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Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

• Lead strategic planning efforts and resources based on facility needs and customer demand. • Manage the process from receipt of raw material to customer shipments • Responsible for shop key operations metrics: Operating Income, Revenue, FPY, OEE, Scrap, Over-Time• Report key operating metrics to upper management and salary/hourly personnel on a daily basis. • Drives employee engagement initiatives for hourly and salary employees• Responsible for employee development and performance reviews• Interface with customers and suppliers (consumables and equipment OEM)• Leads the update of current procedures and the development of standardized work instructions• Defines capital improvement initiatives for engineering for current and upcoming fiscal plans.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

- Responsible for managing the design, planning, construction, and maintenance of equipment, machinery, and buildings. - Responsible for all Capital Expenditures (equipment, upgrades, and facility).- Create specifications and budgets for equipment purchases, modifications, and upgrades.- Performed equipment risk analysis and action plans to minimize any impact existing customer contracts. - Manage a cross functional Maintenance and Facility department comprised of Engineers, Maintenance Planner, Maintenance Supervisor, and Electrical/Mechanical Technicians. - Perform root cause failure analysis on chronic issues and major failures. - Manage PM and inspections of the Electrical Utilities (120V to 15kV).- Continuous development of Preventative Maintenance Strategy for all Equipment: Extrusion Press, Stretchers, Formers, Furnaces, Saws, CNC Lathe, and Cooling Towers.- Facility Responsible for all Contractor Safety and Machine Guarding.- Experienced with LOTO, Confined Space, and Fall Protection.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

• Site responsible for Capital Projects to include: forecasting, developing bid/vendor specification, design, budgeting, justification, scheduling, project management, installation, commissioning, and post-project review. • Organize and manage cross-functional teams to support projects from inception thru final commissioning and completion.• Provide technical support for equipment upgrades, repair, or modifications. • Facility Responsible for all Contractor Safety.• Facility responsible for LOTO Program and enforcement

Houston, Texas, Us

- Manage four welding assembly lines- Responsible for employee health and safety- Responsible for quality control within the department- Lead bias welding operators, Level I & II Radiographic Inspectors, and remote crane operators in a safe and productive work environment- Implemented visual factory communication boards throughout the department- Responsible for the utilizations, cycle time ratios, and rejects of the lines- Lead the implementation and startup of new equipment and upgrades to the production lines- Manage and create employee development and training- Analyze reject trends and assisgn corrective action items to reduce them- Failure Analysis: standardized investigative failure analysis within department- Coordinated cross-training of employees to increase flexibilty of the lines and minimize downtime- Create and manage operational procedures and work instructions

Houston, Texas, Us

- Manage a team of maintenance technicians- Responsible for all plant maintenance- Develop preventative mainteance strategies for all production equipment- Manage all new equipment from inception through final installation and commissioning- Manage civil works projects incluing concrete repairs, commercial building refurbishments, and truck scales- Responsible for all equipment rebuilds, refurbishments, and upgrades- Create engineering specfications for the purchase of new equipment and civil work projects- Standraize components across various types of equipment: cylinders, gauges, fittings, gearboxes, motors, clutches, etc..- Implement various lean manufacturing techniques to increase production and equipment availability- Participant of the Continuous Improvement team- Create operation training procedures and work instructions for new and existing equipment

-Packaging System Design – Inception through Final Installation-On-site meetings to address customer requirements, restraints and establish preliminary system layouts-Worked in conjunction and effectively communicated with the customer, sales manager, and executive management to provide project details, schedule, issue, budgets, and all pertinent items-Systems to include various packaging machinery from several OEM suppliers: product feed systems, conveyor system, check weighers, case packer, palletizer, shrink wrapper, and metal detectors-Travel to equipment MFG’s for equipment inspection and Factory Acceptance Testing prior to shipment-Managed final machine and system installation -Successfully managed projects over US $1million-Participated in Kaizen events at Manufacturing Plant and at customer facilities-Responsible for all packaging equipment selection, pricing, and proposals-Developed standardized proposals and proposal price sheets for all OEM equipment-Responsible for all technical correspondence between Fres-co and packaging equipment suppliers in Italy-In-field technical support, troubleshooting, and training

Zurich, Zh, Ch

• Developed and maintained master bill of materials and design standards for existing/new product lines.• Calculated pressure vessels maximum allowable operating pressures (MAOP).• Non-Standard Instrumentation Design• Primarily worked with wedgemeters, magnetic flowmeters, temperature transmitters, pressure transmitters, actuators/positioners, and analytical instrumentation.• Developed and maintained master bill of materials and design standards for existing/new product lines.• Calculated pressure vessels maximum allowable operating pressures (MAOP).• Non-Standard Instrumentation Design• Primarily worked with wedgemeters, magnetic flowmeters, temperature transmitters, pressure transmitters, actuators/positioners, and analytical instrumentation.• Develop bill of material, routing, and production drawings.• Communicate with vendors for project requirements and restraints.• Responsible for the addition/maintenance of all products bill of materials and routing operations.• Supported Quality Assurance and Manufacturing Engineering.• Responsible for all Engineering Change Order implementation. Develop bill of material, routing, and production drawings.• Responsible for the addition/maintenance of all products bill of materials and routing operations.• Supported Quality Assurance and Manufacturing Engineering.• Responsible for all Engineering Change Order implementation.

-System Layout – Inception through Final Design-Communicated with customer – requirements, constraints, system equipment-Building/facility size and selection-Designed equipment placement, plumbing, electrical layout-Plumbing system layout and hydraulic design – open channel and pressure systems-Designed systems for future integration with chemical treatment facilities and anaerobic digesters-Construction supervision, quality assurance, and project management-Wrote and submitted an anaerobic digester grant application to the USDA-Designed and implemented a chemical waste water treatment system-Stand/platform design – Beam sizing, selection, and fabrication drawings-Researched ASAE, NRCS, DEP codes, standards, and guidelines-Equipment specification, sizing and selection-In-field technical support and troubleshooting

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Mechanical Engineering