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Amsterdam, Nederland, Nl

Identify all new project equipment for each assigned project through the creation of a CMMS based equipment catalog. Enroll new equipment in the SAP CMMS system through the creation of SAP Functional Locations. Rank each new equipment asset for criticality. Identify any new equipment requiring state/regulatory inspections and coordinate their initial inspections. Create Maintenance Strategies for all new project equipment via the creation of Preventive and Predictive Maintenance Activities. Maintenance strategy development include the consideration of typical failure modes with input from area maintenance technicians. Identify max/min spare parts for all new equipment assets and create equipment material BOMs for spare parts. Create and execute SAP Gui Scripting for efficient SAP transactional data queries and data entry using Excel VBA. Facilitate changes to equipment/instrument catalogs as required. Understand and meet all project schedules to prevent equipment validation process delays. Conduct instrument criticality/classification meetings with client engineers/managers to prioritize instrument calibrations for all project instruments. Collect and document all instrument information for each new project instrument through P&ID reviews/takeoffs and drawing revisions, OEM supplied instrument data, and field walkdowns. Enroll all new instruments in the SAP CMMS system through the calibration process and calibration PM creation. Create and maintain project tracking workbooks for each new capital project also capturing the document approval process for each step. Provide weekly updates to project team members through normally scheduled meetings or ad/hoc requests..

Memphis, Tennessee, Us

Provide reliability and maintenance engineering support for fluff pulp product line including the paper machine room, winding, and finishing. Conduct and lead area Root Cause Failure Analysis events. Implement corrective actions Support product line area as mill Roll Champion. Serve as the site Facilities Preservation Engineer (FPE) responsible for 21 GMS Elements. Major responsibilities of the site wide FPE role include: Tank and vessel integrity & inspection program & repair, pressure safety device program including pressure relief valves, rupture disks, flame arrestors, vacuum breakers, and conservation vents. Additional responsibilities for all site roofs, sewers, cooling towers, walking surfaces, obsolete & abandoned equipment, site perimeter, retention ponds/effluent areas, dikes and levees, painting, exhaust stacks, roads, and railroads.

Bethesda, Maryland, Us

Began as: Operations/Asset Management Analyst - Contractor -Validate asset catalogs of all major equipment & purchased assemblies for 5-6 plants located in NC & VA. Track all details including: Manufacturer, Brand, Serial Numbers, & Estimated equipment replacement timing for capital projection spend of all equipment. Determine and implement method to forecast/project maintenance expenditures. Plant Engineer in June, 2017 - Designed engineering solutions to equipment issues. Completed Capital Projects. Performed equipment condition monitoring assessments and analysis. Identified equipment defects. Began to build site reliability program. Site RCFA leader with 8D process.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Provided regional reliability engineering support to GP NC and SC sawmill sites. Improved OEE 12% for supported sites. Conducted Maintenance and Reliability Assessments at GP North America sites. Provided expertise to promote overall plant maintenance and reliability to world class performance. Provided regional reliability engineering support to NC, SC, and GA sawmill sites. Conducted TEAM Maintenance and Reliability Assessments at GP North America sites. Provided expertise to promote overall plant maintenance and reliability to world class performance. Trained plant personnel on Contamination, Lubrication, Alignment, & Mechanical Looseness, Root Cause Failure Analysis, & Predictive Maintenance. Provide assistance and recommendations for purchasing precision and predictive maintenance equipment. Worked to integrate efforts within maintenance, operations, and engineering teams to extract the best value from reliability efforts and initiatives. Developed and implemented OBC Routes (TPM). Served as Interim Asset Care Manager (Maintenance Manager) at Prosperity, SC Lumber Mill - 4 month assignment beginning January, 2015. Developed, communicated, and worked site strategy improvement plan. Emphasized GP Reliability Mental Model. Provided training for Planning and Scheduling function. Filled and trained position of Green End maintenance planner. Provided day-to-day support and coaching for maintenance activities and site planning function. Developed work identification checklist to aid in defect identification. Improved maintenance planning through creation of ready to go backlog of 2 weeks.

Santiago, Las Condes, Cl

Provided equipment asset management and reliability engineering solutions to improve the overall site financial performance. Enhanced performance was achieved by equipment defect identification and root cause elimination. Job responsibilities: Provided equipment asset management and reliability engineering strategies and solutions to improve the overall site financial performance. Key initial strategies involved Predictive Maintenance program initiation, lubrication program development, precision maintenance, and SAP PM CMMS leadership for site re-implementation. Supervised Reliability and Lubrication Technicians. Directly diagnosed equipment problems via Predictive Maintenance Technologies and sensory inspections. E.g, personally identified 244 compressed air/gas leaks within a 2 month time period that when corrected, would provide ~$230K energy savings. Performed vibration analysis to provide proactive equipment corrections and risk management. Providing early detection of electrical anomalies of partial discharge and tracking via ultrasound. Converted existing Maximo Lubrication PMs into LubeIt importable data via self- developed VBA program. Machinery Health Manager Administrator and Lube-It Administrator. Performed precision balancing and precision machinery alignment.

Spring, Texas, Us

Principle Reliability Engineer at Genesis Solutions. Genesis Solutions provides best-in-class maintenance and asset management to the world’s most sophisticated industrial organizations. Specialties: Experience and leadership in maintenance and reliability engineering working with the shop floor to senior leadership to implement practical and strategic solutions for effective life cycle asset and facilities management.Client Site: Covidien - Principal Reliability Engineer /Project Manager Applied project management knowledge, technical and interpersonal skills, and project management tools and techniques to meet the project requirements of 2 newly combined companies. The client project involved project work in both CMMS integration and Mechanical Integrity programs. Planned, coordinated, and led weekly client project status update meetings. Coordinated and hosted cross client site status update meetings. Conducted cross project learning reviews to identify and share best practice across projects at 2 client locations. Drafted project proposals, including pricing and schedules for project change orders. Developed communication plans with project team members. Maintained issue logs. Monitored schedules and issue logs to provide warnings of serious deviations or variations that may compromise project results.Proactively identify changes in work scope and ensure appropriate planning measures are taken with internal and external clients to reassess, renegotiate and amend scope of work responsibilities, proposals, contracts, and budgets. Acted as liaison between all parties concerned to address proposed modifications to project scope, schedule, or budget and influenced to minimize changes. Escalated difficult project issues as appropriate. Maintained records of expenses and track milestones and/or percent complete for all project work. Approved expenses and ensured matching to client invoice.

Bagsværd, Dk

Serve on the global Reliability Team helping to develop the reliability programs at each Novo Nordisk manufacturing site. Provided leadership, training, and mentoring to the Global Team.. Developed training materials for RCA, FMEA, PdM, CBM, working with consultants’ maintenance leaders. Delivered training on PdM, CBM, KPI’s, and heavily commented on the RCA/FMEA training that consultant delivered to improve overall content. Provided coaching, feedback, and knowledge sharing to the team and other colleagues. Actively participated in the global RCM project team assessment process at each Diabetes Finished Product site for which assessments had been scheduled and performed. Led many site reliability assessment interview sessions. Developed presentation slides for site communication of results. Successfully initiated and led the RCM Team site Clayton Pilot Project to introduce L52 personnel to RCM and eliminate a significant technical problem. Developed Charter, formed a project team, co-lead RCA process, Co-facilitated site FMEA training, co-lead 3 FMEA workshops and led 7 other workshops. Collected and analyzed data from various and diverse data sources to support the RCA process and to assist with the FMEA analysis. From the analysis, tasks were developed and worked into a project implementation plan. For the Aseptic Processing (AP) area, created complete Bill of Material (BOM) for line filler parts/components correcting inaccuracies in existing SAP BOMs. Identified and corrected 50% missing components having valid failure modes and not previously listed in the BOM. Conducted RCA on significant equipment issues and provided engineering solutions to mitigate issues uncovered. Utilized PdM technologies of Airborne Ultrasonics and Infrared Thermography to discover and troubleshoot specific equipment issues. A specific example involving line filler fill pumps provided a .5MM annual savings.

New York, New York, Us

Support (Good Manufacturing Practices) and non-GMP manufacturing areas through improved equipment reliability and availability. Perform functions to maximize site equipment reliability with a focus on equipment availability, equipment downtime reduction, and maintenance cost reductions. Lead Wyeth Global Predictive Maintenance (PdM) Common Interest Group providing SME expertise to drive corporate PdM direction and corporate Mechanical Integrity Program. Develop Wyeth Global PdM Service Contract. Provide SME input into Wyeth Global Life Cycle Asset Management strategies. Perform site maintenance strategy assessment to reduce/eliminate non value added maintenance activities. Design, develop, and maintain site equipment ranking database (risk assessment) for Wyeth site and global equipment criticality ranking. Develop and design improvement strategies for Wyeth SAP PM CMMS utilizing built-in SAP functionality and recommend complementary Asset Reliability/Maintenenace software tool sets to maximize Engineering/Maintenance personnel efficiency and effectiveness. Serve as administrator for site Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCA) program (PROACT Suite) and site Predictive Maintenance programs. Determine PM requirements for area equipment and assist in PM creation. Provide equipment expertise, troubleshooting, and RCA to resolve equipment issues. Perform Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) activities for site equipment. Support capital Engineering projects to ensure maintainability and reliability are built into each project. Develop, report, and communicate area KPI’s. Participated on site Energy Team to reduce site energy consumption and waste streams. Develop site standards and best practices. Supervised site Maintenance and Reliability Engineers, and Reliability Specialist, and engineering interns. Implement and maintain site Mechanical Integrity program for pressure vessels and relief valves. Determine PM requirements for all new site equipment.

Wilmington, De, Us

PSM Element Champion for Quality Assurance and Quality Control; Mechanical Integrity; Kevlar Relief Valve Coordinator; Maintenance support for $5MM capital expansion project; Provide maintenance engineering support for spinning and solution prep; Recommend equipment repair, restoration, and upgrades; Design equipment solutions for reliability problems.

New Castle, De, Us

Managed RBM program in the Predictive Maintenance areas of Vibration Analysis, Oil Analysis, Infrared Thermography, Motor Analysis, Ultrasonics, Root Cause Failure Analysis, Laser Alignment, and Preventive Maintenance tasks; Computer trainer for BAAN CMMS; GQS Quality Auditor

Worked as project engineer until 11/96. Led project team of contractors, draftsmen, and other engineers to accomplish various mechanical related capital projects. Promoted to area 1 maintenance engineer/predictive & preventative maintenance supervisor/computer trainer in 11/96. Supervised 15 union hourly employees in the area of plant lubrication and oil analysis, vibration analysis, laser alignment, hydraulics troubleshooting,rebuild shop, and computer training. Maintenance engineer for the pulp mill, refining, carbonate plant, evaporator plant, bleach, and fiber chopping. Computer trainer for PC hardware, Software, and MP2 (a computer maintenance management system). ISO 9000 Quality Auditor.

Tested laser alignment systems. Development of design and application of laser straightness and flatness testing including a distributable computer program. Also responsible for manufacturing quality control and systems field testing.

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Certification, Certified Maintenance And Reliability Professional (Cmrp)

Bsme, Mechanical Engineering