Process Engineer Maintenance Manager
Resume:
Antonio M.C. Mendes
* ******** ****, ***** **********, RI. 02911
**********@***.***
SUMMARY
Highly motivated Construction Professional with experience and demonstrated success in managing multiple large, complex projects. Estimating/bidding new business opportunities and managing union and non-union construction trade teams. Skilled in all aspects of project management, including planning, scheduling, resourcing, negotiating, and vendor management in addition to motivating, managing, and workforce planning construction trade teams. Outstanding communications, problem-solving and analytical skills, combined with a track-record for delivering projects on time and under budget.
TECHNOLOGY SKILLS
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint) Adobe Photoshop
Microsoft Project, Microsoft Outlook, Share Point Oracle/FAMIS/ASI/NOPS/Ariba/Verisea/Tableau
Auto CAD/3D Studio Max Adobe Illustrator/File Maker Pro
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese; working knowledge of Italian and French
MILITARY
UNITED STATES ARMY (Active Duty and Reserves)
United States Combat Engineer/Ordinance Expert/Carpenter/Mason
MANAGEMENT TRAINING
Leadership Management Training (MDP I, II) Kaizan/Lean Manufacturing
5 S Leader Program/Process Leadership Training MUDA/Kanaban System Improvements
EXPERIENCE
BJ’S WHOLESALE CLUB, Marlboro, MA 2011-Present
Regional Maintenance Manager
Oversee all structural, cosmetic building envelope items, parking lot, roof systems, solar panels, tire center, propane, and gas stations for all of BJ’s Wholesale sites throughout the entire East Coast. Manage teams of electricians, contractors, plumbers, roofers, solar panel techs, and HVAC. This includes yearly food, forklift, floorcare equipment, install, replace and repairs. Managed fifteen roof replacements, ten parking lots, and twenty-one solar panel installations with project budgets of $300K up to $2.3M. Conduct minor site renovations, reset of product and non-product, including Optical, Member service areas, and BOPIC Omni departments. Implemented complex rehabilitation, new construction projects, with full responsibility, planning, scheduling, cost/time estimating, from initial concept through commissioning. Accomplishments include:
Developed and implemented a roof inspection contract for the maintenance of BJ’s sites aging and sometimes failing roof systems for thirty buildings with an asset value of $35M. Projects included assessment, life expectancy, cost estimation, and a process for managing ongoing maintenance, reducing costs and damages.
Implemented a SOP of emergency response personnel during major events; key team members were assigned to individual tasks to minimize any shut down and product loss. Scheduling roof, site and building inspections, reserving generators, fuel tankers, contractors, and technicians to be onset during the event. Aligning one point of contact to communicate and update management and executive team of all impacted locations. Confirming all buildings are operating as normal reducing potential theft, destruction of building to ensure property is secure.
Field Manager, investigator and first responder for high profile projects for all building and envelope crisis needs. Encompass deficiencies, and repairs, including roof collapses, hurricanes, blizzards, and other weather storms leading to utility loss at sites.
Setting up sites with rental generators for weather events and prevent sales and product loss.
Consistently delivered projects on time and within budget through zoom and on-site meetings, to ensure contractors and club management kept informed of all stages through completion.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Providence, RI 2007-2011
Not-for-Profit university with 240 building and seven million square feet of space.
Manager of Structural Trades and Projects
Oversaw all structural, cosmetic, and space build-out for all Brown’s office, residential living, laboratory, classroom, and athletic facilities. Managed a team of two supervisors, eleven union technical trades personnel, and third-party vendors with an annual operation budget of $2M. Project Manager for complex rehabilitation, new construction, and historical maintenance projects with full responsibility for planning, scheduling, cost/time estimating, resource planning, and budgeting from initial concept through commissioning. Accomplishments included:
Developed and implemented a roof inspection contract for the maintenance of Brown University’s aging and sometimes failing roof systems for 240 buildings with an asset value of $90M. Project included assessment, projected roof life expectancy, cost estimating, repair/rehab scheduling, asset database, and a process for managing ongoing maintenance, thereby reducing costs and damage due to leakage.
Implemented a SOP and standardization Key Control Process for Re-Keying 200 buildings over the next 15 years at budget of $1m, reducing exposure to unauthorized access, potential theft, destruction of building and property and ensuring a safe environment for students, facility, and staff.
Field Manager for high profile projects and forensic investigator and first responder for all building envelope crisis, needs, deficiencies, and repairs, including roof collapses and structural failures.
Consistently delivered projects on time and within budget through direct on-site management and control
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL TEXAS, Austin, TX 2006-2007
Not-for-profit organization with fifty-four buildings and twenty government contracts.
Assistant Commercial Manager/Scan Processing/Operations Supervisor
Managed a team of six supervisors and two hundred associates, some with disabilities, responsible for providing custodial, maintenance, and clerical support to over twenty government and private agencies. Oversaw all operations and solicited/bid on new business opportunities. Hired, trained, coached, scheduled, and managed annual operating budget of $1.5M. Accomplishments included:
Streamlined the Anubus government processing and scanning process contract by introducing a methodology, reducing downtime and errors, and increasing output; resulted in the turnaround from a $2,600 per day deficit breakeven.
Implemented a SOP and standardization on work order tickets for all operational personnel, eliminating a back log of over 2,000 work orders and establishing realistic due dates for all future work, leading to better customer relations, and lowering the number of duplications of work requests.
Negotiated and managed a contract to set up 2,200 emergency response kits to be in all Texas federal offices. Program benefited the organization by employing six individuals with disabilities and provide the organization with incremental income of $55K annually.
Improved the existing Texas Parks and Wildlife cleaning contract by providing 24-hour services, onsite supervision, and weekend coverage using a swing shift, which yielded better daily and weekend services with a quick turn-around time, Results reduced overtime budged by $2,500 weekly and provided the foundation for acquiring a $7M state-wide contract.
CONTRUCTION UNLIMITED/FOWLER CONTRUCTION, Austin, TX 2004-2007
Co-Owner of a privately held construction company.
Owner/Partner – New, Historical, and Government Building Construction Originally started out as a part-time business owner, merging business in 2006.
Negotiated and managed a $3m contract to build two-hundred new efficiency homes with the town of Taylor, Texas.
Managed two supervisors and fifteen full time crew members, delivering the project on time and within budget.
Managed and negotiated the maintenance of a $100k contract with 115 buildings, with ready to move in conditions, in the towns of Hutto, Taylor, Giddings, with one supervisor and five trades personnel.
BURNES OF BOSTON, Taylor, TX 1992-2006
Consumer products company; currently owned by a private equity firm.
Process Engineer/R&D Supervisor/Product Development Designer (2000-2006)
Managed a team of three mechanical and process technicians that implemented and improved manufacturing and design process in seventeen plants in the US, Mexico, and Canada. Manager for implementing complex and new production times and technologies and fully responsible for planning, scheduling, cost/time estimating, resource and machinery planning, and budgeting of all R&D prototypes and production with a budget of $750K that can be duplicated in the plants. Accomplishments included:
Developed and implemented new process improvements, streamlining manufacturing process with innovative technologies or Lean methodologies, to a total cost saving of $150K per year.
Managed, resourced, planned, and scheduled a $500K UV coating line system that yielded in a $100k savings per month by eliminating the long tedious finishing line process.
Managed a $75M roll out project for Martha Stewart not available to meet deadline from the orient due to the long lead time; product designed, prototyped, and manufactured in US within one week.
EDUCATION
Coursework in Business, Marketing, and Legal Studies, PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, Providence, RI
ARMY ORDIDNACE ENGINEERING SCHOOL, Fort Leonardwood, MO
CERTIFICATIONS
MDP I, MDP II (2020)/OSHA Safety Certification (2021)/Hazardous, PPE, Mold, Lead Certification (2021)
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