Maintenance Engineer

John S. Ader

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Boiling Springs, South Carolina 29316

Cellular Phone: 864-***-****

Email:

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Objective

To attain the position of Plant Engineering Manager utilizing my

experience, education, and my administrative and supervisory abilities to

provide support services to a manufacturing facility

Capability Profile

. Supervise technical and maintenance personnel, and contract labor

. Manage the maintenance and technical support functions of a manufacturing

facility

. Administer capital projects

. Define need and justification

. Plan implementation and estimate budgets

. Write requests to procure funding

. Execute budget administration and project implementation

. Develop and implement preventive maintenance programs

. Analyze, define, and solve manufacturing related problems

. Design machine control systems

. Troubleshoot and repair electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and mechanical

systems

. Program PLCs, motor controls, and process controls

. Write technical documents describing operation procedures

. Write specifications for vendor reference and equipment purchase

. Use personal computer to perform word processing, machine programming,

computer-aided drawing, spreadsheet accounting, email and the Internet

. Express knowledge of extrusion, blown and cast polyethylene films, and

laminated polypropylene

sheet (TPO)

Experience

Plant Engineer Firestone Building Products, Wellford, South

Carolina 2008 - Present

Manufacturer of laminated TPO roofing membrane

. Maintain the reliable utilization of manufacturing equipment

. Provide technical support for the production team and other departments

. Provide instruction and training for the development of maintenance and

production personnel

. Manage and prioritize the activities of the maintenance department

. Supervise maintenance supervisor, spare parts manager, and seven

maintenance employees

. Adjust staff level as needed

. Manage and maintain the capital assets of the manufacturing facilities

. Administer capital additions and upgrades of manufacturing machinery and

facilities

. Manage environmental programs, compliance, and personnel training

. Manage safety programs: fire, electrical, contractor, energy control

procedures (ECPs) and Lock-out Tag-out

. Comply with ISO, safety and environmental audits

. Establishing approved vendor relationships

. Energy management and cost control

Achievements

. Local implementation Avantis asset management system

. Implementation and maintenance of 5S practices

. Drove cultural change and equipment reliability improvements through TPM

(Total Productive Maintenance)

. Administration and training teammates electrical safety policy and Arc-

flash and Shock Hazard codes

. Capital Improvements and equipment upgrades

. Compressed Air efficiency program

. Quality Circles: energy conservation, waste recycling, TPM, safety

improvement

. Environmental compliance: air permit, storm water, hazardous waste, SARA

312 & 313, Wildlife Habitat

. Established Electrical Power Distribution System Inspection and

Maintenance program

Plant Engineer Pliant Corporation, Danville, Kentucky

2006 - 2007

Food grade polyethylene packaging films and stretch wrap

. Manage and prioritize the activities of the maintenance departments of

three plants

. Supervise three maintenance supervisors and seventeen maintenance

employees

. Adjust staff level as needed

. Manage the capital assets of the manufacturing facilities

. Manage maintenance budgets and monitored spending

. Administer capital additions and upgrades of manufacturing machinery and

facilities

Achievements

. Reorganized maintenance department of a converting plant, re-assigning

and hiring personnel

. Implemented budget managing spreadsheets for supervisors

. Implemented upgrade of five extrusion lines to increase rate

. Converted three mono-layer blown film lines to three-layer co-extrusion

processes

. Replaced turret winders with new surface winders and secondary section

. Added water-cooled chiller system and air handling unit

. Implemented addition of new roll converting, carton packing, package over-

wrapping, case packing equipment

. Upgraded lighting fixtures in two plants to reduce utility costs

. Redesigned compressed air systems in each facility to improve efficiency

and utility costs

Technical Manager Tredegar Film Products, New Bern, North Carolina

1995 - 2005

Personal care, medical and industrial polyethylene films

. Manage the capital assets of the manufacturing plant

. Direct and manage maintenance and technical functions of the plant

. Supervised fourteen technical and maintenance employees

. Responsible for the maintenance of all plant equipment, preventative

maintenance programs, buildings and grounds, design and construction of

new equipment, and revisions to existing equipment

. Manage EPA air, water, and solid waste programs

. Ensure compliance with city, state, and federal regulations

. File reports and maintain permits

. Dispose of hazardous and universal waste

. Monitor wastewater and storm water discharge

. Supervise information technology, safety, quality assurance, storeroom,

and maintenance personnel

. Function as the Project Engineer to implement process and equipment

improvements initiated by the corporate management

. Responsible for training and developing employees to be proficient

. Write procedures for using or troubleshooting equipment

. Troubleshoot electrical, mechanical and fluid power equipment

. Work closely with Production Manager and Process Analyst on all problems

and improvements related to machine and equipment design

. Consult with external customers and suppliers as required to perform

duties

Achievements

. Implemented quality and operation procedure document database

. Implemented plant Intranet communication platform

. Capital equipment improvements

. Rail siding design improvements

. Improved driveway access and resurfaced parking lot

. Process equipment production rate improvements

. Office space additions

. Converted mono-layer cast film line to multi-layer laminate line

. Improved material efficiency by adding in process scrap recycling

machinery

. Converted torque motor driven winders to DC-motor driven winders

. Replaced obsolete line take-away drives system

. Converted a DC-motor driven winder to ac-motor driven winder

. Replaced telephone and paging system

. Created environmental compliance programs

. SWPPP

. ASPP

. Waste Management Plan

. Hazard and Safety Identification Protocol

. Consulted with NC DENR to improve air emissions to remove air permit

requirement

Electrical Project Engineer Tredegar Film Products, Terre Haute, Indiana

1985 - 1995

Personal care, medical and industrial polyethylene

film

. Managed capital project installations and expenditures

. Provided design and specification for:

. Plant power distribution system

. Process control circuitry and mechanisms

. Coordinated drive systems

. Lighting layouts

. Distributive control systems, programmable controllers and PLCs

(mostly Allen-Bradley PLC5 & SLC500)

. Supervised installation of capital equipment

. Designed and directed the making of prototype equipment to perform in the

product development lab

. Provided material lists and preliminary designs of equipment to obtain

quotations on materials or equipment to be purchased or sub-contracted

. Conducted studies pertaining to engineering and maintenance problems at

manufacturing plants, issued reports and recommended solutions

. Created budgets and funding requests for capital projects

Achievements

. Installed blown film lines

. Installed cast film lines

. Installed a converting line

. Installed distributive control systems as upgrades to existing machines

and on the machines listed above

. Engineered control systems for turret winder upgrades

Engineering Intern B. F. Goodrich Company, Fort Wayne, Indiana

1983 - 1985

Manufacturer of commercial tires

. Provided support to engineers

. Performed machine upgrades and engineered process improvements

Achievements

. Upgraded tire building machines

. Redesigned tire sorting conveyor

. Replaced control system of industrial water softener with a PLC

. Improved design of finished goods track conveyor system to eliminate

stocking bottleneck

Education

Masters in Business Administration, East Carolina University, Greenville,

NC December 2004

GPA 3.7/4.0

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Technology, Purdue University, Fort Wayne,

IN May 1985

GPA 4.7/6.0

Associate of Science, Electrical Engineering Technology, Purdue University,

Fort Wayne, IN May 1984

GPA 4.6/6.0

Seminars and Training Schools

. Total Productive Maintenance - Meir, Ltd. (Invensys)

. 5S Overview - Spartanburg Community College

. DOT Hazardous Materials Training - Environmental Resource Center

. Hazardous Waste Management - Environmental Resource Center

. Managing Multiple Projects and Priorities - AMA

. Remaining Non-Union - Kentucky Chamber of Commerce

. State and Federal Personnel Law - Human Resource Center

. Assertiveness Training for Managers - CAI

. Leadership - Tom Peters

. Mediation Skills Training - Mediation Center of East Carolina

. Management Skills and Techniques for New Supervisors - AMA

. OSHA Compliance Workshop - Keye/AMA

. OSHA Compliance Update - National Center for Safety

. Complete Environmental Regulations Course - Lion Technology

. Hazardous and Toxic Waste Management - Lion Technology

. CPR and First Aid - American Red Cross

. Rockwell RXLogistics 5000, ControlLogix System Fundamentals

. Allen-Bradley PLC2 and PLC5 - Allen Bradley

. General Electric Analog DC Drives - General Electric

. Emerson Electric Digital DC Drives - Emerson Electric

. Electro-Flyte DC Drives: Winding Applications - Harland Simon

. Web Handling - Web Handling Associates

. Chevron Polymers - Chevron

. Problem Solving - Industrial Extension Services

. Process Improvement and the Deming Philosophy - PMI

. Quality Window - Busitech

. Lotus Notes and Quality Systems - DPI

. P&G Quality Procedures - Procter and Gamble

. Internal Quality Auditing - Rogers and Associates

References:

Provided when requested

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