, heat tunnel. fine tuning the line. • Maintenance and preventative maintenance.• Repairs on machines (mechanical and electrical), refurbishing parts.• Maintenance done on air compressors and Ammonia compressors.• Keeping records of my work and keeping track of the parts, alerting my manager when the stock was low.• Certified in counter balance forklift and scissors lift.• Designed and manufactured parts for machines.

Brentford, Middlesex, Gb

• Experienced in setup, running, and troubleshooting Bottle blowers, dessicant inserters, Cremer and Aylward bottle filler, cottoner, capper, induction sealers, labellers, inkjet printers, laser printer, bundlers, and barcode readers, cartoners in solid dose packaging and in liquids, Uhlman blister packaging (cold and heat forming),Siebler foil packaging, Marchesini and Uhlman cartoner• GMP, WHMIS trained.• Personnel trainer in setup, operation and troubleshooting the equipment.• Backup and support for packaging.• Identified and solved bottle neck problems.• Installed, run and wrote SOP for labels laser printer.• Reducing tooling to only the necessary on the line.• Bringing and implementing the idea of a revolving storage cabinet for parts.• Significant contribution to reducing the downtime between changeovers with 60%• Brought many ideas for remodeling the process to improve the line OEE and implemented them as well as work standardization.• Involved in Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT), IQ-OQ tests for validation for this new bottle filler.• Solved the “Late drop” tablet problem. This was done in conjunction with the manufacturers of this machine, who fully supported the concept• Outstanding results in solving a large array of problems related to this tablet bottle filler.• Participated in projects.• Lean Sigma advocate reducing downtime and standardization of work.• Participated in audits with FDA• Working with contractors to move and reinstall a production line.

Supervising the personnel and the production quality.• Scheduling production to meet the delivery dates.• Meeting daily production schedule and forecasting shortages.• Recommending measures to improve productivity and product quality.• Adjusting staffing to daily production requirements

• Supervised and coordinated manufacturing and machine operation activities, as well as installation and repair of mechanical and electromechanical spare parts.• Identified production related problems, diagnosed causes and determined corrective actions.• Presented, applied and expedited solutions to increase production of a new workshop.• Identified and implemented energy and raw materials saving programs.

• Managed production related, and maintenance activities.• Solved day-to-day problems and issues.• Involved in quality assessment of first run-off parts (new parts).• Proposed, and applied solutions for new section expansion with reeling PLC machines.• Researched, and designed mechanical products.• Analyzed data to determine feasibility of products proposal.• Planned and developed experimental test programs.• Developed an Internal Standard for maintaining and repairing the reeling PLC machines. • Implemented training course for new recruits - speeding profitability.