Maintenance Manager
Resume:
Ralph Griffith
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Dawson, GA 39842 Home: 299-***-****
USA Cell: 229-***-****
Objective
I'm currently seeking a position that will utilize my experience in the
Industrial Equipment Maintenance, Maintenance Planning, Equipment Reliability
and Parts Management arenas. I possess excellent communication, analytical,
financial, and detailed documentation skills. I have a proven track record in
establishing and sustaining long-term Maintenance Reliability Programs
resulting in costs reductions through improved equipment efficiency. In the
past I've successfully built quality relationships with clients, suppliers,
contractors, co-workers, and employees.
Areas of Strength
Reliability Centered CMMS Program Installation, Material Resource
Maintenance and Root Startup, and Management
Cause Failure Analysis Administration Part Supplier Contract
Equipment Condition Asset Management and Negotiations
Monitoring Planning Managing Outside
Implementation of PM and Maintenance Planner Contractors
Predictive Maintenance Supervisory Skills Managing Cost Reduction
Programs ISO 9000-17025 Programs
5-S, TPM, and Lean Implementation and Data Mining/Analysis and
Manufacturing Standards Auditing Report Writing
Six Sigma Black Belt
Principals and
Philosophies
ABB - Cooper Tire Plant, Albany, GA 9/06 to 6/09
Facility Maintenance Manager
Provided full-service maintenance support for Client. Areas of
responsibilities as follows:
. In-house Parts Storeroom with inventory level cost of $5.3mm and 5 direct
reporting employees. Overall duties consisted of managing inventory
levels to ensure no production losses occurred due to critical out-of-
stock items, interfacing with outside vendors to obtain best pricing and
setting up consignment items, removing obsolete items from inventory as
needed, creating reports to analyze data to include re-order points, re-
order quantities, lead times and availability to justify inventory level
changes as needed.
Notable items:
1. Successfully managed a storeroom inventory cost reduction project that
produced documented results of $800k. This was mainly accomplished by
analyzing parts usage, re-order points, re-order quantities, and parts
availability.
2. Negotiated on behalf of the Client multiple supplier contracts that
produced documented yearly savings of $135k through pricing decreases and
consignment item programs.
3. Worked directly with Cooper Tire Corporate personnel to change their
rebuild/repair supplier with documented monthly savings of $10k to $15k.
4. Reduced "critical part stock-outs" from a monthly average of 18 to 4 by
analyzing and adjusting ROPs/ROQs.
5. Improved storeroom inventory accuracy with implementation of weekly
cycle count program.
Work Experience continued:
. Utilities Department with 4 direct reporting employees. Associated
equipment to include 7ea. 2000scfm Ingersoll Rand air compressors, 2ea.
gas/fuel oil fired 60,000lb. boilers, 3ea. 30 ton Trane chillers and all
supporting water systems for the facility. Responsible for all
maintenance related activities in this area such as general repairs, PMs,
and predictive maintenance programs. Also required interfacing with
outside vendors as needed to support mentioned equipment along with
securing pricing, quotes, and generating purchase orders as needed.
Notable items:
1. Successfully worked through contract bids for annual water treatment
that included transition to new contractor.
2. Improved overall departmental uptime by successfully implementing and
sustaining PM and Predictive related maintenance programs.
3. Negotiated contractor bids for annual, quarterly, and yearly service
work to be performed on boilers, chillers, and air compressors.
. On-site machine shop with 4 direct reporting employees. Associated
equipment to include mills, lathes, and other common equipment found in a
machine shop environment. Responsible for providing machine shop related
support to the Maintenance and Operations departments in a 24/7 working
environment. Also required to order shop materials for in-house repairs,
maintaining and procuring steel for the metal inventory, and interfacing
with outside machine shops for support as needed.
Notable items:
1. Negotiated bids and selected "primary outside contractor" to provide
machine shop support as required.
2. Increased overall productivity in shop by streamlining our parts
procurement process.
. Building and Grounds with 4 direct reporting employees. Responsibilities
include generating a yearly bid package for outside vendors to provide
lawn and grounds maintenance, managing general maintenance activities for
all related buildings to include fire systems, building repairs, HVAC
systems, and worked directly with the Cooper Tire Environmental Engineer
for collection and disposal of all environmental waste to meet EPA
guidelines.
Notable items:
1. Submitted bid package and worked on a selection committee for contractor
to provide lawn and grounds care.
2. Negotiated bids for all contract HVAC required services that involved a
contractor change.
. PIV Shop with 8 direct reporting employees. Responsibilities included
managing all repairs, PMs, and the procurement of parts to maintain the
Cooper Tire owned PIV fleet that included 42 forklifts, 28 tuggers, and 1
rail car.
Notable items:
1. Established and implemented PM and Predictive maintenance programs for
the entire fleet of PIVs which greatly reduced costs by reducing the
overall number of breakdowns and downtime on equipment.
2. Negotiated and transitioned control of PIV shop to outside contractor
that resulted in significant cost savings for Client.
Work Experience continued:
Georgia Electric/Viasys Industrial Services - Cooper Tire 8/86 to 8/06
Plant Albany, GA
CMMS Administrator/Maint. Planner Supervisor/Project Leader, 1/97 to
8/06
Area Maintenance Planner, 5/95 to 1/97
Area Maintenance Leader, 4/90 to 5/95
Powerhouse Operator, 1/88 to 4/90
Equipment Installation Technician, 8/86 to 1/88
. CMMS Administrator/Maintenance Planner and Supervisor/Project Leader
1. CMMS Administrator duties included database updates/changes and ensuring
data integrity. Worked with Client on system startup and traveled to
other Client sites for implementation. Was in charge of establishing
training classes and supporting documentation for all users of the new
system. Duties also consisted of extracting data and publishing daily,
weekly, monthly, and yearly reports associated with equipment
uptime/downtime and all associated costs. The reports were standardized
and used throughout the Cooper Tire organization.
2. Maintenance Planner Supervisor duties consisted of setting guidelines
and managing activities for 5 area Maintenance Planners. Worked with
Planners in the following areas: populating the CMMS system with existing
equipment along with new equipment installation, provided necessary
documentation to be used by Planners for the purpose of setting up
equipment BOMS, PM/RCM, and Predictive maintenance programs, ensured
Planners procured and setup adequate spare parts in the on-site storeroom
to sustain a 24/7 operational environment, ensured Planners procured
parts for all planned work, and the work order backlog was dispositioned
as needed. In charge of facilitating weekly meetings between the
Maintenance and Operation groups for the purpose of scheduling PM and
Planned work.
3. Project Leader activities mainly focused on the implementation of the
following projects: Project Sunrise which was a Corporate initiative to
reduce overall storeroom inventory costs, 5-S, ISO 16949, TPM (Total
Productive Maintenance), and Lean Manufacturing which focused on
eliminating waste throughout the manufacturing cycle. All programs were
successfully implemented and I was also chosen to be a member of the
program(s) startup team that traveled to the other Client sites for
implementation. One notable item on the Project Sunrise was an overall
reduction of inventory level costs from $7.3mm to $6.5mm.
. Maintenance Planner duties as follows: identifying and ensuring spare
parts were on-hand for equipment breakdowns and planned work, working
directly with the Cooper Engineering group on implementation of PM and
predictive maintenance programs, scheduling manpower for new equipment
startup, and interfacing with outside contractors to support new
equipment as needed.
. Shift Maintenance Leader with 11 direct reporting employees. Worked
directly with the Mixing Operations department to ensure equipment
repairs were completed in a timely and efficient manner, provided
coaching and identified training needs for employees, and worked to
promote a safe and team-oriented working environment. Attended shiflty
update meetings to discuss ongoing issues and worked to create plans to
effectively resolve them.
. Powerhouse Operator duties consisted of daily operations and maintenance
of boilers, air compressors, chillers, and water systems. Was part of the
department installation and startup team of all related utility
equipment. Trained other operators to perform daily activities after
system startups. Role also required interfacing with outside Vendors to
support equipment as needed.
Work Experience continued:
. Equipment Installation Technician, Cooper Tire site with duties as
follows: millwright type activities on new equipment installation. Worked
directly with the Cooper Engineering group on new equipment installation
and startup.
Education
Albany High School, Albany GA, 1975, GED
Darton College, Albany GA, 1999, Computer Networking, 9
semester hours, 2.88 GPA
Albany Technical College, Albany GA, 1997, Industrial
Electronics, 38 semester hours, 3.30 GPA
Training
Darton College, Albany GA, Continuing Education, Microsoft
Excel, 20 hours, 1996
Darton College, Albany GA, Continuing Education, Microsoft
Word, 20 hours, 1996
Darton College, Albany GA, Continuing Education, Microsoft
Access, 20 hours, 1996
Excel Partnership, Cooper Tire site, Internal Auditing for
ISO9000:2000, 2.1 CEUs, 12/03
Excel Partnership, Cooper Tire site, Implementing ISO/TS
16949:2000, 1.4 CEUs, 11/03
Macromedia Website Design Products, Online Macromedia College,
Dreamweaver-Fireworks-Flash products, 1996
Professional References:
John Schmidt
ABB: Full-Service Maintenance Manager
Eric Stone
MillerCoors: Business Unit Manager
Gene Ritchie
Cooper Tire and Rubber: Modular Engineering Manager
229.419-***-****
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