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Columbus, Indiana, Us

Detroit, Mi, Us

• Orchestrate daily maintenance of chemical processing equipment | PM's and repairs.• Oversee contractors performing maintenance and project activities.• Develop maintenance budget for 2023.• Track maintenance related statistics |PM and repair orders generated and completed, costs against budget, contractor hours & costs, equipment downtime, equipment costs.• Generate report to management group. • Identify and qualify new contractors to perform work on site | Identify and qualify new vendors.• Identify and purchase replacement parts from various vendors.• Perform safety orientation of new contractors.• Facilitate, lead, and participate in site leadership teams implementing safety standards, managing operational changes, conducting root cause analysis for issues.• Schedule maintenance activities with production supervisor to reduce plant down time. Participated in internal and external process safety, EPA, and environmental audits.• Participated in determining path forward to address deficiencies | responsible for ensuring these corrections were completed.

Wilmington , Delaware, Us

| Supervised 20 people | 2 engineers, work coordinator, shutdown coordinators and planners, scheduler, and skilled trades November 2021-July 2022• Oversaw daily maintenance and turnaround activities for Dupont Water Solutions for multiple facilities.• Responsible for maintenance on $500 million in chemical processing assets.• Lead and facilitated the planning, staffing, and scheduling of 4 major turnarounds at 3 different plants during the year.• Turnaround budget was $7 million for all 4 turnarounds.• Turnaround 1 involved approximately 40 contractors and Dupont trades working 10-hour shifts for 7 days.• Turnaround 2 involved approximately 200 contractors and Dupont trades working two 12 hours shifts around the clock for 14 days.• Turnaround 3 involved approximately 100 contractors and Dupont trades working two 12-hour shifts that overlapped across 18-hour days for 10 days. • Turnaround 4 involved approximately 30 contractors and Dupont trades working 10-hour shifts for 5 days. • Collaborated with 10 different contractors to determine proper staffing levels for each turnaround and ensure resources were available during the needed time.• Integrated capital projects into turnaround schedules working with Dupont project managers and contractors.• Served as a Member of Dupont site leadership team working with other Dupont leaders on union contract negotiations, leveraged safety and environmental standard implementation and other issues.• Trained as Dupont site emergency response leader.• Served as Member of Water Solutions leadership team working with other leaders and hourly employees on implementing Dupont standards and resolving issues.• Coordinated with Dupont employees from other sites when needed to leverage expertise across the Water Solutions business. • Established a long-term maintenance strategy including staffing levels, employee retention initiatives and succession planning.

Wilmington, De, Us

• Maintenance of SAP focal point for maintenance| Focal point for daily maintenance at the 3 Ion Exchange facilities in Midland | Historical Dow AC/GK role.• Coordinates with hourly and salary personnel to identify maintenance needs and then with the maintenance group to plan and schedule the repairs.• Participated in emergency on-call rotation to resolve emergency issues after regular business hours. • Serve as a Member of Ion Exchange management team helping to develop maintenance and turnaround budget, implemented safety and environmental standards.• Developed multi-generational plan for the facility. • Built turnaround inventory (work orders) for annual turnaround. • Coordinated with maintenance group to ensure inventory was complete and accurate.• Mentored hourly employees on correctly completing assigned tasks. | Resin Block personnel.• Oversaw following safety standards. • Trained employees on how to complete maintenance, process safety, employee safety and environmental compliance tasks.• Developed a mini-project work process to address a gap in the heritage Dow work process. Participated in internal and external process safety, ISO 9001, and environmental audits. • Participated in determination of path forward to address any deficiencies and responsible for ensuring these corrections were completed.

Wilmington, De, Us

• Collaborated with project managers, project engineers, contractors and site leadership to schedule work involving 5 separate capital projects in a sold-out manufacturing facility working around the clock.• Designated approver for all capital working impacting production.• Developed an integrated schedule involving all capital project work, maintenance work and electrical distribution work during a 5-day turnaround.• Participated in FEL (front end loading) for future capital project and led execution of pre-work for project with engineer and contractor. • Trained contractors on EH&S (Environmental Health and Safety) requirements to work in a clean manufacturing environment.• Led site shutdown to preform electrical distribution of PPMs and complete capital work.

• Relocated to Sao Paulo, Brazil for my wife's job. Worked remotely part-time.• Coordinated work remotely on SAP optimization for PM's.• Supported HIMS maintenance group with other SAP work.

Transferred to former Dow Corning plant as part of their integration into Dow Chemical | • Lead transition of HIMS facility to Dow Chemical GMWP• Participated in leading the implementation of Dow maintenance work processes. • Served as plant contact for capital projects• Maintenance focal point for capital project planning. • Coordination for validation of contractors and training on site standards. • Led shutdown activities and planning for a broader operational structure. • Participated in internal and external process safety, FDA, customer, and environmental audits. Assisted in determining path forward to address any deficiencies and responsible for ensuring these corrections were completed.

• Implemented the time study format for maintenance workers at Michigan Operations. • Coordinated with other Dow employees across the U.S. to develop and expand the time study format for maintenance workers. • Measured productivity of skilled trades.• Identified issues with the work process.• Coordinated with other employees to implement changes from the data analysis. • Taught employees proper use and procedure & LCS requirements.• Reported findings to maintenance and site leadership. • Measured effectiveness of the changes.

Indianapolis, In, Us

Pilot Plant Technologist Sept 2013-Oct 2015• Startup of 827 D-Wing as a DAS plant.• Lead field work. • Created Operating Discipline for training and operations• Collaborated with technical staff for new chemistry and process equipment.• Assisted on OD standardization, implementation, and safety.• Procured and managed capital funding for projects.Chemical Process Technician | June 2011-Sept 2013• Operations & improvement team representative.• Trouble shoot equipment and programming issues.• Creation and execution of MOC procedures and OD by Dow standards.

Member of continuous improvement team, Auro finish lathe/cam tur bore Operator & Robot Programmer

Bachelor'S Degree In Business Management, Business Management

Associate Degree In Management & Leadership