Operations and Maintenance Manager - Lumber Industry Expert

MITCHELL DAMON

***************@*****.*** • 541-***-**** • Eugene, OR, USA

SUMMARY

Seasoned Operations and Maintenance Manager with over 18 years of hands-on experience promoting sales, profitability, productivity, efficiency, safety, quality, and compliance in the lumber industry. Extensive experience in all aspects of operational leadership including cost savings and workforce planning, multi-site sales growth, team management, troubleshooting, and systems development to satisfy business imperatives and financial goals. Continually exceeds expectations by building valuable relationships and works well with people at all levels of an organization including stakeholders, management, team members, and customers.

EXPERIENCE

Sundance Lumber Company, Inc.-Springfield, OR, Operations Manager/Maintenance Manager Jan 2021 - Present

Overseeing daily operations for 3 locations including creating purchase orders and inspecting company trucks.

• Interviewing, hiring, motivating, coaching, training, developing, and proactively communicating with employees.

• Modeling exemplary service standards by ensuring customers are actively supported while resolving their project needs.

• Overseeing staffing and scheduling, identifying and resolving stock deficiencies, and resolving customer issues.

• Managing 50+ people in production and maintenance including scheduling employees and obtaining needed resources.

• Receiving and outputting all sales orders, purchase orders, work orders, transfers, and mill tickets for the entire company.

• Ensuring every safety topic/safety meeting for the month is completed on time and understood as well as documented.

• Managing site maintenance and resolving major receiving, organization, and appearance issues at all locations.

• Reviewing the next week’s delivery schedule to ensure product is pulled and orders/mill tickets are sent to the mill.

• Communicating regularly with the Mill Manager to make sure everything is on schedule for on-time completion.

• Walking the property and writing/submitting log of any places that are neglected or missed for good housekeeping.

• Calling vendors on past due purchase orders and getting a new ETA and updating the new promise date in the system.

• Overseeing purchasing and bid processes, managing rolling stock, and scheduling preventive/corrective maintenance. Sundance Lumber Company, Inc.-Springfield, OR, Maintenance Supervisor, Construction Millwright Jan 2016 - Dec 2021

Supervised a team of 6 millwrights and 4 electricians performing all equipment and physical maintenance and repairs.

• Managed team in processing corrective and preventive work orders on the mill as needed or upon a set frequency.

• Trained and coached new employees and apprentices to perform duties and provided professional skill development.

• Prepared employee schedules and workflow activities for team and incoming contracted companies and their workers.

• Ensured safety and quality of production and repair during mill operations and enforced lockout/tagout requirements.

• Prepared and approved estimates for mill repairs and maintained strong relationships with local suppliers/contractors.

• Served as the safety and accident prevention lead and identified and investigated any facility safety or security incidents.

• Built, designed, and installed new mill equipment to improve mill operation functions and increase production capacity. Carothers Sheet Metal-Eugene, OR, Install Supervisor MITCHELL DAMON - page 1 of 2

Aug 2015 - Jan 2016

Supervised and coordinated the material and activities of staff engaged in the installation of sheet metal systems.

• Interpreted specifications, blueprints, submittals, and job orders as needed for projects and assigned required personnel.

• Assembled/submitted procurement orders for materials, equipment, and tools required at each project commencement.

• Established and adjusted work sequences to meet construction schedule using knowledge of equipment capacities.

• Traveled and installed equipment on job sites including mills or breweries as well as repaired equipment to 250 feet in the air.

• Ensured all requirements were met for successful inspections with state, city, and county requirements and regulations. Seneca Sawmill Company-Eugene, OR, Construction Millwright May 2013 - Aug 2015

Installed, tested, maintained, and repaired all mechanical equipment in efficient operating condition throughout the mill.

• Assembled, installed, maintained, and repaired mill equipment as well as Inspected, tested, and aligned testing equipment.

• Installed, adjusted, serviced, maintained, and repaired mechanical equipment for various lifts and conveyor belts.

• Dismantled, moved, installed, commissioned, adjusted, or repaired machines, power shafting pulleys, conveyors, and hoists.

• Used hoist dollies, rollers, tracks, and cranes to move machinery and used hand tools to install and dismantle machines.

• Installed new or repaired parts as well as used measuring devices to install machines and equipment in correct position.

• Read blueprints or schematics, aligned power shafting and pulleys, and worked with bearings and shaft seal maintenance. B & R Sheet Metal-Eugene, OR, Fabrication and Install Jan 2006 - May 2013

LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS

AED Certification

First Aid Certification

Scissor Lift Certification

CPR Certification

SKILLS

Safety Leadership & OSHA Safety Requirements • Inventory Management & Loss Controls • Recruiting, Hiring & Training Employees • Purchase Orders, Work Orders & BOLs • Equipment Repairs & Maintenance • KPI Monitoring & Management Reporting • Operations & Maintenance Management • Team Leadership & Development • Staff Scheduling

& Workforce Planning • Work Flow Optimization & Best Practices MITCHELL DAMON - page 2 of 2

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