WILLIAM KNOTT

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Maintenance Management Professional with extensive electrical, technical, mechanical, PLC and mobile experience leading mid- to large-sized maintenance departments within industrial and commercial environments. Industry experience includes: Food production (bakery, snack, candy, high speed packaging, cannery & dairy/cheese) pulp & paper, energy, mining and construction.

QUALIFICATIONS / EXPERTISE

●Department turn-arounds & transitions. World-class maintenance vision development, implementation & adoption

●Staff Development: hiring, scheduling, coordination, communications and training

●Budgets: capital and sustaining, interdepartmental budgetary oversight, cost control

●Safety Improvement: Labor & Management Safety Council Co-Chair, OSHA, MSHA, NFPA70E

●Project Management: proposal to completion of project

●CMMS (SAP, Maximo, EAM, eMaint, JD Edwards, Oracle, MQ1, Maintenance Connection), Microsoft Office, MS Projects, Paychex, ADP and other related software

●Labor (Union) and Management Relations

●Six Sigma Green Belt. Expert in BIS (Business Improvement Systems), Lean, 5S, Kaizen, TPM

●Reliability improvement plans and proposals using RCM, RCA, and CBM

●Team building, interdepartmental coordination, conflict resolution and community outreach

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AUNT MILLIE’S BAKERY (SIDNEY, OH) August 2019- Present

Maintenance Engineering manager

Managed all daily operations for 24/7 bakery including direct management of up to 14 maintenance personnel and staff. Major responsibility included complete department turn-around, implementing EAM and SAP(CMMS) and increasing adoption and utilization over time and parts and warehouse system set-up.

Reduction of downtime from 20% to 5% within first 6 month.

Managed multiple major projects including five burner ovens rebuild and dough mixer rebuild.

Initiated project start-up/commissioning for entire cryo/freeze department.

Collaborated with local technical college and trade school to develop and implement a grant program for training current and future maintenance employees.

PREFERRED SANDS/SOURCE ENERGY SERVICES (BLAIR, WI) 2017-2019

Maintenance Manager

Member Senior Leadership Team and managed all daily operations for the Southern Operations Maintenance Department for two 24/7 sand mines including direct management of up to 21 maintenance personnel and staff.

Manage fixed and mobile equipment capital and sustaining costs and budgets.

●Implemented company-first training program utilizing in-house and vendor resources.

●Oversaw all major new construction and capital improvement projects. Managed all contractor related functions.

●Gave experienced direction during transition from Preferred being acquired by Source.

●Drove health and safety programs and MSHA rules and wrote site and corporate NFPA70E policies/standard.

●Initiated CMMS purchase (eMaint) and designed total implementation and commissioning plan.

SHEARER’S FOODS/ BARREL O’ FUN (PERHAM, MN) 2013-2017

Maintenance Manager

Managed all daily operations of the Maintenance Department for 24/6 regional snack foods manufacturer including direct management of up to 20 maintenance personnel servicing 20 production lines.

●Implemented CMMS program (MQ1) utilization, directed all work and training. Developed on-site network/infrastructure to analyze performance metrics on a real-time basis.

●Designed and implemented company first ever state-of-the-art skills assessment program for Mechanical, Electrical, PLC programming, and Repair Technician employees and new hires.

●Oversaw all major new construction and capital improvement projects

●Mentored direct report supervisors, purchasers, schedulers and planners in leadership and skills improvement and gave experienced direction during transition from BOF being acquired by Shearer’s.

●Drove health and safety programs and initiatives to improve group adoption of current OSHA and NFPA70E standards and corporate goals.

RIO TINTO KENNECOTT UTAH COPPER (COPPERTON, UT) 2008-2013

Maintenance Supervisor

Managed crews and on-site contractors for Mechanical and Electrical & Instrumentation Departments at Concentrator and Refinery. Duties included negotiating contracts with contractors, accepting bids, processing requisitions, supervising all safety, policy, and collective bargaining agreement compliance.

●Created Failure & Recovery Log tracking report which became standard reporting log and knowledge center

for maintenance, management, E&I and reliability departments at Concentrator.

●Reduced all instances of downtime and machine failure within plan scope by successfully implementing world-class maintenance department strategies and 1,3,5 Plan.

●Developed one-on-one safety improvement plans for at-risk employees which resulted in such significant individual employee improvement that one employee was promoted. Improved team and department safety and productivity and union relations additionally.

UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY (OREM, UT) 2012

ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR MENTOR SIX SIGMA PROJECT MANAGEMENT COURSE

●Led classes and facilitated graduation-required final projects for Six Sigma Green Belt certification for undergraduate students in various technical degrees.

●Advised and mentored students from inception to completion under the management of adjunct professor.

NEENAH PAPER, INC. (RIPON, CA) 1998-2008

Electrical & Instrumentation Supervisor

Managed electrical & technical crew, supervised ABB DCS & gauging system and entire maintenance department, as needed. Responsible for condition based/predictive maintenance plan and energy, power, and safety project creation, implementation, and management.

●Founded Labor/Management Safety Committee (LMSC) which improved overall safety rating by 80% within 1-year during Co-Chairman term. Led all departments by maintaining “no recordable accident” rating in maintenance department.

●Developed unique daily safety meetings for crew resulting in lowest recordable accident rate in company for over 8 years.

●Maintained a 2% down-time record (lowest of all six mills) by constant staff improvement and collaborating with all affected departments. Developed root cause analysis program for entire site maintenance.

●Managed multi-million dollar sustaining and capital budgets. Responsible for all E&I department and project purchasing decisions and cost improvement proposals and programs. Ran below allocated budget every year while improving department effectiveness.

●Implemented programs to foster and track energy cost savings and improve ability to predict energy costs comprehensively from lighting to substation and high voltage, etc. as part of Lean focus and community outreach efforts.

CONAGRA FOODS, INC. (OAKDALE, CA) 1994-1998

Maintenance Electrician/Project Manager

Led second-shift electrical crew under direct supervision of Maintenance Supervisor. Worked as Project Manager on all large capital improvement projects including Steam Peeler and Kister packaging conversion.

●One of only three maintenance department employees chosen to go to Europe, St. Louis, and Milwaukee for specialized packaging machinery training.

●Directly supervised all engineering, installation, and fabrication on capital improvement projects after one year.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Modesto Junior College PLC, Advanced PLC, Electrical Codes and Ordinances

University of Nevada, Las Vegas How to Manage Maintenance for Results

Columbia Southern University Seeking OSHA BS Degree

Allen Bradley SLC 500 using RS Logix 500 Software, SLC 500 using Advanced Programming Software

Electrolab Training Systems SafeStart, SafeStart Refresher Course

Human Resources Council OSHA Compliance

Krones Labeling Technology

National Technology Transfer Instrumentation and Process Controls, Variable Speed Drives, High Voltage Safety

Member of Association of Asset Management Professionals

Six Sigma Green Belt

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