Rafael A. Vargas Lantigua

**** ****** **** *******, *** 200, Casselberry, Florida 32707

Cell: +1-407-***-****

email: adqtvy@r.postjobfree.com

Competitive Skills

Mechanical Engineer with 12+ years of experience on diverse mechanical systems and machinery operations and maintenance. Recognized for keen ability to improve component designs, increase efficiency and decrease the need re-engineering. Performance driven and dynamic team player with creative problem solving and communicated skills. Eager to learn and expand my knowledge.

Maintenance Manager, Mar 2021 to Present - Concord Rents - Sanford, Florida.

• Determine schedules, sequences, and assignments for work activities, based on work priority, quantity of equipment, and skill of personnel.

• Inspect and monitor work areas, examine tools and equipment, and provide employee safety training to prevent, detect, and correct unsafe conditions or violations of procedures and safety rules.

• Investigate accidents or injuries and prepare reports of findings.

• Monitor employees' work levels and review work performance.

• Requisition materials and supplies, such as tools, equipment, or replacement parts.

• Inspect, test, and measure completed work, using devices such as hand tools or gauges to verify conformance to standards or repair requirements.

• Conduct or arrange for worker training in safety, repair, or maintenance techniques, operational procedures, or equipment use.

• Develop, implement, or evaluate maintenance policies and procedures.

• Compute estimates and actual costs of factors such as materials, labor, or outside contractors.

• Examine objects, systems, or facilities and analyze information to determine needed installations, services, or repairs.

• Confer with personnel, such as management, engineering, quality control, customer, or union workers' representatives, to coordinate work activities, resolve employee grievances, or identify and review resource needs.

• Monitor tool and part inventories and the condition and maintenance of shops to ensure adequate working conditions.

• Perform skilled repair or maintenance operations, using equipment such as hand or power tools, hydraulic presses or shears, or welding equipment.

• Participate in budget preparation and administration, coordinating purchasing and documentation and monitoring departmental expenditures.

• Interpret specifications, blueprints, or job orders to construct templates and lay out reference points for workers.

• Counsel employees about work-related issues and assist employees to correct job-skill deficiencies.

• Recommend or initiate personnel actions, such as hires, promotions, transfers, discharges, or disciplinary measures.

• Review, evaluate, accept, and coordinate completion of work bid from contractors.

• Compile operational or personnel records, such as time and production records, inventory data, repair or maintenance statistics, or test results.

• Develop or implement electronic maintenance programs or computer information management systems.

• Meet with vendors or suppliers to discuss products used in repair work.

• Design equipment configurations to meet personnel needs. Relevant Experience

Auto Body Tech Assistant, Aug 2019 to Present - Checo’s Repair Inc - Longwood, Florida. Manage the technical work to the final preparations to the vehicles and the place before the painting process.

• Manages the workshop spare parts inventory, consumables, budget, and the customer service.

Maintenance Officer, May 2018 to Jul 2019 – Quala Dominicana, S. A. / Anglolatam Food and Beverage Company, S. A. – Port Au Prince, Haiti.

Sustains and improves the equipment maintenance reliability of a multinational massive production enterprise that creates and distributes food and beverages plant as a part of a 12+ team.

• Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and service. Diagnose problems, replace or repair parts, test and make adjustments. Perform regular preventive maintenance on machines, equipment and plant facilities.

• Conserves maintenance resources by using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results.

Maintenance Manager, Jan 2017 to Mar 2018 - APIFA, S. A. - Leather Processing Plant - Santiago, Dom. Rep. Sustains and improves reliability, plant operation, maintenance, and systems documentation of the leather plant.

• Manage 35-member staff for the correct functionality of the plant operations, maintenance, projects, and departments including spare parts, inventory, budget, and compliance with environmental and safety regulations.

• Introduced and developed an approach to maintenance incorporating principles of TPM, RCM, and the Kaizen philosophy, and then created plans, programs, and strategies for personnel and equipment improvement.

• Manages and control the environmental hazards, including water treatment process using coagulation/flocculation process, water safety, atmospheric pollution and other toxic hazards and noise.

Maintenance Officer, Jan 2011 to Dec 2016 - Induveca, S. A. - Meat Processing Plant - La Vega, Dom. Rep. Plant operation, maintenance of the meat processing plant as a part of a 27+ team.

• Manages the plant operations, lubrication, corrective, preventive and predictive maintenance, new projects, and spare parts inventory, budget, and compliance with environmental and safety regulations.

• Implements a wide variety of engineering solutions to increase equipment availability, increase net operating rate, reduce operation losses, and achieve standard and acceptable production rates.

Planned Maintenance Supervisor, May 2007 to Jan 2011 - - Induveca, S. A., Meat Processing Plant - La Vega, Dom. Rep.

Planned Maintenance Supervisor, Feb 2006 to May 2007 – Cementos Cibao, C. por A., Cement Plant - Santiago, Dom. Rep.

Maintenance Manager, Sep 2005 to Feb 2006 – Hormigones Antillas, S. A., Concrete Batch Plant - Santiago, Dom. Rep.

Maintenance Engineer's Assistant, Jun 2003 to Sep 2005, Serv. & Contrataciones Ind. del Cibao, S. A. - Contractors Maintenance Service - Santiago, Dom. Rep.

Workshop Assistant, May 1999 to Mar 2002 - Talleres Carrocería Peralta - TACAPE - Santiago, Dom. Rep. Bachelor’s Degree on Mechanical Engineering (BSME), 06/2005 Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra - PUCMM - Santiago, Dom. Rep. Education

Computer Proficiencies:

MS

Bilatsa

SAP

Basic AutoCAD

MP2

Yardi

Certified in 301 CPO: Certified Pool/SPA Operator, The Aquatic Council, LLC, June 2021

Certified in EPA 608 - Universal Certification, ESCO Institute, May 2021

Certified Maintenance Engineering, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015

Certified in Development of Managerial Skills, INFOTEP, 2013

Certificated in Technical Training Poly Clip Machines FCA 3430-18 and ICA 8700, Poly-clip System GmbH & Co. KG, 2010

Certified in ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management Systems, Suprema Qualitas, S.A., 2010 Certificates and Licenses

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