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Plymouth, MN, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Direct 9 union maintenance mechanics and electricians in daily routine tasks and repair work
• Manage the reliability of all plant assets including process equipment, dust and fume collection equipment, and buildings
• Work with engineering to identify capital needs, spec new equipment, and provide technical support
• Worked as part of a team to inspect and install a $2.5 million capital equipment upgrade
• Utilize Maximo to manage work flow and track equipment reliability
• Design and implement non-capital equipment upgrades and improvements

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Direct 8-10 union maintenance techs in daily routine tasks and repair work of mechanical, hydraulic and electromechanical systems.
• Utilize SAP to manage work flow and help analyze areas for improvement
• Manage spare parts inventory and maintenance budget.
• Worked as part of a team to manage the construction, commissioning, and ramp up of production on a new $60 million casting machine
• Identify, select, and build relationships with vendors to ensure best service and price for parts and materials.
• Collaborated with vendors and purchasing to reduce cost of critical spare parts purchases. Total savings equaled ~$75k

Arcelormittal Burns Harbor

• Organized and managed caster outages which included writing scopes of work and hiring contractors, ordering parts, creating outage plans, and coordinating outages and downturns ranging from 16 hours to one week in.
• Managed project costs and developed project/outage budgets.
• Coordinated project design work and facilitated project team meetings
• Basic understanding of electrical systems and PLC control systems (Control Logics).
• Trained in many areas of WCER (World Class Equipment Reliability)

Burns Harbor

Managed the hot metal desulfurization area of the BOF. Managed 16 hourly employees. Completed projects in the areas of environmental compliance, process automation, and crane scale system upgrades.

Arcelormittal Burns Harbor

* Directed the BOF Gas cleaning mechanical crew (10-16 millwrights) in daily maintenance.* Developed plans and helped spec parts for upgrades. * Provide input and engineering support for root cause failure analysis of gas cleaningequipment.* Supervised contractor work on emission hoods.

* Ran product testing, test stand design, and product cost estimatingfor the Brake and Mechanical Assemblies divisions.

Bachlors Of Science, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Concrete Canoe, ASCE

Engineering

Summer classes; Completed 7 credits (Summer 2004)