Patrick Grimm Email & Phone Number

United States

Hanover, De

Hanover, De

Engineering & Maintenance Division Lead for TT Extruding/Calendaring/Stock Prep/Beads.Responsible for an Engineering Team consisting of 2 Electrical Engineers, 1 Mechanical Engineer, 1 Reliability Engineer, 2 Maintenance Systems Coordinators, 1 PM Team Lead, 2 Mechanical Project Technicians & 3 Electrical Project Technicians. Also share the responsibilities of managing 4+ Maintenance Supervisors, >20 Electrical Technicians & >20 Mechanical Technicians.Responsible for the reliability and maintenance of 5 Extruder Lines, 5 Calendering Lines (Including 2 Irradiation Units), Highbay Storage Systems for Tread Books & Super Assembly Cassettes, 8 Bead Forming Machines and 7 Cold Preparation Cutting Machines.All machines have a variety of Control Systems from Legacy Honeywell, AB PLC-5/500/5000, Siemens Step7 to newer controls from Beckhoff TwinCat 2, Siemens TIAPortal, AB ControlLogix, KUKA KRC-2/KRC-4, etc.

Hanover, De

Engineering & Maintenance Division Lead for CVT Curing/Final Finish/Warehouse.Responsible for the Engineering Team consisting of a Planner/Scheduler, Reliability Engineer, 2 Electrical Engineers and 2 Electrical Project Technicians. Responsible for Machine/Equipment Maintenance including Curing Presses, Xrays, Inspection Stations, Balancers, Uniformity/Geometry Machines, Auto-Palletizers & numerous types of conveyor systems. Aligned Engineering Team with other various departments to ensure correct team focus. Coordinated machine reliability, upgrades, replacements & preventative maintenence. Analyzed breakdowns/repairs with Engineering Team to revise current practices and further reduce the frequency of breakdowns and repair costs. Initiated and coordinated Capital Projects based on machine reliability, productivity benefits and avoidance of obsolete equipment. Monitored and oversaw daily, monthly & annual budgets in various aspects. Responsible for monitoring & improving energy savings and initiating new energy savings methods.

Hanover, De

Electrical Engineer in Curing/Final Finish/Warehouse for Commercial Vehicle Tire Production as well as Pre-Cured Tread Production. Responsible for: installation/commissioning of new machines, fixing critical breakdowns in coordination with maintenance personnel in a timely manner, researching new methods of automation control to improve machine reliability and prevent costly breakdowns and implementing new automation control schemes to improve the up-time of the departments.

Production Engineer in Mounting and Inspection Departments. Part of team that led the installation and training on a new industrial 3D printer system which allowed us to manufacture certain parts in-house cheaper than we could buy from a 3rd party. Tracked scrap and created scrap reports to identify our trouble areas and take the necessary corrective actions to reduce or eliminate those sources of scrap.

Responsible for maintenance of the golf course as well as full menu lunch/dinner cook.

Various duties including up-keep of buffet lines, cleaning dining room, dishwasher, food preparation and other duties as assigned by my supervisor.

Hanover, De

Member of SFI (Shop-Floor Integration) project team. Helped install and program various PLC systems across the factory that allow for recipe validation and tracking of orders throughout the entire manufacturing process.

Responsible for various individual/team research projects as assigned by sponsoring professor Dr. Garth Crosby. Assignments included performing experiments to see if decomposing material can be used as a sustainable heat source. Writing technical reports and outstanding verbal/written communication skills were key to this position.

I was responsible for: programming MCU's in C/C++ to test various characteristics of the MCU, building prototype test circuits and using a logic analyzer/oscilloscope to test delays across various pins.