Glenn West Email & Phone Number

Stockdale, TX, US

• Direct the Engineering and Maintenance Teams to drive continuous improvement. Developing and implementing reliability strategies to eliminate availability losses.
• Identify and eliminate production bottlenecks and reliability issues based on detailed analysis of plant data.
• Manage projects to insure equipment and process improvements.
• Train production and maintenance team members in Root Cause problem solving.
• Provide technical expertise to Production, Safety and Environmental departments.
• Development and administration of Capital and Maintenance Budgets.

Schertz, Texas

• Manage Reliability and Maintenance Teams to minimize machine downtime. Improving the maintenance team’s response and accountability to production.
• Identify reliability issues and manage projects to improve equipment and processes.
• Development and administration of Capital and Maintenance Budgets.
• Continuously evaluate Preventive Maintenance Tasks for improvements.
• Initiate and lead modification projects that improve machine reliability and efficiency.
• Manage and monitor contractor activity on engineering and construction projects.

• Managed Body Weld Engineering, Maintenance and Production areas. Accountable for the safe and efficient manufacture of 200,000+ trucks annually through the Body Weld processes.
• Developed and directed department 5 Year Strategic Plan for processes, equipment and staffing.
• Integrated 2nd model truck line on existing line, comprising six cab variations. First for Toyota.
• Directed engineering and maintenance projects and daily activities to insure equipment and processes exceeded the operational availability (OA) target of 95%.
• Led Process Improvement activities (Kaizens) to reduce process time (Takt time).
• Organized and guided Jishuken activities to improve process efficiency

• Responsible for the operational availability of all equipment and systems for the Body Weld processes. Manage all engineering and 85 maintenance personnel and their activities.
• Directed the installation and start-up of Body Weld’s equipment and processes.
• Daily management of Body Weld department’s maintenance engineers, supervisors and team members activities and projects to provide maximum equipment operational availability to produce over 200,000 vehicles per year.
• Development and administration of Body Weld's $10 million Capital and Maintenance Budgets.
• Implemented In-house component repair processes for all maintenance departments eliminating outside repair cost.
• Developed and managed Spare Parts setup and system for the plant. Organized all departments to eliminate duplicated parts setup.

• Directed all Engineering and Maintenance activities and personnel of the plant (109 employees). Accountable for all equipment, facilities, utilities, buildings and emissions of the 600,000 sq. ft. facility producing.
• Development and administration of Plant’s Capital and Expense budgets ($37 MM), Capital and Expense Projects and Strategic Planning for the plant.
• Responsible for Facility’s Utilities: cooling towers, compressed air, power distribution, HVAC, gas trains and nitrogen plant.
• Responsible for the facility’s emission control equipment and systems.
• Instituted facility’s first predictive and preventative maintenance CMMS.Directed all Alcoa Business Systems (ABS/TPS) activities for the facility. Focused on productivity improvements, eliminating waste from the.
• Developed and implemented a plant wide strategy (Hoshin) utilizing the principles of continuous improvement, root cause problem solving and waste elimination to improve productivity. Record level of annual aluminum.