Maintenance/Facilities Manager
Resume:
Brian S Farrell **** South M St, Port Hueneme, Ca 93033
4Front Ventures LLC 05/2021 - 08/2023
Commerce, Ca 90040
Facilities / Maintenance Manager
4Front Ventures is a 500K sq ft manufacturing facility in Commerce Ca that produces candies and mints, gel caps and CBD oils.
We have a candy kitchen with depositing line, flowrap and cartoning, case packing. Mints pill presses and packaging line. CBD oil extraction and packaging line.
Also, Hi pressure boilers, dehumidifiers, rotary screw air compressor, air handlers, isolation booths, explosion proof environmental booths in a completely climate-controlled facility.
Forklifts and associated support equipment.
Responsible for maintaining all production and support equipment and facilities including HVAC, structural, electrical, and all other facets of maintenance.
Designed and implemented a spread sheet-based CMMS for planned maintenance and inventory control.
Have a permanent team of 3 with up to 20 tasked for projects. Responsible for all personnel decisions from hire to fire, using quarterly reviews and employee and employer’s goals.
• Possess a thorough knowledge of maintenance procedures.
• Years of experience in the manufacturing environment
• Extensive knowledge of mechanical and electrical systems including hydraulics, pneumatics, motors, motion, lubrication systems and electrical controls. PMAC controls knowledge.
• Food industry experience and knowledge
• Experience managing and leading teams.
• Knowledge of all phases of building and facilities maintenance.
• Experience with preventive maintenance requirements and systems
• Able to plan, organize, direct and control the maintenance department activities.
• Plan and manage the maintenance dept budget for 3 divisions, (Equipment, Facilities and Janitorial) to meet company standards.
• Excellent vendor relationships to provide quality services at a competitive price point.
• Utilize and implement repair and preventive maintenance programs.
• Train support personnel to be effective and safe and enhance career advancement.
• Develop maintenance and preventive programs that enable managers to handle routine or urgent situations.
• Support departmental managers, supervisors and leads on machine awareness and problem prioritizing and communication.
• Track vendor job performance and adherence to budget.
Romeo Power Systems 10/2015 – 06/2019
4380 Ayers Ave
Vernon, Ca 90058
Facilities / Maintenance Manager
First employee of Romeo Power as a start up
• Produced all company mockups, prototypes and early designs. Heavily involved in all rounds of research and developing advanced BMS and thermal stability systems. Produced all the mechanical support, battery module enclosures and frames.
• Worked to help bring company from three people in a small office to a R&D manufacturing concern in a 113k sq ft facility.
• Completed building out an empty dark factory into state-of-the-art LiOn battery module manufacturing facility to include:
• Strong engineering support, providing special project support, performing anything out of the ordinary
• Implemented planned maintenance program (CMMS), designed and implemented work order system and gained inventory control using Plex software.
• Completely diagrammed building electric schematic
• Completely diagrammed building compressed air system
• Completely diagrammed building chilled water system
• Completely diagrammed building HVAC system
• Built out Reliability Test Variance lab, constructed walls, wired, air conditioned and installed test equipment.
• Built out Battery Characterization lab, constructed walls, wired, air conditioned and installed test equipment.
• Built out Battery Safety Test lab, put up walls, wired, air conditioned and installed test equipment.
• Installed production line of automated epoxy dispense, Pick n’ Place articulated arm parts populating machine center, laser welder and support equipment.
• Directed work crews of 4 employees and numerous contractors.
• Strong vendor relationships
Moore Tool Nanotechnology Systems 6/2004 – 7/2008
Airport Industrial Park
Swansey Rd
Keene, NH
Machine Builder, Engineering Tech
World leader in Nano-precision diamond single point turning, precision grinding or both on up to five-axis air bearing machine tools
• Strong engineering support, providing special project support, performing anything out of the ordinary
• Built first five-axis 350 FG, with a precision grinder on a 350mm swing free-form generating machine. Closely worked with engineering for a full year to de-bug, trouble shoot and revise multiple times. Worked closely with grinder spindle vendor to incorporate new, high precision grinder capable of new shapes and dimensions. We held as little as 12 nanometers tolerance on the sales sample piece. Integrated software for new processes with engineering. Created and revised electric schematics.
• Built multiple 3 axis 350 FG’s, free form generating machines for various molding industry customers.
• Built multiple 3 axis 250mm swing single point lathes commonly used in the Optical molding industry.
• Wired and connected innumerous panels, cabinets and enclosures to machine bases and tested, troubleshooting as required.
Eastern Bridge LLC 5/1998 – 6/1999
Grissom Lane
Claremont, NH
Maintenance Manager
Manufacturer of extremely large, multi-ton bridge girders and spans.
• Responsible for entire 210k sq ft facility, to include all building, manufacturing equipment, bridge cranes, welding power supplies and all yard equipment as forklifts, mobile cranes, hoists and blasters.
• As Safety Officer, re-wrote safety manual and policies immediately
• Implemented bridge crane upgrade and maintenance program
• Responsible for 30-40 welding power supplies, submerged arc welders, automatic x-y torch cutting tables and various other equipment.
• Completed AWS welding certification classes (Certs has since expired)
• Approximately 10 - 750-gal compressed gas vessels, oxygen, acetylene, MAPP gas etc.
• Worked with 480 vac and 4160 vac supply voltage
LenTex Corp 2/1994 – 5/1998
LenTex Lane
No Walpole, NH
Maintenance Manager
Manufacturer of vinyl embossed wall covering employing wide-web 2,4, and 5 color gravure printing presses, laminators, trimmers and winding machines.
• Responsible for entire 42k sq ft facility, to include all building, manufacturing equipment and janitorial crew
• Designed and implemented Planned Maintenance Schedule, using Excel
• Gained inventory control using Excel
• Completely diagrammed building electric schematic
• Completely diagrammed building compressed air system
• Completely diagrammed building chilled water system
• Completely diagrammed building HVAC system
• Fabricated, out of various machine parts and systems, Wash Coat printing machine to include steel and sheet metal fabrication, machine drive selection and installation, hot air furnace, chilled water roller with a rewinder. This machine has generated a $1M annual output since 2000, for approximately $100k investment
• Managed construction of 22k sq ft steel building addition, from the pad to installation of manufacturing equipment
• Administered successful recycle program to benefit the employees
• Safety Officer, survived a surprise OSHA inspection with no violations
US Navy 1983 - 1987
Fire Control Technician Petty Officer 2nd Class
• BPDMS (Sea Sparrow AIM-7E) Fire Control Tech, aboard the USS Mt Whitney, 2nd fleet Norfolk, VA
• Leading Petty Officer, OPS Weapons division, responsible for port and starboard Point Defense Guided Missile System, with launcher and 16 Sea Sparrow anti-air missiles
• Responsible for 15-20 men in Weapons division training, workload, personal qualifications, and training records
• Helo Flight deck PO, in control of all flight teams on deck, passengers, cargo and re-fueling needs
• Duty Gunners Mate
• Qualified Surface Warfare Specialist
• Personally, had the thrill of firing two missiles at real (unmanned) targets
• Honor guard drill Team
US Navy Technical Schools Command – USA
May 1983 to September 1985
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