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Manager Maintenance

Location:
Portland, OR
Posted:
July 01, 2014

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Norman L. Verboort

503-***-****

503-***-**** cell

E-mail acetfa@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

There are no problems, only opportunities. A Facilities/Manufacturing Maintenance professional with over 20 years of combined experience in Hi-Tech, Food Processing and light manufacturing. Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills

Key Contributions include the following

• World Class Maintenance Management

• Environmental Health and Safety

• Construction Management

• Budget Preparation

• Contract Negotiation

• Team Building

• Continuous improvement

• Quality and uptime improvements

• Set up of Preventive/predictive maintenance systems

• Cost reduction through Energy improvement projects/process improvement

• Increase product yield from single digits to greater then 80% through equipment and process changes.

• Combined facilities, production and electronic maintenance into one organization to cover all

equipment aspects 24x7 with no increase in maintenance personnel or overtime costs.

• Developed all preventive maintenance, safety and environmental policies and procedures.

• Negotiated all HVAC, janitorial, bulk gas and construction contracts.

EXPERIENCE

Field Operations Manager 2007- Present

Clear Edge Power

Provide Technical support for the Sales Team through presentations and training of Sales personnel. Responsible for

training and qualifying certified installers. Was responsible for the design/Integration of over 140 Combined Heat and

Power Fuel Cells into both Residential and Commercial buildings. Managed 15+ active projects at any given time.

Managed projects primarily in California with occasional requirements in the Midwest, Austria and Korea.

Facilities Maintenance Manager/EHS Manager 2003-2007

Milgard Windows

Provide plant and equipment maintenance as well as responsibility for grounds, IT and phones.

Significant contributions include the reduction of emergency downtime on primary equipment by greater

then 80% while bringing the budget from 25% over to 5% under in 6 months.

In addition through guarding and safety awareness we were able to improve our safety rating from #12

inside the Milgard divisions to #1 and we also won the Masco Safety Rising Star award for our

improvements in Safety.

General Manager 2003-2004

Verboort Homes

Building Custom homes

Director of Facilities/EHS 1996 – 2003

Facilities/Maintenance Manager 1987 – 1996

Lead Mechanical Technician 1984 – 1987

Planar Systems, Beaverton, Oregon 1984 – 2003

Provided 24x7 maintenance/engineering/emergency response support for all aspects of manufacturing,

facilities, construction, thin film deposition, photolithography and environmental health and safety for 5

facilities including production, R&D and office buildings. Supervised 12 Technicians and a Manager and

multiple contractors. Significant contributions helped the company grow from a start-up to one with $200

million in revenues per year.

EDUCATION

Devry Institute of Technology

Two years of Electronics in Audio Technology

RELATED TRAINING

Portland State - Management

State of Oregon – Electrical Classes

Portland Community – Management and Maintenance

Varian – Leak Checker

OTHER SKILLS

Excel

Word

Kepner-Tregoe

Microsoft Project

AutoCAD Lite

Process Loop Controllers

Limited Maintenance Electrical License (State of Oregon)

Hazardous Material Response Team Training

Juran

Cadence Project Management

Past member of American Electronics Associations Environmental Management Systems team

State of Oregon Construction Contractors Board License



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