SUMMARY:

• Lead and manage the Plant Engineering Department consisting of 269 employees and an annual budget of $50 million. Provide production and facility maintenance & engineering support, construction services, and cleaning services to a 25 - acre cigarette manufacturing facility and a separate Research facility on an 80 acre campus. The Plant Engineering Department consisted of the following divisions:Plant Maintenance: 135 technicians (Electricians, Machinists, Carpenters, Pipefitters, Tinsmiths, Welders and Mechanics) and 18 supervisors responsible for general production and facility maintenance and capital construction projects.
• Service: 52 hourly personnel (Janitorial cleaners, industrial machine cleaners) and 3 supervisors responsible for all janitorial cleaning in the Facility and equipment cleaning on the Making/Packing floor.
• Maintenance Planning: 6 Maintenance Planners and 4 clerks responsible for planning and scheduling maintenance activities, managing the CMMS system, and managing technical documentation
• Stockroom: 8 Stockroom attendants, 2 supervisors, and 1 clerk responsible for managing a stockroom with 22,000 SKU’s and $15 Million of inventory.
• 2 Facility Engineers responsible for identifying and executing facility related engineering projects to support the Operations and Research Facilities.
• Automation Engineering: 11 Automation engineers/specialists responsible for maintenance of process controls and instrumentation.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with FDA, EPA, and OSHA regulations as well as the union contract.
• Responsible for defining KPI’s, establishing and communicating goals, and producing results while ensuring regulatory compliance and union contract compliance.
• Responsible for maintaining the department staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training new employees.
• Develop annual budgets, perform cost accounting functions, and produce RFP’s for contractor services.
• Managed the downsizing of the department by 63% due to the sale of the company in 2016.
• Managed labor and contractors necessary to retool the factory after the sale of the company to support the production of new products.
• Saved $6.0 MM on the annual operating budget by leveraging outside contractors to supplement in house labor
• Developed method to optimize inventory order points and order quantities (min/max levels) by analyzing historical stockroom transactions
• Reduced overtime from 45% to 25%
• Managed the transition to outsource facility maintenance and all service department functions.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

General Superintendent

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Improved Preventive Maintenance Compliance from 91% to 98%
• Reduced maintenance technician idle time by 39%
• Improved the percentage of work requests completed within 60 days by 11%
• Leveraged a Preventive Maintenance Optimization Strategy that resulted in a 7% reduction in reactive work and OEE Availability efficiencies raging between 93% and 99% in the Primary Manufacturing Processes.
• Developed improved scheduling processes to use with SAP PM CMMS.
• Developed an improved overtime solicitation process that significantly reduced the administrative burden on the Maintenance Supervisors and improved communication of the overtime schedule to the hourly crafts and between shifts.
• Installed vending machines that distribute non stock material on consignment through the use of employee ID cards. This improved access to non stock material needed by the hourly personnel as well as improved access to PPE needed by all employees.

Senior Staff Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for researching, specifying, budgeting, and designing facility-related capital project work.
• Prepare and review contract documents, and manage the bid process for large construction and engineering projects.
• Prepared RFP’s, project specification documents, and led contractor pre-bid meetings.
• Provided on-site supervision to in-house crafts, contractors, and consultants during project execution.
• Managed assigned projects ranging from $50,000 to $7,000,000.
• Managed the implementation on on-going development of the CMMS (Computer Maintenance Management System)
• Managed a team of 30 and a $7 million budget to implement SAP Plant Maintenance, Project Systems, and Material Management for 1200 users. Delivered the project on budget and on time.
• Created and conducted employee training as necessary
• Evaluated and recommended enhancements to the application to support the evolving needs of the company
• Worked closely with IT staff to specify, budget, manage and test enhancements to the system.
• Developed and interpreted Maintenance-Related Key Performance Indicators and business process changes to support the company’s continuous improvement initiative
• Briefed executive management on results of Plant Engineering Department Operations on a monthly basis
• Managed loss prevention issues, building code compliance issues, and regulatory compliance issues for the facility
• Managed asbestos O&M program (1997 to 2003)
• Developed OSHA training program to satisfy requirements for OSHA 1910 and 1926
• Designed and created a training management database to document and track required regulatory training.
• Worked closely with Factory Mutual and the Greensboro Fire Protection Bureau to define solutions to loss prevention and life safety issues.

Manager, Plant Engineering Administration

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• The facility stockroom with an $11 million parts inventory and a staff of 9 employees.
• The Security Department which included a manager and 30 security officers.
• Four Maintenance Planners
• Three data entry clerks.
• Responsible for preparing and tracking a $40 million annual operating budget for the Plant Engineering Department. Directly responsible for a $13 million annual operating budget for the Plant Engineering Department Administration Division.
• Manage the Maintenance Craft Apprentice training program for A/C attendants, Electronic Technicians, Sheet-metal Workers, and Machinists.

Lieutenant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed a technical staff, and operated and maintained “billion-dollar” equipment in a highly regulated and dangerous environment.
• Responsible to the ship's engineer and commanding officer for the safe and efficient operation of the ship's nuclear propulsion and power generation plants.
• Coordinated nuclear plant maintenance evolutions, design changes, and testing between different support activities.
• Directed 10 technicians in the troubleshooting and maintenance of fluid and heat exchanger systems, electrical generation and distribution systems, reactor and fluid instrumentation and control systems, and lithium-bromide and R-114 air-conditioning plants.

Assistant Weapons Officer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Principal assistant to the Weapons Department Head in the management of 21 technicians responsible for the operation and maintenance of missile launcher and fire control systems.
• Directed troubleshooting actions involving missile launcher and fire control instrumentation, and prepared maintenance and training schedules.
• Responsible for Nuclear weapons Security.

Ships Mechanical Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Principal Assistant to the Engineering Department Head in the overall management of all nuclear related matters.
• Directed a division of 20 Mechanics responsible for the operation and maintenance of the nuclear primary plant, electrical power generation and propulsion turbines, and all auxiliary support systems.
• Validated documentation and retest requirements for all nuclear quality assurance work, and prepared maintenance and training schedules for the division.