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*Support the Owens Corning Appliance facilities by ensuring that quality products are being manufactured to meet or exceed our customer expectations. *Continuously improve the Quality Management Systems, drive defect elimination by working with the plants to create robust and capable the manufacturing process (provide clarity on root causes of defects that.

Cleveland, Tennessee, United States

• Guided site on launch of TPM through DMS implementation and 5s for Safety, Quality, Productivity, Delivery and Morale. Provided overall leadership for product Quality as a Tier 1 OEM supplier to meet ISO 9001-2015.
• Initiated site DMS metrics for daily and monthly KPI’s and problem solving techniques for site TPM launch along with 8 foundational pillars of excellence.
• Developed and implemented a reliability improvement program assuring that equipment was maintained in a safe and reliable method with an emphasis on proactive maintenance processes and practices.
• Led & managed maintenance projects at the site improving reliability, maintainability, cost effectiveness, and safety. Introduced automation projects to the site through new cutting and labelling technologies.
• Launched site recognition strategy to improve morale and reward positive accomplishments.
• Served as category Maximo CMMS administrator.

Cleveland, Tennessee

• Directed site maintenance for facilities, utilities and manufacturing through sound people management, problem solving, project management skills and effective utilization of the CMMS (SAP) for effective planning..
• Coordinated all factory utilities (energy, water, air, steam, waste water) and buildings and grounds for >1 million square feet food manufacturing plant to provide uninterrupted operations. Ensure systems and.
• Developed and implemented a reliability improvement program assuring that equipment was maintained in a safe and reliable method with an emphasis on proactive maintenance processes and practices.
• Managed maintenance projects at the site improving reliability, maintainability, cost effectiveness, and safety. Managed $13 million stockroom inventory to ensure critical spare parts are available when needed.

Cleveland, Tennessee

• Developed project funding documents, including creating project team charters, identifying major scope, business benefits, funding strategy, success criteria, and milestone schedules. Interfaced with capital systems.
• Steered initiative with capital accounting to establish project control structures in SAP and produce robust sourcing strategy for purchasing to manage all purchase orders and project expenses.
• Improved wastewater treatment process by managing $450,000 project to increase treatment filtration, update electrical controls to eliminate safety hazards and install new treatment tank and pumping system to improve.
• Strengthened operational team’s capability by managing $500,000 project to build new team rooms to accommodate daily direction setting (DDS) team meetings.

• Directed site progressive maintenance (TPM) team by developing and executing the site PM masterplan and managing key work processes for breakdown elimination, work planning and scheduling, lubrication, maintenance.
• Developed maintenance planning and scheduling process with input and output measures. Qualified module planning owners and functional owners on skill criteria to meet integrated work systems standards.
• Executed breakdown elimination DMS to reduce major breakdowns by 80% and all breakdowns by 50%.
• Served as SAP maintenance and storeroom leader to launch SAP for Storeroom and Maintenance.Registered ~8K storeroom components from previous CMMS (Mp2 and EZ Entry) to SAP and solidified new SAP storeroom work.
• Reduced $900K in storeroom inventory by utilizing SAP reporting to eliminate slow-moving inventory, establishing storage standards for components, ensuring FIFO, increasing capability of maintenance planners, and.

Cleveland, TN

• Led facilities department of 37 direct and indirect employees against $8.5M annual budget. Managed sustainability, building and grounds, and utilities for 2 plants, including predictive maintenance, machine shop.
• Delivered $500K in cost reductions in facilities, machine shop, and storeroom through improved staffing efficiencies, improved management of utilities, and increased technician capability and performance.
• Improved facility appearance by installing 50K square feet of epoxy floor coating, 100K square feet of new roofing, managing numerous painting projects for building and piping, implementing new housekeeping procedures.
• Served as site sustainability leader for 2 facilities by deploying and tracking 2% annual reduction strategy for 4 key footprints of energy (electricity and natural gas), water, CO2 emissions, and waste.Implemented.

Implemented maintenance portion of MP2 throughout both sites as new computerized maintenance management work order system. Installed new CMMS EZ Entry to increase efficiency of adding notifications in MP2. Created preventative and predictive maintenance task lists by performing FMEAs on specific pieces of equipment.

Managed 50 hourly employees in several departments (metal forming, packaging, cell assembly) to obtain goals for safety, quality, production, cost, and delivery. Coordinated training and development for hand assemblers, material handlers, machine operators and mechanics in packaging, battery assembly, and metal forming departments.

Bachelor Of Science, Organizational Management

Associate Of Science, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Activities and Societies: IEEE