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Covington, Ga

Responsible for all operations for regional sterilization consisting of two sterilization plants located in Covington and Madison, GA. Ensuring process stability, process capability, and achieving all quality assurance and operational goals. Additionally responsible for all sterilization engineering and maintenance departments.

Covington, Ga

Manage Engineering and Maintenance functions for Sterilization and Facilities at the Covington and Madison Georgia facilities.

Covington Ga

Manage Engineering and Maintenance functions for Regional Sterilization in Covington & Madison Georgia Facilities.

Winder Ga

Plant Engineer

Managed the Engineering and Maintenance Functiona at the Conyers, GA facility.

Manage all maintenance operations at the Conyers Facility. Including 8 support personnel and 28 craft employees. Supporting the manufacturing, facilities and capital installation operations. Support Safety programs including NFPA 70, haz mat disposal operations, daily organizational safety programs including STOP. Continue three years with no recordable accidents in the maintenance crew.Sustained incident free accident rate in the maintenance group.Responsible for fiscal spending and annual operating budgets.Developed and instituted business process to meet SOX requirements for MRO and maintenance operations.Organized maintenance department support functions and developed detailed job descriptions for all positions.Developed a Service oriented maintenance philosophy for guiding all maintenance service expectations and improvement plans. Implemented OEE meetings for maintenance management to review biweekly top 5 maintenance calls and time requirements by department. Site lead for SAP program implementation.Right Sized the Maintenance support team reducing head count by 11 or 30% while maintaining service levels.The Team obtained and sustained a planned versus unplanned work ratio above 65% planned maintenance activities versus reactive activities.Supported record breaking departmental OEE numbers throughout the plants.Developed an effective way to establish all plant equipment criticality ranking and how that relates to maintenance and operations systems. Completed a maintenance operational assessment to benchmark present performance and to establish reference points for improvement plans and activities. Chartered a Plant energy conservation team. Chartered a predictive maintenance program to guide the team to predictive practices.

Plant Engineering Functions

Cold End, Warehouse and Services ManagerContinuous Process Fiberglass Insulation Manufacturer.Safety Audit Committee Chair on the plant Central Safety Committee. OSHA Construction Safety Certification. Member of new and altered equipment inspection team.Responsible for cold end process. 9 management reports and 176 hourly employees. This included cold end process product packaging engineering and maintenance functions.Improved time and material operating efficiencies to 96.6% and 95.7% respectively. Reduced Plant related Service complaints by 60% and Quality complaints by 35%.Reduced down time and scrap among top five causes improving daily production rates by 6%. Trained in Six Sigma methodology. Leader of Six Sigma cross functional team project. Responsible for production planning, warehouse/receiving/shipping, and traffic logistics groups. 700M Sq. Ft. of warehouse area, 23,000 annual full truck load shipments, annual logistics spend of $12MM. Managed from 3 to 8 third party bonded warehouse vendors ranging from 50,000 to 100,000 Sq. Ft.Instituted Company first self directed high performance workforce team in new warehouse facility with no direct supervision (union facility). Met all shipping quotas and achieved 99% customer satisfaction within three months of start-up.Responsible for departmental budget development and fiscal responsibility.Group leader for corporate implementation of SAP. This includes SNP, MM, APO, and PPDS. Successful kick-off of SAP implementation and a traffic management system.Maintained operation of bulk batch pneumatic transportation systems for glass melting processes.

Lead Acid Battery Manufacturing/Assembly Responsible for total plant manufacturing operations.Established expense budget controls and procedures by department, (not previously in place).Established WIP inventory controls. Inventory adjustments to near $0, from greater than $500M annually.Chartered scrap teams focusing on root cause analysis. Reduced total scrap $160M annually.Assisted the plant completing ISO 9000 certification and organizing for ISO 14000 certification.Designed implementation of a TPM program Assembly department machine operators. Recognized an overall 10% production efficiency improvement first six months of fiscal 99, compared to fiscal 98.

Promoted to Plant Engineer in less than 15 months service. Completely responsible to oversee all plant maintenance, and plant engineering group functions. Manage a crew of 36-40 skilled maintenance and engineering support staff, including plant M&E purchasing functions. Supporting glass melting, fiberglass insulation processing.Manage building & facilities totaling 610M Sq. Ft.Manage base budget for maintenance functions of $2MM not including maintenance labor.Manage engineering budget in excess of $10MM, including major upgrades and production improvements. Increase output 20% to maximize production capacity.

Organize and manage a maintenance department consisting of 21 total maintenance employees of various crafts. Scheduled work for preventative maintenance program and on planned plant shutdown occurrences. Responsible for all operations and decision making related to a maintenance department in a continuous process operation in a union environment. Successful in improving teamwork and employee moral, while instituting first time performance standards.

Responsible for various process engineering projects related to plastic structural foam injection molding of large parts. Also handled a 3.2 million-dollar project related to a 1000-ton machine installation.

Director of Maintenance and EngineeringDirector of ManufacturingPlant Manager Liquids PlantAssistant Plant Manager Liquids Plant

Mechanical Engineering

B.S, Mechanical Engineering; Engineering Materials And Manufacturing