Manager Maintenance

Robert McQuiston

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Wilmington DE 19804 ***********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Inventive Plant Manager with a stellar, 19+ year record of advancement and

achievement. Generate strategies and projects that consistently improve

efficiency, quality, and bottom-line profitability. Uniquely skilled at

managing union, nonunion, and salary personnel in an industrial

environment. Demonstrated success executing maintenance budgets of up to

$26M. Strong leader who fosters utmost employee morale and motivation.

Thorough experience maintaining compliance with all federal, state, and

local regulations. Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

Areas of Expertise

Process Redesign & Improvement . Cost Reduction & Elimination . Strategic

Business Development

Strategic Resource Allocation . Profit & Loss Management . Team Leadership

& Motivation

Project & Program Management . Strategic Maintenance Leadership

Business Needs Assessment . Staff Training & Development

Professional Experience

Specialty Minerals Incorporated, Bethlehem, PA 2013 - Present

Plant Manager: Responsible for overall management of multiple remote

manufacturing sites, with direct accountability for safety, cost,

maintenance, quality, personnel and continuous improvement. Total product

sales ranging from $20 - $25MM, with direct reports ranging from 15 - 20.

Focus on lean implementation: 5S, TPM, Kaizen, and Standard Work.

. Led all efforts (and by example) to provide world class levels of

safety and environmental performance.

. Developed a comprehensive annual operating plan and communicate

effectively to all levels to ensure successful execution to provide

desired results.

. Drove continuous improvement initiatives and championed supporting

operating culture.

. Analyzed and managed all relative operations performance metrics to

ensure continuous improvement and successful performance at each

plant.

. Discovered and followed through with a supply chain issue that

resulted in a supplier payback for the past two years as well as a

corrected procedure moving forward. Estimated savings of 1MM

annually.

IKO, Wilmington, DE 2011 - 2013

Plant Superintendent: Lead 4 supervisors and 25 union production staff.

Coordinate all production and quality elements, using a data-driven

approach to resolve issues.

. Increased OEE from 72% to 92% by implementing a waste-reduction

program, driving root-cause analysis philosophy to decrease downtime,

and empowering production staff.

. Employed Six Sigma methods to maximize efficiency and minimize

variation.

. Utilized statistical process control to stabilize and reduce variation

in production processes.

. Improved coordination of supply chain resources by developing a

rotating 6-week schedule.

. Fully resolved an urgent color variation issue.

Lehigh Cement, Union Bridge, MD 2006 - 2011

Maintenance Manager: Oversaw 8 salary and 24 union employees.

. Reduced maintenance budget from $26M+ to 20M+ while meeting all

safety, environmental compliance, quality, and production goals.

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Professional Experience continued...

. Increased equipment availability 5% at no additional cost by

implementing critical path method for planning major outages.

. Drastically reduced maintenance costs by making several equipment

improvements; redesigned main ID Fan wheel that cut yearly costs $500K

and eliminated associated downtime incurred by equipment failure.

. Led team of engineers to reduce overall power consumption via

increased mill efficiency.

. Established a top-caliber team by training and developing all staff

members.

Sika Corporation, Lyndhurst, NJ 2004 - 2006

Maintenance Manager: Oversaw 4 salary and 17 union employees.

. Reinforced equipment reliability standards by instituting preventive

maintenance program (MP2).

. Facilitated production increases and improved quality issue resolution

by designing plant data collection system that granted access to live

and historical process data.

. Installed industrial network to link all plant PCs and PLCs.

. Decreased yearly costs $100K and increased production capacity by

resolving companywide product quality issue.

. Leveraged controls experience and Data Collection to resolve

longstanding process issues.

. Led several cross-functional LEAN teams to eliminate non-value

activity and develop solutions that maximized efficiency.

General Motors Corporation, Linden, NJ 2000 - 2004

Process Engineer: Led and motivated 12 union employees. Planned and

scheduled yearly outages.

. Cut yearly costs ~$600K by revamping paint process and restructuring

organization.

. Minimized number of vehicles that required repainting by setting

effective parts change-out system.

. Ran PM program for paint department using a MAXIMO as CMMS system.

Prior Experience

Excelled as Maintenance Planner for Weirton Steel Corporation (1995-1999)

Education

Master of Business Administration, West Virginia University, University of

Phoenix (3.9 GPA)

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, West Virginia University,

Morgantown, WV

Professional Development

Member, Toastmasters International, since September 2014

Six Sigma Black Belt, Villanova University, June 2013

Kepner-Tregoe Analytic Troubleshooting, 2012

. LinkedIn URL: www.linkedin.com/pub/robert-mcquiston-bsme-mba-

lssbb/a/790/5b9/

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