Bryan Kloutse

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Nashville, Tn ****6

abs1ea@r.postjobfree.com

Highlights

Over 15 years experience in manufacturing. Energetic, dynamic approach to problem solving. Very enthusiastic, quickly establish strong relationships with peers. Creative thinker, forthright and assertive, friendly, competent and hardworking employee.

Work Experience

Standard Functional Food Group

April 19, 2012- Present

A. Maintenance Technician Level II-Responsible for the inspection, troubleshooting, and repair of candy production and packaging machines in a F.D.A. regulated environment.

B. Establish and maintain monthly preventive maintenance activities.

C. Changeover, set up, and start up all packaging equipment as specified in a high speed production environment.

D. Work closely with production supervision as well as machine operators in order to maintain equipment efficiency on a day to day basis.

Marangoni Tread North America

January 6, 2011- March 14, 2012

A. Shift leader-Responsible for day to day shift operations, to ensure that efficiency, volume, cost, and quality standards were achieved. Also responsible for day to day scheduling, while complying with 5S workplace standards. Trained myself, as well as other employees on various machines, material handled, monitored and documented all changes on support devices, such as dust collectors, baghouses and chillers. Some light maintenance, as well as handling personnel issues which included attendance and payroll.

B. General Technician-Responsible for the erection and start-up of a rubber extruder, flat-tread style rubber press, and buffing machine. Worked closely with Italian technicians, (most of which were not bilingual) in the building of the before mentioned machines.

C. Trimmer-Responsible for removing excess rubber from extruded tire treads. Documenting my production for the day, as well as quality control on each tread that I processed, while keeping up with housekeeping and safety issues.

Vi-Jon- Smyrna, TN

August 22, 2004-December 15, 2010

A. Level 1 Mechanic-washout, changeover, make mechanical adjustments, as well as repair all aspects of production style lines, from changing circuit boards to replacing and rewiring AC and DC motors, for a bathroom product bottling company. Also, I am accountable for troubleshooting production lines, ordering spare parts and fabricating various safety guards such as safety doors with interlocks and guards which prevent access to certain areas of machines. In addition, I am responsible for various mechanical rebuilds of bottle fillers, cappers, bottle setters, labelers, case erectors, and case sealers. Also, I wrote instructional guidelines and shot instructional videos on how to washout and changeover various machines on production lines. Finally, I possess a working knowledge of hydraulics and pneumatics, as well as fundamental electrical knowledge.

A. Schulman Inc. – Nashville, TN

November 5, 1998-August 15, 2004

A. End of the Line-package plastic pellets from an extruder, fabricate large octobins for packaging purposes, weigh product, and transport product via forklift to storage area, as well as hook railcars to silos in order to provide different types of propylene to various plastic extruders.

B. Masterbatch Mixer- combine various dry materials, pigmented pellets, and dyes in large mixer in order to create the base components for different types of plastics, clean and maintain equipment used to mix these base materials, catalogue these materials, as well as transport them via forklift to storage areas.

C. Mixer- mix masterbatch along with fiberglass, talc, propylene and other dry materials into small blenders and feeders which would in turn be mixed and heated for plastic extrusion. My duties also included cleaning and maintaining the various blenders and feeders.

D. Lab Technician-test plastic pellets’ various properties such as ash,(which detects the amount of talc a certain type of plastic might have), and melt flow, (the point at which certain plastics might melt), visually inspect the pellets for appearance, log and record data in accordance with QS 9000 guidelines, as well as approve various products for shipment. Other duties included cleaning, maintaining, and calibrating equipment.

E. Operator-operated, cleaned, changed over, and maintained plastic extruder.

Education

August, 1985-May, 1989

Booker T. Washington High School-Graduated with honors and diploma.

August, 1989-May 1991

Grambling State University-Completed two years, with a major in business management. No diploma

Computer Skills

Microsoft Internet Explorer, WPM 50, Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows 2003-2007, Excel.

Keywords

Highly organized, hard worker self-motivated, great communication skills, written and verbal.

References furnished upon request.

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