Maintenance Leader with * years of experience specializing in Utilities & Facilities, Wastewater Management, Hazardous Substances and Production Maintenance within Consumer-Packaged Goods. Best known for strong knowledge of project management, planning/scheduling and strategic thinking while managing contractors and maintenance staff. Recognized as SME in managing state & local authority inspections, investigations, permitting and enforcement of activities to ensure compliance with environmental laws and regulations. I work well both independently and part of a team in fast-paced manufacturing environments.

Professional Experience

GENERAL MILLS YOPLAIT, Carson, CA October 2010 – May 2020

Plant Decommissioning Maintenance Lead Feb 2019 – May 2020

Accountable for sitewide decommissioning, removal, relocation and shipping of assets and hazardous waste while ensuring regulatory compliance, terminating permits, organizing vendors and managing buyers.

Led daily meetings with 18+ project stakeholders to ensure project safety, quality, cost and schedule expectations for over 250 assets.

Managed over 4 quarterly, annual and in-house inspections for fire protection and maintained frequent communication with 12+ regulatory agencies.

Collaborated with cross-functional groups including Finance, Human Resources, Quality and Corporate personnel to process invoice approvals, payroll and purchase requisitions for associated project activities.

Managed selection of personnel for positions participating in plant decommissioning activities after plant closure while managing 4-person Maintenance department.

Utilities, Processing & Facilities Maintenance Lead Jan 2019 – Mar 2020

Responsible for all preventative, reactive and scheduled maintenance activities for Utilities, Facilities and Yogurt Processing areas with leadership over 6 highly specialized technical mechanics.

Championed human & food safety by investigating 20 accidents, near miss situations, and equipment and facility integrity issues.

Collaborated with cross-functional team and delegated labor hours between team members to ensure proper work order execution, defect handling, planning & scheduling and breakdown elimination.

Managed $1.45M vendor-contractor budget to ensure utilities, facilities and processing areas (i.e. refrigeration, electrical, steam, wastewater, compressed air systems, HVAC) were in proper working order to support production.

Negotiated vendor contracts, service contracts and competitive quotes for over ~5000+ labor hours totaling ~150+ purchase orders and invoices for maintenance related services and expenses.

Provided leadership through ownership of PSM Elements (PSI, Operating Procedures, Mechanical Integrity), participation on the PSM Committee and maintenance of corporate PSM and RMP programs with changing federal, state, and local regulations.

Participated, conducted and ensured compliance of OSHA, EPA PSM, RMP, Cal/Arp guidelines including MOC’s, P&ID’s, vessel drawings, IIAR 109’s, SOP’s, Mechanic Integrity, etc. with ammonia refrigeration system.

Ensured compliance for over 50 corporate external audits, state audits, fire inspections, regulatory agencies and monthly Food Safety Regulatory Assessments meetings with thorough findings resolution.

Capital Project Packaging Maintenance Lead June 2018 – Apr 2019

Provided technical equipment expertise as Maintenance Lead through planning and startup for new capital project installation consisting of yogurt dosing filler, flavor application system, bowl feeder, cartoner and intermediary conveyors and case taper.

Interviewed and selected 11 personnel out of 30 applicants to staff new production line during development.

Evaluated equipment reliability and associated failure risk while facilitating production planning with Logistics for asset downtime to execute defect handling, root cause analysis and breakdown elimination.

Establish maintenance training plan and preventative maintenance measures for high performance production line with technical operators and reliability technicians.

Identified over ~1500 spare parts, non-stock, specialized tools, best priced OEM parts and asset numbers for new equipment to support detailed assets and sub assets setup in CMMS system Maximo.

Collaborated with Quality team to identify and implement best cleaning methods for new equipment saving an average of 3 hours per clean.

Packaging Maintenance Lead Mar 2017 – June 2018

Managed 27-person team of Reliability Technicians and Technical Operators for 2 Go-Gurt Packaging systems

Executed two filler rebuild projects estimated at $300,000 each. Projects were on time, captured learnings and created standard for future maintenance leads to follow to ensure future filler rebuilds success.

Identified and developed spare parts for storeroom for upgraded machines and new equipment.

Collaborated with storeroom to improve process of ordering parts for planned maintenance, collectively we audited 100% of all planned parts to identify and correct direct issue and stock parts discrepancies.

Created and established team norms and staffing guidelines for mechanics. Responsible for performance reviews, training and development of direct reports and assigned staff.

Established a process and path for Technical Operators to qualify and apply for mechanical roles.

Collaborated with production employees, salary working team and lift manufacturer to develop a film cart design that was compatible with material.

Responsible for defect handling, planning and scheduling and breakdown elimination for packaging lines encompassing all equipment from fruit skid to packaged product.

Obtained increase of ~40% system reliability of both packaging lines.

Participate in execution of 90-day improvement plans to deliver results through loss elimination.

Follow up and build relationships with service vendors.

Identify labor, material, and time requirements for maintenance activities.

Provide weekly and monthly PM progress reports to internal management.

Evaluate equipment reliability and associated risk of failure; support annual operating planning activities for equipment replacement.

Create purchase requisitions, provide purchase orders to vendors, resolve discrepancies and approve invoices for maintenance related services and expenses.

Participate, facilitate and lead incident investigations to produce root cause analysis.

CMMS Maximo and Planning and Scheduling tool owner for plant. Participate in corporate health checks and initiatives and implement at plant level.

Management of preventive maintenance programs for plant and implement cost reduction measures and standardize for practices for all maintenance leads.

Standardize planning and scheduling methods for all plant maintenance leads.

Establish maintenance training plan and preventative maintenance measures for high performance production line with technical operators and reliability technicians.

Ensure adherence to General Mills policies, practices, and procedures.

Material Handling, Controls, & Facilities Maintenance Lead Dec 2014 – Mar 2017

Oversaw 34-person team of skilled material handlers, control technicians and facilities mechanics to support production through defect handling, planning and scheduling and break down elimination.

Responsible for performance review, training and development of direct reports. Managed mechanics and controls technicians work schedules and vacation time off.

Identify equipment to retire and process asset removal documentation to finance.

Provide weekly and monthly PM progress reports to internal management.

Identify labor, material, and time requirements for maintenance activities. Maintain preventive maintenance on all equipment. Create detailed job plan instructions for preventative maintenance tasks.

Review equipment downtime history and reactive work orders for trends and identify opportunities for improvements.

Create purchase requisitions, provide purchase orders to vendors, resolve discrepancies and approve invoices for maintenance related services and expenses.

Identify and execute maintenance work for wage team and contractors for planned downtimes.

Created technical library of drawings and equipment manuals for ~50 assets in the material handling department.

Created daily machine checks for material handling operators to ensure proper machine start-up, changeovers and adjustments to maintain efficiencies of ~20 assets.

Participate in morning DDS meetings and afternoon reconnects to ensure maintenance action items were completed, review equipment reliability and drive out top losses.

Participate in wage monthly meetings for all three shifts and present maintenance activity progress, initiatives and relay opportunities.

Ensure plant grounds including landscaping, leased parking lot, internal building, offices, restrooms, locker rooms, storm drains, trash dock equipment, doors are maintained properly.

Participate in yearly corporate audit, two external audits and routine state audits.

Ensure audit findings are remediated in a timely manner and expedite where applicable.

Participate in monthly FSRA (Food Safety Regulatory Assessment) meetings to review previous findings status’s, elevate findings and identify new opportunities to remediate.

Team Leader Admin Assistant, General Mills-Yoplait, Carson, CA Oct 2020 – Dec 2014

Human Resources Assistant, JL Wingert Company, Garden Grove, CA (Laid Off) Feb 2008 - Apr2009

Insurance Agent Bilingual, 21st Century Insurance, Brea, CA (Office closed) Mar 2007 – Feb 2008

Education

Associate of Math and Science Santa Ana College – Santa Ana, CA December 2016

Associate of Arts, Humanities & Communication Santa Ana College - Santa Ana, CA December 2016

Professional Training & Certifications

Human Resource Management Certification (Santa Ana College)

Skills

Maximo CMMS System

SAP

Microsoft Office Suite

ANSI

IIAR

CalARP

RMP submissions

SOP requirements

AQMD

Permitting & Confined space

Spare parts & Inventory Management

Preventative Maintenance

Mean time to completion

Metrics/ KPI’s

Risk & Time management

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