Maintenance Manager at Darwin's Natural Pet Food

The maintenance team has grown with the plant. Oberto's continues to increase sales, more equipment, equals more production I now have two supervisors, a planner, and 27 mechanics.Over all state and county regulatory compliances. BMP reports, FOG reports, SWPPP reports, Waste water monthly SMR's reports, Tier Two reports, Fire Inspections and permits, Boiler and pressure vessel inspections. Metal detectors and floor scale calibrations. Very involved in our SQF level 3 audits and certifications.Manage our 4.5 mm maintenance budget. Repairs, rebuilds, limited projects, weekly pm completion rates, and machine reliability reports. I have two great supervisors, a new great VP of Operations and a great Sr. VP of Manufacturing, and work for a great company. Oberto Snacks Inc.January 16, 2019 will be 15 years.

Supervise 23 mechanics in a beef jerky plant. All equipment involved in converting frozen meat to RTE beef jerky. Starting with fresh and frozen meat, thawhouses, slicers, Scanio tumblers, marinade mixers, 2 GCO spiral ovens, 2 Wolverine Proctor multi-pass deep bed ovens, 17 gas fired smokehouses, metal detectors, chart recorders, Urschel and FAM dicers, and conveyors to complete a continuous operation to produce beef jerky. Also a sausage line that includes a meat grinder, a 500 chopper, a mixing blender, a Handtmann stuffer, an autolinker and a hanging unit. A chopped and form line that includes a stuffer, water wheel and distribution conveyors.Facilities include ammonia refrigeration for coolers and thawhouses, two 238hp Cleaver Brooks boilers and a 150 hp Bryan boiler. A 100hp Atlas Copco, a 100 hp Quincy, a 60 hp Quincy and a 50 hp Quincy air compressor. Four freon refrigeration systems. Constantly improving the pH control of the plant discharge water. Implemented and completed the PM program of all mentioned plus equipment with a 95 % plus completion rate. Always striving to increase the PM completion rate. Overseeing, planning and ordering / ensuring readiness, completion of repairs and new projects. Projects including custom conveyor fabrications including all electrical and interface controls. Shutting down, isolation the ammonia system to complete repairs. Modifying, with fabrications to improve new equipment to better fit our needs to improve production.First aid training, first responder, a safety committee member , confined space permit supervisor. Grade 3 steam engineer, Hazwoper, GMP, SQF And much more..

Took on the roll as a maintenance lead without the title which came later. Highly motivated, noted breakage, failures, all maintenance issues from oven modifications to broken flex conduit. Directed all team members to notice and repair any and all.Modified equipment to run beef jerky. So many modifications to equipment, it was referred to as Jeffromatic. Make it work and streamline the operation.

Hire for my first food plant. USDA, GMP's, HACCP plans, Siliker audits, AIB audits, Costco, Target, Walmart audits. All new to me but quickly adapted to the plant and the people of the Northwest. Grade 3 Boiler Licences. Smokehouses, thawhouses, temperature controls, PID loops, chart recorders, floor scales, Scanio tumblers, ammonia refrigeration....on and on

Maintenance supervisor in a very tough position. No work was ever farmed out, from concrete machine pads, heavy machine lifting, 32000lbs with 2 18 ton carry decks, bridge crane rail fabrication, complete core molding sand line, fabrication and install just to name a few. Fabrication with no engineered drawing, discuss the needs, put it on paper and cut the steel. Complete molding line transfer car conveyor to mimic and Hunter line with closer tolerances with up to date controls, hydraulic driven.Two emergency cast iron furnace failures, 9000lbs of molten cast iron hit the floor. Then repairs with used equipment from different foundries, personally brought furnace and power supply back from Kanas.A part of my past job experience never to be forgotten and with no regrets. Lucky to have survived that job. Again, a hot job in the hot South, where I learned more hands on experience than most people could ever imagine.