Engineer Maintenance

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Greg Pfenning

Professional 24 years combined experience in Maintenance(15), Maintenance

Summary Management/ Supervision(6) and Reliability Engineering(3)

Associates degree in EET from ITT Technical Institute

Logical Troubleshooter

Self Starter (Quote from the Plant Engineer at Guardian after my

first month, "You are doing things I didn't expect you to be

doing for six months or more!")

Familiar with several PLC platforms including, Allen Bradely,

Modicon, Texas Instruments, Mistubishi, Barber Colman, GE and

Seimens

Experience with Maximo CMMS Software

Experience 6/2006 to 10/2009 Guardian Industries Ligonier, IN

Maintenance Manager

Successfully converted PM system from Interval based to Usage

based

Managed Maintenance and mold shop departments with 36 total

employees

Coordinated Facility Engineering activities including all

aspects of plant services

9/2003 to 6/2006 Guardian Industries Ligonier, IN

Maintenance Supervisor

Brought 3rd shift performance up to meet departmental goals

Instituted post breakdown performance critiques including all

shift members

As first shift supervisor, successfully established a team

environment with a group of troublesome individual players

3/2000 to 9/2003 Guardian Industries Ligonier, IN

Reliability Engineer

Part of an Engineering team that brought Molding department

efficiencies up from low 80's to over 90 percent in less than a

year

Instrumental in raising department uptime to consistently over

97 percent

Worked with a machine manufacturer and corporate engineering to

bring resolution to a machine defect which cost the OEM over

$100,000

8/1997 to 3/2000 Neff Engineering Co. Fort Wayne, IN

Sales Engineer

Helped customers with application assistance while selling our

products

Started as Electrical line sales engineer and was promoted to

full line sales the next year

Helped one customer to add electronic measurement controls to a

machining center to assure quality of parts and increased

productivity

11/1989 to Ligonier,

8/1997 Freudenberg/NOK IN

Maintenance Tech/Automation Tech

Instrumental in moving and improving an Automated assembly line from

another manufacturer

Designed controls for and built several small assembly machines in

house

Reconditioned and reprogrammed presses for new business

9/1988 to 11/1989 Sharon

Manufacturing Co. Ligonier, IN

Maintenance Tech

Set-up and did start-up of new automated equipment after OEM

abandoned project

Responsible for calibration, maintenance and testing of mass

spectrometers for leak testing fuel rails

Only tech on night shift, reported directly to production

supervisor

7/1986 to 9/1988

Walker Manufacturing

Ligonier, IN

Maintenance Tech

First real maintenance position out of Tech school

Learned relay logic in a shop where 50 percent or more of

machines used older technology

Exposed to many different aspects of maintenance in an

environment that demanded quick learning

9/1984 to 5/1986 ITT Technical Fort Wayne,

Education Institute IN

9/1982 to 5/1983 IPFW Fort Wayne,

West Noble High IN

School Ligonier, IN

9/1979 to 5/1982

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