Maintenance Manager Supervisor

James DeBose

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New Castle, Va. 24127

Cell:540-***-**** or 540-***-**** Email:************@*****.***

Position Interest: Maintenance Manager/ Reliability

Summary of work skills:

Manage Maintenance Advisors, Technicians, Skilled trades in both Union and non-Union plants. Development of team personnel as it applies to the position. Execute plant directives with respect to safety, company policies, goals, and budget. Implemented, installed, and populated various CMMS systems (Maximo V5.1, MLS, Tabware, Cogz, Benchmate) for the maintenance department. Developed and maintained stores for the plant equipment. Procure and assist with the installation of new equipment. Secure bids for plant services, review vendors for cost effectiveness, submit SOW’s for plant projects. Worked both start up and existing plants. Use the CMMS system to track KPI’s and other maintenance value data. Utility background in the electrical industry.

Position Information:

2022-Present Nipro Pharmapackaging

Technical Manager

Increase plant utilization and uptime

Equipment improvements and capital projects

Recruitment/ training of technicians

Customer audits and CGMP compliance

Manage the CMMS system

Responsible for plant, grounds, vendors and contractors

Planning and scheduling of maintenance and services

Reports and KPI’s relating to maintenance

Drives and PLC changes etc.

Responsible for maintenance stores/ MRO.

2021-2022 Altec Industries

Plant Maintenance Supervisor

Organize the maintenance structure of the team

Instill a sense of customer focus

Improve equipment availability via: PM changes, predictive implementation, training.

Assist in new equipment installations.

Procure training based on individual assessments.

Implement APS (Same principles as TPM)

Manage maintenance stores/ MRO.

2017-2020 Volvo Trucks North America

Maintenance Reliability Engineer

Work on the implementation of VPS (Same as TPM/NPM) across the plant.

Perform root cause analysis and implement solutions using 5 why and Why not 100.

Create Ledgers, SMP’s, PM checklist, Kaizens, CBM routes, etc. for maintenance.

Update PM’s as needed. PM optimization. Spare part criticality.

Work in accordance with production to develop maintenance planning for upcoming PM’s, improvements, emergency repairs.

Work with stores dept. on cost reduction and cost avoidance. Saved .5 mil upfront.

Worked on three major Kaizens each resulting in excess of 200K in savings. Conducted several small Kaizens with results in the 20-60K improvement range.

Focus on RCM for key equipment, prep for CMRP exam.

2014-2017 Metal Castings Division, Abingdon, VA.

Maintenance Manager

Plant is an Aluminum Foundry

Plan and schedule maintenance on the facility and equipment.

Manage critical spares.

Facilitate training and work instruction documentation.

Manage budget for plant activities.

CMMS system build.

2012- 2014 Federal Mogul Corporation, 300 Industrial Park Rd. Blacksburg, VA.

Equipment Engineer

Plant is a heavy stamping, machining facility.

Responsible for Equipment installation, work instructions, SOP’s and operator initial training.

Work with the maintenance group to develop and implement maintenance procedures for new equipment and revising PM’s for existing equipment. Assist with troubleshooting.

Championed and installed a new “vision” system for part inspection. This reduced quality issues generated by the old system by 65%.

2011-2012 Freight Car America, 830 Campbell Avenue SE. Roanoke, VA.

Manager of Plant Support Services

Plant is a heavy railcar manufacturing facility.

Use data from CMMS for root cause failure, MTBF, MTTR and equipment improvement, tracking overall effectiveness of PM’s. Maintenance planning for daily, weekly and long term job schedules.

Develop the maintenance/ various groups by soliciting training both in house (vendor sponsored) and off site as it relates to their job function.

Interview and hire for the teams I was responsible for. Perform reviews and improvement plans.

Manage budget for maintenance, jigs, building repairs/ upgrades, equipment purchases and general improvements.

Implemented 5S processes into the Support services groups culture.

Designed and built a water treatment process for heavy metal removal from our waste water. Saved 75K by doing the work in house as opposed to outside contractors.

Manage hazardous waste generated by the plant.

2007-2011 Mehler Engineered Products, 175 Mehler Lane. Martinsville, VA.

Maintenance Manager/ Plant Equipment Engineer/ IT

Plant is an automobile tire cordage supplier.

Responsible for team development, training, interaction with operations.

Coordinate efforts with operations to minimize production impact.

Manage equipment expansions and calibrations to meet audit requirements.

Standardize equipment to reduce spare parts and downtime.

Grow the CMMS system to be used as an analysis tool for the plant.

Championed new lighting, gas heaters, compressor usage to reduce our energy costs. Savings of 10K per month on electric and 1-5K on gas based on usage.

Maintenance job planning for short term and monthly PM’s, projects and equipment installations.

Equipment redesigns, ancillary additions to improve OEE and reduce customer complaints. Improved OEE from 50% to 82%.

Responsible for Safety and Environmental compliance.

Responsible for IT hardware in the plant.

2005-2007 Hubbell Industrial Lighting, 2000 Electric Way. Christiansburg, VA.

Maintenance Manager

Responsible for team development. Including recruitment and policy implementation.

Restructure department and resource utilization for improved response times and work load distribution. Moved maintenance group to center of the plant for faster response time.

Train on IR scanning, Vibration analysis, and Sonic testing.

Reduced backlogged equipment PM’s due from 1.5 yrs to .5 yrs.

2003-2005 Tower Automotive, Inc. 628 East Enon Springs Rd. Smyrna, TN.

Maintenance Leader

Tier one frame builder to Nissan.

Manage a large maintenance team (30+) and supervisor group (4). Part of technician recruiting team.

Maintenance planning for PM’s, PdM’s, shutdown, short and long term projects.

Installed, helped populate and trained on our CMMS system, linked PM’s and PdM, exploded views and spare parts directly to the floor HMI’s so repairs/ data could be executed/ entered quickly.

Implemented “Crash Carts”, zone responsibility, and floater positions to respond to downtime.

Worked closely with vendors to have spare parts crib and inventory on hand when we went into operation.

Worked with Tennessee Technical Community College to develop a certification program for maintenance technicians.

Develop initial plant layout and contracts with local vendors (Janitorial, Scrap Metal, trash removal, waste collection, forklifts, etc.)

Involved team on FMEA of plant equipment, team members were ReliaSoft trained on site.

Manage MRO budget and projects.

Team was trained on IR testing, Vibration testing, Sonic testing.

Developed LOTO placards with visual aids for both maintenance and operations use.

One of the first Maintenance Managers to link plants (maintenance side) for sharing best practices and spare parts.

1995-2003 Corning Inc. 516 N Franklin St. Blacksburg, VA.

Maintenance Electrical Leader/ Expansion Project Engineer/ Manufacturing Engineer

This plant produces ceramic substrates for the auto industry. Previous locations were both fiber optic plants.

Responsible for training maintenance team in first level electrical trouble shooting.

Championed and installed Maximo MRO software (With IT person) to migrate the plant from paper to computer based system.

Championed replacement of five 300 CFM compressors due to high maintenance costs (data gleaned from CMMS once a correlation could be done). Went to Kaiser units.

Established an electrical safety program and electrical PPE for the plant.

Contact point and coordinator for plant fire protection, facility upgrades and landscaping.

Designed mechanical and electrical safety interlocks for equipment upgrades.

Concord Plant

Project Engineer/ Manufacturing Engineer

Greenfield plant startup.

SME for blankmaking equipment. (Electrical, mechanical, and process)

Trained junior Engineers on various aspects of the equipment.

Championed and pioneered with Curbell plastics a new material application to address a high fail part that on failure cost over 20K in damage. Savings over old material nearly 150K per year.

Lead Engineer for equipment installation, debug, and turnover to production.

Developed debug and commissioning standards for our equipment.

Equipment redesign for faster repair/ recovery.

Produced various technical and operations manuals on the equipment.

Statistical Process Control training.

Project management training.

Wilmington Plant

Manufacturing Engineer

Started as a contractor leading mechanical/ electrical installation groups.

Designed and installed a diesel supported transfer station for critical power supply.

Designed and installed a fire damper recovery system for the overclad lathes.

Part of the new process development team.

1986-1993 Carolina Power and Light Company. Wilmington, NC./ Union Electric St. Louis, MO

Senior Relay Technician

Company is an Electric Utility

Install, test and repair SCADA systems.

Calibrate, repair, and functionally test protective relay schemes.

Troubleshoot and repair malfunctions of substations and generation relaying.

Battery and charger maintenance.

Maintain accurate calibration records.

Education

1999-2001 University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Continued BSME to end of Sophomore year. GPA3.80

1995-1998 University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Physics GPA 3.80

1983-1986 Cape Fear Community College at Wilmington

AAS Instrumentation and honors. GPA 3.65/ AAS Electronics GPA 3.65

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