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Ashland, Ohio, United States

Manage engineers and Maintenance in a rubber extrusion facility. Responsible for all CAPEX projects at current and future planned facilities.

Elyria, Ohio

Establish maintenance and reliablity processeses for two industrial fastener facilities.Manage five maintenance technicians between two facilites.Troubleshoot and resolve equipment maintenance issues.

Akron, Ohio

Manage the maintenance function in a 24/7 food manufacturing facility,

Akron, Ohio

Manage plant projects up to $1 million in value.

Barberton, Ohio

Manage salaried and hourly maintenance employees with a focus on equipment reliability and planned maintenance. Identify/resolve equipment root cause failure issues. Improve work processes and implement predictive maintenance technologies. Generate key performance indicators. Improve effectiveness of CMMS system to provide maintenance cost and work order.

Cleveland, Ohio

Manage 14 Maintenance technicians to maintain facilities and equipment in a bottle blowmolding facility.

• Resolve food production equipment problems. Implement/improve preventive/predictive maintenance program using MEWP(TPM) (Maintenance Excellence Work Practices) and SAP/Infor CMMS software. Provide technical support to.
• Provided solutions to numerous longstanding equipment issues including hydraulics, bearings, seals, alignment and contamination problems.
• Provided numerous process improvements resulting in increased production rates.

• Manage a team of 25 including supervisors, union technicians and engineers in a 24/7 manufacturing environment performing plant engineering and maintenance functions. Oversee all plant design, maintenance, upgrades and.
• Initiated/managed the refurbish/replacement of numerous troublesome equipment items which resulted in substantial increase in equipment avalailability. Drive continuous improvement projects.
• Implemented a Computerized Maintenance Management System (Mapcon) to track work orders, labor hours, and to implement a formal preventive maintenance program.
• Implemented predictive maintenance technologies such as infrared thermography, ultrasonic leak detection, oil sampling and thickness testing to resolve issues before failure.

Research and development, applications engineering and customer interface to develop and introduce polyurethane resins into the fiberglass composites industry, with main focus on pultrusion. Developed process specific equipment and tooling. Inhouse design of experiments. Conducted pultrusion, infusion and injection field trials at national and.

Directed the engineering function and managed machine tool rebuilding shop, field service, purchasing, sales and general office operations.

• Manage 15 maintenance technicians for veneering/basket making operations. Maximized equipment availability by resolving numerous long-term equipment issues. Supported CMMS program for work order scheduling/tracking..
• Developed preventive/predictive maintenance and training programs for department.

• Managed Plant Engineering, Maintenance, Tool room and Parts Crib for Motor Division providing stamping, notching, aluminum die-casting, machining, coating and assembly. Facilitated the resolution of all equipment and.
• Resolved numerous equipment bottleneck issues and increased equipment availability.
• Implemented a cost accounting system to track equipment and facility maintenance costs.

• Developed and implemented equipment/facility solutions and engineering projects from concept to installation and introduction.
• Upgraded existing equipment for performance and reliability enhancement. Managed $1,500,000 annealing furnace installation and $1,500,000 welding wire automated packaging and handling line project.
• Modified existing rotor casting equipment (for $50k), which enabled Lincoln to win a $10-15,000,000 contract for special motors, expand their product line into higher profit margin products, and save a $1,000,000.

Manage the design of tire presses and green tire building machines.

Design/upgrade of machinery and processes for the production of corrugated plastic drainpipe.

Mechanical/hydraulic design of plastic injection molding machines up to 3000 tons

Bachelor Of Science, Mechanical Engineering; Aerospace Technology

Master Of Business Administration, Business Administration And Management, General