Joel K. Epstein

* ********** *****

South Huntington, NY 11746

631-***-****(H) 516-***-****(M)

acf8kq@r.postjobfree.com

I am a maintenance professional with over 30 year's experience. My

experience has spanned several different industries. I have worked in

aerospace, transportation, construction and food processing. I am a proud

US Navy Submarine Veteran.

My back ground includes extensive plant engineering, project

management facilities maintenance management inspection, commissioning,

maintenance of buildings, equipment and various automated systems. I have

supervised and inspected repair work performed by contractors. Managing

contractors including writing scope of work, competitive bidding,

evaluating bids, negotiation, punch-list management, holding contractors

accountable for results, obtaining and creating equipment specs

EXPERIENCE:

2000-Present Joel Epstein Consulting and Contracting

Project Management, prepare specifications, systems design,

installation and repair of equipment, Inspection and

evaluating equipment for clients. Convert relay logic

equipment to PLC controlled equipment. Review and evaluate

preventive maintenance inspection procedures.

1986-2006 LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD

1990-2006 Position: Plant Engineer Hi-Tech

Direct and supervise the daily activities of maintenance

personnel, which include office staff, 15 Gang Foremen and

approximately 150 Craft personnel.

Administer a CMMS database for shop floor equipment that

is used to schedule corrective and preventive maintenance

work orders. Reviewed and evaluated inspection reports on

preventive maintenance, scheduled and unscheduled corrective

maintenance of company assets.

Reengineered equipment controls by replacing relay logic

with programmable controls (PLC) and variable frequency

drives (VFD'S)

Managed a ($3M) service contract for the repair of mobile

material handling and mobile lifting equipment.

Developed spare parts blanket orders for critical

equipment.

Train subordinate supervisors on new equipment,

troubleshooting equipment and system failures

Responsible for the inspection and maintenance of Shop

Floor Equipment, Overhead Cranes, Boilers, Chillers, HVAC,

Fuel Systems, Man-lifts, UPS systems, Switchgear, Compressed

Air and Emergency Generators

Responsible for environmental reporting and the disposal

of hazardous and non hazardous material used in shops.,

.

1986-1990 Position: Manufacturing Engineer

Responsibilities were to represent the Mechanical

Departments interests during the design, construction,

installation, testing and acceptance of the LIRR's Hillside

Maintenance Facility.

Participated in the design of New Shop's working closely

with Shop supervision this work included the design and

purchase several automated test systems.

Prepared technical specifications for equipment and

building systems that were in place when the new Facility was

commissioned.

Designed automated and conventional material handling

systems, equipment layout.

1976-1986 FAIRCHILD REPUBLIC COMPANY

Position: Facilities Supervisor

Responsibilities were to direct and supervise the daily

activities of Maintenance personnel. The work included the

installation, repair to the component level and preventive

maintenance of automated machinery.

Inspected and accepted for the company, machines that were

retrofitted with new computerized controls.

Redesigned the Preventive Maintenance System. Reviewed

and evaluated inspection reports on preventive maintenance,

scheduled and unscheduled corrective maintenance of

government and company property.

EDUCATION: SUNY Farmingdale, NY

PROFICIENCIES AND SEMINARS:

Windows, Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Outlook

WordPerfect, Lotus 123, Freelance, Programmable Controller

Programming (PLC) and Maximo (CMMS)

Harvard school of Business's "Breakthrough Customer

Service" Teleometrics International "Models for Management,

Zenger Miller's "Front Line Leadership, M1 - M3 Technical

Training for Supervisors, Advanced insight into Labor

Relations, Managerial Assessment of Proficiency (MAP),

Managing Personal Growth (MPG), The Supervisor's role in

Substance Abuse, Dvirka and Bartilucci seminar on Hazardous

Waste Management.

MILITARY Served four years active duty US Navy Submarine Service,

2nd Class Petty Officer.

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