Patrick Garin

*** ******** ***. (Cell) Phone: 636-***-****

Wentzville, MO 63385 acqb42@r.postjobfree.com

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/patrick-garin/25/855/120

Objective

Seeking long-term employment in a leadership role within a progressive and competitive company that will utilize previous experience and skills to meet business objectives and support commitments to customer needs, employee development, and continuous improvement.

Summary of Qualifications

Plant Engineering Professional with 30 years of background in increasing responsibility in the areas of maintenance management, project management, cost control, personnel management, lean manufacturing, maintenance reliability, preventive and predictive maintenance, Lean Manufacturing, CMMS maintenance program oversight, daily and long-term strategic planning. Effective leader with a proven innovative role of leading operations from traditional to “Lean Enterprises”. Ability to communicate and organize a plan of approach required by forward thinking to anticipate delays and implement corrective measures to ensure a successful outcome. Resourceful results oriented team contributor, effective leader and high achiever who demonstrate added value to people and the organizational process. Skilled analytical problem solver with ability to manage high impact change and related shifts in technology to meet corporate goals.

Bilingual: French – English

Education

BS in Industrial Engineering, 1980, Ecole Technique Superieur D'Hornu (Hornu) Belgium.

Employment History

Maintenance Manager

Alpla- St Peters, MO 8/21/2013 – Present

Alpla is a worldwide leader in blow molding with 14 plants in North America

Company annual sales: $2 billion

Reporting to: Plant Manager

Number of manufacturing facilities worldwide: +160

Number of direct reports: 18 (2 plants)

Products manufactured: bottles and containers in HDPE, LDPE, PET and PPT

Responsible for the overall continuous facility operation associated with process machinery and equipment maintenance, repair or replacement to ensure maximum production quantity and quality. Provided solutions and team contributions to 18 direct reports within two plants.

Reduced mechanical failure (downtime) by 30% by training maintenance technicians, developing a "best in class" program and implementing teamwork.

Implemented equipment reliability. Prepared reports, reviewed downtime data and made recommendations for plant improvements.

Drove Lean Manufacturing (Kaizen Champion) in Kaizen events

Facilitated safety programs. Maintained and implemented policies that provided a safe and healthy work place.

Managed parts maintenance budget of 3 MM

Drove Capital Projects from equipment purchase to start-up including all training and procedure in the scope of work.

Facility Manager

Key Safety Systems – Lakeland, FL 5/21/2012 – 6/21/2013

Key Safety Systems (KSS) is a global leader in the design, development and manufacturing of automotive safety-critical components and systems.

Company annual sales: $2 billion

Reporting to: Plant Manager

Number of manufacturing facilities worldwide: 20

Number of direct reports: 45

Products manufactured: Inflator for air bag systems for the automotive industry worldwide.

Responsible for the overall continuous facility operation associated with process machinery and equipment maintenance, repair or replacement to ensure maximum production quantity and quality. For all facilities activities and maintenance.

Plant Engineer - Safety Manager

Saft America – Cockeysville, MD 2010 – 2012

Saft is the world's leading designer, developer and manufacturer of advanced technology batteries for industrial, space and defense applications.

Company annual sales: $0.5 billion

Reporting to: Operations Manager.

Number of manufacturing facilities worldwide: 16

Number of direct reports: 7

Products manufactured: Saft is the world's leading designer, developer and manufacturer of advanced technology batteries for industrial and defense applications. The Group has put in place the key building blocks to deliver our strategy for high technology lithium-ion batteries.

Responsible for the overall continuous facility operation associated with process machinery and equipment maintenance, repair or replacement to ensure maximum production quantity and quality. For all facilities activities and maintenance. For all addition of equipment, construction and new project. For Capital Expenses Requests for new projects. Responsible for the environmental policies and programs and complying with the EPA and RCRA and all safety procedures and policies. Responsible for the overall safety programs, procedure and policies.

Created the Waste and Hazardous Waste Management Plan for SAFT Cockeysville.

Set-up paid per skill levels for the Maintenance team.

Drove several Capex projects to completion.

Maintenance Manager

Amcor Rigid Plastic – Blythewood, SC 2008 – 2010

Major automated PET Blow Molding operation with a daily production average of 4MM / bottles day.

Company annual sales: $11.0 billion

Reporting to: Operations Manager.

Number of manufacturing facilities worldwide: 217

Number of direct reports: 29 including 2 automation engineers

Products manufactured: PET bottles ranging from 12, 16, 20 and 24oz, 500ml, 1L, 2L, and 3L for Pepsi Co. Clean room PET Pharmaceutical bottles ranging from 4, 8, 16 and 32oz for Bausch & Lomb.

Responsible for the overall continuous facility operation associated with process machinery and equipment maintenance, repair or replacement to ensure maximum production quantity and quality. Provided solutions and team contributions to 29 direct reports.

Reduced mechanical failure (downtime) by 30% by training maintenance technicians, developing a "best in class" program and implementing teamwork.

Reduced parts inventory by $200K resulting from a parts consumption analysis.

Implemented equipment reliability. Prepared reports, reviewed downtime data and made recommendations for plant improvements.

Drove Lean Manufacturing (Kaizen Champion) in Kaizen events resulting in substantial cost reductions in energy (185K)

Responsible for facility safety programs. Maintained and implemented policies that provided a safe and healthy work place.

Managed parts maintenance budget of 3.6MM

Championed Continuous Improvement initiatives such as 5S, TPM (Total Productive Maintenance, PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act), 7 Waste

Championed energy reduction initiative such as replacement of oven lamps with performing lamps that reduced energy consumption by 6% totalizing $320K per year.

Project Engineer

Zotos International - Geneva, NY 2007 – 2008

A division of Shiseido (Japan) and producer of high-end hair care products.

Company annual sales: $7.0 billion

Reporting to: Director of Engineering

Number of manufacturing facilities worldwide: 17

Focused on equipment improvement and reliability in the blow molding divison. Reviewed the existing practices, provided recommendations and implemented projects to improve processes.

Increased 4oz bottle production output 8% by replacing 3 process lines with out-dated technology with one new production line from SAW Korean. Worked closely with manufacture to meet deadline. 1.8MM project

Reduced plastic colorant consumption by 22% (ROI of 8 months). With a yearly cost saving of $185K / year. Put controls in place to monitor consumption over time to sustain gains.

Maintenance Manager - West Jordan, UT 2006 – 2007

Maintenance Manager - Edison, NJ 2003 – 2005

Engineer - Bradenton, FL 2001 – 2003

Graham Packaging A continuous extrusion blow molding HDPE, LDPE & PET Bottle Manufacturer for the food and beverage, Household, Automotive lubricants, chemicals and personal care.

Company annual sales: $4.0 billion

Reporting to: Plant Manager

Number of manufacturing facilities worldwide: 84

Number of direct reports: 16

Products manufactured: HDPE and LDPE bottles from 4oz to 1 Gallon for Tropicana, Dannon and church and Dwight (Arm and Hammer) in a union environment.

Responsible for the facility safe maintenance/equipment repair and/or replacement of process systems to ensure maximum production quality and quantity, while supporting company goals and objectives. Resolved production, maintenance, equipment and employee issues, trained new department technicians and implemented safety processes. Excelled in increasing machine up-time and productivity to the highest level.

Implemented equipment reliability by improving MTBF (Mean Time between Failures) and failure rates.

Supervised and trained maintenance personnel. Prepared reports analyzed data and made recommendations for plant improvements.

Maintained and implemented policies for a safe and healthy work place. Monitored the use and inventory of spare parts, maintenance supplies, and plant equipment.

Created and managed a Safety Team.

Increased machine speeds by 3% and overall equipment effectiveness from 92% to 96%. Wrote an additional 30 PM procedures.

Developed a “Best-in-Class” system for equipment processes.

Created and implemented a facility Preventive Maintenance and Equipment Reliability Program resulting in improving the MTBF (mean time between failures) and failure rate.

Achieved a $750K / year cost savings by implementing a color change procedure that reduced color change from 5 hours to 45 minutes.

Wrote troubleshooting guide for operators.

Implemented wheel production from 65K to 100K bottles per day.

Reduced downtime by 30% by re-organizing job change.

Improved equipment reliability through preventive and predictive maintenance tools and practices and established controls to validate data.

Championed Continuous Improvement initiatives and created improvement teams.

Maintenance Manager

Flexsol Packaging - Newark, NJ 2005 – 2006

Continuous 10-line extrusion blow film and bags process with a yearly production of 30M pounds.

Company annual sales: $180MM

Reporting to: Operations Manager.

Number of manufacturing facilities in the US: 4

Number of direct reports: 6

Products manufactured: Combo Liners & Caps, Small Bags, Box Liners, Wicket Bags, Perforated Sheets, Form/Fill/Seal Films, Can Liners, Bundling & Shrink Films, Shrink Bags, Co-Ex Films & Liners, Pallet Covers, Stretch Hood, Vacuum Bags (“MAP”), Single Wound Sheet, “IQF” Films, Auto Insert Bags, Tube Stock.

Responsible for implementing a comprehensive maintenance reliability program focused on production specifications. Interviewed, hired and trained new employees and created a safe work environment.

Provide leadership in maintenance utilization and standardizing asset maintenance.

Negotiated and managed a 2.3MM capital project – New bag line installation including building expansion.

Implemented air compressors sequence and utilization.

Sanitation Manager

Imperial Place Casino Resort - Biloxi, MS 1999 – 2001

Hospitality Industry

Reporting to: Casino Manager

Number of facilities in the US: 2

Number of direct reports: 34

Responsible for hiring, training, materials inventory and scheduling employees. Mississippi Department of health inspections.

Passed 8 Mississippi health inspections with no failures.

Standardized silverware for the 10 restaurants witch reduced the overall inventory by 30K

Industrial Engineer - Project Engineer

Verlipack - Ghlin, Belgium 1980 – 1998

Bottle and Jar Glass Plant with a daily production of 3MM bottles /day

Reporting to: Director of Engineering

Number of manufacturing facilities in Belgium: 4

Number of direct reports: 8

Plant shutdown in 1998

Products manufactured: Glass bottles, jars, personal care, Pharmaceutical for Coca-Cola, Bonne Maman, Moet & Chadon, Channel, Dior, Pfizer, Gerber, Playtex, Nutella, glaxo smith klein, Shiseido

Responsible for the continuous improvement, rebuilds, repairs of the pneumatic and hydraulic equipment related to production equipment. Managed a staff of 8 technicians from the maintenance department (60 overall).

Patent - an automated mold greasing system to eliminate the hand greasing in production.

Other

Speaker at Reliable Plant 2015 with a presentation on “Predictive Maintenance on Hydraulic systems”

Training

ISO 9000

Value Stream Mapping

Continuous Improvement Methodology.

TQM - Total Quality Management.

Ultrasonic Leak Detection Certification.

Programmable Logic Controls

Root Cause Mapping.

SAP for parts order, inventory and maintenance system

CMMS Software (MP2, PMC, Cogz, TabWare)

OEE – Overall Equipment Effectiveness

KAIZEN Champion Certification (5S, SMED, VSM, Kanban, PDCA, Push-Pull, 7 Waste…)

JSA - Job Safety Analysis

TPS – Toyota Productive System

TPM – Total Productive Maintenance

RCRA – The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (EPA)

DOT Hazmat

CPR - First Aid, CPR and AED Certification

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