James D. Smith

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

Eden, NC ***88

336-***-****

adcag4@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Experience

Maintenance Specialist, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. Danville, Virginia 4/2018-Present

Responsible for leading projects from corporate projects to plant based projects.

Responsible for getting the necessary resources in place when a piece of equipment is down past the escalation period.

Responsible for scheduling vendors to come in and do quarterly inspections on Final finish equipment

Coached and mentored mechanics and electricians on all the different inspection machines in the Final Finish area.

Optimization Engineer, MillerCoors, LLC. Elkton, Virginia 8/2014-3/2018

Responsible for leading projects from corporate projects to plant based projects.

Created and implemented numerous capital projects that range in value from $10K to $300K. This included presenting the business case to secure funding for the projects with MillerCoors Corporate and leading a cross-functional team during the implementation phase of the projects.

Worked with Maintenance personnel to develop an Asset Care strategy that helps to improve the inherent reliability of equipment and processes within the Packaging Department.

Coached and mentored electricians from panel layout and design to actual programming of PLC’s and HMI’s.

EPEST Team Member (Electrical Packaging Equipment Specialist): Controls/HMI SME

MillerCoors, LLC. Eden, North Carolina 1/2008-8/2014

Started on team working as a line flow SME for high speed equipment optimizing flow of product without compromising the quality of the product.

Responsible for trouble shooting process controls on fillers as well optimizing the process controls.

Coached and mentored new team members as well new electricians entering the plant.

Optimized legacy machinery with new modern controls from scoping, obtaining parts and implementation of the project.

Added more than twenty HMI’s to legacy machinery to assist operators with controls and trouble shooting from alarm pages, QFR’s and SIC screens for monitoring processes.

Converted legacy machinery from a Modicon platform to a modern Rockwell platform.

Electrician, MillerCoors, LLC. Eden, North Carolina 10/2006-1/2008

Responsible for troubleshooting and repairing as well as preventive maintenance for several packaging lines.

Assisted other line craft as well as coach and mentored new electricians that were just starting on the job.

Performed RCM’s on time basis as needed for quality checks utilizing the Maximo work order system.

Electrician, Hanesbrands Inc. Eden, North Carolina 2001-2006

Responsible for troubleshooting and repairing as well as preventive maintenance for the entire plant from the HVAC system to Packing Line for all electrical problems

Assisted machine technicians with problems on the opening, carding and spinning machines.

Parkdale America, LLC. Eden, North Carolina 1996-2001

Started in the role of a Carding technician. I was responsible to three plants with Opening and Carding equipment.

Provided trouble shooting and preventive maintenance on all the equipment in that department.

While working at Parkdale, I went back to college and started pursuing my electrical degree. One year into the program I was then moved from Carding technician to plant electrician.

Responsible for troubleshooting and repairing as well as preventive maintenance for the entire plant from the HVAC system to Packing Line for all electrical problems.

Assisted machine technicians with problems on the opening, carding and spinning machines.

Nova Yarns, Eden, North Carolina 1990-1996

Worked as an Operator servicing machines before getting promoted to a Line mechanic in 1991. I worked on 2-for-1 machines doing changeovers and preventive maintenance before moving to the role of Carding technician.

Software

RSLogix 500,5000 and Studio 5000

Modicon – ProWorx NxT

Siemens S7

Omron PLC

Siemens TI505

CoDeSys

RSViewME, WonderWare, PanelBuilder32

MS Office

Education and Affiliations

I am currently enrolled back in the process of enrolling in Eastern Carolina University majoring in Manufacturing Sytems.

Rockingham Community College. Wentworth, NC 2015-2016

AAS in Electrical Systems Technology

Rockingham Community College. Wentworth, NC 1997-1999

Diploma in Electrical/Electronics Technology

Rockingham Community College. Wentworth, NC 1990-1993

AAS in Law Enforcement Technology

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