Grant Stephen

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Hamilton, Ontario

Email: ac839g@r.postjobfree.com

Cell: 289-***-****

Career Objective:

To manage a plant or business unit efficiently, by engaging all staff and direct reports in promoting Lean Manufacturing principles safely, within the boundaries of all corporate and legislative requirements, and to ensure a leadership position in productivity, quality, and cost.

Summary of Recent Career Achievements:

Develop and implement Health, Safety, and Environmental policies to support a "Journey to Zero" culture, including implementation and execution of a JHSC program, as an MOL Certified Management representative.

Develop and implement specific health and safety policies related to production equipment and facility lockouts and confined space entry.

Improved plant efficiency by approximately 30% by implementing 5S practices into all plant work functions.

Implement CMMS infrastructure to improve process equipment reliability and preventive maintenance plans, to reduce operating costs and increase line uptime by 25%, and reduce reactive maintenance to 10% of all performed maintenance.

Reduced cost of maintenance to 2-4% of replacement asset value from 8-10% (50% maintenance cost savings).

Develop and implement a CMMS infrastructure to improve process equipment reliability and preventive maintenance plans, to reduce operating costs.

Develop and manage annual manufacturing operating, capital, and project budgets from $600,000 to $11,000,000, to within +/- 3%.

Manage MOE and City of Brantford C of A and ECA for air, water, and waste management.

Develop, implement, and execute gap analysis plans for corporate productivity, health and safety, and financial goals, short and long term.

Manage process chemical strategy from purchase to waste disposal, including the use of by-product hydrochloric acid, waste ferric chloride in ore treatment, and zinc reduction in water treatment processing.

Mentor and develop staff, operations, and maintenance teams (90+ employees, union and non-union) in Lean Manufacturing principles.

Education:

Chemical Engineering Technologist, 1988, Mohawk College

Certificate in Metallurgy of Iron & Steel, 2002, McMaster University

Certificate in Project Management, 1998, Conestoga College

Certificate in Management Studies, 2004, Mohawk College

Career Experience:

July 2017 to Present – Plant Manager

GatSteel, Etobicoke. Steel Service Center, slitting and blanking

Responsible for all aspects of plant management, with union workforce.

Implemented 24/5 operation, hiring, training, current workforce development

Responsible for P&L, budgeting, payroll, purchasing

Contract negotiations

Improved production scheduling

5S implementation

HSE advisor

Sep 2014 to Sep 2016 - Plant/Maintenance Manager

Pure Metal Galvanizing, Brantford. Largest batch galvanizing plant in North America.

Duties included day to day operation, maintenance, financial, and human resource aspects of the unionized plant (administration and manufacturing), with total sales of approximately $80,000,000 per year, with net income of approximately 17%.

Developed 5 year strategic plan for plant.

Aug 1988 to Sep 2013 - Various Roles and Responsibilities

ArcelorMittal Dofasco, Hamilton. Integrated steel mill.

Duties included engineering in combustion/instrumentation and control systems, hot rolled steel processing, project management for greenfield/brownfield sites, design and implement preventive maintenance programs and business processes based on RCM, TPM, WCM, and Lean methodologies.

References available on request.

Detailed Summary of Skills, Experience, and Achievements:

Sept 2014 - Present

Plant/Maintenance Manager - Pure Metal Galvanizing, Brantford & GatSteel, Etobicoke

Responsible for maintenance and operations budgets of $3M+.

Implement 5S/Lean/TPM principles into maintenance and production processes.

Develop Health & Safety policies for plant lockouts, confined space entry, and accident investigation process.

Develop and implement CMMS system.

Design and implement energy audits (comp air, hydro, nat gas, city water).

Implement PM program for air emission control equipment.

Improved preventive/reactive maintenance ratio to 90/10, resulting in reduced maintenance costs of 30%.

Reduced maintenance cost to less than 4% of cost of sales.

Implement JHSC as a Certified Management member.

Negotiated sanitary sewer discharge agreement with City of Brantford.

Negotiated storm water property treatment program with MOE.

Responsible for C of A for water and air.

Responsible for waste manifests for spent production chemicals.

Manage 3 furnace/zinc kettle changes which included new furnaces and control systems.

RCFA/FMEA for any production upsets.

Troubleshooting all equipment breakdowns.

Implement optimized equipment spares strategy.

Employee discipline and human resource management as required.

Nov 2008 - Sept 2013

Technical Specialist - ArcelorMittal Dofasco, Hamilton - Material Handling Business Unit

RCM Practitioner.

Implement preventive maintenance program for all heavy equipment.

Manage $11M capital project to design/purchase 4 x 150 tonne slab haulers.

Feasibility studies for slab hauler optimization and handling.

Mentoring new reliability engineers in RCM and similar principles.

Develop coil transporter optimization program.

Various projects to improve reliability of all steel slab and coil handling equipment.

Manage direct reports, as required by project or function.

Nov 2007 - Nov 2008

Technical Specialist - ArcelorMittal, Cleveland - Steel Producing Business Unit

1 year assignment to improve productivity and reliability of steel producing business unit, specifically vacuum degassing process.

Implement RCM on steelmaking ladle turntables.

Train technical, operations, and maintenance departments on steel producing and reliability.

2005 - 2007

Technical Specialist - ArcelorMittal Dofasco, Hamilton - Learning & Development Business Unit

Develop core competency training program for Finishing Division operations teams to make the teams cross-functional.

Develop overall manpower optimization program for Finishing Division.

2004 - 2005

Technical Specialist - ArcelorMittal Dofasco, Hamilton - Cold Mill Business Unit

Improve quality and reliability of cold mill, various projects.

2002 - 2004

Technical Specialist - ArcelorMittal Dofasco, Hamilton - Steelmaking Business Unit

Improve reliability of steelmaking 300 tonne ladle cranes and ladle turntables.

1996 - 2002

Production Engineer, Subject Matter Expert, Technical Specialist - ArcelorMittal Dofasco, Hamilton - Hot Rolling Business Unit

Design and develop work roll sequence to reduce roll change time from 15 mins to 8 mins.

Develop operational specification for hot mill finishing stands.

Train operations teams on hot mill operation.

Member of steering committee of 6 for $110M hot mill upgrade, which included roll bending, shape control, digital drive control, mass flow control, and flat rolled cooling control for product qualities.

Design & install integrated condition assessment system on 30,000 HP rougher drive train.

Design & install monitoring system on all process water systems in hot mill.

Process water system audits.

Develop project management business process as template for corporate roll out.

Improve reliability and design of continuous caster cooling system.

RCFA of hot mill process upsets.

Improve finishing mill scheduling capability to reduce overall corporate delivery time.

1988 - 1996

Combustion Technologist, Production Engineer - Dofasco, Hamilton - Maintenance Technical Services, Combustion & Instrumentation

Plant wide expert in flow metering and control.

Optimize combustion systems on slab reheat furnaces utilizing variable air/fuel ratio control.

Manage mothballing #1 hot mill.

Manage soaking pit combustion control system upgrade.

Conversion of soaking pit oil lance burners from steam to compressed air.

Note - all functions above involved managing human and financial resources from various departments.

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