Engineering, Maintenance, Operational Management

MANNY J. JUAREZ, CMRP

**** ******* ***** *****, *** Vegas, NV 89129

TEL: 408-***-**** / E-MAIL: ********@***.***

OVERVIEW

Experienced professional with exceptional leadership and problem-solving skills delivering innovative, sustainable solutions. Built and led top-performing teams especially in stressful, high-pressure, deadline-driven environments with increasing responsibilities.

SKILLS SUMMARY

Seasoned bi-lingual manufacturing leader with 20+ years of proven performance in scaling operations for large and small companies

Results-driven manager experienced in P&L control, purchasing, maintenance reliability, quality and compliance systems (PSM, FDA, SQF, NSF, OSHA, EPA, State and Federal Regulatories)

Detail oriented problem solver with team communication skills and experience in Union bargaining environments

Skilled with employee involvement teams, proactive management and continuous improvement lean methodologies (Toyota Production System, 5S, Kaizen, TPM, WCM, Six Sigma, RCM methods (Allied Reliability), PDCA, DMAIC, FMEA, RCFA, SPC and Shingo)

EXPERIENCE PROFILE

FEBRUARY 2018 – PRESENT

SAINT-GOBAIN CORPORATION - CERTAINTEED GYPSUM MANUFACTURING, INC. Gypsum Manufacturing, Las Vegas, Nevada

Sr. Engineering and Maintenance Department Manager

Department Manager overseeing the engineering and maintenance activities of a union (Teamsters) manufacturing facility

Performed Plant Management duties as needed and provided 24-hour engineering and maintenance support for production

Responsible for an annual CAPEX budget of $3.85MM including tenders, contractor selection, construction activities and commissioning

Managed (3) Maintenance Reliability Engineers, (3) Automation Engineers, (2) Maintenance Supervisors, (1) Maintenance Planner, (1) Storeroom Clerk and (26) Union Maintenance and Electrical craftsmen

Created a strategic reliability roadmap to drive World Class Manufacturing (WCM) and Professional Maintenance Pillars (PM Step 0-3)

Improved Plant Technical Reliability from 78% to a consistent 96.5% by reducing MTTR from 3.3 hours to 0.45 hours utilizing targeted training of technicians and optimization of PM’s

Responsible for the annual Maintenance R&M budget of $2.5MM supporting %Availability and %Net Saleable Yield must win battles

FEBRUARY 2016 – FEBRUARY 2018

CHELTEN HOUSE PRODUCTS, INC. Food Manufacturing

Manufacturing, Las Vegas, Nevada

Plant Maintenance and Reliability Manager

Site responsibility of maintenance and reliability functions for an organic and natural food manufacturing facility (steam cooked)

Managed (16) Maintenance-Electrical craftsmen with an emphasis on zero-breakdown expectation on equipment and food safety

Created a robust maintenance work order system (MPulse) for capability growth of the maintenance craftsmen

Developed maintenance PM standards for improved effectiveness on breakdowns including functional KPIs for repeatable results

Structured the maintenance and reliability budget achieving reductions in R&M spend, line efficiency and Yield improvement

SEPTEMBER 2015 – FEBRUARY 2016

GENENTECH Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Vacaville, California

Technical Subject Matter Expert – Maintenance Systems

Worked as a consultant supporting a drug manufacturer with maintenance systems expertise and implementation of PM Programs

APRIL 2014 – SEPTEMBER 2015

OLAM INTERNATIONAL Vegetable Ingredient Processing and Private Label Co-Packing, Williams, California

Plant Maintenance Manager

Overall accountability for plant maintenance and reliability within a food manufacturing facility with an emphasis on canning, thermal processing and packing of vegetable ingredients (tomatoes, peppers, sauces, paste, ketchup)

Provided leadership for a (54) person, 3-shift maintenance team, comprised of Team Leaders, Mechanics, Electrical/Controls Technicians, Planners, Reliability Engineering and Storeroom consisting of (4) salaried direct reports and (50) hourly employees

Member of Plant leadership team providing strategic direction and execution of the Plant Master Plan and long-range department goals

Implemented a maintenance strategy driving a restructuring of the maintenance team to increase reliability, PM effectiveness and line efficiency utilizing asset health management, maintenance reliability, craft skills, work execution and operator asset care programs

Deployed continuous improvement methodologies to enhance planning, scheduling, lubrication systems, breakdown elimination and CMMS data accuracy resulting in a reduction of unmanaged maintenance spend by 45% and increase in equipment reliability

Responsible for $7MM annual labor, parts budget and seasonal CAPEX for equipment overhauls and rebuilds

Member of Plant safety committee driving human and food safety focus to reduce Plant injury rates and Plant controllable holds

NOVEMBER 2007 – APRIL 2014

KRAFT FOODS GROUP, INC. Coffee Roasting and Packaging, Powdered Beverage Production, San Leandro, California

Senior Maintenance Unit Leader

Leader of a Union maintenance department (Machinists and Metal Men) consisting of (36) mechanics, (8) electricians, (4) instrumentation technicians, (4) PLC technicians, (2) storeroom clerks, (2) planners/schedulers with a budget of $5.25MM

Reduced repairs and R&M expenses by 30% using craft skill development in condition-based maintenance with a %RAV of < 4%

Achieved a 20% reduction in labor costs resulting in $450K annual savings through development of predictive programs (PdM)

Developed reliability programs, centerlines, ultrasonic thermography, gemba walks, integrated lean six sigma (IL6S) and TPM practices

Optimized equipment failure types through RCM blitzes improving OEE from 75% to 90% on coffee and powder beverage lines

Reduced parts inventory from $2.5MM to $900K using critical spare assessments, overstock elimination and supplier leveraging

Developed a Pay for Skills (PFS) program to align with current equipment technologies

Maintained Plant and Corporate KPI’s including %Planned Maintenance, %PM Compliance, %Routine Work, %Materials not on a BOM, %Labor Utilization vs. Payroll hours, %Cycle Count Accuracy

Perform all maintenance administrative duties, payroll, disciplinary actions, vacations, safety inspections, coaching, and training

Assisted CAPEX projects for new packaging lines and roasting capacity initiatives (new bag line, new roasters, new infrastructure)

JANUARY 2007 – NOVEMBER 2007

THE PEPSI BOTTLING GROUP, INC. Hi-speed Carbonated Beverage Can & PET Production, Sacramento, California

Senior Maintenance Supervisor

Responsible for maintenance operations of one high-speed carbonated soft drink (CSD) can line, one PET bottling line, one syrup bag-in-a-box packaging line and one PET bottled water line (Aquafina)

Managed (20) Union mechanics and an operating budget of $2MM

Partnered on CAPEX projects including the successful vertical startup of a $3.5MM Aquafina PET Krones-Turnkey bottled water line achieving 90% initial OEE

Performed all maintenance administrative duties, payroll, disciplinary actions, vacations, safety inspections, coaching, and training

MARCH 2001 – DECEMBER 2006

COCA-COLA ENTERPRISES, INC. Hi-speed Carbonated Beverage Can & PET Production, San Leandro, California

Maintenance Supervisor

Responsible for maintenance operations of (36) Union mechanics, (4) lubers and (4) PLC programmers

Responsible for Plant electrical-mechanical control systems, AC & DC motors, variable frequency drives (VFD’s), pneumatics, conveyors, ammonia beverage refrigeration system (PSM), facilities, electrical systems and Allen Bradley SLC 500-RS Logix 5000 controllers

Reduced accident frequency rates (AFR) by 25% through safety retraining of personnel and accountability

Improved line efficiency from 74% to 90% by reducing changeover times and eliminating redundant operations

Assisted in CAPEX project for a $4MM Dasani PET bottled water line achieving 89% run efficiency

Led organizational change to improve morale and broke down departmental barriers through team building and mentoring

Performed all maintenance administrative duties, payroll, disciplinary actions, vacations, safety inspections, coaching, and training

OCTOBER 1997 – MARCH 2001

THE SUNTORY WATER GROUP, INC. 3 Gallon, 5 Gallon and Small Pack PET Water Bottling Production, San Jose, California

Plant Manager

Hired to turn around a struggling 3-gallon, 5-gallon, and multi-pack PET water bottling Plant with (200) employees

Oversaw P&L activities, CAPEX, safety/OSHA compliance and product quality (FDA/NSF) with an annual Plant budget of $10.5MM

Negotiated competitive contracts for spring water suppliers reducing cost by 12% through volume leveraging

Reduced labor cost by 22% and job turnover by 66% through personnel redeployment/training and eliminating redundant operations

Reduced plant costs by $775K through re-structuring existing operations to maximize production yield of raw materials

Increased production from 12.2MM cases to 22.7MM cases achieving the lowest cost per unit within the division two years in a row

Improved line efficiency from 53% to 88% within six months by creating a PM program to eliminate firefighting (reactive)

Reduced inventory reconciliation variances from $325K to $0 through improved cycle counts

Consistently obtained National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) Plant audit scores of 90% or better in all categories of GMP’s and HACCP

Developed a strong production team leading the division as the benchmark facility in efficiencies, labor hours, quality and cost

JUNE 1997 – SEPTEMBER 1997

INTEVAC, INC. Los Gatos, California

Technical Support Engineer

Temporary contract assignment responsible for engineering support of proprietary Contact Start-Stop (CSS) test equipment for the hard drive storage industry using Pentium-based computer systems to interface with mechanically designed testers and data acquisition cards.

AUGUST 1995 – JUNE 1997

PORTOLA PACKAGING, INC. San Jose, California

Senior Field Engineer

Responsible for installing water bottling equipment and dairy fitment application systems (screw caps, tamper evident plastic closures) for Cherry-Burrell, Evergreen, Tetra-Pak and other liquid food packaging systems. Supervised a five-man service engineering team for repairs, training, development of technical manuals. Position required 90% international travel with 24-hour customer support.

AUGUST 1994 – AUGUST 1995

BORLAND INTERNATIONAL, INC. Scotts Valley, California

Software Development Analyst

Responsible for development and product launch of dBASE, Paradox, Borland C++ and InterBASE software.

OCTOBER 1992 – AUGUST 1994

KAISER CEMENT CORPORATION Cupertino, California

Rock Plant Supervisor

Supervised a mining team of 12 mine workers tasked to excavate limestone and mineral aggregates for concrete construction materials.

MAY 1989 – OCTOBER 1992

PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY San Jose, California

Lineman – Electric Construction

Worked as an electrical lineman in an internship servicing 1500KVA and 2500KVA transformers, distribution lines and cable splicing.

EDUCATION

Heald Institute of Technology: Certificate of Completion in Electronics Technology, 1988

Western Oregon University: BS General Engineering, 1988 – 1989, transferred

San Jose State University: BS Computer Engineering, 1989 – 1993, completed ~ 4 years

Utah State University: Certificate of Completion - Shingo Behaviors & Systems, 2012

University of Phoenix: Currently Enrolled to Complete Bachelor’s

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

Coca-Cola Enterprises (Coke College): Management Essentials I & II, Ammonia Refrigeration Systems

PepsiCo, DevTech Labs: PET Manufacturing Training

Krones Plastic Technology: Blow Molding Training (ContiForm S)

SAP/SAP ECC 6.0 Power User: Catalyst, Materials Management (MM), Preventive Maintenance (PM), Purchasing

Certified Bottled Water Plant Operator: International Bottled Water Association (IBWA)

Certified X-ray Maintenance & Safety: Mettler-Toledo SAFELINE

Certified Maintenance Reliability Professional: Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP), Reliability Systems

Certified Reliability Engineer: American Society for Quality (ASQ)

5S Kaizen Event Practitioner: Saint-Gobain College

Root Cause Failure Analysis Training: Saint-Gobain College

MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT KNOWLEDGE

Mettler-Toledo Checkweighers & Metal Detectors, Neuhaus Neotec Roasters, Thermal-O Roasters, KICE Blowers-Receivers, Bag Houses, SACMI Labelers, DEL Lidders, Hartness Accumulators, Krones Contiform Blow Molders, Krones Variopac Shrink Wrappers, Krones Contiroll Labelers, GE Fanuc Robotic Arms, Krones RoboGrip Robotic Palletizers, Krones Filler-Cappers, H&K Fillers, Crown Fillers, Simonazzi Fillers, Fogg Fillers, Nalbach Fillers, Rovema Fillers, Zacmi Vacuum Fillers, Zacmi Seamers, Angelus Seamers, Nigrelli Packers, Douglas Packers and Shrink Wrappers, Jones Packers, Mead Packers, KHS-Kister Packers, SMI Shrink Wrappers and Tray Packers, Lasetec Laser Coders, VideoJet Systems, Marsh Coders, Domino Laser Coders, Trine Labelers, SIG-SIDEL Labelers, Sentry Depalletizers, Sentry Bottle Rinser Ionizers, Wyard Depalletizers, Wyard Palletizers, Alvey Palletizers, Priority One Palletizers, Lanfranchi Unscramblers, Can Warmers, Bottle Warmers, Can Rinser Ionizers, Sentry Air Conveyors, Signode Pallet Wrappers, Mima-Octopus Pallet Wrappers, Wulftec Pallet Wrappers, Lantech Pallet Wrappers, GE-Osmonics Reverse Osmosis Systems, DSI Blending Systems, GE-Osmonics Ozone Systems, Carbon Tower Systems, Reaction Tank Water Treatment Systems, Deaerators, CIP Systems, Ammonia Refrigeration Systems, Cryotech-VBS Liquid Nitrogen Systems, Hytrol Conveyor Systems, NerCon Conveyor Systems, Screw Conveyors & Augers, Vaughn Pumps, Waukesha Pumps, Pearson Carton Combiners, Hi-Cone Systems, Think-Top Systems, In-Line Carbonators, Navatta Peelers, IMDEC Peelers

SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE

MS-DOS, Windows (all versions), MS Office, KRONOS Payroll, MS Visio, MS Project, MS SQL Server, Mac-OS, MAXIMO, MPULSE, 7i, MP2, EtQ, SAP, BASIC, Pascal, Fortran, C & C++ (Borland Compiler), Assembly Language, Adobe, Wonderware, Lotus Notes, RSLogix, SLC500, Controllogix, Micrologix, LAN/WAN Protocols, knowledge of various manufacturing and business operation software suites

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

SMRP – Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals

NAK – Nu Alpha Kappa Fraternity (Alumni)

AMA – American Management Association

ISA – Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society

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