Maintenance Manager Customer Service
Resume:
Andy Tipton
Cottage Grove, WI **527
Career History
From years spent as an auto technician, to servicing lift trucks, managing maintenance crews and developing and training best practice teams, to successful designing, building, and installing equipment for different companies and production lines, training and overseeing teams to operate and properly maintain equipment. My passion and drive is endless and the bigger the challenge, the more I welcome it. Whether it be managing a team or a plant, overseeing mechanical engineering projects from start to finish, or to design new innovative equipment/machinery/production lines, I have confidence that I can contribute to the success of your company.
Job Responsibilities
Operations management. Discipline, motivate, and educate employees to be successful. Technical and hands on experience with facility safety program, managing, supervising, research and development, quality control, HR, lean manufacturing, purchasing, chemical handling, equipment and building maintenance, mechanical engineering, lean manufacturing, continuous process improvements, value stream mapping, and managing projects from concept to install. Support and training on process improvements. Strong communication skills and works well independently or with a team. Experienced in mentoring teammates and employees. Meticulous documentation skills.
Selected Accomplishments
Implemented top-notch safety program. Took large part in changing the culture of the plant employees. Built best practice team to build, install, support equipment, and implemented maintenance upgrades for 5 plants. Best Practice Team was directed by myself to implement continuous improvement upgrades and set example for culture. Donated time and resources to the City of Middleton to help with our employee’s community engagement. I was responsible for training and managing the team while completing two million dollars in projects per year for each plant. Our time was divided between Middleton WI, Dallas TX, Philadelphia PA, and Orlando FL. Assisted local maintenance employees to improve planned maintenance in each plant. Hire and support engineers for other locations to maintain their plants. Studied process bottlenecks and calculated payback for projects. Designed and built production equipment in house that set new standards in our industry while cutting labor costs and downtime.
Work Experience
Corporate Maintenance Manager
Universal Recycling Technologies – Janesville WI December 2016 to Present
Managed all aspects of production and facility maintenance for plants located in Janesville WI, Fort Worth TX, Clackamas OR, and Dover NH. Targeted down equipment and reoccurring breakdowns to improve downtime cost and increased production cycle time by improving equipment reliability. On reoccurring equipment back downs, I designed, built, and installed equipment that was reliable and budget sensitive. Trained in-house maintenance crew on how to maintain the entire shredding system without outside technical support. This alone raised production capabilities by 20%- 30%.
Special Project Manager
Future Foam Inc. - Middleton, WI 2012 to 2016 Led best practice team to support 5 Future Foam Plants. Drove new process improvements, research and development. Assisted with running all aspects of production at multiple locations.
Engineering/Plant Management
Future Foam Inc. - Middleton, WI 2001 to 2012
Managed Plant, Maintenance, Engineering and Best Practice Team. Coached and mentored multiple departments to improve culture, skill set, and productivity.
Maintenance Manager/Plant Engineer
Future Foam Inc. - Middleton, WI 1999 to 2001
Build in house maintenance staff to keep plant running. Improve skill set of existing crew.
Material Handling Technician/Customer Service Rep.
F.W. Equipment – Sun Prairie, WI 1997 to 1999
Material Handling Technician
Inland Material Handling – Sun Prairie, WI 1994 to 1997
Service Technician
Lif-tech - Addison, IL 1992 to 1994
Education
Associates in Automotive Mechanical
Universal Technical Institute – Glendale Heights, IL
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