Capital Projects Project Management
Resume:
John J Novelli
Broomall, Pa ****8
*******@*******.***
Summary
My past work experiences have involved me in a variety of manufacturing scenarios where I have acquired experience through both training and direct involvement. This experience ranges from sales, marketing, manufacturing, production, project engineering, capital projects, plant engineering, maintenance and waste water management. My strong background in these areas, along with my knowledge of strategic planning, budget development, safety programs, environmental regulations, and training programs, has positioned me to be a successful and winning leader.
Areas of Expertise
Capital Project Management: Successfully managed numerous capital projects that ranged from several thousand dollars to over a million dollars. Projects that included equipment removal and installation, pilot plant installations, manufacturing line installations, demolition of building interiors, and building erections.
CMMS: Successfully developed from the ground up, computerized maintenance management systems. Specializing in preventive, predictive and proactive maintenance thru a comprehensive work order system. Worked with MP2 software.
Budget Management: Successfully developed and maintained departmental budgets. Incorporated both direct and indirect labor analysis, overtime and engineering costs. Kept costs in control and made the tough decisions when required.
Inventory Control: Maintained inventories in excess of one million dollars, reducing redundant spending, incorporated FIFO, eliminated excess stock, and reduced cost to the overall bottom line.
ERP: Developed emergency response plans in conjunction with federal, state and local guidelines, for crisis management and safety.
Accomplishments
Managed building of a conveyor tunnel system to transport product carts from one building to another. On time and on budget.
Successfully completed training from Penn State University as a certified Visible Emissions Inspector
Successfully completed training and certified as an anhydrous ammonia Technician and Incident Commander
Completed a Marshall Institute program on TPM
Completed a Clemson University course on Maintenance Management
Completed a Dillamore and Associates program for Internal Quality Auditing
Completed a course on Office Supervision and Management from Gloucester County College
Managed a pilot plant installation project for a spray dryer system
Achieve 97% uptime utilizing preventive, predictive, proactive maintenance program.
Completed OSHA 10 hour course
John J Novelli
Professional Experience
Dairy Farmers of America, Lansdale, PA 10/13 to 04/25
Liquid and Powder processing of milk
Senior Plant Engineering Manager
This is a staff management position responsible for the plant’s maintenance operations, capital projects and equipment sustainability. Key responsibilities, GMP’s, Continuous improvement, budget and safety. Part of the team that successfully achieved SQF level 1 status, and managed over $3.5 million and counting capital projects. Proficient in SAP, MP2 CMMS systems
My team includes a maintenance manager, 1 supervisor and 16 mechanics.
I was a lead on the plant safety team and responsible for all plant government compliances.
Bimbo’s Bakery (Stroehmann’s), Norristown, PA 03/11 to 10/13
Manufacturer of cake baked good
Engineering Superintendent/Chief Engineer
This is a staff management position responsible for the plants mechanical operations, capital projects, equipment sustainability, and efficiency projects which include waste reduction, and line capacity improvement s.
Successfully reduced equipment downtime, and increased material efficiency thru implementation of a proactive PM program, running PM’s and defined policies and procedures, while holding associates, accountable.
My team includes a maintenance manager, 3 supervisors and 12 mechanics.
I am a member of the plant Bakery Leadership Team, steering committee, waste reduction team and I am the leader of the environmental and incident investigation team in a Union shop
I am a safety trainer and I promote “all accidents are preventable.”
Uptown Bakery (Div. of J and J Snack Foods), Bridgeport NJ. 5/06 to 01/11
Manufacturer of fresh baked donuts, muffins, bagels, and pretzels
Engineering/Maintenance Manager:
This is a staff manager position for the plant’s engineering and maintenance group. The department has a staff of 15 mechanics, maintenance planner and a purchaser. The plant runs its operation on a 24/7 basis and it is the departments responsibility to make sure the equipment is running safely and consistently.
Capital projects are also part of the job responsibility. The success rates of these projects are 100% with all of them at or below budget.
The department is structured using a Computerized Maintenance Management System that was built from the ground up. The program incorporates a work order system that tracks work performance and equipment reliability. This has reduced our department costs by 20% and increased equipment reliability to 97%.
John J Novelli
With a rolling inventory of around $900,000, key parts have been identified being required on-hand. This eliminates the long lead times for these items and allows for less than one day repairs around 90 % of the time. Rather than keeping an inventory of all parts, preferred vendors were identified that could supply parts either same day or next day with no shipping costs. Using this method the repair and maintenance budget has been reduced from approximately $950,000 to approximately $750,000
Safety is a key cornerstone of the operation. Training and enforcement of the safety policies reduced recordable incidents to 2 since starting and 0 over the last two and a half years.
Environmental and safety regulations thru the local municipal authorities, OSHA, regional DEP and EPA groups are also coordinated thru the department. All yearly permits required for operation are up to date and all filings have been made (air permits, community right to know, fire permits, waste water analysis, storm water monitoring, emergency response planning, lock out tag out requirements, boiler permits). Last year because of the work done our insurance exposure rating was upgraded to acceptable.
Hain Celestial Group (Frozen Food Div) West Chester, PA. 3/04 to 5/06
Frozen Food Manufacturer of pasta products for household and commercial use
Technical Services Manager:
This was a staff management position for the plant’s maintenance department. The department had a staff of 7 mechanics and a purchasing clerk. The department was structured using a combination of in house people and contractors. By doing this the maintenance staff was kept to a minimum and overtime was cut in half.
The position required MRO purchase approvals which reduced inventories and reduced spending by 15%
Capital projects included new equipment purchases and a 4.5 million dollar frozen entrée line. On time and on budget.
Utilities compliance for ammonia refrigeration, compressed air, electric power and steam boilers was successfully maintained.
As a certified plant incident commander; environmental coordinator and leader of the PEO (Plant Emergency Operations) team, safety was a primary goal. Loss time incidents were reduced from a minimum of 4 per year to one or none per year for the department
Preventive and predictive maintenance policies were introduced along with GMP, TPM, and 5 S systems. These accounted for an uptime average of between 95 and 96%.
ICI Corp, Reading, PA. 2/01 to 3/04
Worldwide chemical supplier and major manufacturer of specialty and emulsion paints, stains and varnishes.
Maintenance Supervisor:
This was a management staff support position for the plant maintenance department in a union shop. The department included twenty (20) mechanics over a three-shift operation.
Significant changes were installing a predictive and preventive maintenance program and an inventory cost control plan. This increased overall equipment efficiency from 24 to 50%.
John J Novelli
Capital projects included new equipment installations, retrofitting existing equipment and demolishing and relocating lines.
As the TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) Coordinator/Trainer and part of the plant MIT (Mechanical Improvement Team) group which looked into improving plant operations, LE (Loss Elimination) group which developed plans to reduce plant downtime and on the bulk steering committee which was involved with raw material handling we were able to stream line operations, perform root cause analysis and reduced costs. This increased the manufactured gallons per man hour and reduced the cost per gallon.
Incorporated statistical process analysis to drive improvements thru the use of OEE, and ISO 9000 principles.
American Custom Drying Co., Burlington, NJ 8/96 to 2/01
Private custom toll manufacturer of spray dried powders for the chemical, food and pharmaceutical industries.
Process/Project/Maintenance Manager:
Started as a product manager increasing sales utilizing pilot plant trials and up scaling to production runs. Sales revenue increased over 10%.
Became Process/ Project/Maintenance Manager when an engineering presence was needed in the maintenance department. The department included four (4) mechanics, one (1) supervisor, and one (1) purchasing specialist.
Overseeing plant processes, managing plant projects involving installation of new equipment, and redesigning existing equipment to suit the process needs along with the sales experience created a successful combination for attracting and maintaining customers.
Additional Work Experience
Herr Industrial Inc., Lancaster, PA. 8/93 to 8/96
Oshikiri USA Inc., Philadelphia, PA 2/90 to 3/93
National Drying Machinery Co., Philadelphia PA. 3/88 to 2/90
Allen Sherman Hoff Co., Malvern PA. 8/86 to 3/88
Proctor and Schwartz, Inc., Horsham PA. 9/79 to 8/86
Hilton Davis Co., Cincinnati Oh. 1/79 to 9/79
Education:
Indiana University of PA. - BS Chemistry, December 78
Villanova University - Attended graduate school for MBA
Interests:
Sports, Referee for Ice Hockey
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