Ken Buffington Cre, Arp-A/E, Prosci Ccmp, Crcm Facilitator Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, Us

Solutions Delivery Manager for Allied's Condition Monitoring & RE Services. Delivering CM program design, implementation, execution and improvements to help enable holistic reliability solutions for improved asset performance. Experience covering 40+ years in Engineering, Plant Operations, Relaibility & Maintenance leadership in various industries including, but not limited to Mining, Pulp & Paper, Wood Products, Recycled Metals and Alternative Energy.

Houston, Texas, Us

A Senior, Reliability Engineering Professional, RCM leader & Mobius RE Instructor with diverse experience in Organizational Change, Leadership, Reliability Centered Lubrication, Maintenance and Reliability Engineering Programs. Experience covering 40+ years in Engineering, Plant Operations, Relaibility & Maintenance leadership in various industries including, but not limited to Mining, Pulp & Paper, Wood Products, Recycled Metals and Alternative Energy.

North Augusta, Sc, Us

Tenured professional whose passion is sharing his knowledge, skills and abilities in designing for reliability, lubrication, maintenance & reliability engineering programs in order to build tactical or strategic deliverables that meets business objectives. Delivering team drive results through failure driven strategies to deliver key performance objectives in developing, maintaining, and continuously improving asset health programs. Demonstrated success in improving uptime, safety, enhancing productivity, boosting efficiency, and controlling costs through strategic planning, optimum utilization of resources, and implementation of established practices and efficiency-boosting measures. Developed, implemented and managed past maintenance-based reliability engineering programs that improved asset health, decreased operational downtime, reduced cost and enhanced business profit. Specializing in:Development and implementation of Strategic Maintenance Based Reliability Engineering ProgramsOperator Care ProgramsLubrication Excellence ProgramsChange Management for ReliabilityRCM Blitz FacilitationPrecision Maintenance Design for Reliability RCA/RCFA Programs for problem elimination Maintenance & Reliability Driven MetricsProActive Work Management Process to include: ProActive Planning & Scheduling, CMMS for Reliability including: taxonomy, Criticality, Equipment Maintenance Planning and Failure Mode StrategiesF.R.A.C.A.S. ProgramCondition Based Maintenance ProgramsOperational Process Analysis such as OEE & Weibull

Texarkana, Arkansas, Us

Driven Executive member charged with the accountability for ensuring safe & optimum operational readiness of all equipment, staff over Texas, Arkansas & Louisiana facilities. Key contributions include: *Driven leadership in all areas and resources of maintenance and reliability operations regarding facilities, fixed assets, mobile equipment and fleet assets in compliance with all federal & state regulations. * Fostered academic & skills development of young engineers working developing and implemented first Engineering & Maintenance Trades program in collaboration with Texas A&M of Texarkana and Texarkana College’s Industrial Trades Program. * Implemented successfully maintenance. lubrication and reliability engineering program resulting in a total year 1 cost avoidance of $1.5M and improved asset health on critical assets of 83%. * Contributed $104K to bottom line in mobile warranty disputes as a result of executing Loss Elimination Programs, including Root Cause Failure Analysis. *Developed first certified inspection and maintenance program for fleet management of CMV and IME under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations 49 CFR part 396 increasing fleet health & safety. *Slashed bad actors that increased life cycle of shredder rotor life by 60%, boosted Uptime by 28% increasing gross revenues, decreased equipment downtime by 54%, increased Average Monthly Tons Produced by 31% through asset health, and decreased reactive work from 96% to 53% utilizing planned and scheduled work within six months of CMMS go live date.

Fort Mill, South Carolina, Us

Senior Reliability Engineering & Change Management Professional accountable with the developement & implementation of new Reliability Initiative plus Lube Excellence program, operator care program & change management strategies to meet key business goals including improved availability, reduced reactive maintenance cost, increased performance efficiencies, extend life cycle of valued hard assets, increased profitability, decreased waste and unwanted cost as a result of premature failures while remediating or mitigating hazardous conditions in both safety and environmental.Key contributions included improving Business and Management practices, adding Manufacturing Process Reliability, Equipment Reliability Practices, Lubrication for Reliability Programs, Organization and Leadership Alignment and Proactive Work Control Management.

Lehigh Hanson is part of the HeidelbergCement Group, the global market leader in aggregates and a prominent player in cement, concrete and other downstream activities. HeidelbergCement Group employs some 57,000 people at 2,600 locations in around 40 countries. As Lehigh Hanson's first Reliability Program Manager, developed and implemented a Reliability program including: Relaibility Engineering, Planning & Scheduling, Asset Health Management for mobile and fixed assets, MRO Inventory, F.R.A.C.A.S. Program developement, Failure Analysis Program, Warranty, Advance Technologies Group (CBM Program), Pro-active Work Management System with CMMS implementation, Lube Excellence Program, Precision Maintenance & Maintenance Training Programs. Responsibilities included leadership and management of Maintenance, Reliabiility, Work Execution Management, MRO, Evironmental, capitol effectiveness for reliabilty, budget & management of 5 year, muilti-million dollar Asset Management Program that also included Operator care programs & change management strategies. Upon implementation of programs, key business goals included improved availability, reduced reactive maintenance cost, increase performance, extend life cycle of valued hard assets, increased profitability, decreased waste and avoid unwanted cost as a result of premature failures while remediating or mitigating hazardous conditions in both safety and environmental. Also served on Corporate North American & Canada Steering Committe as an SME for CMMS selection and Implementation. Other duties include oversite of Environmental Management Program & Radition Control Program. Developed & incorporated new Oil Recycling Program that was recognized in NSSGA Environmental Excellence Application. Received NSSGA's Environmental Gold Award in 2012.

Lehigh Hanson is part of the HeidelbergCement Group, the global market leader in aggregates and a prominent player in cement, concrete, and other downstream activities. HeidelbergCement Group employs some 57,000 people at 2,600 locations in around 40 countries. Operations Manager over Hanson's new state of the art flag ship facility - Managed 6 departmental supervisors and oversaw approximately 100+ indirect employees & contractors in fast pace, on-time deliverable, 7MTY, fully automated mineral processing plant and quarry operation. Duties included management of day-to-day operations of the quarry, plant operations, drilling and blasting, plant maintenance: both fixed and mobile assets, MRO inventory, production, product quality, shipping and meeting planned production targets without incidents. Responsible for leadership of department Supervisors, budget , P&L, ESH training, accident investigation, ESH regulatory, radiation control program, maintenance planning & scheduling, team building, staff training, production KPI’s and reporting, automation systems and development, asset & process improvements, capitol requisitioning & justification summaries, mine plan execution, MSHA inspections, process improvements and special projects. Managed development of business case for new Reliability, Maintenance, and Asset Health Management Program.

Post Hanson's acquisition of Pioneer, relocated to corporate engineering department in Irving, Texas. Responsible for plant design, job estimating, capitol requisitioning, project planning/scheduling, construction managmement, maintenance training, job bid packeting, project budget management, reporting, surveying/greenfield development and over-sight of construction for aggregate facilities in the Southwest region for Texas, Louisiana. and Oklahoma. Additional duties included process modeling for plant optimization, equipment & process evaluation for critical decision making, reserve and inventory calculations. Other responsibilities included development of state and federal compliance requirements regarding the environmental aspect of operations to include the development of SWP3, SPCC, Waste Summaries, RCRA oversight, opacity readings/record keeping and state submissions regarding air and water permitting for new construction or additions.

Laflin, Pennsylvania, Us

Responsible for plant design, estimating, construction management, job bid planning, capitol projects & modifications. Also included plant repairs, maintenance training, capitol requisitioning, project planning/scheduling, budget management, reporting, surveying/greenfield development and over-sight of construction for the Chico and Lake Bridgeport aggregate plants. Duties also included process modeling for plant optimization, equipment & process evaluation for value added decision making, reserve and inventory calculations. Additional responsibilities included development of state and federal compliance requirements regarding the environmental aspect of operations to include the development of SWP3, SPCC, Waste Summaries, RCRA oversight, opacity readings/record keeping and state submissions regarding air and water permitting for new construction or additions.

Senior Project Engineer charged with design and improvements to new and existing industrial dry cleaning equipment, oversight of R&D and manufacturing improvements.http://www.bowe-germany.de/en/products.html

Designer & Project Manager of automated & semi-automated process and material handling equipment, estimator, project & construction manager and account representative for companies such as ABB, Certainteed, GMC, Ford, Westinghouse, Cryovac, Goodyear, etc.http://m.usbizs.com/TX/Wichita_Falls/Custom_Metal_Services_Inc_45h1.html

Emergency Medical Services

Co-Designer of first American automated flip process for the manufacturing of monolithic ceramic capacitors.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprague_Electric

Engineering Technology

Business Administration And Management, General

Certificate, Emergency Medical Technology/Technician (Emt Paramedic)