Maintenance Technician Plant

Tracy Zwak

**** ******* **

Cumming, Georgia ****1

Cell 770-***-****

Home 678-***-****

******@*****.***

Objective

To obtain full time employment as a production line maintenance technician. And rebuild of electro mechanical equipment. Perform mechanical and electrical repairs, as well as design and rebuild custom parts.

Work Experience

Lead Maintenance Technician

2/2019-Present @ Diana Foods

Working in an Automated plant that makes Chicken Broth. As a lead I oversaw a group of 4 Techs. Was responsible for maintaining production at optimum performance, As well as insuring the PMs were complete. Also oversaw several projects and improvements.

Automation Technician

10/2018-2/2019 @ Erling Klinger

Working as an Automation Technician in an automated manufacturing facility. Equipment consists of Persico presses and Kuka Robotics, along with various other equipment.

02/2010-09/2018 @ Birchwood Foods

Support production lines during normal operations. Repair equipment on breakdowns. Performed PMs to help keep downtime to a minimum.

Installation

02/2007-01/2009 @ Done Right Equipment

Install of high speed packaging equipment. Also did startup of production lines. Installed PLC and program as well as VSD, Servo Drive Motors. Tuned all electronic sensors for startup run. Worked Mostly with Allen Bradley RSL Logic software. After startup was complete trained Maintenance staff in the operation and Maintenance of equipment. Also did retrofits and Modifications as needed.

Maintenance Technician

8/2003 - 2/2007 @ North Side Foods, Cumming, Georgia

Insure the continued performance of production during operation. As senior technician I oversaw three other technicians and reported directly to Maint. Coordinator, scheduled special projects and insured the completion and safety of work done. Also was assigned several modifications of packaging machinery to enable longer operations between necessary pms. Worked closely with machine shops I have dealt with on other assignments when modifications could not be manufactured in house. several modifications have been incorporated into the manufacture of machinery from factory to all machines

Automation technician

7/2002 - 8/2003 @ NexPack, Duluth, Georgia

Working in an automated injection molding plant. Mainly packaging dept.Instalation of new prototype machinery, retrofit, and some redesign for improved performance. Plant ran 7 days a week 24 hours. Using my years of machine shop skills was able to manufacture most parts myself, also numerous parts that were both expensive and hard to get from manufacturer.

Maintenance Technician

3/2002 - 6/2002 @ Country Home Bakers, Fulton county, Georgia

Was hired on contract basis. Did set up of high speed packaging dept. locate and help with special retrofit of equipment and train maint staff of operation. Worked closely with outside vendors for parts inventory, and manufacture rather than purchase of special hard to obtain expensive parts. Set up in house machine shop and made dies and templates for ease of manufacturing parts without extensive machine shop knowledge. Most parts could be done by production personnel.

Refrigeration Technician

6/1998 - 3/2000 @ Seaboard Cold Storage, Tampa, Florida

Repair commercial refrigeration; install new equipment including electrical wiring of 600volt three phase as well as switches, relays and thermostat controls. Installed copper pipes for Freon and maintained cooling towers. Did some ammonia as well.

Maintenance Mechanic

6/1993 - 8/1995 @ National Sea Products, Tampa, Florida

Maintained production line machinery in a seafood processing plant. Did repair and troubleshoot both mechanical and electrical machinery. Also did installation of new equipment and fabrication of unavailable parts. Worked night shift without supervision.

Maintenance Technician

5/1990 - 4/1993 @ lykes Brothers, Plant City, Florida

Maintenance Technician in a meatpacking plant on night shift. Took care of pm repair that could not be done while production was running. Also did repairs on machinery for small night production crew. Did both electrical and mechanical repairs.

Field Technician

6/1986 - 3/1990 @ Weyerhaeuser, Tampa, Florida

Traveled nationally with box-forming machines and set up for temporary use. Did total wiring and fabrication of conveyors to feed machines. Also kept machines running while in use, disassembled then took machines to new location.

Education

4/2004 Lanier Technical College, Gainesville, Ga

Vocational - Degree

completed course for ammonia refrigeration

1/2005 Lanier Technical College, Gainesville, Ga

Vocational - Degree

Year long course in electrical controls and logic

9/2004 Formax, Mokena, IL

Vocational

F-26PLC mechanical and hydraulic

7/2002 Stellar Interactive Solutions, Fulton, Ga

Certification

24-Hour materials technician level training in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.120 [q](6)(iii)

7/2002 Stellar Interactive Solutions, Fulton, Ga

Certification

Incident Commander Training

6/1980 Brandon high, Brandon, Fla

High School or equivalent

Affiliations

1/2004 - Present RETA

Industrial Refrigeration

Skills

Skill Name Skill Level Last Used/Experience

Automated Production Equipment Expert Currently used/20

Gearbox, Mechanical Motion Logic Expert Currently used/25

Hydraulics Expert Currently used/20

Industrial Refrigeration Intermediate Currently used/7

Lathe and Mill Operation Expert Currently used/25

Motor Controls and Relays Intermediate Currently used/20

PLC Logic Intermediate Currently used/5

Pneumatics Expert Currently used/20

Retrofit And Modifications For Intermediate Currently used/15

Languages

Spanish (Basic - Familiar)

English (Fluent - Full Knowledge)

References

Reference Name Phone Email Type

Ceaser Alvarado 470-***-**** Professional

Dave Simone 315-***-**** Professional

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