Maintenance Manager

Heather Foster *** Armour place drive Byhalia ms *8611 901-***-****

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Experience

July 2012 - Present Guardian Building

Products Mineral Wells, MS

Plant Engineering Manager

Institute new work order system at site

Manager of 12 mechanics/electrical technicians and

all contractor maintenance

Train mechanics/electrical technicians on precision

maintenance skills

Plan and schedule all maintenance PM/Pd work for

completion

Maintenance budget management

Manager of Capital spending

July 2007-July 2012 Cargill, Inc

Memphis, Tn

Site Continuous Improvement team lead (REPI process

- Temporary Assignment) - Cargill Corn Milling

North America

Lead all site CI projects during REPI (Reliability

Excellence Process Improvement process) - Kaizen

and 5S events

Lead the site in determining wrench time baseline

Co-facilitated (2) 5S events and (1) Kaizen event

(leading to over $25K in savings)

Reliability PDG Engineer - Cargill Corn Milling

North America

Champion asset health improvement

Site RCA champion (Apollo Method) - facilitate,

train, provide feedback

Execute site reliability improvement capital

projects - mechanical and electrical

Create reliability standards for the business unit

- site-to-site partnerships with other Reliability

Engineers

PdM/PM optimization - based on asset criticality

and RCM principles

Spare parts inventory analysis/CMMS system

equipment updates

Support/Mentor project engineering in maintenance

practices on new installations

Member of CORN Women's council (Corn Milling

Operations and Resource Network)

Maintenance Supervisor - Cargill Corn Milling North

America

Supervise the daily workflow for 25 Cargill

mechanics and 12 contracted mechanics

Obtain training for mechanics on precision

maintenance skills (Pd) - laser alignment, torque

specifications, belt tensioning, centrifugal pump

rebuild standards

Execute site reliability improvement capital

projects - mechanical and electrical

Coach/Mentor mechanics on wrench-time

Liaison between reliability coordinators and

maintenance mechanics (production and maintenance)

Maintenance budget management

Feb 2005-July 2007 Kellogg, Inc Rossville,

TN

Maintenance Supervisor

Supervise the daily workflow and training for 12

mechanics

Minimized downtime of equipment on shift by 5%

Liaison between production and maintenance

mechanics

Maintenance budget management

Troubleshoot Modicon and Allen Bradley PLCs

Champion mechanics innovation designs

PM optimization

May 2003-Feb 2005 Frito Lay, Inc

Jonesboro, AR

Maintenance Supervisor

Supervise daily work flow and training for 2

warehouse mechanics and 6 packaging mechanics

Team lead for Confined space entries

Minimized downtime of packaging equipment on shift

by 2.5%

Maintenance budget support

PM schedule owner on all packaging equipment

Liaison between packaging department/scheduling and

project engineering for improvement projects

Co-chair for WIN (Women's Initiative Network)

Education

1997-2003 University Of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR

Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering

Other Skills/certificates

Machinery lubrication technician level I (ICML),

Vibration analyst level I (Mobius institute),

Practical plant failure analysis trained, HAZ-MAT

tech Ammonia specific (Environmental Health

Resources), RCM blitz facilitator, PdM/PM best

practice workshop (Allied services) trained, Kaizen

trained (Cargill, Inc specific)

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