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Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Direct reliability of equipment in support of pulp manufacturing, steam production, and influent/effluent water treatment at the leading provider of differentiated paper and packaging solutions acquiring KapStone Paper and Packaging Corporation in 2018. Supervise the performance and tasks of six directly reporting salaried team members, and 85 indirectly reporting hourly personnel, ensuring proper training and the production of quality work products.Manage department KPIs to meet reliability targets and budget requirements while optimizing the use of the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) for preventative maintenance performance and staff scheduling.Develop and implement asset reliability plans, establish succession planning strategies, analyze staffing requirements, and engage in recruiting and onboarding processes.Implement training plans for apprentices, journeymen, and salaried team members.Review daily safety issues and performance, implement new safety programs and policies, lead troubleshooting and process improvement efforts with cross-functional teams, and develop annual budgets while tracking monthly allocations.Lead outage planning and execution, develop mechanical integrity plans, including tanks, pressure vessels, and piping systems, and support Distributed Control System / Programmable Logic Controller (DCS/PLC) upgrades and migrations, including troubleshooting.Monitor electrical drive programs, and engage in project development and execution. Utilize infrared, vibration, and lubrication programs to access system health/reliability, and implement CMMS/ERP systems.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Supervised the lubrication, vibration monitoring, and infrared thermography programs for predictive maintenance. Established the central reliability group comprised of predictive maintenance, the pump rebuild shop, and dedicated reliability engineers.Supervised the performance of 15 staff, a mix of engineers with degrees and non-degreed reliability professionals.Eliminated the in-house thermography program, contracting out inspections and saving $70K per year while increasing inspection coverage from 74% to 100% of equipment.Led am ICML benchmarking project, realizing an $8.8MM savings in lubrication for $500K spend over three years.Established a pump exchange program with OEM, achieving a 24% reduction in repeat pump failures with exchange.Reestablished the in-house maintenance apprentice program after an eight-year absence, adding 23 qualified journeymen.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Developed a five-year infrastructure plan for electrical distribution, developed standards for DCS, PLC, and stand-alone drive platforms, and supervised the installation, repair and maintenance of electrical distribution.Supervised five salaried direct reports and oversaw 60 hourly team members as indirectly reporting staff.Started the mill motor program, decreasing unspared motor positions by 6%, establishing the program for DC and synchronous motor brush changes and inspection using outside contractors from the motor repair shop, and engaging in detailed reporting that led to the timely repair or replacement, resulting in a 14% decrease in unplanned motor changes.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Applied lean principles to identify improvement opportunities, reducing costs by $7.2MM per year from synergies in addition to directing a team of consultants working on CMMS upgrades. Developed job descriptions and led recruiting efforts in the maintenance department. Led a team in reviewing MRO inventories, revising as needed to identify and fill gaps. Mentored interns for the project.Led a preventative maintenance improvement team of 14 individuals to rewrite preventative maintenance work orders, and identify gaps where preventative maintenance was not in place, with 367 PMs rewritten, and 94 new PMs added. Collaborated with the purchasing group to overhaul purchasing processes from quote to final payment.Presented a headcount reduction proposal, reducing staff from 68 to 53.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Engaged in the troubleshooting of daily issues in addition to leading RCFA sessions, and applying lean principles to chronic problems.

Memphis, Tennessee, Us

PULP MILL RELIABILITY LEADER Challenged with bringing the department into compliance with budget while managing reliability, ensuring the annual outage was completed on time and within cost estimates, and supervising a foreman and a process manager with two shared reports.Managed a $20MM budget, set goals for maintenance and reliability in the pulp organization, established a five-day work plan for both areas, led maintenance meetings, addressed safety concerns, and served as the facility’s RCFA champion.Processed current state-of-budget tracking and utilized Lean principles to develop a sustainable work system, completed the annual outage on time and within budget, fostered coordination between previously siloed mill support groups, and decreased project delivery times by ~10% while increasing MOC compliance and improving punch list deliverables. AREA MANAGER – Recausticizing Plant, International Paper, Ticonderoga, NYManaged daily operations of a chemical plant, improving reliability of chemical processing, and identifying cost reduction opportunities while monitoring department budgets, costs and performance, and supervising eight staff.PROJECT MANAGER – Energy Reduction Project, International Paper, Ticonderoga, NYManaged a project for capturing and reusing energy found in waste energy streams at the plant, a $4.7MM initiative.Completed the project 7% under budget and on schedule during seven short daily outages with two annual mill outages, and achieved 64% ROI, exceeding the projected ROI of 53% while implementing the system with zero safety/environmental issues.