Maintenance Manager

James Free

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Tinley Park, IL. 60487 Email: ******@*******.***

MAINTENCE MANAGEMENT

Experience in overall maintenance management, PM program, CMMS utilization in the food industry and manufacturing. A diversified background in maintenance and management teams. Proven ability to drive cost reduction and sustainable continuous improvement.

General Management Technical/Operations

• R&M Budget Responsibility • Cost reduction

• Strategic Planning & Implementation • Asset analysis driving improvements

• TPM Leadership Team • Employee career development

• Safety team leadership • Developed skills training

EXPERIENCE

Gold Standard Baking

Chicago, IL. May 2017 – August 2017

Maintenance Manager

Responsible for achieving key performance indicators, cost reduction. Direct the activities of the maintenance staff including two (4) supervisors and a multi-craft work force.

Worked with supply chain to reduce cost on inventoried items

Trained maintenance staff to better utilize CMMS program.

Using metrics from CMMS drove changes in PM and predictive maintenance to increase equipment uptime. .

Leader in Safety, GMP and HACCP teams.

DaBecca Natural Foods Co.

Chicago, IL.

Maintenance Manager 2015 – 2017

Responsible for achieving key performance indicators, cost reduction. Direct the activities of the maintenance staff including two (2) supervisors and a multi-craft work force.

Worked with supply chain to reduce cost on inventoried items

Trained maintenance staff to better utilize CMMS program.

Using metrics from CMMS drove changes in PM and predictive maintenance to increase equipment uptime. This reduced the scheduled production runs allowing savings in operational costs.

Leader in Safety, GMP and HACCP teams.

Reliability maintenance on processes and equipment reducing unscheduled machine repairs.

Trained maintenance technicians on TPM principles.

Took the TPM team on production floor to locate areas where quick check gauges and other metering devices could be installed. This allows operators to identify parameters going out of control and alert their supervisor.

BLOMMER CHOCOLATE CO.,

Chicago, IL 2003 – 2015

Maintenance Manager

Responsible for achieving key performance indicators, cost reduction. Direct the activities of the maintenance staff including two (2) supervisors and a multi-craft work force.

Reduced R&M budget from 7.1 million per year to 3.1 million dollars per year with no operational compromises.

Investigated several CMMS programs and implemented across 3 sites nationwide and 1 in Canada.

Trained personnel across company on CMMS software realizing a $30K savings.

Created inventory bar coding system across 3 sites nationwide and 1 in Canada.

Facilitated 5S and Kaizen events.

Worked with maintenance staff and operations to create customer driven metrics.

Created work order priority system to reduce work order back log with operations and scheduling.

Utilized CMMS to create metrics to establish KPI and reduce cost.

Drove improvements in safety with first responders and safety teams.

Leader on BRC, GMP and HACCP teams.

Worked with safety team to develop lock out tag out program

Developed Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) process. Used historical data to understand the safe minimum maintenance levels. This allowed maintenance assets to be optimized throughout the facility.

Helped develop Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) training to establish operational and maintenance co-operative teams.

oSet up training with 3rd party for maintenance and operations teams.

oTook maintenance and operation teams out on production floor, created criticality list.

oDeveloped machine check list for pre-shift start up with the TPM teams.

oInstalled gauges on equipment so operators could keep check on machine specific parameters.

CHICAGO EXTRUDED METALS,

Cicero, IL 1998 – 2003

Maintenance Manager

Responsible for achieving key performance indicators, cost reduction. Direct the activities of the maintenance staff including two (2) supervisors and a multi-craft union work force.

Worked with maintenance staff and operations to create customer driven metrics.

Utilized CMMS to create metrics to drive improvements.

Worked with the safety department to establish Safety Contact Program.

ACME STEEL CO.,

Blue Island, IL 1988 – 1998

Maintenance Supervisor/ Maintenance Planner

Responsible for the day-to-day maintenance operations of the cold mill division. Supervised multi-craft union workforce.

After becoming maintenance planner in 1995, implemented a CMMS program.

Developed inventory and bar coding system.

Education

High School Diploma

College courses in leadership

Dale Carnegie Manager Leadership training (24 hour class)

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