J. Scott Smith
**** ********* **. . ****** *******, FL 32708 . 407-***-**** .
abifzn@r.postjobfree.com
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Maintenance Manager
Highly Accomplished maintenance professional with diverse experience in
facilities and equipment maintenance. Offering thorough understanding of
Reliability Centered Maintenance, development and implementation of policy
and procedures with practical application to the resort industry and
manufacturing environments. Broad experience and knowledge in Process, and
Design Engineering, Project Management, as well as management of
maintenance and operations.
> Exceptional skill in team leadership and safety program management.
> Experienced at development and implementation of operating budgets,
and capital plans.
> Highly adept at analytical problem solving, process capability
measurement and improvement, statistical process control, and change
leadership.
> Skilled at research and application of lowest cost alternatives for
equipment upgrades and supply sourcing.
Areas of Expertise:
. Budget planning and forecasting . Cost control . Outsourcing strategies .
Vendor relations . Strategic planning .
. Process improvement . Project management . Team leadership . Employee
training and development . Workforce planning . Recruiting . Safety
management . Labor relations
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Maintenance Management Experience
Chef Creations, Orlando, FL 2013 -
2014
Manufacturer of soups, sauces, and specialty food products for premium
restaurants nationwide.
Maintenance Manager/Plant Engineer
Responsible for process and infrastructure equipment readiness and uptime
as well as capital program and project management, property line to
property line.
Key accomplishments:
. Accountable for implementation of ManagerPlus Pro CMMS including
asset, work order, parts inventory, purchasing, budget and personnel
management modules. Built equipment histories and parts usage
histories for over 100 assets. A work in progress.
. Redesigned and managed the reconfiguration of the main production
kitchen to increase daily production by approx. 50%. The project
included: computer controlled water metering system, installation of
additional Chiller, one additional Form-Fill-Seal machine, new 350gal.
Pasta Kettle with 1 Ton Jib crane and captive air steam hood., product
pumping manifold system and much support equipment. This project
involved work done in-house as well as contracted jobs. All work was
managed to schedule and budget.
. Project managed $250K Roof Replacement project
Old Town Amusement Co., Kissimmee, FL 2010 -
2012
A "1950s Hometown USA" theme park, with 75 restaurant and shopping venues,
and 16 attractions
Facilities Manager
Responsible for maintenance, repair, and improvements for entire property.
Key accomplishments:
. Developed and implemented a plan to abate roof leakage problems on
virtually every roof on property, avoiding extremely expensive
reroofing project.
. Devised and installed ducting strategy for the temporary cooling of
the Tex Mex restaurant while planning and funding was arranged for a
permanent air conditioning solution.
Manager, Attractions Maintenance
Manage and execute maintenance, repair, reconditioning, and installation of
Old Town amusement rides.
Key accomplishments:
. Project Managed the installation of four story "Ropes Adventure
Course", Rock Climbing Wall, and 600' round-trip Zip Line. Completed
construction on schedule, on budget, using almost entirely in-house
labor.
. Designed and installed installation hardware for an LED lighting
upgrade for the 130' tower of our free-fall drop ride.
. Vastly improved the show readiness of all of our attractions while
significantly reducing attraction down-time.
DISNEYLAND RESORT, Anaheim, CA 1996 -
2005
World's first theme park, now comprising two world class theme parks, three
luxury hotels, a retail, dining, and entertainment district, and a five
level 10,000 car parking structure.
Advanced through a series of increasingly responsible positions during a
time of extraordinary change.
Manager, Production Control, 2004 - 2005
Managed resort maintenance workflow through Central Shops, maintaining
strict adherence to Engineering, Quality Control, and Configuration
Management protocols. Made quarterly on-site visits to parts manufacturers
to review quality, timely delivery, pricing, and administrative issues. An
overall performance valuation system was used to motivate improvement and
to award additional business.
Key accomplishments:
. Spearheaded the Production Control Planning/Scheduling Team
procurement strategy for manufactured parts for Disneyland Resort
attractions; developed value added criteria for in-house vs. outsource
guidelines.
. Significantly increased performance quality of vendors through
collaboration with departments of Engineering, Quality Assurance, and
Purchasing, to develop scorecards for suppliers of manufactured parts,
rating them alongside their competition on the key performance
variables.
Manager, Infrastructure and Utilities, 2002 - 2004
Maintained and operated four energy plants including boilers, chillers,
cooling towers and compressed air systems - supplying theme parks and
shopping district. Maintained all utilities, buildings, outdoor lighting,
waterways and water effects, HVAC, infrastructure automation systems, and
waste handling systems. Managed a staff of ten salaried and 86 hourly
employees, and $11.5 million operating budget including $4.4 million in
service contracts.
Key accomplishments:
. Reduced frequency and duration of service interruptions to elevators,
escalators, and moving walkways by more than 50% by implementing an
"out-of-service" improvement program involving weekly meetings with
hotel engineering manager, purchasing agent, and service contractor
management and technicians to work through continuous improvement
initiatives to reduce service interruption frequency and duration.
. Used data generated by above efforts to justify capital projects to
improve the reliability and maintainability of 200+ pieces of people
moving equipment.
. Reduced average percentage of burned out lamps from over 4% to less
than 1% at any given time with one fewer electrician by creating and
implementing a program for routing and group re-lamping more than 5
million lamps in parks, shopping, dining, and entertainment district,
and parking structure.
Manager, Attractions Reliability Teams, 1997 - 2002
Accountable for reliable operation of three rollercoasters, Monorails, and
steam trains. Supervised 5 salaried staff and 87 union hourly employees.
Managed an operating budget of $6.74 million. Areas of responsibility
included ground-up budget preparation, development and implementation of
maintenance strategies, capital program / attraction rehab planning and
execution, and team development through recruiting and performance
management.
Key accomplishments:
. Played central role in the development and implementation of
systematic changes to the attractions maintenance program, including
training, documentation, configuration management, inspections,
maintenance procedures, material sourcing, and audits. This complete
transformation was completed within the two year deadline mandated by
new California Permanent Amusement Ride Safety legislation.
. Managed complete restoration of four steam locomotives that had only
cosmetic overhauls in first 35 years of operation. Accomplished with
no mechanical documentation on two locomotives that were 90 - 100
years old.
Facilities, Engineering and Construction Division Redesign Team Member,
1996 - 1997
Key player in all aspects of division redesign including advance
diagnostics, maintenance practices, organizational construct, benchmarking,
and specific equipment strategies.
Key accomplishments:
. Headed a team to develop ride maintenance strategies for three
attractions (Splash Mountain, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Haunted
Mansion). RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance) methodologies were
used to target specific component failure modes for mitigation.
Implemented strategies on one of these attractions (Splash Mountain)
with a three month trial. Maintenance program was subsequently
launched park-wide. Selected to manage one of four maintenance teams
in the new organization; the team tasked with program implementation
on the rollercoasters, Monorails, and Steam Trains.
DOMTAR GYPSUM, San Leandro, CA 1992 -
1996
Paper mill producing face and back paper for gypsum board (acquired by
Georgia Pacific, 1995).
Maintenance Manager / Plant Engineer
Led maintenance department responsible for site infrastructure and paper
mill machinery. Managed problematic projects including a paper machine
press section retrofit, installation of additional forming cylinder and
associated vat exhaust equipment, and boiler house modernization.
Key accomplishments:
. Managed construction of new maintenance shop facilities, parts storage
mezzanine, and maintenance offices in an existing warehouse. Completed
construction project for under $200,000 by salvaging equipment from
sister mill that was closing, kept what was useful, and sold remainder
to used equipment dealers.
. Directed the drilling and completion of new water well to supply mill
requirements thereby saving $30,000 per month in municipal water
costs.
. Oversaw retrofit of water mist injection system on two package boilers
minimizing the production of nitrogen oxide to comply with new State
NOx emission limits, avoiding costs of installing two new low NOx
burners at a cost of $250,000. The new burner control system
efficiencies resulted in an additional 12% reduction in gas costs.
Other career experience:
SMITH & ASSOCIATES / CHARLES RUTENBERG REALTY, Orlando, FL
2006 - 2010
Business Manager
SCOTT PAPER COMPANY, Mobile, AL 1990 - 1992
Asset Engineer
KIMBERLY CLARK CORP., Fullerton, CA 1985 -
1990
Process Engineer / Design Engineer
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Education & Training
BS - Chemical Engineering, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona,
CA
Sec. 608 HVAC Universal Certification - United States, EPA
Certified Pool / Spa Operator - National Swimming Pool Foundation
Real Estate Sales Associate - Florida Department of Business and
Professional Regulation
Seminars and Short Courses:
. Reliability Centered Maintenance . Transforming Your Maintenance Program:
Reliability Focused Strategies . Modern Safety Management . How to Comply
with Hazardous Waste Laws . Quality Assurance through Nondestructive
Testing . Facilitative Leadership . Productivity . Kepner Tregoe Analytical
Problem Solving . Quality, Productivity, and Competitive Position by W.
Edwards Deming