Engineering Electrical

Tamesha Murphy

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Professional Summary

Seasoned Engineering Director with 20 years of experience in fast-paced manufacturing environment. Excellent people and project management skills. Track record of achieving exceptional results while developing strategic teams and creating a vision to meet the business need

Skills

In-depth controls, automation, information-systems skills

Creating strategic direction for cross-functional teams (engineering, supply chain, IT)

Engineering work flow execution

Excellent written and presentation skills

Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and manage time effectively

Process optimization

IWS/KWS (customized LEAN programs)

Experience

Director Power Controls & Information Systems Engineering, 01/2016 to Current

Kellogg Company – Jackson, TN

Coach and empower (12) Associate, Lead, and Senior corporate electrical engineers and indirectly coach and mentor an additional 25 electrical engineers within the Kellogg North America plants

Active member of Global Engineering Leadership Team that's responsible for defining and executing $550M capital plan

Engineering Leader for Global Digitalization program with key partnerships with IT, supply chain, and KWS (Kellogg Work Systems) leadership

Oversee key strategic relationships with electrical and automation vendors globally with partners such as Rockwell Automation

Develop partnerships with key Engineering Service Providers to complement plant and corporate resources to ensure vertical project startups within Kellogg North American plants

Ensures alignment with Engineering Business Unit Leaders on project priority, direction and resourcing within all categories of the company (PWS, Salty-Snacks, Frozen, Morning Foods)

Support and actively recruit new electrical engineers and summer interns

Actively engage in initiatives to grow and advance all of Global engineering as a highly productive, diverse and effective organization, such as creation of “Women in Engineering” in 2017

Pringles Site Engineering Organization Leader, 01/2014 to 01/2016

Kellogg Company – Jackson, TN

Pringles Site Engineering Manager with staff of 21 engineers and engineering technicians responsible for packaging, processing, electrical, project management, and construction

Responsible for capital oversight of a 1.6M square foot food manufacturing facility operating 24/7

Active member of plant leadership team responsible of deploying annual CBN (current business need) to ensure the plant met its safety, food safety, productivity, and capital execution goals

Ensure, through capital management team, the productivity and infrastructure capital plan ($15M+ annually) is planned, scoped, scheduled, and staffed successfully to ensure detail technical scope equates to vertical startup

Manage department expense budgets and staffing assignments, including embedded engineering service providers and construction staffing

Assisted plant in developing long range capital plans for the site by collaborating with site Technical Managers, Operations Leaders, and corporate engineering

Pringles Power Controls & Information Systems (PC&IS) engineering leader, 01/2010 to 12/2013

Proctor & Gamble/Kellogg Company – Jackson, TN

Responsible for growing and developing four Electrical Engineers and two Engineering Technicians. Over 50% of organization was promoted to next level during this time

Ensured electrical capital programs/projects were successfully designed and executed to ensure vertical startup

Led scope development of many Electrical controls projects (infrastructure and food safety)

Received Proctor and Gamble certification for fundamental Project Management

Let over $5M of electrical infrastructure projects using key project management fundamentals to ensure on-track scope, schedule and budget

Engineering transition leader (from Proctor and Gamble to Kellogg Company) to ensure all technical systems, documentation, and IP addresses were properly separated from P&G

Electrical & Instrumentation (E&I) department manager, 12/2008 to 12/2010

Procter & Gamble Company – Jackson, TN

Responsible for leading, coaching, developing masterplan for 50+ Highly skilled Electrical technicians that supported 2 major business units plus utilities across the 1.6Msqft facility

Result: % at skill level 95% vs. goal of 90%

Maintained outstanding electrical safety record of team between 10 - 12 years without a recordable injury.

Drove electrical Kaizens improvement increase up 95% per person

Minimized key electrical maintenance break downs across the site.

Site motor failures reduced by 21%

Electrical downtime delivered 65% below target minutes per month

Managed department sitewide budget

Pringles North – >$3M (managed within 5% accuracy)

Power Controls & Information Systems Engineer, 10/2005 to 11/2008

Procter & Gamble – Jackson, TN

Led development of Electrical Scope in key obsolescence and quality automation projects

Engineering Single Point Of Contact for Vision Systems

Controls Engineer, 05/1999 to 10/2004

Teknor Apex – Brownsville, TN

Worked with Corporate engineering in the check out of key project installations in the chemical and rubber plants

Maintained electrical SCADA system (Intellilution) and plant controls to ensure minimal downtime in chemical plant

Led development of scope and project management activities for key reclaim project to ensure company met it scrap reduction goals

Education

MBA: Dec 2002

Union University - Jackson, TN

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE): May 1999

University of Memphis - Memphis, TN

Minor in Mathematics.

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