Rafael A. Tejera - Garcia Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Georgia Area

• Leading and coaching the plant maintenance mechanics and planner.
• In charge of the coordination and execution of the annual plant shutdown activities.

Vega Baja, Puerto Rico

• Lead and coach, 3 shifts, 11 packaging engineering maintenance colleagues (electrician, mechanics, and technicians). In charge of the administrative activities of the area, budget, maintenance program, lead and support.
• Successfully keep the assigned budget below the expense limit each month.
• Achieved maintain the equipment’s downtime below the maximum annual downtime target hours improving the packaging lines OEE.
• Successfully developed and implemented equipment’s reliability improvement projects; working in liaison with the Maintenance Reliability Engineer improving the OEE of the packaging lines.
• Established bi-monthly packaging lines inspections to proactive identify and correct safety and quality issues.
• Improved the communication in the maintenance team; establishing huddles between a shift, a communication board, and shift reports.

Vega Baja, Puerto Rico

• Supervised, lead, and coached, 3 shifts, 21 maintenance engineering colleagues (electrician, mechanics, and technicians). Performed administrative activities and assured the appropriate utilization and distribution of.
• Successfully lead emergency and scheduled equipment’s upgrade projects reducing production suites' downtime and improving the equipment reliability and the production OEE.
• Reduced the amount of PM Tasks by 83% ($500,000.00 in cost avoidance) using Kaisen tools.
• Reduced maintenance execution time by 10% and documentation errors by 90%; modifying and developing new PM Tasks, implementing visual PM Tasks, and delivering trainings.
• Improved equipment’s maintenance strategies and correct system deficiencies to improve the production OEE.
• Plant Leader of the PM Program Regional Consolidation implementation; procedures improvement, modification, and training.

Vega Baja, Puerto Rico

• Lead and coach, 3 shifts, 20 utility engineering maintenance colleagues (electrician, mechanics, and operators). In charge of the administrative activities of the area, budget, coordinate the operations, maintenance.
• In charge of the Central HVAC system, USPA Water System, Potable Water System, Generators, Boilers, Chillers and Cooling Towers, Electrical System (13KV, 4160V, 480V, 277V, 120V) and Turbines.
• Improved the human resources use and the capability to proceed when and issue occurs; centralizing the monitoring of the common building utilities (ex. HVAC System, USP Water System, Waste-Water Treatment Plant, Steam.
• Modified and developed Preventive Maintenance Tasks and delivered training.
• Assure that all areas are clean performing periodic inspections.
• Engineering Department Safety Champion.

Vega Baja, Puerto Rico

• Lead and coach, 3 shifts, 10 calibration technicians’ colleagues. In charge of the administrative activities of the area, budget, coordinate all the scheduled and non-scheduled calibration activities for Pharmaceutical.
• Ensures that calibration activities and related quality system are handled in compliance with applicable procedures SOP's, cGMP regulations, and ISO 9001:2000 standard.
• Successfully passed yearly the internal and external ISO 9001:2000 audits.
• Lead regional contracted maintenance initiative; which represents a 10% of cost reduction in calibration standards and $100MM in contracted calibration's services in the QO Laboratory.
• Performed audits to external calibration contractors and others plants.
• Supported IQ, OQ, and PQ validation activities.

Vega Baja, Puerto Rico

• Supported the USP Water System, HVAC systems, and Waste-Water Treatment Plant monitoring and control system.
• Perform troubleshooting in Waste Water Plant and USP Water equipment’s’, HVAC Units, Turbines, Generators, Chillers, Compressors, and Electrical system.
• In charge of the plant electrical protective devices and power monitoring systems.
• In charge of the plant in-house electrical load shedding and the modification of it (hard wiring and PLC programming).
• Modified and developed PM Tasks and delivered training.
• Coordinated and supervised contracted resources and complete safety documentation (LOTO, Confined Space, Non-Routine Work, and Excavation) previous work execution.

Toa Baja, Puerto Rico

• Field projects supervisor.
• Meet with the clients to discuss project specifications to develop proposal.
• Developed projects MOTL, budgets, request equipment and material quotations, and buy project’s materials.
• Install and supervise installations of low voltage electrical systems (breakers panel, transformers, emergency generators, underground installations).
• Construct and supervise construction of overhead and underground high voltage electrical distribution lines.
• Installed and supervised installations of wireless communication stations and antennas.

Bachelor Of Science In Electrical Engineering, Power

Activities and Societies: Computer Engineering SocietyMember of the Directive (4 years) Treasurer (3 years) Staff - Programming.

Pre-Engineering