Field Service Technician
Resume:
Chet Tallman Field Service Technician
Seattle, WA 98106 Email: ***********@*******.*** Cell Phone: 206-***-****
Experience Statement:
My 40-year career has allowed me to switch from Field Service Technician positions to Maintenance Management positions now and then. I’ve also been allowed to work with an incredible diversity of machines, seeing machines work together, manage machines networked together and witnessed many different aspects of just how the laws of physics makes things work and can allow things to tear themselves apart. While my actual work is to care for and repair machinery, more fundamentally it is to be the best possible partner to customers to help them be successful by keeping things running smoothly.
I enjoy this task of repairing and caring for all the machines, and I have taken full advantage of my interaction with these machines, over the years, and have obtained expert knowledge for quite a few of them, helping to make me successful.
Work Experience
Outside Sales Representative Food Processing Equipment
Pro Sales Inc. Tacoma, WA
July 2024 September 2024
I had always desired (dreamed) to try selling industrial products related to the food processing industry. I thought that I might be good at this. These folks gave me a chance to get out there and sell. I didn’t go so well. I have a greater respect for career salespersons now. Direct Sales is more difficult than I thought it would be.
Field Service Engineer
Lindberg/MPH Riverside, MI
February 2023 to July 2024
I worked primarily alone as a factory-trained Field Service Engineer in the heat treatment and non-ferrous metal melting industry. Every week I would go somewhere to fix, inspect, install, and consult with customers doing heat treatment and melting. metal. Usually, something different each week.
Maintenance Manager
Shining Ocean Sumner WA February 2021 to February 2023
The company was sold, and closure was announced in the Winter of 2021
Managed 11 maintenance workers, maintaining equipment for a significant surimi manufacturing plant: managed ammonia refrigeration, boilers, wastewater treatment, packaging, and fluid process equipment. We were automated with PLCs networked into HMIs and networked into a total plant data collection system. In my first three months, I made dramatic changes that reduced downtime by improving equipment repair planning, spare parts acquisitions, and getting my maintenance personnel to work as a team to solve our problems. This was an exciting workplace with a great maintenance crew.
Field Service Technician
SPX Flow, SPX, APV Americas
From February 2005 to February 2021
Manufacturer of Fluid Food Processing Equipment. Provided field service for Plate Heat Exchangers, Homogenizers, Pumps, and Valves manufactured by SPX Flow. Services included troubleshooting, field assembly of machines, installation, start-up, and training plant personnel in care and operation. Field Services included analyzing the customer's process to ensure that the equipment fits the customer's needs; sometimes, we were called on to find methods to adapt equipment to the customers’ changing needs. I advised customers on future maintenance needs and the recommended spare parts to meet those future needs. Help customers plan for significant overhauls and refurbishments.
Field Service Technician
Tetra Pak 2002 to 2005
Manufacturer of Fluid Food Processing Equipment providing service for separators, homogenizers, decanters, standardizers, and scrap surface heat exchangers manufactured by Tetra Pak. Services included troubleshooting, field assembly of machines, installation, start-up, and training plant personnel in the care and operation. I advised customers on planned maintenance needs and recommended spare parts.
Maintenance Manager
Coca-Cola Enterprises Bellevue WA 1998 – 2002
Managed the maintenance function of a soft drink bottling plant. My crew consisted of 22 union maintenance workers. I had budgetary responsibilities, future planning, and environmental concerns. The Dasani water line was installed while I was the maintenance manager.
Site Manager / Field Service Technician
APV Americas Seattle Reginal Office 1989 to 1998
APV Seattle was a regional sales office supporting APV manufacturing of food processing systems and equipment. I worked as Site Manager on medium or smaller jobs where we sold a complete system, process, equipment, utilities, and installation. On larger jobs, I assisted a more senior project manager. The business changed with APV selling fewer systems and more equipment, and my work changed to supporting the equipment we sold in the field, like pumps, valves, heat exchangers, tank agitators, homogenizers, refrigeration, and evaporators.
Education
High School Diploma, some college, equipment-specific training, factory training on the equipment I serviced
Military
Branch Navy Rank Machinist Mate 3rd Worked on Steam Propulsion, Evaporators, and Turbogenerators
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