Electrical Engineer

Donald Wayne Banner

*** ****** ** . *****: 434-***-****

Danville VA 24540 ********@*******.***

Engineering Management Audits

PLC’s Training

Profile

Highly accomplished Engineering Professional with a history of increasing responsibility

in the areas of electrical, instrumentation, reliability, maintenance and facilities. Decisive

leadership positions in a diversity of career disciplines associated with technical

expertise, management and audits. Effective demonstration of problem solving and

analytical approach to root cause analysis. Motivated proactive team contributor with

a strong work ethic and ability for change management.

Professional Experience

Blue Ridge Fiber Board, Danville VA Aug. 2013-Sept. 2014

Plant Engineer

• Responsible for all utility, infrastructure, and all capital projects.

• Troubleshooting any problems to get product out the door.

• Main objective support production managers to cause the company to be profitable.

PRC, 2012 : Contract

Technical manager,Contract position, identified bottlenecks and eliminated them. Implemented Kaizen

methods to improve efficiency and production. Trained other employees to do the same.

Randstad/Masonite, Oct. 2011-Dec. 2011 Contract

Production Manager Detected and eliminated bottlenecks to improve production, quality and

safety.

Albemarle, Orangeburg, SC 2006 - 2009

Electrical/Instrumentation Superintendent

Responsible for all electrical and instrumentation needs for a plant producing pharmaceuticals and

chemicals.

Managed three electrical engineers along with four salaried foremen and planners, directed 18

Instrument and Electrical technicians.

Participated in 5S and Kaizen events

Responsible for complying with FDA, GMP, ISO, and other auditors requirements.

DAK Americas 2005 – 2006

Facilities Engineer

Responsible for all Electrical Engineering needs for a facility producing 410 tons/day of PET, the raw

material for plastic bottles. Equipment included Allen Bradley PLCs, Foxboro DCS, and Wonderware

HMIs. Other equipment; gas/fuel oil fired boilers cooling towers, waste water treatment, and 2 large Dow

Therm vaporizers.

Managed 6 Instrument and Electrical Technicians and 15 Maintenance Mechanics day

to day activities.

ConAgra Foods 2003 – 2005

Maintenance/Reliability Supervisor

Responsible for instructing and managing maintenance, electrical, and production employees. Equipment

includes food processing lines with Allen Bradley PLCs and AC inverters. Also, heat exchangers, level

and pressure transmitters, (Elmar) can fillers and (Angelus) seamers, (Krones)labelers, (Kister) casers,

(Alvey) palletizers, conveyors and much more equipment.

Developed process improvement initiatives as well as equipment reliability improvements.

Provided mechanical, electrical and technical support to production personnel.

Supervised production personnel.

Lenzing Fibers Corp. 2000 – 2003

Electrical/Instrumentation Superintendent

Managed 3 salaried supervisors and 15 hourly instrumentation/electrical technicians. Equipment included

3 Foxboro DCS systems: receiving inputs from flow, temp., humidity, pressure, speed, level, etc.

transmitters and interfacing with Modicon PLCs and Intellution human interfaces, pumps, heat

exchangers, Mitsubishi AC inverters, valves, etc. Electrical substations, steam powered boilers and

generators were also maintained.

Responsible for maintaining, installing, upgrading and calibrating all equipment associated

with a chemical process producing rayon fiber and in coal fired power generation.

Implemented new control equipment procurement and installation to improve bottom line cost

and maximum production. Extensive interaction with sub-contractors to ensure proper

specifications and documentation were implemented.

Dupont/Sterling Diagnostic Imaging/ AGFA. 1996 – 2000

Staff Control Engineer/Bar code Project Manager

Responsible for ensuring maximum equipment up-time. Equipment included web processing, visual

inspection systems, automatic packaging, automatic labeling, overhead cranes, automatic guided

vehicles, AC and DC drives (including coordinated drive systems) and process tracking. Also much

equipment involved in tracking raw material acceptance and bar coding, (with SAP interface), to follow

these materials through processing into finished products.

Designed preventative maintenance schedules, trained maintenance team to implement work

order and provided off-hour support when mechanics needed assistance. This allowed follow up

on customer complaints to isolate cause and fix. Initiated programs to verify ISO and FDA

compliance to allow mechanics and operators to produce products within established standards.

Trained maintenance team to analyze, troubleshoot and program PLC's.

Programmed PLC’c for modifications and upgrades.

Managed outside contractors.

Management of a $1.5M corporate bar code project to interface user input to SAP.

Member of the Plant Electrical Safety Committee. Performed periodic safety audits.

Asheville Elevator Co. 1990 – 1996

Elevator Maintenance Mechanic/Adjuster

Overall engineering responsibility to include design and implementation of new systems, modifications

of existing systems and maintenance of existing systems.

Elevator Specialist Inc. 1988 – 1990

Electrical Maintenance Engineer

Designed and implemented maintenance schedules, software analysis of equipment performance, new

equipment installations, troubleshooting and debugging existing systems, management of technical and

non-technical personnel.

Technical Proficiency

Allen Bradley/Modicon PLC, Reliance Electric AC and DC Drives, Windows 95/98, Windows NT,

Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Groupwise, SAP Fundamentals, National Electric Code, and Bar Code

Readers and Systems. Forty plus hours Foxboro DCS curriculum. Intellution, Siemens, Schneider

(Proworks),Wonderware, and other HMI,( human interface )products.

Education

The Citadel, (The Military College of South Carolina)

BS Degree - Electrical Engineering

Graduated May 1987

CURRICULUM

Electrical Energy Conversion, Electronics, Electrical Power Systems, Fortran, Optics, Systems Control, Digital and

Electronic Design, Communications Engineering, Electromagnetic Fields and Waves, Electrical Measurements,

Quality Control Analysis, Engineering Economics, Antenna Design and Analysis, Mechanical Drawing, AC and DC

Circuits, Engineering Design, Electrical Properties of Materials, Management, Public Speaking and many others.

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