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Fishers, Indiana, United States

Oversaw all activities relating to supervision, facility maintenance, and upgradation of facility building including engineering, uniforms, site-wide recycling efforts, facility infrastructure management, high pressure boilers, air compressors, ammonia systems, and waste water compliance while leading multiple departments. Steered 5-year holistic capital planning process and translated it into short-term goals to ensure site progress with strategic direction. Uncovered and alleviated anomalies by conducting root cause analysis. Generated department budget and effectively controlled spending throughout the year.Trained and supervised site facility maintenance team to deliver demand/preventative maintenance of 4000 equipment pieces, building, ground, and roof.Achieved over 97% of waste recycling or beneficial re-utilization of waste streams within three years across all departments by developing and executing a recycling program.Successfully delivered and project managed over $50M of end-to-end projects while navigating numerous aspects including mechanical, electrical, and control.Conducted meetings with all departments including the engineering team to ensure compliance across the site, gain updates regarding safety, timeline, budget, and progress of the projects, and facility maintenance team to ensure compliance across the site, develop a schedule for technicians based on backlog, and compare expenses against the budget.

Spearheaded overall operations relating to upscaling proficiency across maintenance of 7 high-speed manufacturing lines. Regularly analyzed operations to ensure conformance with FDA regulations. Conducted daily meetings with teams to review overall performance, uncover anomalies and inefficiencies, as well as devise and execute corrective action for future prevention. Supervised site stockrooms with 20K SKUs and 16M in inventory value. Deployed expertise in SAP to generate profitability reports and loss evaluation by converting consumables and labor into the cost.Developed a competent maintenance scheduling process leading to the achievement of the highest maintenance labor utilization score in the Abbott Nutrition Division.Delivered cost reduction of $1M over three years by initiating an in-house C.N.C. machine shop and incorporating parts rebuilding process.Significantly increased efficiency and decreased lead time across 98% of maintenance-assigned work by developing an efficient parts kitting process.Crafted a MEX playbook in collaboration with the corporate maintenance excellence team, comprising effective best practices to enable implementation on other sites.Achieved a delivery of over 500M in CIP through strategic categorization of inventory into functional groups and leading competitive bidding to multiple parts suppliers.Maximized operational efficiency by enabling quick in-depth review of high-impact events and incidents through establishing an alliance between operations and technical services department.

Led a staff of 160 employees to drive functional efficiency across the largest PepsiCo bottling plant comprising of seven High Speed Bottling Lines and the management of a one million soft warehouse. Generated and monitored manufacturing schedules to ensure highest possible efficiencies planned T.E. Conducted frequent quality control testing and reporting to guarantee conformance with FDA and PepsiCo standards.Optimized business unit performance by 12 T.E. points by conducting a weekly T.E.P. review, assessing inefficiencies, drafting plans to improve routine, and integrating proven best practices. Boosted Sobe Yield performance by 15% by developing and executing effective strategies, procedures, and actions.Incorporated Multi-Craft Training Program to lead internal development of employees from operators to mechanics, mechanics to electricians and control technicians.Integrated utilization of 5S boards, autonomous preventive maintenance, and sanitization program across the organization to significantly improve efficiency and non value-added activities.

Navigated operations across the Casa Grande site by creating action plans and implemented top-class maintenance labor utilization. Developed and executed strategies to reduce carbon footprint including Near-Net Zero Technology, Membrane Bioreactor, Bio-Mass Boiler, and Solar. Oversaw and reduced inventory management by identifying critical spare parts. Enhanced PM systems for effective emergency work. Developed actions to drive the Casa Grande Site to the top quartile ranking for Maintenance Labor utilization.Drove 55% reduction total production line downtime.Managed the sites Near net Zero Technology, Membrane Bio Reactor, Bio-Mass Boiler and Solar initiatives nearly eliminating the sites carbon footprint.Fostered a diverse and inclusive culture and internal development process to support all employees. Assured strict conformance with NF70E regulations by conducting electrical safety program training across the site.

Steered processes involved in 120-Acre facility management and a sanitary sewer system while leading site environmental programs ensuring streamlined function and ensured site compliance to environmental regulations. Acquired and utilized extensive knowledge of high-pressure boiler systems. Conducted regular sample testing process to confirm soil and groundwater limits in conformance with EPA standards. Integrated processes to eliminate efficiencies including a reduction in water consumption, natural gas reduction, and electricity consumption.