Marla R. Watts

***** **** ******* **, *******, TX ( 77065

901-***-**** * abj64k@r.postjobfree.com

Project Engineer*Technical Service Manager* Maintenance / Production

Supervisor * SAP

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Results-driven and well-organized leader in both maintenance and production

operations. Seeking a leadership position where skills and experience can

be effectively utilized for increase efficiency, continuous improvement and

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CHRONOLOGY OF EXPERIENCE

Allergan Inc., Waco, TX 2009 -

2010

Project Engineer, Engineering Department

Lead a team of 15 Sterile Fill (SF) filling and packaging maintenance

repair mechanics in a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility.

. Work closely with the production operations teams with Organization

Equipment Efficiency, Quality Management Systems (QMS) deviations, line

changes and safety activities.

. Implements preventative maintenance action on QMS deviation while

reapplying results on all applicable lines in SF. Define corrective

actions, risk assessment and preventative action plans.

. Identify and manage capital and expense projects in SF maintenance,

define scopes of work, identified time lines with production scheduling,

approved materials and select vendors.

Tropicana Products, Bradenton, FL 2006 - 2009

Technical Service Manager, Technical Department

Manager over 4 Technical Services departments in a beverage manufacturing

operations with budgetary responsibilities over $20Million. Provided

leadership to 4 Maintenance Advisors and 89 (Union) multi- craft

maintenance employees areas included Facilities Repair Maintenance,

Maintenance Repair Operations - Inventory, Grounds Maintenance / Plant

Janitorial, and Forklift/Truck Maintenance Repairs. Initiated and carried

out projects that improve efficiency and/or reduce operating costs.

Key Accomplishments:

. Developed monthly Key Performance Indicators (KPI), established goals and

objectives were met in Safety, Budgets, Loss Recovery, Kaizens, PM

completions, TEI, 5S audits, overtime tracking, recognitions and rewards.

Resulting in higher performance maintenance teams, and close monitoring

of plan vs. actual budgetary responsibilities and maintenance work order

management.

. Monitors the use and inventories of spare parts, maintenance supplies,

and equipment through cycle counts, min/max safety stock levels to

control budgetary levels of a $13Million MRO inventory.

. Participate in / lead monthly Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA),

with PepsiCo Chill Supply Chain facilities to address failures and

finding that can optimize equipment performance.

. Lead the Health Safety Environmental maintenance teams, provided

guidelines in 7- Step Investigations monitor Behavior Observations,

reviewed near miss incidents, addresses Risk Predictions real time.

Plant safety records in 2008/2009 exceeded 1 million hours of no lost

time days due to heighten safety awareness and employee involvements.

. Reduced work orders by 35% in all departments through effective backlog

management, prioritized maintenance work loads, scheduled lines down,

distributed manpower allocations in addition to prioritizing mission

critical work orders and kept all maintenance areas 5S.

. Served as liaison for Capital projects; Dock 8 modification ($182M) which

created a cost saving of $140M through the reduction of 3 positions,

Project 2; Spill Prevention Containment project for bulk fuel storage

($222M) an environmental regulate project, working closely with Using

Agency, Project Engineers, Contractors and Environmental specialist

ensuring government specification are in place for a secondary

containment to prevent fuel spill.

Marla R. Watts resume

Kellogg's Company USA, Memphis, TN 2000 -

2006

Maintenance Supervisor, Engineering Department

Lead the third shift maintenance team of 17 employees, covering the

Processing and Packaging maintenance repairs in food manufacturing

facility. Personnel include electricians, machinists, boiler operator and

mechanics. 2004 - 2006

Facilities Planner

Proactively managed projects from concept to startup, focused on improving

safety, sanitation, quality, efficiencies and/or capacity, in addition; to

equipment utilization. 2003 -2004

Project Leader

Lead a Stores Inventory Control Team to reduce inventory by $1MM to 1 year.

Primary focus were on obsolete materials, parts tracking, end of the

monthly cost reports, reviewing new stock parts deliveries and cost Vs

actual cost of parts history, monthly stock issue Vs stock receiving.

2002 - 2003

CMMS Coordinator- SAP & EMPAC

Maintain weekly maintenance metric reports, manages asset records for

new/existing equipment, maintained the preventative maintenance program via

lubrications, inspections, repetitive, and fabrication work orders.

2000 - 2004

Key Accomplishments:

. Expedited daily planned and unplanned maintenance work, assignment of

workforce, monitored daily overtime scheduling, tracking daily

maintenance metric, installation and repair of equipment, involved in

real time trouble shooting and problem solving resolution. Scheduling

preventative and predictive maintenance work orders. Resulting in

reducing downtime, work order backlog and efficient use of manpower.

. Established and maintains a computerized maintenance management system

- SAP for tracking work orders, maintenance technician labor

utilization. In addition too helped improve equipment run-time

capabilities, identify failure trends.

. Initiates, implements, and manages the plant maintenance program based

on best practices in the industry, with an emphasis on

planning/scheduling, daily maintenance report system and

preventive/predictive maintenance.

. Reviewed the operation of the plant equipment and systems constantly,

to minimize unplanned downtime, anticipate problems in a timely

manner, and to identify opportunities for improvements.

. Managed the design and implementation and upgrades of the women locker

room, installed new plumbing improvements, lockers, flooring and

lighting.

. Consulted with a paint specialist on paint encapsulation plant

improvements in order to decrease paint use and reduce peeling on high

temperature mill deck, hydraulic units, pipe conveying system and food

equipment plant-wide.

. Initiated and carried out facilities Expense and Capital projects that

improved efficiency and/or reduced plant cost, from vendor evaluation

and selections, engineering review, buyer support and shop floor

scheduling.

Ingram Micro Framework, Memphis, TN 1999-

2000

Operations Manager II, Operations Department

Accountable for the management and supervision of 4 operations manager and

150 manufacturing associates involved in computer configuration production

and distribution. Managed supervisory teams in regards to workflow

allocation, performance appraisals, training /development, and salary

recommendations.

Marla R. Watts resume

Key Accomplishments:

. Oversaw the production and distribution of new start-up accounts and

joint venture to domestic/international division.

. Accomplished 96% On-Time Deliverable to schedule within 24 hour turn-

around.

. Hired, trained and motivated staff, providing needed training and

necessary staffing changes.

. Authored and oversaw departmental budget.

Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX 1994 -

1999

Production and Test II Supervisor, Operations Department

Provided leadership to 7 functional repair technicians and 93 manufacturing

associates in a computer manufacturing operation, assembled (PCB) personal

computer base and (CPU) computer processing units in an ISO 9001 Certified

facility.

Key Accomplishments:

. Effectively communicated line management issues, reports, and

production schedules to planners and senior management to ensure best

product quality.

. Served as a Group Administrator to reduce material defects, rework,

and manufacturing downtime using statistical process control trend

analyses.

. Performed departmental functions in an efficient and timely manner

while meeting quality performance standards resulted in peek

performance increasing by 20% of initial goals.

Philip Morris Companies, USA, Concord, NC

1990 - 1994

Maintenance Supervisor, Engineering Department

Supervised all aspects of preventative / predicative maintenance repairs of

precision high-speed equipment, equipment used to process and package

tobacco into premium quality cigarettes. Led and coached union workforce

to include 7 mechanics and electricians responsible for maintenance support

of equipment valued over $30Million.

Key Accomplishments:

. Coordinated product changeover procedures with production management

to streamline process flow. Resulted in process improvement of 5%

material savings and 15% productivity gain.

. Directed and implemented the use of carbide blades during filter

cutting process. Saving $140M annually, recommendation improved

process and prevented hand injuries, company-wide.

EDUCATION: Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering,

Prairie View Mechanical & Agricultural

University

TRAINING:

Autonomous Maintenance 123, Diversity and Inclusion 123; Simple Root Cause;

Systems, Applications, Products (SAP) Maintenance/MRO/Planner Systems; ISO

9000; Project Management, Leadership Coaching, Safety, Project MS, Training

Skill for Coaching and Facilitating

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint,); WordPerfect; MS Projects;

Adobe Illustrator; Email and Internet

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