Theodore W. Dixon

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Mt. Vernon IN.

PH. 812-***-****

Summary

Management professional with extensive plant maintenance with strong reliability background and project experience in Renewable Energy and carbohydrate companies. Strong technical leadership and management skills. Excellent communicator, motivator, and innovative problem solver. High energy, enterprising leader with proven skills for development and execution of systems to improve reliability, reduce cost. Demonstrated ability to identify, evaluate, and implement solutions for profitability, personnel, equipment, and production opportunities.

Experience

Pacific Ethanol (Aventine acquired by Pacific)

Pekin IL.

2015 to Present

Technical Services Manager

Utilize analytical and engineering tools to identify, reduce, and/or eliminate repeated equipment failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations. These problems include capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance issues.

Defines, designs, develops, monitors and refines asset maintenance plan that includes value-added preventive maintenance tasks and effective utilization of Preventive and Predictive Maintenance such as mechanical integrity, rotating equipment, vibration analysis, lubrication, failure analysis, and general facilities infrastructure

Responsible for ranking the criticality of the assets, typically using Reliability Centered Maintenance approaches, and for defining the proactive maintenance approaches. Conducts program and system & equipment audits on a periodic and as needed basis focused on safety, regulatory compliance, maintenance effectiveness, cost savings, and energy conservation.

Maintains records on equipment histories and costs, coordinates with operations and maintenance supervisors for needed changes toward increasing reliability.

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Abengoa Bioenergy

Mt. Vernon IN.

2013 to 2015 (1 Year 2 Months)

Maintenance Manager

Took over the role of Maintenance Manager at 110 MMGY ICM Fuel Ethanol Plant. The department had been without a manager for over a year, reestablishing the PM program, 2014 budget, spring outage and problematic equipment.

Aventine Renewable Energy

Mt. Vernon IN.

2010 to 2013 (3 Year 5 Months)

Maintenance Manager

Managed 10 Maintenance tech‘s at 110 MMGY Delta T Fuel Ethanol Plant. The main goals to establish reliability of equipment, setup store room and inventory. Also to set up the PM program for Maintenance and implement Mainsaver program to establish work orders and purchase orders for maintenance and process, for more reliable tracking and ongoing training for maintenance tech‘s.

Tate and Lyle

Loudon TN.

2000 to 2010 ( 9 Years 7Months)

Maintenance/Maintenance Coordinator/Maintenance Manager/Reliability Coordinator

Corn Wet Milling Company producing High Fructose corn sweeteners and Fuel Ethanol. Maintenance tech working off shift, duty’s consisted of breakdown maintenance, unwiring motors and machining parts, 2 year. Area Maintenance Coordinator. Area’s consisted of Wet Mill, Feed House, Germ Press, Boiler House, Silo’s, Barge, Waste Treatment, and Distillation. My duties consisted of setting up a preventive maintenance program, scheduling maintenance for process, reliability and keeping maintenance cost down, 4 years. Maintenance Manager Role for 1 year. Managed 54 Maintenance techs and 5 area maintenance coordinators. Responsibilities were to stay within a 1.4 million maintenance budget, consisting of all maintenance personnel salaries, maintenance equipment, and store room. Reliability Coordinator position, this consisted of root cause for all the plant. Reliability Coordinator I managed 2 PDM Techs, which took care of all the vibration analysis, 4 Lubrication Techs, I did the IR for the entire plant and oil lab. Our goal was to reduce equipment breakdowns and cut cost $500,000.00 a year.

Harmony Corporation

Decatur, IL.

1992 to 2000 (9 Years)

Maintenance / Forman / Maintenance Supervisor

Corn Wet Milling Company producing High Fructose corn sweeteners, dry starch and feed. Maintenance tech for 1 Year as a contractor at Tate and Lyle. Foreman 3 years in the Wet Mill Unit, Supervisor for 5 Years over preventive maintenance crew. The job consisted of setting up preventive maintenance programs and putting the programs into service. Also, taking care of all the break downs in the plant that Tate and Lyle needed assistance with. As Supervisor I managed 5 Forman and 60 maintenance tech’s, maintaining all aspects of maintenance from project to area maintenance to break down and preventative.

Hydro – Gear

Sullivan, IL.

1990 to 1992

Maintenance Tech / Line Supervisor

Hydro–Gear as a Maintenance Tech. I was involved with construction of the new building and moving assembly lines from Iowa to the Illinois plant. I did all the maintenance on the equipment including the setup of all the new assembly lines. I took the night supervisor job that included the maintenance on the assembly line and supervision of the process employees.

Agri-Fab

Sullivan, IL.

1986 to 1990

Assembly Worker / Machinist and Supervisor

I worked on the assembly line for one year then promoted to supervisor of the parts bag room. Then promoted to machinist in proto type shop where I built and machined proto type transmissions and tested them.

Experience

Skilled millwright and precision alignment.

Skilled machinist with lathes and mills.

Skilled welder, stick and mig.

Building maintenance, construction, plumbing and electrical.

Can read blue prints and can draft and lay out.

Skilled in working on de-watering presses, centrifuges, and all types of conveyors

Including (belt, screw, chain and roller), pumps – all types (centrifugal, rotary, reciprocating), machine centers / CNC.

Skilled in hydraulics and air systems.

Emerson oil lab 5200.

IR thermal imaging camera 460T.

Certified crane operator for five years.

Training

I have over twenty years in maintenance, fifteen years in construction, and four years as a machinist. I was a certified Millwright Instructor for The National Center for Construction Education and Research, at the Institute for Construction Education in Decatur, IL.

I have attended courses in Supervision, safety, scaffold building, crane operator, CIS 5200 Lab, BIR pump class, Hazmat and First Responder, Mainsaver maintenance program and SAP maintenance program.

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