Leading my team of 60 maintenance professionals to improve the maintenance programs and systems towards our goal to be the premier Aseptic co-packer in the US. Bringing my background in lean manufacturing, Root Cause Analysis, TPM, SMED and 5s to the team we have successfully reduced R&M cost per unit by nearly 20% in under 2 years. As part of the Shared Leadership Executive group, I am helping to shape the long term cultural organization of the company to one that is self sustained and peer managed.

Oversight of capital expenditures and production related engineering projects. Management of maintenance department to ensure proper service to the operations department, prudent spending, budget reconciliation and use of all LEAN tools at our disposal. WCM Manager for Reliability PillarOn-Site Champion for several World-Class Manufacturing (WCM) initiatives, including Total Productive Manufacturing (TPM), SMED, Root-Cause-Analysis (RCA).As a Six-Sigma Green belt I was able to reduce waste by 20% in the first year, and as part of a great team we have been able to reduce it an astounding 75% over 5 years. As the site Energy Champion we have been able to reduce electrical usage by over 50% per unit in 3 years, natural gas usage by 20% and water usage by nearly 45%.

Supporting roll to both the Maintenance and Engineering managers with a specific focus on Capital and expense projects relating to the improvemet of the process in regards to product quality, OEE improvements and employee ergonomics.

Oversight of all maintenance functions pertaining to several concurrent divisions of a aseptic packaging company including:Raw materials conversion into liquid base using grinding, heating equipment as well as continuous decanting and centrifuge machinery.HTST, And UHT pasteurization, aseptic fluid handling and aseptic packaging utilizing Tatra-pak filling and packaging equipment.