Maintenance Plant

Donald D. Gruntman, Sr.

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St. Joseph, MI 49085

(H) 269-***-****

***********@*******.***

EXPERIENCE

Director Environmental Services, Facilities and Maintenance, Royalton Manor

Nursing Home, St.

Joseph, MI May 2009- Present

. Responsible for facility, building codes, safety regulations,

preventative maintenance, all physical plant and equipment, all

Environmental service areas, grounds, and facility

equipment, all contracted projects, renovation or replacement projects.

Responsible for employee evaluations, coaching and

motivating employees. Report to management of daily issues that affect

the entire facility.

Facilities Maintenance Manager, Fourwinds Casino Resort, New Buffalo, MI.

May 2007 - January 2009

. Responsible for maintenance operations efficiency, productivity, and

compliance with established standards.

. Ensure that all general maintenance and repairs throughout the

facilities and property are completed in a timely manner.

. Responsible for repairs on HVAC systems, kitchen equipment and all

facilities maintenance operations.

. Directly supervises all Lead maintenance engineers.

. Supervise inventory management coordinator, electricians, carpenters,

painters, upholsterer, and groundskeepers in all

facilities and property maintenance.

. Evaluates maintenance engineers, utility maintenance via written

performance appraisals.

. Hire all maintenance engineers and utility maintenance personnel.

. Responsible for payroll of department.

. Responsible for Preventative and Predictive Maintenance throughout the

facilities.

. Implements safety programs to ensure all employees and guests are

provided a safe, hazard free environment.

. Conduct daily inspections of property and project areas to ensure

efficient operations and to trouble shoot any problems

or breakdowns.

Maintenance Supervisor, Team Advisor, Reliability Based Maintenance

Coordinator; Vibration Analysis, Whirlpool Corporation, World Appliance

Manufacturer, Benton Harbor, MI February 1997-May 2007.

. Plan, prioritize, schedule, repair and maintenance of all plant

machinery.

. Responsible for plant/ building maintenance.

. Supervision of up to 68 union and non union employees, Production and

Maintenance.

. Liaison for Safety Steering Committee, reporting safety status to

staff.

. Problem identification and problem solutions in all aspects of Plant

Operations.

. Schedule daily and weekend overtime, in Manufacturing and Maintenance.

. Ordering necessary parts for repairs of machinery.

. Implemented Reliability Based Maintenance; Vibration Analysis, trained

associates.

. Responsible for Daily Preventative Maintenance.

. Review and evaluation of apprentices and Journeyman.

. Use of Computer Based Preventative Maintenance and Work Order Systems.

. Responsible for Lock Out, Tag Out Training and Yearly Awareness, wrote

the current program.

Journeyman, Industrial Machine Repairman, Machine Maintenance Rebuild Team,

Vibration Analyst, Level I Certified, Denso Manufacturing, Battle Creek, MI

June 1989 - February 1997

. Schedule, plan, pretest, rebuild, after-test high tech machinery, on

yearly basis.

. Responsible for machinery running at highest productivity levels.

. Total implementation of a Vibration-Based Reliability Based

Maintenance Program.

. Maintenance of vibration database.

. Schedule monthly data collection of machinery.

. Analyzed Spectrum and Waveform Data.

. Condition Monitoring-Alignment, Balancing, Infrared Thermography.

. Reported on findings of faulty equipment to staff.

. Scheduled repairs of high tech machinery.

. Follow-up to demonstrate significant reduction of vibration of

equipment.

. Compile Quarterly and Yearly Cost Savings Reports.

Laboratory Technician, Dishwasher and Automatic Washers, Whirlpool

Corporation, World Appliance Manufacturer, Benton Harbor, MI December 1988-

May 1989

. Laboratory support for brand design engineering groups through product

evaluation.

. Responsible for reports on testing done on dishwashers and washers.

Maintenance Mechanic, Imperial Printing Company, St. Joseph, MI October

1987 - December 1988

. Responsible for facilities/ building maintenance.

. Installation of new machinery and troubleshooting of all machinery.

Journeyman, Industrial Machine Repair, Apprenticeship Served, Whirlpool

Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI September 1972 September 1987

. Planned and layout all required operations in the installation, repair

maintenance and

rebuilding, of a variety of standard and special purpose machine

tools, processing equipment and their accessories, Journeyman

. Served and completed a four-year Apprenticeship program in three

years and three Months.

. Responsible for total set-up and operation of the making of the Wig

Wag Solenoid (inlet valve

solenoid), for Whirlpool Brand Name Washers, Lead-Man, Set-up.

. Various other assembly jobs leading to eventual selected Apprentice.

. Apprenticeship served 1983-1987

EDUCATION

. Whirlpool Leadership Academy

. Coaching for Success

o Leadership Culture

o Will To Win

o Imperative for Change

o Decision Making

o Operational Excellence

o Alignment of Goals To Accomplish Great Things

o Enduring Values-Respect, Integrity, Diversity and Teamwork

. College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1991

. Breakdown Avoidance Through Vibration-Based Predictive Maintenance

. Ferris State (College) University, 1970

. Attended One Year, Pursued Business Administration

. Lake Michigan College

. Graduated in 1987

. Four Year Technical degree in In Skilled Trades Technology

CERTIFICATIONS

. Certified Vibration Technician, Vibration Institute, Chicago, IL

. Certified Vibration Analyst, Computational Systems, Inc., Knoxville,

TN

OTHER SKILLS

. Microsoft Office Professional, and Internet Applications

. Proficient in HR Logix

. Oracle basics

. Reliability Based Maintenance, Vibration Analysis-Advisor

. Quality Circles, Secretary and Leader

. Secretary of Golf League

. Papers Published and Presented in a training atmosphere

. 1995, Annual Vibration Institute Meeting, St. Louis, MO

. 1996, Annual Vibration Institute Meeting, Indianapolis, IN

. 1996, Annual Computational Systems User Conference, Nashville, TN

. 1997, Program of the Year Award, Computational Systems, User

Conference, Finalist

. Finished in top Three of New Programs, with Competition against 47

Major

Corporations, Denso Manufacturing, Battle Creek, MI

. Published, Presented Presentation on Denso's Reliability Based

Maintenance System

for Program of the Year Award

. 1999, Annual Computational Systems Reliability Conference, Nashville,

TN

. 1999, Wrote Training Manual for Teaching of Technical Skill Sessions

for Vibration Analysis and Reliability Testing of Rotating Machinery,

Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI

. 2002, 2003, PowerPoint Presentations, of Total Productive Maintenance,

Manufacturing (TPMM), to Upper Management Staff for Two Different

Manufacturing Areas, Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI

. 2003, Updated and Rewrote, Lock Out, Tag Out Procedure and Training

Presentation, Trained entire Plant on this Procedure, Whirlpool

Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI

. 2007, Leadership classes, Leadership 1-5 Fourwinds Casino, New

Buffalo, MI

. 2008, Certificate from General Electric, Lighting and Electrical

Institute, Nela Park, Cleveland, OH, USA

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