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Springdale, Ar, Us

Vevey, Ch

Hired in November 2022 to be a proactive maintenance supervisor and continue implementing Nestle's maintenance plan. I am responsible for annual personnel reviews, attendance adherence and daily work completion for my 15 direct reports. In this time (6 months) I have built professional relationships with the unionized maintenance staff, monitored and corrected performance outages and implemented new KPI displays to share departmental goals with the working staff. Found out in June 2023 that Nestle has decided to close the Freehold Plant. Moved on to new opportunity with Tyson Foods.

Stamford, Ct, Us

In this role I was the single person responsible for the OEE of our production line which runs our small size bottle brands. Through root cause analysis I am in charge of making improvements to this value stream in order to meet customer demand.

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During this transitional period I was in charge of our data collection/management systems, ensuring they operated correctly and the data input was standardized. I was the main point of contact for training and utilization of our CMMS (computerized maintenance management system) for our site. I also assisted our Lean Manager with coordinating improvement activities with data collection and analysis and staffing.

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While in this role I was responsible for establishing the AM Results standards across 4 operating sites. These results directly influenced the positive increase of OEE. My team and I also standardized the AM Step Process as it pertains to our manufacturing equipment. I was also responsible for the leading/coaching of the 3 other site AM leaders on these new processes. I also traveled to the other sites to inspect the AM System Health.

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As the Site Autonomous Maintenance Leader I created and executed the AM Work System Standards. Over a 6 month period, 49% of found defects were fixed. In 2014 Average stops per week were reduced 31% overall across 3 production lines and our large production line saw an OEE increase of 5.5%. In 2015 we reduced stops per week by an additional 15% across the site.

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As the site Production Operations Maintenance Planner I created and enforced the standard work that was used to begin utilizing our CMMS System in order to begin creating equipment maintenance history. The standard practices include recording emergency call repair work, kitting process for planned maintenance work as well as training our maintenance staff on the proper use of our CMMS System for data entry and upkeep. These processes are still used and are currently expanding to the use of hand held devices for maintenance calls.

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During my time as the Continuous Improvement/KPO Leader for our site I lead and was involved in more than 80 kaizens which ranged from 5S to SMED to Standard Work. A couple of highlights were in 2010 when we reduced our overall changeover time on our large production line from 30 mins to 11.5 mins and in 2013 when we reduced our large production line flavor changeover time from 661 seconds to 353 seconds (53% reduction). During this time I also became a certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt through the Rutgers Business School.

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Oversee a 20 person team for the purposes of producing, packaging and shipping Sunny Delight Products. Responsible for daily production reliability, on a 24/5 operation, across 2 production lines, storage and shipping of product, to include live loading of shipments with a 2 hour window for loading times and management of resources to meet targeted goals on reliability and shipping. Also responsible for training new personnel on shift and rating those technicians against performance standards as outlined by the company.

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Started in logistics department loading trailers and storing finished product. Went on to running logistics department for 2nd shift in the first year I was here. In the second year, I got the job title of shift DLx leader. DLx is our inventory control system. I deal with shiftly issues that come up. I then became the utilities/boiler operator for second shift in Aug. of 2007 and received my NJ Black Seal High Pressure Boiler Operators license in November of 2007.

Altaquip handles consumer "out for repairs" of lawn equipment. As a service rep I drove a non-CDL box truck to stores in New Jersey and pick up and drop off repairs. I had to maintain records of delivery and receipt of equipment and manage my route in an efficient manner.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Started out driving trucks for the Army in 1996. While in the Army, I also obtained a "secret" security clearance to do work in the mail room. I managed a small security force. I was also a publications clerk maintaining our company library of manuals, and also managed a small work unit of no more than 10 people.

Cpmm (Certified Professional Maintenance Manager), Manufacturing Maintenance Management

Trained, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

Lss Green Belt Certified, Process Improvement

Dot Hazmat Certified, Hazardous Materials Transportation

Rcra Aware, Resource Conservation And Recovery Act

High Pressure Black Seal New Jersey, High Pressure Boiler Operation

Hs Diploma, General