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Maryland Heights, Missouri, United States

Maryland Heights, Missouri

• Provide maintenance leadership, asset reliability, CMMS, planning and scheduling, and machining operations. Manage $10M spare parts inventory budget, and $4M annual budget.
• Manage team of 22 including janitorial, grounds maintenance, fire, security, and contractors for nine on-site buildings and two off-site corporate offices
• Manage utility equipment including water for injection, boilers, clean steam systems, compressed air, vacuum, distribution conveyors, HVAC systems, radioactive exhaust fans, electrical distribution systems, and elevators
• Reduced overtime and contractor spend by implementing programs with tighter controls, resulting in 12%-17% cost savings
• Led design and fabrication team for three dedicated CNC machines and five 3D printers for R&D, production, and cyclotron parts, resulting in 50%+ cost savings
• Ensure work orders are executed in accordance with FDA regulations, NRC, EU, cGMP, and local government

Maryland Heights

• Maintained function and reliability of facility systems and equipment including inoperative components and parts. Managed 12 employees.
• Co-led construction of new R&D nuclear pharmaceutical lab
• Oversaw site seating to include migration from 20 year old excel spreadsheet to cloud-based software
• Led replacement and installation projects for critical utility systems, and facility equipment
• Developed and implemented programs to utilize predictive methods including thermography, vibration analysis, ultrasonic testing, water systems testing, and building management systems to improve reliability
• Utilized data including asset age, failure rate, and cost of maintenance to provide asset life cycle planning

Maryland Heights, MO

• Formerly CovidienSupervised daily activities of five calibration technicians and CMMS specialists responsible for critical utilities.
• Created, maintained, and provided maintenance and calibration KPIs; presented results to leadership to identify opportunities for efficiency improvements
• Developed maintenance service request system to improve efficiency and notification of work requests
• Led corporate Global Maintenance Excellence Team of 25+ to support company-wide initiatives targeting improved maintenance processes, spare parts inventories, and increased asset reliability
• Implemented strategy for reliability centered maintenance at each site to utilize cost-effective routine maintenance techniques and minimize probability of system failures

Maryland Heights, Missouri, United States

• Formerly CovidienManaged planning, labor coordination, materials and resources to ensure 100% preventive maintenance schedule compliance for nine on-site buildings; managed of team of four.
• Completed 11K+ work orders annually including plant utilities, production, and equipment shutdowns including water for injection, clean steam, instrument air, and site electrical distribution systems
• Developed tool for long-range planning used to optimize preventive maintenance, calibration, and validation activities and reduce planned downtime
• Planned and executed 100% on-time completion for site calibrations; FDA audit subject matter expert; 5K certifications annually; rewrote site HEPA Filter certification program
• Identified and implemented efficiencies, cost reductions, and communication improvements as member of McKinsey Project Star Team

Maryland Heights

Responsible to for daily planning, labor coordination, materials and other required resources to assure 100 % Preventive Maintenance schedule compliance. Plan, schedule, and execute plant and area shutdowns for HVAC equipment, WFI System, critical utilities, and preventive and demand maintenance work. Develop, calculate and monitor maintenance department.

Maryland Heights, MO

Formerly Nellcor Puritan BennettSupport site by coordinating all spare parts and CMMS administration. Oversaw three large scale projects to create spare parts warehouses. Coordinated all aspects of spare parts program. Purchase non-stock items and determine need to add to inventory. Responsible for inventory, pulling parts for technicians, inventory.

Maryland Heights, MO

Formerly Nellcor Putitan BennetTransitioned the site from a manual paper system to a Computerized Maintenance Management System (Proteus). Oversaw all version updates and transition to Maximo CMMS. Create custom reports and maintain all aspects of the CMMS. This was a dual role, where I also worked as Maintenance technician supporting facilities and.

Weldon Springs, MO

Hired as production worker, I transferred to maintenance in 1994 taking on on roles of increasing responsibility. Served as Production and Facilities Maintenance Supervisor from 1997 to 2000 when the facility was closed. Coordinated facility closure and disposition of all assets before moving the the Maryland Heights facility in 2000.

Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning And Refrigeration Engineering Technology/Technician

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