Jeffrey S. Burns

**** * ***** **, ********, OH **406 330-***-**** ace9lh@r.postjobfree.com

Skills & Abilities

MANAGEMENT / LEADERSHIP

Facilities Engineering and Maintenance Manager Site Security Leader

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Facilities Construction Manager Personnel and Co-Op recruiter and mentor

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EHS Site Manager Safety Team Leader

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TRAINING

GE Six Sigma Black Belt and Green Belt certified Ergonomics for design

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GE Lean with Shingi-Kaizen events Personnel Relations Leadership

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Motoman Robotics accredited courses Electrical NEC, Arc Flash and LOTO courses.

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ENGINEERING

Senior Engineer of equipment, design and process.

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Extensive manufacturing experience:

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o Short Cycle High speed continuous/indexing processes & Long Cycle build and remanufacturing.

o Extensive design and operation of fully automated equipment (cam, pneumatic, servo, PLC and robotics).

o Heavy duty manufacturing (cranes/material handling, machining, media stripping, washers, welding and NDT).

Plant infrastructure build, operation and maintenance including:

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o Incoming power through transformers and switchgear to bus way distribution.

o Utilities from road to facility distribution (Water, NG).

o Process gas generation and bulk supply systems including distribution (O2, N2, LN2, H, SO2).

o Pump room equipment of all variants (High/low pressure air and vacuum with cooling systems and driers).

o Waste water systems (evaporators, storage, removal).

o HVAC (Boilers, 100% combustion and air handler furnaces, chillers, and process ventilation).

o Plant custodial and external grounds maintenance management.

o Fire protection systems (supply, pumps, distribution, alarming and inspection) and Security systems.

Plant interior/exterior build and operations including:

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o Facility structure expansion o Lighting (interior and exterior)

o Parking lots with drainage retention o Soil management

o Structural concrete flooring o Associated permitting

Equipment rigging and transportation for relocation, crating, over highway and international shipping facilitation.

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Working knowledge of materials, fabrication, machining, welding and painting and coatings.

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Environmental Health and Safety including waste streams, regulation compliance, and permitting facilitation.

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Manage purchases of all project and maintenance work. Develop specifications and work with Sourcing organizations

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to apply multiple bid processes where necessary across all business roles.

OUTSIDE INTEREST

Car restoration, machining, fabrication, residential building/home improvement, accomplished ice sculptor.

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Experience

FACILITIES & CONSTRUCTION MANAGER AND MANUFACTURING ENGINEER GENERAL ELECTRIC, TRANSPORTATION, GROVE CITY,

PA 2012-2014

Led building capital improvements to production start-up in 11 months. Transformed warehouse structure

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into a heavy manufacturing site to re-manufacture train, marine and stationary diesel engines.

Directed skilled trades’ resources, diverse contractors and township affiliates. Mitigate constant EHS,

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weather and permitting roadblocks to stay on course with defined project goals. Held accountability to

contractors for delivering specifications. Plant Site security leader.

Project upgraded facility with utility plant feeds and internal loops, built or replaced: concrete floor,

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lighting, compressor room, offices, locker rooms, cafeteria, electrical transformers, switchgear and bus

distribution, brick and mortar expansion. Included external facility grounds, highway inlets, delivery

ingress/egress, creation of parking lots and water shed. Managed soils testing and disposal.

Facilitated installation of over 220 pieces of new and transferred equipment onto the shop floor plan with

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integration into the plant utility infrastructure. 97% met install against plan.

Key team member to drive implementation of 290 external vendor part numbers into plant with

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engineering documentation, testing, benchmark of processes with standard work time studies and drove

line throughput with tooling and fixturing to meet quality and time on product.

Drove safe work culture by support of ergonomics with unique engineering solutions and led fixturing and

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dunnage safety team. Managed 100% of safety finding audit closure.

MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING MANAGER GENERAL ELECTRIC, APPLIANCES & LIGHTING, RAVENNA, OH 2008-2012

Led technical salary engineers for process support and capital improvement projects and hourly maintenance shop

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staff. Responsible for maintenance & supplies budget and activity and lean activities. Served as site security leader.

Interim EHS manager, 2010-2011. Drove reduction of OSHA recordables (up to 46%) and lost time rate (up to 63%).

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No waste water exceedances. Drove 100% safety finding audit closure.

ADVANCED MANUFACTURING ENGINEER GENERAL ELECTRIC, LIGHTING & APPLIANCES, LOUISVILLE, KY 2006-2008

Drove over $20M in total business savings across projects.

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Mattoon, IL Lamp Plant. Led transfer of work from Euclid, OH to Mattoon, IL Lamp Plants under extremely aggressive

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schedule. Led all aspects of the move, including cost to business justification, creating specifications, vendor selection,

asset appraisal, receiving site readiness, move schedule, EHS clearance, and transportation plus install start up and

debug. Delivered operating equipment on time and on budget with minimal start up issues.

Monterrey Lamp Plant, Mexico. Onsite support of equipment to drive downtime & yields of St. Louis transfer of work.

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Logan, OH Glass Plant. Eliminated quality charge back from assembly plant through equipment redesigns.

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Charleston, TN Distribution Center build. Project manager for install of $102K of new equipment & transferred assets.

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Winchester, VA Lamp Plant. Debug of Thiele high speed automated pack line.

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Ravenna Lamp Plant. Led design and build for three robotic cells, and for high speed finishing Thiele automated

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packaging cells. Drove lean action work outs to reduce change over time by 400%.

Facilitated transfer of equipment from Euclid, OH, Willoughby, OH, & Warren, OH Plant to multiple Lamp Plants in

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Hungary. Managed all commercial documentation and asset transfer of equipment overseas.

SENIOR PROCESS/PROJECT ENGINEER GENERAL ELECTRIC, LIGHTING & APPLIANCES, RAVENNA, OH 2002-2006

Ravenna Lamp Plant leadership team member which contributed to 6.5% variable cost productivity savings and

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exceeded quality DPM reduction. Drove plant mfg. control plan compliance through audits and documentation.

Lead team member of invention, design & build of flame spray process which delivered annual savings of $482K.

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Achieved OSHA VPP star certification and recertification.

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SIX SIGMA BLACK BELT/MECHANICAL ENGINEER GENERAL ELECTRIC, LIGHTING & APPLIANCES, RAVENNA, OH 2000-2002

Completed all aspects of training, project savings and testing to receive Six Sigma Black Belt Certification. Delivered

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benefits 34% over plan (saved $53K).

Developed comprehensive preventative maintenance plan with implementation of Megamation electronic

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maintenance management system. Created manufacturing instructions. Drove digitization of production data.

OPERATIONS ENGINEER GENERAL ELECTRIC, LIGHTING, RAVENNA, OH 1996-2000

Operations Engineer responsible for machine uptime and process/product quality through machine/process design,

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maintenance and capital improvement projects. Saving of over $1M in business warranty costs for one project alone.

Completed all aspects of training, project savings and testing to receive Six Sigma Green Belt Certification. Taught

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Process Capability Six Sigma training module to plant personnel.

QUALITY ENGINEERING CO-OP GENERAL ELECTRIC, LIGHTING, WARREN, OH 1994-1996

Held open position of Quality Engineer as a co-op at incandescent lamp plant.

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Education

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 1996 YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY

• Tau Beta Pi Engineering honor society member • Engineer Intern for Professional Engineer License

References available upon request.

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