Wayne Tharrett 256-***-**** **** Line Drive, Smackover AR 71762

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A top performing and competent professional 18+ years of experience in all phases of Maintenance, Steelmaking, and Casting operations. Analytical professional skilled in successfully navigating corporations large and small through periods of accelerated growth. Proven strategic leader who achieved company-wide results through the development and execution of strategy and business plans. Committed to adding value and exceeding expectations through creative idea generation, collaborative problem solving, intuitive business judgment, and focus on continuous improvement and quality. Collaborative communicator continually focused on building relationships and promoting synergy across business lines and global units to drive positive change, cohesive, comprehensive business approaches and enhanced profitability. Demonstrated success with handling multiple tasks simultaneously in fast-paced, dynamic and deadline-governed work environments without sacrificing quality. Areas of Expertise include:

Strategic Planning & Forecasting

Process Improvement

Revenue & Profit Growth

Business Development

Relationship Building

Project Management

Team Leadership & Motivation

Maintenance Management

Problem Resolution

Professional Experience

Systems Group, Eldorado AR 2013-Present

Vice President of Operations, Systems Plant Services

Build a culture of safety throughout the 300+ employee maintenance division of Systems Plant Services and lowering the OSHA recordable rate from 2.14 to 0.98 TCIR.

Streamline the process of development for the newly formed Maintenance division including population and assisting in the design of a newly develop website, development of the newly formed division’s reporting, and coordination of efforts between eight locations across the Country.

Consistently meet organizational set targets and increased corporate revenue by 18% in the span of one year.

Severstal North America Dearborn MI 2010-2013

Steelmaking Maintenance Manager

Held full accountability for the safe day to day operation of the 2.5mil ton annual Steelmaking facility at the Dearborn Facility including budget management and reorganization.

Efficiently maintained multi-Million dollar per month budget for both maintenance and production at the steelmaking facility. Significant involvement in the daily negotiations process with UAW committee.

Severstal North America Dearborn MI 2010-June 2012

Steelmaking Reliability Engineer

Expertly planned the March 24 hour blast furnace outage for both the caster and basic oxygen furnace including the scheduling of over 300 jobs completed at a rate of 98%.

Acted as lead facilitator and performed duties such as failure finding, failure analysis, and development of predictive and preventative maintenance.

Tracked improvements and failures through identification system for Cylinders, Gearboxes, and other assets.

Monitored extraction and reinstallation of all casting equipment, on an 11 segment strand to survey strand for the first time since initial startup.

Clayton H Landis Souderton PA 2006-2010

Account Manager Southeast Area

Actively handled overall business planning process or increased business at current locations in the Southeast, and pursued new business at other locations.

Identified and created new business opportunities, instrumental in marketing company to 500+ new businesses throughout t the southeast region.

Clayton H Landis Souderton PA 2007-2008

Lead Project Manager Nucor Hickman

Established strong relationship between the customer, CHL Engineering department, Site project managers, and all vendors used. Reduced customer complaints through providing exceptional customer services.

Successful implementation, and creation of any program initiatives, and plant wide equipment improvements cost estimate reviews, and customer complaints.

Clayton H Landis Souderton PA 2006-2008

Site Project Manager Nucor Decatur Facility

Administered assets for the Nucor facility including product improvement on-time delivery and spares management.

Provided oversight of manufacture, and installation of structural guards for the hot mill stripper car system. Potential savings of weeks of down time annually and $20k+ in equipment damage per incident.

Steel Related Technology Decatur AL 1998-2006

Plant Superintendent SRT Alabama Facility, 2003-2006

Accomplished all aspects of operations such as direct reporting of 70 individuals, interviewing potential hires, material management, and warehousing for the multi million dollars a year contract with Nucor Decatur Steel Mill.

Increased on time completion of time sensitive projects reducing customer downtime, and lowering customer finished product defect rates significantly.

Ensured implementation of ISO 9001 quality system, developing procedures, and standards in an aggressive timeframe.

Steel Related Technology Decatur AL 1998-2006

Plant Engineer SRT Alabama Facility, 2002-2006

Utilized precision surveying technique of all casting equipment base structures to a tolerance of .005” for the initial and all subsequent alignments.

Designed and devised adjustable lower pin for top segment, which included engineering, testing, implementation, and development of work instructions for setting the equipment.

Steel Related Technology Blytheville AR 1998-2006

Design Engineer SRT Arkansas Facility, 2002-2006

Applied technique for the optical precision survey of casting machines utilizing one setup at various facilities around the United States. This was previously unobtainable.

Designed, draw and detail three-story ladle man’s platform and escape structure retrofit for 1980’s era casting deck.

Built water removal system to reduce product cracking saving approximately $3 million in product rejects, included concept development, initial prototype manufacture, testing, modification for various product shapes, and development of final work instructions for installation and adjustment.

Education & Training

State University of New York, Canton New York

Associates of Arts and Science Degree in Civil Engineering Technology

Computer Skills:

AutoCAD versions 14 thru 2004, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project)

Continuing Education:

Dale Carnegie Leadership Training 2015

NCCER Maintenance Supervisor Certification

Eaton Hydraulics Certification

Military Awards:

Foreign Service Award- Awarded for service in Saudi Arabia during Operation Vigilant Warrior 1994

Airman First Class “Below the Zone”- Awarded Airman First class rank 6 months early for excellence in the field of maintenance.

Basic Training Honor Graduate- Awarded for earning an above average score on basic training exit exam, physical endurance testing, and marksmanship.

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