Taylor S. Email & Phone Number

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St. Louis, Mo, Us

• Managed department of 52 maintenance technicians and 10 salaried associates with a budget of $15.75MM in a 94 year old factory.• Reduced hourly maintenance turnover rate by nearly half (32% to 19%).• Decreased recordable injuries in maintenance from 5 (2021) to 0 (2022).• Increased average daily production totals by 21% by improving equipment reliability.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

• Reduced technical failures rate from 2.67% (FY 2020) to 1.16% (Q1 2022).• Spent to within 5% of budget in 2021 ($1.36MM spent vs 1.43M budgeted). • Developed maintenance team members: created onboarding plan and skills matrix, established new Maintenance Lead position and developed career progression plans for technicians, budgeted and executed technical training. Zero maintenance department turnover in 2021.• Implemented maintenance foundations: 5Sed technical stores, updated asset list and performed criticality assessment, and established planning/scheduling routines.• Developed predictive maintenance plans: rolled out Augury for realtime monitoring of high speed assets, began oil sampling and ultrasonic monitoring routes.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

• Worked as part of the divisional maintenance team, developing maintenance strategies and providing support to 21 petcare facilities across the United States.• Developed component-based maintenance strategy to decrease planned maintenance downtime, unlocking an additional 120,000 tons per year of capacity across all dry pet food factories.• Utilized Power BI to create dashboards utilizing data from SAP BW, SQL databases, RedZone, and excel to provide daily time confirmation reports for maintenance team leaders and compile engineering audit actions across all Purina factories in North America.• Accelerated maintenance program at Davenport, IA factory: worked with maintenance planners and technicians to create PM plans for 1800+ assets and implement feedback routines for improving PMs (PDCA), stepped in to manage technical storeroom team (4 associates) and optimize spare parts management.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

• Worked within lean organizational structure to support the construction and start up of brownfield wet pet food manufacturing facility.• Managed maintenance team and factory engineer.• Established maintenance department: created training, on-boarding, and pay progression plan for maintenance technicians, developed preventative maintenance program and implementation plan, budgeted and executed extraordinary maintenance projects• Performed goal alignment for factory: set up and facilitated operational reviews (operations planning meetings, daily/weekly operational reviews, etc.), developed KPIs for operations and maintenance teams during construction phase and starting into production.• Managed $3.5MM of capital and maintenance extraordinary projects end-to-end, landing within 2% of budget.• Developed, prioritized, and negotiated open items list from factory capital start up ($170MM project).

St. Louis, Mo, Us

• Led successful design, install, and commissioning of $1.3M new dye system. Project completed on time and under budget.• Led preliminary engineering of $775k dye injection system: selected and purchased equipment, issued bid documents for programming, electrical, and mechanical installation.• Coordinated with technical applications group, production, operations planning, and quality departments to support date code ink testing to set new corporate standard.• Wrote 90,000+ word report covering all major processes in dry pet food manufacturing