Maintenance Manager Plant
Resume:
Bruce W. Platt
Winnebago, IL *1088
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EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY
Ford Motors Chicago Il. October 2019 to present
Paint Maintenance team Manager
Started in Paint as a Senior Process Coach for Maintenance. Learned the shop in 3 months. After a year was asked to take on the ME position. Did the ME position till the Area Manger stepped done and became the ME manager and I was moved to the Maintenance Team Manger. In these roles I work on all the paint shop projects, Create, present, and maintain the department constraint package. Department budge for all store and maintenance manpower. Cover ME when not in plant as well and fill in for the department Area Manger. Work with plant ME team about asset tracking, Maintenance weekend and holiday planning. Manage Automation, Process and Controls engineers along with all the maintenance process coach the support the paint booth and the department equipment.
Enviva Bio Mass Raleigh NC
Reginal Reliability Maintenance Manger 2.5 years
In this role I worked with the plant’s managers of six different plants and 3 shipping ports. Established standard maintenance practices and well as standard reporting methods. Organized plant outage schedules as well as line up work plans for each outage with plant personal. Report out on each plant maintenance performance as well as the maintenance budget. Respond to and assist with plant breakdowns. Decommission and recommission ports during hurricanes. Setup training for all the maintenance employees, Hire Maintenance managers. Help commission new plant as well as spec out machinery for plant.
Plant Maintenance Manager
The position of maintenance manager is one that required me to manage the maintenance budget for both the operation side as well as the facility side of the site. I was tasked with modifying the PM program to become more affective. I work with my supervisors to take a program that was only getting 30% of the PM complete each month to getting 85% complete each month. This increased both throughput as well as reduced maintenance cost. The process that was setup became a best practice for the other 6 plants. Another part of my job was ordering and housing spare parts. My team setup a warehouse inventory system that categorized all the spare parts and a float system by part usage. This allowed us to leverage vendors for better pricing by using common components. With the short time I worked at Ahoskie I was asked to fill in for the plant Manager during his absents from the plant which required handling the daily meeting with the reginal managers and the making KAI and KPI presentation to the vice president.
Chrysler LLC, Belvidere, IL
Maintenance Area Manager 25 Years retired
Began working at Chrysler as an hourly welder repairman. Job responsibility included programming, troubleshooting and maintaining production machinery. Promoted into a supervisory position with the increased responsibilities of planning and coordinating production and maintenance activities, training and coaching both hourly as well as salary employees on equipment. After 2 launches of new product lines and playing a major role in both, I was asked to move up into a managerial level. This added the responsibilities of hiring team members both hourly as well as salary. Worked with other plants on their new launches, performing root cause analysis to help department increase output while reducing operating costs. As the manager of the Body shop I was asked and performed to lead the major launch of a new state of the art body shop. This required working with all the equipment vendors as well as our advanced manufacturing teams.
Moved to the Stamp department to lead the Maintenance Team. Worked with team on 4 press lines, a Blanker and Automated storage and retrieval system. Was in charge of department budget and work with our Stamping corporate team to design build and install a new automated guided vehicle system for delivery of products to the press line, worked on rebuilding press line as well as design, build and install a new Press line with robot destacker and transfer.
Moved to Paint Shop Maintenance manager. The plant was getting ready to go through an origination structure change as well as model change. I was a part of hiring process for new specialist as part of the new structure for all departments. With the structure change, I now have 19 direct salary reports, 88 trades support and 2 tooling engineers. In my new role as PMM (Professional Maintenance Manager), I have worked closely with our Fiat team to setup the roles and training for these new positions. The other roles that I was part of setting up is the PPS (Process, Product Specialist). This role focus on the Quality of the product and following of the process standards. While setting up the new roles and training each team I used the WCM process of the People Development and knowledge learned by doing Harvard Management Courses. I also attended the Dale Carnegie training for managers. In learning the paint department, I have been able to coach both salary and hourly to improve throughput and reduce downtime of processes and machines. I have been worked to get spare parts setup in each area so preventive maintenance task can be performed. I have increased our PM’s to over 95,000 hours for the paint department.
Major accomplishments: Was able to launch a new model from installation to production during a two week shut down. Work on the change over from on production machine to a new machine with no loss of production of output.
Detroit Center Tool, Detroit MI 1993 – 1994
Electrician
Electrician and Controls leader. Roles included building, debugging, programing and following machines from start to delivery. Worked on machines for Ford Motor Company - Dearborn MI, Chrysler - Belvidere IL, and Chrysler - Toledo OH. Worked with Allen Bradly PLC 3, PLC 5, GE LM90 GE series 6, and Unicor programmable controllers, worked with Fanuc RJ, Cincinnati Milacron, and Kuka robots.
The Paslin Company, Warren, MI 1990 – 1993
Controls Leader
Responsible for coordination of all hydraulic, pneumatic and electrical build of machines. Direct all activities to get machine functioning through the use of programmable controllers and robotics. Responsible for shipping, installation and startup of machine at vendor’s site. Tasks included reviewing print, ordering parts, laying out machines and ordering material to build machine. Determined manpower and work load and schedule. Hired manpower to complete task. Work with customs for equipment and function of machine. Ran 5 different builds at the same time.
Unified Systems, Troy, MI (Acquired by The Paslin Company) 1982 –1990
Started part time while in US Air Force till 1985 Machine builder with focus on controls, started as a builder and moved up to manager. Worked with major customers Ford, GM, Chrysler, Toyota, Johnson Controls, and Bud Wheel. Did all the debug and robot programming on machines, Worked with Fanuc robots from the RG to the RJ series controllers, Worked with Allen Bradley controllers from the PLC 2 up to PLC 5. Other robot manufacture and Programmable controls as well.
United States Air Force 1982 – 1988
Crash Fire Rescue Full time from 1982 to 1986 then Air National Guard till 1988. Obtained the rank of E5.
Major accomplishments: Emergency Medical Technician, Rescue school, NCO, 7 levels for firefighting.
EDUCATION
Concordia University River Forest IL. Bachelor Degree
Hobbies
Flying
Firefighting currently Lieutenant for the Win-Bur-Sew fire district
Golf
Medical Service Current hold Emergency medical technician certification
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