Engineering Manager
Resume:
Revery Johnson
*****Valley Hill Rd. Indian Land, SC 29707
***********@*****.***
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Years of experience developing world class organizations.
Accomplished results-oriented engineering manager with a 25-year track record of progressive operations management responsibility. Active involvement in DMAIC and LEAN (6 Sigma) process improvements. Keen interest in development of teams willing to accept and embrace management of change inherent in modern manufacturing. Most recent experience focuses on building and developing engineering, maintenance, and safety teams for 2000+ employee US based unionized tire manufacturer. Effectively able to understand and present complex concepts and ideas to all levels of an organization. Global work experience has demonstrated a consistent ability to generate results in diverse, multi-lingual, and multi-cultural settings.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
A global manufacturer of consumer, commercial, aeronautic, and off road premium tires. Danville facility is a rubber chemical processing facility producing Aero and medium radial Truck tires.
Engineering Manager, Danville, Virginia May 2014– Present
Developed and maintained engineering budget consisting of labor, materials, services, and electricity of more than $26 M and $45 M capital budget annually. This budget contemplated not only maintaining operational equipment and infrastructure in optimum condition, but also recovering from 10 years of emergency only maintenance activities.
Plantwide downtime has improved from 3.3% to less than 2%. This has been attributable to a compelling vision and sharp focus on aligning team with company needs.
Focus on stabilizing maintenance managers in their roles, planners and specialists in theirs. Developed plans for strengthening frontline supervisors.
Establish written processes for management and performance of standard works to improve performance management of associates.
Prepared plant for safety and quality audits. Responsible to keep robust safety and quality compliance systems functioning correctly to maintain highly protected plant status.
Responsible for environment manager and environmental compliance.
Overseeing installation of several multimillion dollar equipment additions.
Managed staff of 46 salaried associates, 252 hourly union associates, as well as up to 100 contractor staff.
Rosponsible for a wide variety of equipment maintenance and engineering, including large batch mixers, extruders, roller dies, calenders, tire assembly machines, curing presses, as well as the transfer equipment necessary for a continuous 24/7 operation.
The role requires daily collaboration with all functions of the plant from HR through continuous improvement to Quality.
Dubai Ports World
With operations in Australia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia; Dubai Ports World (DPW) is a leading international container terminal operator.
Senior Engineering & Safety Manager, Caucedo MultiModal Terminal Dominican Republic April 2012– March 2014
Developed and maintained engineering budget consisting of labor, materials, services, and electricity of more than $13.5 M annually. This budget contemplated not only maintaining operational equipment and infrastructure in optimum condition, but also recovering from 4 years of emergency only maintenance activities.
Availability of QCs has risen from below 80% to above 95%, RTGs from below 55% to above 88%, yard tractors from below 50% to above 85%.
Re-organized engineering department staff to focus on terminal operations requirements and financial objectives. Reduced managers and supervisors from 25 to 18. Developed training matrix for both blue collar and supervisor staff. Instituted development plans for supervisors and managers to begin succession planning.
Responsible for compliance with global engineering standards and audits. Both internal DPW as well as external loss prevention consultant reviews audits.
Responsible for facilities (infrastructure) team managing multiple renewal and remediation projects. Complete crane rail replacement, RTG runway replacement, cathodic protection system renewal, and a yard expansion project to pave and prepare additional 20% yard capacity.
Responsible for safety department setting meaningful and challenging goals for safety and environment. Responsible for guiding department to influence operations and engineering teams to meet or exceed the goals. Significant year on year reduction in LTIFR, RTIFR, Serious accidents, and CO2/TEU .
Responsible for safety and environment department developing terminal operating procedures and actions to point of ISO 14000 certification.
Responsible for implementing pedestrian free and private vehicle free terminal procedures to comply with safety and ISPS standards.
Responsible for implementation of multiple LEAN projects in the departments to either improve efficiency or reduce costs. Inventory project to reduce planned expenditures more than 750K USD over six months. Downtime response project for RTGs to reduce mean time to repair from over two hours to less than one hour. Communication project to allow operations and engineering teams to use a single shift downtime report to improve focus on areas for improvement.
Team leader for asset management group beginning implementation of ISO 55000 based asset management concepts to strategic terminal assets and operations. First phase to consist of critical asset identification, risk analysis performed for critical assets, development of plans for reduction or mitigation of risks, and development of KPIs and shared objectives across operational functions to support more efficient use of existing assets.
Dubai Ports World
Regional Engineering Manager, Middle East October 2010– April 2012
Responsible for engineering operations in Jeddah, Saudia Arabia; Sokhna, Egypt; and Aden, Yemen
Responsible for engineering budget preparation in the three terminals. Worked with the engineering managers to begin using actual history data as well as forecast maintenance activities to produce budgets.
Oversaw engineering manager change in Jeddah and Sokhna terminals. Responsible for coaching and developing the three engineering managers. Engineering manager in Aden was asked to assume regional engineering manager position during my transition to Dominican Republic.
Responsible for compliance with global engineering team audits in the three terminals. Implemented plans for increasing compliance with audit standards and following up of same at the terminals.
Responsible for change of focus of existing engineering department in Jeddah operation. Original department was focused on not spending money and trying to respond to breakdowns with make-do repairs. No preventative maintenance planning or activity was in place, this was changed to allow a significant reduction in breakdowns. Engineering work was distributed across multiple workshops. These were consolidated to the main workshop to allow consistent supervision and control.
Responsible for increasing equipment availability in Jeddah from below 60% to above 90% within seven months.
Reduced headcount in Jeddah from over 300 to 240 with an ultimate target of 190 within seven months.
Responsible for driving more complete utilization of EAM system in Jeddah, purchased three years ago and not fully implemented or utilized.
Oversaw new equipment purchase, build, installation, and startup in Sokhna.
Responsible for installation and implementation of EAM system in Aden.
Assisted the engineering managers understanding of major KPIs and how they could be used not only to report performance, but also to drive performance improvements in the various teams.
APM Terminals International
APM Terminals International (APMTI) is a leader in international port terminal operations and development, logistics and related services.
Technical Manager, APM Terminals, Apapa, LTD – Oct 2008 to February 2010
Senior staff member during transition from project to normal operations container terminal.
Completed the two year MAGnum management development program.
Successfully planned and implemented the upgrade of maintenance operations achieving globally acceptable standards of reliability and availability.
Upgraded maintenance team responsible for cranes, rolling stock, facilities, and stores. Developed reporting formats, training schemes, rostering solutions, inventory, and timekeeping solutions.
Developed and managed technical department budget of $20.0 M.
Managed technical department staff of 160 blue collar personnel, ten white collar managers, and 125 contract laborers.
Responsible for complete technical solutions for $95.0 M of equipment.
Drove improvements in communication and reporting methods for interdepartmental affairs to improve overall operational effectiveness.
Technical Manager, Meridian Port Services, LTD – Nov 2006 to Oct 2008
Senior staff member during start up phase of takeover of government owned and operated container terminal.
Successfully planned and implemented the takeover of maintenance operations for existing container handling equipment achieving globally acceptable standards of reliability and availability.
Developed maintenance team responsible for cranes, rolling stock, facilities, stores, and purchasing consisting of personnel taken over from existing terminal staff and new hires.
Developed reporting formats, training schemes, rostering solutions, purchasing, inventory, and timekeeping solutions.
Developed and managed technical department budget of $3.5 M.
Managed technical department staff of 80 blue collar personnel and 5 white collar managers.
Assisted in developing communication and reporting methods for interdepartmental affairs.
Gottlieb Barnett and Bridges
A private container terminal consulting firm serving clients around the world since 1957.
Consulting Engineer – September 2005 to October 2006
Directed the technical supervision of new crane projects from design through commissioning for multiple clients in the United States and India.
Assisted major RTG manufacturer upgrade safety and reliability of current design through exhaustive testing and review.
CSX World Terminals
With operations in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia, CSX World Terminals (CSXWT), a leader in international port terminal operations and development.
Senior Operations Manager, CSX World Crane Services – May 2002 to August 2005
Member of team responsible for specifying and negotiating contracts for equipment purchases for new and existing terminals.
Directed the technical supervision of new crane projects from design through commissioning for CSXWT projects encompassing three ports at a budget of almost $300 million dollars.
Successfully planned and supervised the technical upgrades and modifications to existing CSXWT cranes which resulted in decreased down-time. For example, Puerto Cabello was experiencing an average of 15-20% down-time, this was reduced to an average of less than 3%.
Developed and managed the World Crane Services’ staff of nine people in ShangHai, China, responsible for inspections of new-build cranes for both internal and external projects.
Manage daily operations of World Crane Services maintenance staff in seven terminal operations in continental US, consisting of 21 crane engineers and 45 technicians. During this time, the budget was consistently met in a period of declining crane usage and gradual terminal closures.
Supported maintenance operations in worldwide operations, technical, management and operations assistance.
Provided technical consultation for global CSX World Terminals maintenance teams, focusing on minimizing costs while maximizing equipment performance and uptime.
Provided consultation and supervision for maintenance and retrofit projects external to World Terminal operations.
Provided equipment and staff appraisals for internal operations as well as possible acquisition targets.
Responsible for annual budgets up to $18M.
GE-Toshiba Automation Systems
Regional Sales Manager, Americas Material Handling Group 2001 -2002
Developed proposals and pricing of drive control systems for dockside container cranes, yard cranes, and overhead bridge cranes. Provided leadership for application engineers in developing proposals.
Negotiated directly with crane manufacturers for projects such as: two QCs by HHI for Philadelphia; three QCs by HHI for Freeport, Bahamas; five QCs by HHI for PPC in Panama; and one QC by ZPMC for Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Designed packaged retrofit solution for legacy crane control systems, providing economical solutions for owners of older cranes which also represented an 18% contribution for Toshiba-GE.
Provided direction to field sales engineers and local sales managers around the world, including Singapore, Germany, China, Japan, Argentina and the United States.
Used total suite of Microsoft Office Professional to develop effective customer presentations and proposals.
Traveled globally to present solutions to potential and existing customers.
Worked closely with suppliers to develop cost estimation tools.
General Electric Industrial Systems
Engineering Business Leader, Caribbean 1996 - 2001
Supported existing domestic customers during purchase and installation of new equipment.
Provided engineering services to customers in:
oPuerto Rico, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Mexico, Honduras, United States, and Panama.
Developed and taught maintenance and troubleshooting courses in English and Spanish.
Assisted local group (Georgia, Florida, Caribbean) to consistently be ranked number one in volume and financial target achievement) among 13 domestic Industrial Systems engineering service groups.
Marine Technical Services
Service Engineer, MTS 1995 - 1996
Supervised crane maintenance staff for Manzanillo International Terminal, Colon, Panama.
Developed preventative maintenance programs for quay cranes, RTG cranes, and support equipment.
Trained local staff to maintain and troubleshoot mechanical systems, digital and analog drives, motors and PLCs.
Achieved over 98% uptime at a startup facility by developing team approach to fault resolution and preventative maintenance work.
Square D Company
Control Engineer, Raleigh Systems Group 1992 - 1995
Designed hardware and software systems for industrial automation.
Provided field service for start-up and troubleshooting.
Designed and programmed new operator interface systems based on Visual Basic and C++.
Worked with coordinated drive systems for ink manufacturers, food processors, paper product manufacturers, crane manufacturers and shipbuilding ports.
Other Information
Education: New Mexico State University, Bachelor of Science Chemical Engineering
Memberships: Mensa, AIPE, ASPE, BSA
Languages: English, Spanish
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