ROBERT JAMES

New Castle, PA *****

Cell 814-***-****

Email: acbvf5@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE:

To obtain a position as Maintenance Manager.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Maintenance and Production Management Experience in the Steel and Aluminum

Extrusion Industries.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2003 - 2008 Valley Aluminum Co. Shelbyville, KY; Jeffersonville &

Boonville, IN, Niles, OH

Engineering/Maintenance Manager

o Responsibilities as Engineering/Maintenance Manager included a total

budget of over $4M across 4 plants that included Capital and Major

Maintenance projects at each facility.

o Responsible for the day-to-day maintenance, utilizing the maintenance

staff at each location.

o Recent projects include the installation of a 200,000 pound Homogenizing

furnace in the Niles facility and an automatic stacking system on one of

the Billet Cut off lines in the Shelbyville facility, installation of a

150,000 ACFM pulse type BACT bag house in our Boonville plant, to

mention a few.

o Responsible for generating annual and monthly reports that included

project status, costs, downtime and comments for each facility.

1978 - 2003 Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation

Sherman, TX

Engineering, Extrusion and Maintenance Manager

o Responsibilities as Extrusion Manager included a 2.3 million dollar

budget.

o Controlling the training and implementation of lean manufacturing.

o Controlling the overall performance of the extrusion department to meet

or exceed customer requirements, delivery times and plant costs.

o Responsibilities as Engineering/Maintenance Manager included the design,

purchase and installation of new and rebuilt equipment.

o Responsibility of day-to-day maintenance that included scheduled and

emergency work.

o Sustaining a Preventive and Predictive maintenance program that utilized

trouble shooting techniques, a CMMS MP2 system, Vibration analyses,

Ultrasonic Testing, Infrared Thermographs and Oil analysis.

o Preparing, implementing and controlling annual and long-term budgets that

increased equipment and facility reliability yet controlled and reduced

costs

Superintendent of Maintenance - Newark, OH Plant

o Superintendent of Maintenance with responsibilities that included the

purchase and installation of new and rebuilt equipment.

o Day-to- day maintenance that included scheduled and emergency with an

annual operating budget of $2.3 million.

o Major accomplishments were the installation of two Thorpe age ovens, the

conversion of coal fired boilers for heating to natural gas fired heating

units and the consolidation of the maintenance department to free up

floor space for production use.

Module Engineer - Erie, PA Forging Plant

o Hydraulic Press Module Engineer with responsible for day-to-day

maintenance activities that included scheduled and emergency work on

8,000 ton, 5,000 ton, 3,000 ton and 1,000 ton hydraulic forging and trim

presses.

o Assist with the troubleshooting, repair, rebuild or retrofit of

Mechanical Presses and Impact Presses of various tonnages from 250 ton to

5,000 ton ratings.

o Major accomplishments: the modification of our number one age oven to

allow for the heat treating of 6061 aluminum alloys, the replacement of

side cylinders on all three hydraulic presses, the rebuild of the

Aldredge water hydraulic pumps and the rebuild of the ways on the 8,000

ton press die bed.

General Foreman Extrusion Department - Newark, OH Plant

o Held numerous titles from Maintenance Supervisor to General Foreman of

the Extrusion Department.

o Responsibilities included the scheduling of both production and

maintenance employees, the forecasting and controlling of annual and long

term budgets for both production and maintenance, the creation,

implementation, training and sustaining of a CMMS system for the 6,600

ton Kobe indirect extrusion press.

o During the installation and start up of the 6,600 ton Kobe press was the

Kaiser Aluminum field representative on this 23 million dollar project to

insure that the project was on time, in budget and being done to

specifications (1980 through 1981).

1964 - 1978 Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company

Youngstown, OH

o Held numerous titles that included Millwright Apprentice, Millwright,

Electrical Apprentice, Electrician, Hot Strip Mill Maintenance

Supervisor, 76" Shear Line Maintenance Supervisor, Project Manager for

the installation of the 74" Slitter Line to Assistant General.

o Foreman of Maintenance Hot Strip Department, until plant closing 1978.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Proficient in:

o Kaizen, 5s, TPM and other lean manufacturing

o MRP, manpower scheduling and budget control and forecasting

o Designing, installing, maintaining and trouble shooting simple and

sophisticated hydraulic, pneumatic and mechanical systems.

o Trouble shooting Modicon and Allen Bradley PLC's.

o Preparing specifications, bidding, purchasing and installing equipment

through start up and production.

o Designing and trouble shooting combustion systems.

o Installing, maintaining and applying a Computer Managed Maintenance

System (CMMS).

o Conducting and providing in house training to maintenance employees.

o Using Auto Cad 2000 and 2006.

o Applications: Microsoft Word, Excel and Projects; Corel Word Perfect;

Lotus 1,2,3, and others.

o Construction and environmental codes for new or upgrade of equipment.

EDUCATION:

Youngstown State University for BSME

o Did Not Graduate

New Castle Senior High School, New Castle, PA. 1964

o Pre-engineering courses

o Graduated

MILITARY:

o Drafted into the Army November 1965 to November 1967

INTERESTS:

o Golf, boating and being outdoors

REFERENCES:

o Supplied with Resume

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