- Supervise daily operation of the mill's Power and Recovery Department - Ensure the safety of a 10-person crew by providing proper training and equipment and encouraging safe behavior - Monitor environmental controls to maintain the process within company and government environmental parameters - Responsible for ensuring the proper operation of equipment and processes - Communicate production goals to crewmembers and coordinate with supervisors from other departments to… Show more - Supervise daily operation of the mill's Power and Recovery Department - Ensure the safety of a 10-person crew by providing proper training and equipment and encouraging safe behavior - Monitor environmental controls to maintain the process within company and government environmental parameters - Responsible for ensuring the proper operation of equipment and processes - Communicate production goals to crewmembers and coordinate with supervisors from other departments to meet those goals - Utilize shift maintenance to address issues with equipment functionality - Lock out equipment for repair and ensure that equipment is in a zero-energy state prior to maintenance work Show less

- Implement maintenance best practices based on recommendations of contractors and suppliers to increase equipment reliability - Manage the mill’s preventive maintenance calendar for maintenance and production departments to track completion of PM's - Work with area maintenance crews to streamline their processes to reduce costs - Lead a lean/six sigma team to identify causes of washer face wire failures and implement a solution to reduce or eliminate such failures- Led the… Show more - Implement maintenance best practices based on recommendations of contractors and suppliers to increase equipment reliability - Manage the mill’s preventive maintenance calendar for maintenance and production departments to track completion of PM's - Work with area maintenance crews to streamline their processes to reduce costs - Lead a lean/six sigma team to identify causes of washer face wire failures and implement a solution to reduce or eliminate such failures- Led the spare parts team for the mill's installation of a new brown stock washer to determine required spare parts and create the bill of materials for each piece of equipment. Required consulting with subject matter experts both internally and externally- Oversee the inspection and rebuild of 2 power boiler stoker grates and 2 recovery boiler electrostatic precipitators Show less

Over the course of three semesters as a co-op at the WestRock Mahrt Mill, I held many responsibilities, including: - Create purchase specifications based on drawings and measurements - Contact vendors to obtain quotes for replacement parts and assist in overseeing outages to repair equipment - Responsible for supervising the $750k minor rebuild of a 55 MW turbine generator - Track lube oil quality for mechanical drive steam turbines and develop plan to reduce water content… Show more Over the course of three semesters as a co-op at the WestRock Mahrt Mill, I held many responsibilities, including: - Create purchase specifications based on drawings and measurements - Contact vendors to obtain quotes for replacement parts and assist in overseeing outages to repair equipment - Responsible for supervising the $750k minor rebuild of a 55 MW turbine generator - Track lube oil quality for mechanical drive steam turbines and develop plan to reduce water content of oil - Complete monthly routes to ensure ISO-regulated instrumentation is in working order Show less