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Forney TX *****

Phone 972-***-****

E-mail adg5si@r.postjobfree.com

Roland Gillispie

Objective

Maintenance Manager/Reliability Manager/Industrial Controls Specialist

Looking for a company that can utilize my 27 years of maintenance experience to include extensive industrial controls automation,13 years Maintenance Management and 4 years Engineering and continuous improvement. My tenure at Daisy Brand has allowed me the opportunity to excel at continuous improvement, reliability and all aspects of maintenance management. I am proud of the fact that I built a very strong maintenance department at Daisy Brand through proper training and hiring structure. I have been a proven leader that has been able to get respect and high rate of productivity from my staff.

“Maintenance Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is possible.”

Professional

May 28, 2014- Present

Whitewave Foods

Dallas, TX

experience

Feb 1, 2015- Present

Maintenance Manager

I was promoted to Manager and assumed 30 hourly associates, and 5 salaried positions. I currently have 5 Maintenance supervisors, 1 Parts Room Supervisor, 1 Buyer, 5 Planners, 4 parts room associates 40 Maint Techs, 8 Ammonia Techs, 2 Infrastructure Techs and 7 Control Techs.

I created testing structure to ensure correct skills hired, and worked with Human Resources to get pay rates up, to attract high level talent. I have worked with my supervisor group to put the right skills in correct areas.

I worked with Control Techs to train Maintenance Techs, both current and new. We now have Techs changing VFD’s, Doing PLC troubleshooting and programming projects, and continuous improvement on lines. Before I assumed Manager Role, Control techs were called, for all Electrical.

With the strengthening of skill sets, we have been able to save $75K a month on services outsourced within plant. We are also getting ready to drop another $75k a month in Field Service Support, that the Techs are now trained to support.

Within the control Tech group, I have worked with them to take on plant improvements, such as printer upgrades and bar code readers that have never worked in plant. We have also changed out all Markem Image Laser printers to Video Jet ink based printers. This has been a savings of about $5k a month parts and Labor support.

We have installed 4 new packaging lines and 2 new processing units, since assuming the role. We have 10 lines currently, 2 bottle fillers, 3 Evergreen Gable Top Fillers, 1 Evergreen Quart Filler, 2 Tetra Prizma and 2 Bosch Fillers all Aseptic.

I have worked with Parts Room group to create needed reports for Maintenance Metrics, PM refinement, Parts allocation and organization as well as min/max levels. We search best pricing and outsource all parts now instead of purchasing from OEM. Currently we have saved $500k on parts ordered from original prices. We maintain a $600k budget per month.

My group has been instrumental in solving Utility issues with Make up Water insufficiencies as well as, major water carry over from our 4 boilers. These were all found to be design flaws from our Engineering design firm and back charged.

We maintain a 950K lb Ammonia system.

Implemented process valve change on Tetra VTIS processor that was costing us $168k per year to maintain per processor. This change has equated to a $504K savings on 3 processors for the year.

Implemented ceramic plunger change on Tetra VTIS Processors that is increased seal life to 4 months from 3-4 weeks. This is a $65k savings a year per processor for total of $195k.

We are currently changing out our MP2 CMMS system to MVP. This will give us a system that is web based, has statistical Work order capability and align with other plants in our organization.

May 28,2014-Feb 1, 2015

Maintenance Supervisor

Familiar with Douglas packers, Serac, Evergreen, Tetra and Bosch fillers. Familiar with Tetra VTIS ultra high temp processing equipment.

I have been able to identify and make improvements to Serac aseptic bottle filler. The plant has been struggling with poor design of rotary union and collector rings sustaining major downtime. Recommended bearing improvements and design improvements that will drastically extend uptime.

Responsible for 20 packaging techs, 8 process techs, 4 utilities techs and 4 control techs. Provide support and training for all PLC, process equipment and instrumentation.

Responsible for project approval and implementation, as well as, technical resource for 180 million dollar plant expansion we are currently undergoing. Helping to set up standardization of equipment and its specifications that we are ordering.

MP2 CMMS structure improvements. Parts inventories, equipment entities, work order planning and scheduling as well as PM refinement. II also have focus on strategic parts supplier ordering and vendor relations.

Continuous improvement on process equipment and PM schedules.

May 2010-April 2014

Daisy Brand, Inc.

Garland, TX

Engineering Continuous Improvement Resource

Provided training and support for Maintenance Techs. Implement process improvements and reliability for Packaging and Processing areas. Work with engineering department on Project implementation. Specialize in Allen-Bradley PLC 5, 500 and control logix programming. Familiar with Allen-Bradley and Toshiba variable frequency drives both analog and preset speeds. I also have experience with Wonder ware and Allen-Bradley panel view operating systems. I have knowledge of Tetra separators and homogenizers as well as Waukesha and APV homogenizers. Industrial control design and implementation for process improvements.

Recently installed new Brenton/Currie Palletizer and Orion Stretch wrapper with integration into existing palletizers along with empty and full pallet conveying. This included industrial control design and PLC programming as well as debugging of mechanical and PLC issues after the install. Project scope was $750K and was completed on time and under budget. Training was provided to all Maintenance Techs on operation and troubleshooting. Documentation organization to include updating of schematics and CAD drawings was also included. Also included in scope, I created pin chart for existing Goldco palletizers,that would allow any maintenance tech to change case orientation with simple processor bit change. Prior to this, all engineers had AFIed and forced bits to manipulate change.

Installed 3 new 60,000-galllon milk silos to include industrial controls, VFD programming and complete PLC control logix programming. I worked with Industrial electricians to install wiring for PLC control and I/O point termination. I also implemented Wonder ware screen changes for the project. Project was completed on time and under budget with programming and I/O checkout a 100% success with no issues.

Installation of TVR (Thermal Vapor Recompression) equipment added to MVR (Mechanical Vapor Recompression) evaporator system. This included PLC change from SLC 500 to Compact Logix processor and programming. The TVR addition was a $100K project that was put in $10K under budget. The addition of this TVR system saved the need for $80K in spare parts inventory for 125 hp motor, blower and VFD for the MVR system. It also reduces downtime in case of MVR failure until MVR equipment can be scheduled for repair.

Continuous improvement of inventory management of Raw Milk supplies to plant. Through careful analysis of density factors and PLC program computations I was able to uncover product loss for skim, cream and raw milk values. Incoming data versus discharge data is now 100% accurate..

Involved in continuous improvement of proprietary cottage cheese equipment. Through careful and precise axial shaft measurements was able to suggest and implement a rotary seal change that has quadrupled seal life on cream tanks. Reduced seal rebuild cost from $228K to projected $57K resulting in $171K in savings.

Main contributor in modification of proprietary cottage cheese cutter equipment that resulted in extending wire breakage from 3 months to over 1 year per unit. Reducing costs from $240K to $60K. This is a $180K a year savings on PM costs.

Traveled to Germany as well as states within the U.S. for delivery acceptance approval of new plant filler and packaging equipment.

1997-May 2010

Maintenance Manager

Daisy Brand, Inc.

Garland, TX

Managed 25 highly-skilled Plant Maintenance Techs involved in daily PLC programming, servo applications, industrial controls, and major machine improvements in a multi-million dollar state of the art Sour Cream manufacturing facility. I was also responsible for 3 building Maintenance Techs for all utilities and ammonia refrigeration of plant and 2 parts room attendants of a $1.25 million dollar inventory reduced from $2 million. I was also part of the Avantis CMMS implementation team for parts inventories and work order system.

Hiring manager for my department with a 38% growth rate. Responsible for training, and skill evaluation of a highly productive group in which productivity is encouraged and focus is proactive rather than reactive. Department migrated from better than 60% reactive to under 10% on weekly basis, with focus on PM’s and machine improvements. Department was responsible for upkeep of Plant as well as machine improvements without engineering support. Through my direction, machine efficiencies increased from the 65% efficiency to, in some cases, 98%. As a whole we had a 20% increase in machine efficiencies average on all lines. This success was achieved by identifying problem areas through analyzing downtime reports and improving them. Solutions varied from PLC programming to mechanical upgrades. With the new focus on skilled technicians and their training we were able to do more with less. Work order completion rate rose to 98% up from 50%. PM completion rate advanced from 50% to 100%. Overtime percentage decreased from 35% to 7%. This resulted in an annual labor rate savings of $500K. We implemented Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) for all machine PM’s and attached to the Avantis CMMS system. Through these SOP’s and equal skill set on crews we were able to broaden amount of work that could be performed across all shifts.

Rebuilds that were once done by OEM service techs are now done by Daisy Brand technicians resulting in a $750K plus savings per year on all equipment. Video Jet service techs eliminated. Processing and packaging equipment service techs eliminated.

Continuous improvements and reliability in the Maintenance Department allowed me to advance into the Engineering Department. I am very proud of the department I built. I had less than 20% turnover rate and I am highly respected by my Maintenance Techs.

March 1991-1997

Maintenance Engineer

Daisy Brand, Inc.

Garland, TX

Recruited to work for Daisy Brand as Maintenance Engineer handling all electrical and mechanical functions in plant. All electrical controls were done by electrical contractor prior to my joining the company. I immediately took over all electrical controls function of the facility including troubleshooting and installation.

I worked with OEM manufacturers to gain knowledge of equipment mechanically. I was able to gain knowledge of equipment in a short amount of time.

Learned Siemens S5 and Texas Instrument PLC programming by working with techs.

My heavy industrial controls background was very useful in installation of new VFD’s and plant automation. I was heavily involved in the installation of all automation in plant from electrical to PLC to communication.

Education

1983

1983-1985

1985-1988

West Rusk High School

Kilgore Jr. College (Industrial Electricity)

IBEW Electrical/Electronic Tech School

New London, TX

Kilgore, TX

Longview, TX

Training

Maintenance Excellence Course for Managers

Richland College management training

Allen-Bradley PLC 5 training

Allen-Bradley Motion control

Allen-Bradley VFD training

Video Jet training

Tetra Separator Homogenizer school

High Temperature Short Time (HTST) Pasteurization training

Wonderware Operating System training (Scada)

Avantis CMMS system training

Micromotion meter training

Equipment Maintained

Tetra separators, Tetra homogenizers, Waukesha homogenizers, APV homogenizers, centrifugal and positive displacement pumps, HTST and legal controls, Cup and pouch Fillers, case packers, box erectors, palletizers, VRT blast freezer, Tri Tray blast freezer, Allen-Bradley (AB) PLC 5, AB SLC 500, AB control logix, AB servo control (Ultra 3000 and 200), AB panel view and panel view +, AB Flex series VFD, Toshiba G3, G7 and G9 VFD, Analog control for I/P’s and various level control, Video Jet Excel 170i printers, Marsh printers, hytrol conveyor systems, Micro motion density meters, Foxboro meters, Anderson chart recorders.

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