• Responsible for shop fabrications and assembly operations; manage equipment quality, installations, field tech troubleshooting, repairs and start ups.

• Experienced Maintenance Manager/Engineer with safety, purchasing and other major responsibilities. • Responsible for $1.5 million maintenance & 10-15 million engineering budgets annually.• Very experienced working with industrial parts including power transmission, electrical and plumbing.• Experienced with stock and inventory control concepts and procedures.• Originated and implemented a PM/ MRO program that decreased down time 25%.• Extensive knowledge and hands on experience with electrical, pneumatic, steam and hydraulic systems.• Increased production manufacturing efficiencies from 75% to 95+%.• Experienced with HACCP, USDA, FDA, CAL-OSHA rules and regulations.• Increased production capacities decreasing raw material costs 20%.• Increased manufacturing capacities reducing maintenance equipment operational costs 25%.• Quadrupled raw material throughput reducing production cost 50%.• Engineered larger production capacities that reduced required growing season length and costs 20%.• Very detailed oriented with 25+ years experience in food and personal safety, food and equipment manufacturing, food processing, packaging, maintenance and repairs, engineering, equipment installations and high speed handling and production equipment.• Coordinate vendors, parts inventories, purchases, supplies and contractor repairs.• Introduced the first Merced Ragu' plant PM/MRO program. None existed prior to 1977.• Redesigned facilities and Reverse Engineered problems to reduce down time and total plant costs. • Designed developed, engineered and improved performance, manufacturing methods and cost savings.• Increase plant safety, production and operations and reduce maintenance failuresEngineered and managed the full life cycle of capital projects from inception to closure including creatingproject plans, budgeting, gathering requirements, assembling resources, scheduling and facilitating project execution