Maintenance Manager

DALE REITER, CPMM

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Lebanon, VA 24266 www.linkedin.com/pub/dale-reiter-cppm/13/65/649

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Maintenance and Engineering Manager with extensive progressive experience and accomplishments in large global organizations. Award-winning staff manager producing world-class results in heavy manufacturing operational effective efficiency (O.E.E) resulting in 30% capacity increase with no capital expansion. Outstanding communicator, cultivating team concepts, driving change, producing and enabling manufacturing excellence and efficiencies resulting in competitive advantage. Applies transformational senior-level leadership skills to delivering superior manufacturing performance. Utilizes laser-focused conceptual ability and a systems thinking viewpoint in building stable, high performing manufacturing organizations. Career history includes serving as a reliability engineer, maintenance superintendent, maintenance foreman, maintenance team leader and floor level maintenance technician.

Strengths and Skills Include:

· Leadership/Staff Development· Capital Budget Management· Operations Budget Management· Maintenance Strategy Development· KPI Formation· Highly Automated Work Environments· PLC/Robotics/CNC/Assembly/Finishing· Gray Iron/Aluminum Green Sand Casting· Wood Cabinet Manufacturing· Aluminum Forging· Plastic Injection and Compression Molding· Electrical, hydraulic, mechanical, trades skills (hands on)· CMMS Management / Implementation· MRO Inventory Control· Asset Reliability Engineering, Management, and Property Accounting· Successful Vendor Interaction · Maintenance Reliability Skillso Root Cause Analysiso FMEA Processo Predictive Maintenanceo Thermal Imagingo Vibration Analysiso Ultrasonic Analysiso Lubrication Analysiso Reliability Centered Maintenanceo Conditioned Based Monitoring· Toyota Production System Skillso TPMo 5So Problem Solving, A3 Skillso Daily Managemento Standardized Worko Visual Factory Application· Green/Sustainability

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration, King College, Bristol, TN 2008

Bachelor of Science, Akron University, Akron, OH 2003

Automated Manufacturing Engineering Technologies

Associate of Science, Lorain Community College, Elyria, OH 1989

Robotics and Automated Manufacturing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PORTOLA PACKAGING INC, KINGSPORT, TN. 2010 TO PRESENT

Maintenance Manager

Provided leadership to 14 indirect maintenance technicians, 3 indirect mold shop technicians, and two direct maintenance and mold shop foremen in a 24/7 plastic injection and compression molding facility manufacturing food grade bottle caps. The 13 acre facility includes a rail siding, 9 resin silos, 25 300 Ton Van Dorn Presses, 4 Husky Presses, 4 500 Ton Kraus Maffei Presses, 3 Sacmi Compression Molders, and secondary equipment including multiple labelers and printers. Initiated lean practices, leader standard work, and Toyota Production System daily management to the mold shop and maintenance department. Initiated new management structures and responsibilities in creating a stable maintenance structure. Safe Quality Food, and AIB Certified plant.

ALCOA WHEEL AND TRANSPORTATION PRODUCTS, Lebanon, VA (Plant Closed) 2006-2010

Maintenance and Engineering Manager (Staff Position)

Provided leadership and direction to 20 direct reports involved in engineering and 24/7 maintenance of 10-acre site that produces forged aluminum wheels for automotive industry. Enabled development and managed annual operations budgets of $1.5M+ (staffing), $1.5M (parts and service), and capital budgets of $500,000.

· Radically increased OEE by 30% in 2 year period winning a coveted Alcoa Spirit of Transportation Award (excellence category) producing the following financials:

§ Increased capacity 144,000 units/year without capital expansion

§ Reduced plant safety stock inventory 81%

§ Reduced reactive maintenance staffing by 35%

§ Reduced R&M spending by 28%

§ Reduced inventory levels from $10.3M to $3M resulting in a transfer of $7.3M to free cash flow

· Supported EHS Strategies resulting in zero environmental incursions and zero lost-day accidents.

· Recognized by Senior Management for superior performance through award of 200 shares of Alcoa stock.

· Recognized need and developed apprenticeship program that involved skills assessment of current technicians. Moved minimum requirement of maintenance department to Associate Degree.

· Launched predictive technologies that included infrared thermography, vibration analysis, and lubrication analysis.

· Developed and executed FMEA process that improved asset maintenance strategies addressing failure modes and reducing costs.

· Powered corporate culture change at manufacturing floor level through TPM, visual factory, KPI’s, and reliability projects.

Reliability Project Summation Cost ROI @1year OEE Gains Results

Press Filter Upgrade 98K 62% 0.20 % Eliminated all oil related down time

Saw Chip Collection Upgrade 5.28K 77% 0.15% Eliminated all chip clog down time

Spinner A.C. Upgrade 15.2K 21% 0.12% Eliminated all overheat down time

DALTON CORPORATION, Warsaw, IN 2005-2006

Maintenance Superintendent

Provided oversight, guidance, and direction for reactive 24/7 maintenance operation of 70 indirect hourly technicians and nine foremen at gray-iron foundry.

· Decreased average work order backlog from 150 to 30 in four-month period.

· Increased preventive maintenance completion from 35% to 90% in 3-month period. Also decreased maintenance downtime from 8% to 2.5% in same 3-month period.

MASTERBRAND CABINETS, INC., Richmond, IN 2004-2005

Maintenance Manager

Managed 12 hourly and one salary direct report in a 24-hr/5.5 day maintenance staffing strategy, providing manufacturing and facility maintenance management for the second largest wood-cabinet manufacturer in the US. Successfully controlled budget expenditures for non-product related production and maintenance facilities/MRO supplies.

· Slashed maintenance costs and overtime costs.

· Reduced work order backlog by 30% in four-month timeframe.

SCOTT AND FETZER, ADALET DIVISION, Cleveland, OH 1988-2004

Maintenance Team Leader and Various Positions of Increasing Responsibilities

Progressed through the ranks from multi-skilled Maintenance Technician to Team Leader. Actively involved in project planning/implementation. Performed at exceptionally high skill level in advanced manufacturing operational systems in aluminum foundry and CNC Machine Shop.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/CERTIFICATIONS

· Certified Plant Maintenance Manager, Association of Facilities Engineers

· Past member, Executive Board of Southwest Virginia Manufacturing Technology Center

· Member, Association of Facilities Engineers and Society of Manufacturing Engineers

· Paper Published: “Maintenance Managers in Pursuit of World Class Performance” www.bin95.com/Maintenance-Managers.htm

· Presenter: Maintenance Cost Control Strategies 2010 Conference sponsored by TA Cook, Houston TX, 2/8/2010 through 2/10/2010

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