Maintenance Manager/Supervisor/Engineer/Reliability

Paul Max Stevens

**** *. ******** ***., ********, MI 49444

814-***-**** (cell)

*.**********@*****.***

Skills: Project Management, Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Change Management, Power Transmission, Planning and Scheduling (SAP),

Budget Development, Supervision, Communication, Preventive and Predictive Maintenance, PLC System Troubleshooting, Oil Analysis,

Vibration Analysis, Team Building, Certified Noria Oil Analysis II, Reliability Centered Maintenance, TPM.

Education

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

BS Mechanical Engineering, 1986

Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH

Professional Experience

Maintenance Technician, RCM Inc. (Contract to Chassix) 9/2013-12/2013

Responsible for PM’s, equipment installation and breakdown maintenance as assigned by supervision.

3 month contract ended 12/20.

Maintenance Manager, GPRE Inc. Blissfield, MI 2/2013-6/2013

Responsible for Maintenance at a Delta T 150k gpd Ethanol Facility.

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling, Purchasing, Reliability Engineering, Supervision of Technicians, Performing Equipment

Maintenance, Develop short and long term plan for Maintenance.

Led Maintenance effort of a $1.2 mil Shutdown.

Facilities Maintenance Leader, GP Allied (Assigned to Director of Maintenance, Kraft Foods) contract 11/2011-1/2013

Responsible for developing strategy for cost savings on the facilities hard services platform.

Developed a “condition matrix” for use as a scorecard for facilities audits.

Completed work ahead of schedule.

Maintenance Technician, Nestle USA, Laurel, MD 8/2011-11/2011

Maintenance Technician responsible for Predictive, Preventive, and Breakdown Maintenance of equipment used in the

production of Ice Cream and Frozen Dairy products. Including extruders, freezers, conveyors, and packaging equipment.

Planned and scheduled my own Corrective Work Orders including purchasing of parts needed, kitting of parts, and scheduling

work with Operations Management.

Maintenance Supervisor, Y&S Candies (Hershey) Lancaster, PA 9/2010 – 3/2011

Maintenance Supervisor responsible for shift planning and supervision of 12 Maintenance Technicians responsible for

maintenance/troubleshooting/repair of all processing and packaging equipment.

Identified, located and coordinated training opportunity for both Maintenance and Operations personnel. Post training defects

were reduced by over 20% with the ZipPak packaging line.

Began the implementation of Confined Space Entry Procedures after OSHA changed the designation of the spaces. Identified

and Purchased the needed equipment.

Identified an opportunity to reduce packaging material scrap. Scrap reduction from the one line was rated at 70%. Replaced a

limit switch/cam with a precision rotary cam switch. Increased the repeatability of the low cello limit.

Analyzed and modified the Predictive Maintenance program to make it more robust in predicting failures.

Maintenance Engineer, American Crystal Sugar, Drayton, ND 3/2008 – 6/2010

Maintenance and Reliability Engineering for a Sugar Refinery. 300 TPH throughput.

Supervision of Mechanical Crafts and Maintenance Planners. Approximately 20 direct reports.

Managed the Predictive Maintenance Program including IR, Vibration and Oil Analysis.

Working with area coordinators, developed the budget for the summer shutdown/repair.

Worked with SAP Maintenance Business Lead to develop and implement new reports for cost tracking during the summer

shutdown/repair.

Tracked the progress of the summer shutdown and made recommendations for cost effective and reliable repairs to equipment.

Introduced the application of specialty epoxy coatings to reduce wear on dust cyclones. Annual savings of $30k.

Coordinated the repairs to a Rotary Dryer that had failed due to fire. Made modifications to the design of the internals to make

it more robust. Completed project approximately 1 week ahead of plan. Researched fire suppression systems and wireless

temperature sensors to reduce the potential for damage and give early warning to the possibility of fire.

Performed Cost and Reliability Analysis utilizing the equipment history to develop Maintenance Cost Reduction plans and

increase the Equipment Reliability.

Evaluated the Oil Analysis Program and rewrote the frequency of sampling to increase the opportunity for identifying potential

failures of critical equipment.

Wrote and implemented A and B critical equipment PM rounds. The rounds utilized both visual inspections and temperature

monitoring. Responsible for monitoring the results and audit of data recorded by Mechanics.

Maintenance Technician, AO Smith Water Products, Ashland City, TN 7/2006 – 2/2008

Inspection, repair, troubleshoot of Presses, Furnaces, Conveyors, Automatic Welders, and all equipment associated with the

manufacture of Hot Water Heaters.

Increased the throughput in my area of responsibility by 20%.

Performed oil wear debris analysis and utilized a 20 year old vibration machine for vibration analysis of the high speed

equipment.

Replaced the rolling and hanger elements of an overhead conveyor 4 times faster than it had ever been done through planning

and good work ethic my maintenance partner and myself.

Maintenance Technician Positions: Lay offs or short term contracts. 1998 – 2006

Operations Manager/Owner, MBW Industries, Muskegon, MI 6/1996 – 5/1998

Family-Owned Steel Fabrication Company, Asked to come back and run the business. When I returned, there was $40k of work

on the books and no employees. Ran entire operation. Including: hiring of new fabricators, planning, scheduling, payroll, sales,

delivery. After doing a complete financial analysis of the company, the business market in Western Michigan, and family

finances the decision was made to liquidate the company. Coordinated the closing of outstanding contracts and finishing

remaining work. Liquidated the assets of the business which included bringing in the local museum and donating the records of

the company for their research of the local economy when the business was opened in the late 1800's.

Relief Mechanical Supervisor, Keystone Steel and Wire, Peoria, IL 10/1993 – 3/1996

Fill in Supervisor for area Supervisors during vacations and illness. Electric arc furnace shop, 6 strand caster, Yard Laborers,

Mason Shop, 2 strand rod and bar mill, Rigger/Welder/Machine/Pipe shops.

Recognized for completion of relining the dust collector tunnels 5 days ahead of schedule and well under budget. This allowed

us to utilize the personnel in other work to accomplish more during the shutdown.

Plan and implement daily work assignments, coordinate weekly downturns.

Assist with the planning of the annual two week maintenance shut down.

Mechanical Turn Supervisor, LTV Steel, East Chicago, IN 11/1988 – 10/1993

Responsible for rotating shift Mechanical Maintenance Supervision of Mechanical Trades in the 80” Cold Mill, Galvanizing

Mills, and the 84”Hot Strip Mill.

Equipment included gear trains with input from 5 hp to 2500 hp. Low and High pressure hydraulics from 800 to 5000 psi. High

pressure water systems, Large scale lubrication systems, and Filtration systems of all types.

Coordinate with Production supervision to facilitate the breakdown repairs of equipment

Communicate between shifts to facilitate the maintenance process.

Supervised 10-15 daily. On downturn shifts could have as many as 50 direct reports and 100 indirect reports. Indirect reports

were outside contractors and Mill Shops personnel.

Merrick Engineering, Mechanical Designer, Nashville, TN 6/1986 – 11/1988

Mechanical Design of specialty automatic welding equipment.

Designed, built, tested and installed a series of welders to automatically weld jet engine fuel injector nozzles. Decreased scrap

by 15%.

Designed built, tested, and installed a welder that welded wheel hubs for lawn mowers. Scrap rate before utilizing our machine

was approximately 30% due to welding deformation. Decreased scrap to less than 1% and manpower requirements by 70% due

to fewer operators needed and higher output.

Responsible for drawing file control.

Worked with outside contractors for the machining and construction of sub-assemblies.

Interfaced with electrical design group to develop the control structure.

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