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PO Box ***

Hickory Grove SC *9717

acr2oj@r.postjobfree.com

Cell 803-***-****

John Blackwood

Objective

Looking for a challenging career in the Industrial Maintenance Field.

Experience

2012- Current Spartanburg Stainless Steel Spartanburg, SC

Maintenance Supervisor and Controls Engineer

Maintenance Department Supervisor, Technician, Trainer, for tier 1 automotive metal stamping facility. Repair and upgrade metal stamping equipment, automation, and handling equipment. Assist engineers at other facilities as needed. Controls Engineer, planning equipment repairs, specifying parts, making capital improvements. Modifications to equipment, increasing productivity and capacity.

2008- 2012 AP&T North America Monroe, NC

Field Service Tech.

Field Service Technician, for a foreign metal forming press, and automation company. PLC modifications and programming. Troubleshooting, installation, repair, and calibration of hydraulic presses and automation. Rebuilding of hydraulic valves and cylinders, replacing or rebuilding various pumps. Installation of electric motors, control systems, and VFD drives. Repair and calibration to older electronic devices and cards. Repair, PM, and installation of ABB and APT robots including troubleshooting.

2006- 2007 Hella Lighting Inc York, SC

Maintenance Tech.

Maintenance Department Technician, for a large plastic injection molding company. PLC modifications and programming. Doing all aspects of plant building maintenance. Maintenance duties include, specializing in troubleshooting. Rebuilding of hydraulic equipment, rebuilding pumps. Installation of motors, controllers, and VFD drives. Repair and calibration to electronic devices. Repairs to ABB and Ranger robots including programming and troubleshooting.

2003 - 2006 Specialty Polymers Inc Chester, SC

Maintenance Manager / Project Manager

Maintenance Manager, Maintenance, Department Purchaser, and Project Manager, for a small chemical company. Help engineers with new equipment designs or modifications. Then lead the implementation for the changes. I made the PLC modification programming for the control systems and programmed new PLC control systems. Responsible for all instrumentation repair and calibration including pressure transducer, loop meters, flow meters, temperature controllers, displays and radar level devices. Doing all aspects of plant building maintenance and construction. Maintenance duties which specialized in troubleshooting. Rebuilding of various air diagram, centrifugal, vane, and magnet drive gear pumps. Repairs to and installation of motors, displays, controllers, drives and all other electrical and electronic duties. Repair mixers from 1/3hp to 60hp motors with gearboxes. Repair and construct new flow valve control assemblies up to 10 inch. Also, craft related training of my team members, to add to their knowledge base.

1998 – 2003 Vertis Advertising Charlotte, NC

Maintenance Lead Electrician

Electrical and Mechanical maintenance to high speed web offset printing equipment and support equipment. Preventive maintenance to manufacturing equipment. Repair to all ac and dc drives up to 200 hp units. Repair, troubleshooting, modifications and programming to Allen Bradley PLC 5, SLC 500, GE Fanuc and Modicon PLC’s. Train production and maintenance personnel as needed. Assist with ordering and inventory control software startup. I was the temporary maintenance manager during vacancies. Help design and implement changes to equipment. . Responsible for all of the instrumentation repair and calibration of pressure transducer, flow meters, temperature controllers, displays, the thermal oxidizers, and robotic equipment. Helped with the mechanical repairs to gearboxes, pumps, conveyors, printing presses, RO water systems, chillers, and forklifts. Repairs and installing various types of electric motors, controllers and all other electrical and electronic duties.

2001 – 2002 Mclean Power York, SC

Maintenance Lead

Electrical and mechanical lead person responsible for injection, hydraulic presses and the support equipment. I was responsible for all electronic card repairs. Worked on Omron, GE Fanuc and Allen Bradley PLC programming and repairs with emphasis on strain and pressure recording for quality control. Also did temperature controller repair and programming. I trained maintenance staff and assisted engineers in employee assignment.

1988 – 1998 Ajax York, SC

Maintenance Multicraft A Technician and Trainer

Main focus was electronic card repair, calibration, and modification, pressure transducers, force feedback circuits, and induction furnace controls. Repair to DC drives up to 100 HP, AC drives up to 10 HP, Allen Bradley PLC 2 programming and repairs, High-pressure high volume hydraulic unit repair and calibration. I trained maintenance technicians and helpers. I operated all equipment to operator levels. I repaired a wide range of forklifts, product conveyors repair and installations, repairs to forging presses, rolling mills, large 10 burner gas furnaces. I did all calibration and documentation for the temperature controllers, recorders and furnaces to government and our ISO standards.

Programming of laser and CMM inspection machines. I also repaired 10 to 40 ton bridge cranes electrical controls, remote control systems, digital scales and all mechanical types of repairs.

Programming

Experience

Allen Bradley PLC 2, 5, 500 and 5000, Siemens S7 and Simotion

GE Fanuc, Omron, Modicon

Robotics

Experience

Multi-axis type ABB, Motoman including making EOA tooling.

Linear type AP&T, Ranger, Krauss Mafai

Misc.

Experience

MIG, TIG, Stick welding except aluminum, lathe, milling, surface grinding to make parts or to repair equipment.

Education

2002 -Current York Technical College Rock Hill, S

Electronic Engineering Technologies

Industrial Maintenance Technologies

Interests

City Councilman, repairing old cars, welding, machining, carpentry, computer repair, camping, traveling, and music.

References

Scott Childers 1-803-***-****

Richard Garcia 1-864-***-****

Jack Crider 1-678-***-****

Jonathan Robinson 1-864-***-****

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