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Support Manufacturing and warehouse operations for all Florida facilities. Training of Technicians, Engineers and first line supervisors.

Support facility production operations at multiple locations. Equipment and plant maintenance in a food grade unionized facility. Assign and schedule preventative and reliability maintenance to align with production goals. Schedule, supervise outside contractors and third party repair vendors.Instituted energy management systems for Electric/Gas/Compressed air consumption. Hire, train, review all maintenance personnel.Maintain spare parts inventory working with supply vendors. Member- National High Performance Maintenance LeadersMember- Food Defense Executive BoardMember - Pollution Prevention BoardMember of Plant emergency response team and Joint safety team leader.

Contract PositionManaging Supervisors, Skilled Trades, Technicians & Janitorial Staff supporting operations for 3 Amazon fulfillment centers.Installed and maintained high speed packaging systems and delivery conveyors in a 1.2 M sq ft facility. Oversee third party contractors ensuring on time completion of installations, projects, upgrades and repairs. Pre opening site manager and regionally supported 3 fulfillment centers and 1 warehouse. Lead member of Reliability team.Regional hiring manager for Supervisors, Skilled Trades, Technicians, CMMS and PLC programmers.

Managed Skilled Trades, Janitorial staff, Facility Engineers and Maintenance Supervision team in preventative, corrective and reliability maintenance for maximum production performance. Work order, project scheduling and follow up, equipment changeover and building improvements. Interact with Contractors and Vendors for repairs, upgrades and new equipment installation. Establish and maintain spare parts inventory. Training of Skilled Trades Apprentice’s and Technician class workers, Scheduled classes and in house training with local Colleges and trade schools, evaluated progress, worked closely with Federal/State/Local agencies for funding of training. Leader/Coordinator for the Apprenticeship Committee. Team Member for ISO, OSHA and LEAN groups.

Supervised Skilled Trades, Janitorial staff, Engineers and Supervisors for production support, Facility expansions and equipment upgrades. Managed, Hired and trained Skill Trades and Janitorial staff for facilities spanning 4 states. • Instituted program which resulted in an 18% facility energy reduction, recipient of the Governor’s Energy Management Award.• Team Champion-Water and Facility Resource conservation resulting in an 11% water usage savings.• Co-chaired team resulting in 13% reduction in plant effluent.• Designed and launched Ford centralized plant start-up procedures. • National Ford Ergonomics Representative, department OSHA liaison, dept. safety representative.• Member of the management board for Ford’s “Green Team”• Plant Incident Commander- facility evacuations, hazardous material.• Lead Safety Trainer- power lockout, working at heights, plant rescue, Hazmat, confined space.• Demonstrated ability to accept long term dual assignments.• 3 time recipient of the Ford CEO’s Supervisor Excellence Award.