Maintenance Technician Production Equipment

BASIL GURUWAIYA

408-***-**** Mobile / adyyqk@r.postjobfree.com / US Army Veteran

Currently residing in Tustin, California

OBJECTIVE Desire a challenging position as a High Pressure Pasteurization / Production Mechanical Equipment Maintenance Technician. Mainly interested in preventative maintenance equipment refurbishing, working with scheduled and unscheduled P.Ms, making kits for P.Ms., maintaining parts inventory. (Prefer Part Time Employment).

QUALIFICATIONS • Over twenty-five years of increasingly responsible positions as a maintenance technician within the pharmaceutical, high technology, wine, and food industries

•Expertise in Predictive and Preventive Maintenance for packing /conveyor systems

• Maintenance and repair of production equipment with an emphasis on PM scheduling, order and inventory parts, and daily reports.

• worked on electrical high and low voltage 3phasce motor up to 480volts. PLC experience Omron Siemens Allen Bradleys and Bannner.

Worked on production conveyors replacing and adjust belts motors chains sprockets Webber slicers and multi vac packing and sealing machines.

• Extremely well organized and detail oriented.

ADDITIONAL

INFORMATION

●Retired from full-time employment in 2014-2021

●Vaccinated for COVID-19 including boosters.

●Clean Room Certified – Current

●UNITED STATES ARMY – Fort Carson Co. & Germany (1973 -1977)

oHelicopter repair and maintenance (Honorable Discharge)

EXPERIENCE

2021-2022 Contractor Maintenance Technician for the following:

Bay Technology (medical device assembly)

Lyten Inc. (EV battery production)

Sterling Foods (ovens and packaging machinery)

12/2010 – 12/2014 COLUMBUS FOOD, Hayward, CA

Equipment Maintenance Technician (Is now Hormel Foods)

• Preventive Maintenance on High Pressure Pasteurization ”HPP” GridPath NC Hyperbaric 6000/420 equipment used for Columbus Meat Products consisting complete disassembly hydraulics/mechanical chambers

• Certified from OEM to work on the following equipment: Multivac 535 Vacuum Packaging, Weber Slicer 904 Friesen Conveyor System, monitoring the Ammonia Refrigeration and Evaporators using R-22, Glycol & ammonia.

•Parts ordering for inventory

2006 – 2010 QUANTUM COPERATION, San Jose, CA

Production equipment maintenance and upkeep of plant equipment.

Managed parts inventory for the production equipment.

1997 – 2006 MAXTOR CORPORATION/MMC TECHNOLOGY, Fremont, CA

Equipment Technician

• Maintained all disk producing machinery and equipment

• Performed daily checks and preventative maintenance for disk polishers, storm washers, bag sealers, lube machines, and UV tools

• Converted tools from product to product

• Assisted with the setup of tools and equipment for R&D and engineers

• Recognized for the development of new ideas to improve product yield

●Performed Target (Intevac Bombs) rebuilds which consisted of dismantling, cleaning, re-assembled, leak check and checked for electrical shorts.

●Maintained records of the Target Modules and kept inventory of the Bomb Shop.

1987 – 1996 SEAGATE TECHNOLOGIES, Fremont, CA

Shift Lead Technician

• Supervised other technicians in the process of polishing, texture, wash and lube for disk production equipment

• Performed daily checks and scheduled PMs for production equipment

• Monitored and ordered parts inventory

• Consistently recognized with performance awards for developing innovative ideas and processes to improve product yield

1978 – 1986 FRITO LAY, PAUL MASON WINERY, COLOMBO BREADS, CONAGRA & EGGO FOODS

Food Manufacturing Experience / Maintenance Mechanic& Machine Operator

●High Speed Packaging

●Conveyor Systems

●Maintenance & PM’s on Baxter/Hoffman Ovens and Bakery Equipment.

EDUCATION

SAN JOSE CITY COLLEGE – Completed electronics, hydraulic, and diesel classes

ADULT VOCATIONAL TRAINING – Emphasis on electronics and refrigeration

●Introduction to programming of VFD & PLC Controllers.

●Trained on Multivac packing machines, Webber slicers, Feed/Flow Conveyors.

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