Engineer Manager

LAWRENCE BAHM

Orange Park, FL 641-***-**** ************@*****.***

Professional Summary

Seasoned Corporate Reliability Engineer and Senior Engineer/Manager with over 20 years of hands-on experience improving efficiency and reducing costs in a number of industries. Extensive experience in all aspects of troubleshooting requirements, specifications, and systems engineering to determine the impact of design choices and deliver products to satisfy program imperatives. Continually exceeds expectations by building valuable relationships and works well with people at all levels of an organization, including executive management, team members, and clients. Skills

• Asset Management Strategies

• Equipment Performance Uptime

• Cost Savings & Labor Reduction

• Root Cause Training & Coaching

• Computerized Maintenance Management System

• Standardized Plant Methodologies

• Total Predictive Maintenance

• Continuous Quality Improvement

• Root Cause & Reliability Analysis

• Predictive & Preventative Maintenance

• Industrial Component Repair & Maintenance

• ISO 9001/14001 Implementer & Auditor

• Proactive & Responsive Client Service

• Excellent Verbal & Written Communication

Work History

Reliability Engineer 03/2016 to 03/2019

Advanced Technology Services

• Providing factory maintenance and industrial component repair through developing and implementing asset management strategies to achieve maximum performance while promoting and adhering to safety mandates.

• Identifying top potential issues leading to lost production and preventable maintenance spending, communicating findings with leadership and providing solutions to root cause deficiencies that provide economic benefits to their correction.

• Driving equipment improvement projects as well as implementing current and new processes to increase equipment performance and uptime while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements as well as company policies and procedures.

• Championing systems to support a proactive manufacturing culture and collaborating with the maintenance team to prioritize assets and actions by determining failure probabilities while evaluating the risk of compliance, supply, strategy, and cost.

• Analyzing equipment performance, failure data, and corrective maintenance history to develop and deploy engineering solutions, improve maintenance strategies, optimize preventative maintenance, and implement other reliability techniques.

• Providing technical service to operations and manufacturing personnel on equipment-related troubleshooting efforts utilizing predictive, preventative, and precision maintenance technologies designed to control risks prior to failure and ensure optimum maintenance execution.

• Delivering training and coaching in root cause and reliability analysis, taking ownership for ongoing corrective action tracking, implementation, and follow up to ensure that all root cause analysis projects are documented. Senior Corporate Reliability Engineering Specialist 04/2015 to 11/2015 Cooper Tires – Findlay, OH

• Oversaw the facilitation, oversite, development, coordination, and administration of predictive and preventative maintenance plan procedures, equipment maintenance support, technical training, parts standardization, and operational reliability.

• Consolidated and standardized approaches for preventative or predictive maintenance tasks and maintenance repair techniques from a corporate perspective, assisting all plant reliability engineers in standardizing reliability engineering across all U.S. plants.

• Worked closely with plant reliability engineers, cross-functional corporate and plant departments, and equipment vendors to coordinate the development of engineering solutions while effectively identifying root causes and addressing identified areas for improvement for repetitive equipment failures.

• Developed standardized tools and methodologies at all plants, leading reliability workshops to obtain proven savings while sharing FTE technology findings and other maintenance problems to reduce the need for maintenance while improving costs and reliability.

• Identified potential for cost reduction through improved equipment reliability, extended parts life, reduced labor cost, and other reliability-related improvement techniques while understanding plant maintenance training needs and making them available.

• Developed high proficiency while working within the Computerized Maintenance Management System/SAP, utilizing its functionality to correlate the data for reliability analysis. Maintenance Manager 07/2013 to 10/2014

Kaiser Aluminum

• Served as Senior Engineer for all plant upgrades, safety, and NVH, supervising 4 managers and 23 team members to oversee equipment maintenance efforts including engineering related to new projects and upgrades.

• Introduced root cause analysis and implemented Maximo maintenance online tracking and planning tool, recognized by management as the "Combustion Improvement Champion."

• Implemented Total Predictive Maintenance and focused on reducing costs while maximizing resource utilization including people, equipment, and budgets to maximize plant up-time and reduce maintenance needs.

• Led continuous quality improvement efforts throughout the plan, being recognized for improving uptime on critical plant equipment by 18% and reducing overall plant downtime by 37%. Maintenance Manager/Senior Engineer 09/2011 to 04/2012 Goodman Manufacturing

• Led maintenance activities and all utilities and energy savings including the continuous improvement of the organization's product quality by reviewing quality standards, tolerances, and engineering changes as well as upgrading machines, achieving plant running at over 100% capacities.

• Evaluated engineering changes for existing products, outsourced parts, processes and subassemblies by analyzing engineering specifications and manufacturing processes for introduced products while developing test plans.

• Investigated and analyzed complex quality problems, recommending solutions and ensuring corrections are made, utilizing Total Predictive Maintenance on multiple computer systems.

• Accelerated the improvement of quality management systems including revising and writing procedures, launching and participating in preventative activities such as pFMEA, and near-miss analyses. Previous Work History

Site Reliability Engineer – ATS/Johnson & Johnson Vision – 2018 to 2019 Site Manufacturing Engineer – Eaton Power Division – 2016 to 2018 Senior Product Engineering Manager/Maintenance Manager – Chrysler LLC – 2000 to 2009 Regional Quality Engineering Manager – General Motors, Moraine Assembly Plant/Auburn Hills Technical Center – 1998 to 2000 Divisional Manufacturing Process Supervisor – Ford Motor Company, Batavia Transmission Plant, Batavia, OH – 1989 to 1998 Education

Eastern Michigan University – Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing Engineering Henry Ford Community College – Associate of Science in Science and Metallurgy

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