Maintenance Professional

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Clinton Township, MI ***** 586-***-**** ***********@*****.***

Phillip T. Colgate

Objective To grow professionally within an organization which can use my fleet equipment engineering, operations, management background and experience

Experience 12/2005 – 11/2008 Central Transport Warren, MI

Vice President Equipment Maintenance and Engineering

 Development of effective and strategic fleet equipment specifications to ascertain extended service equipment life at the lowest cost per mile/hour

 Fleet equipment maintenance, regional shop management, spare parts purchase/ inventory, fuel procurement, tire program, engineering and overall strategic planning with day to day responsibility for North American fleet of 20,000 pieces of over the road vehicles, heavy equipment and material handling equipment

 Oversight of 41 maintenance facilities in the U.S. , Mexico and Canada

 Implemented and administer computerized maintenance (TMT software) control system utilizing VMRS system codes

 Activity based costs analysis for labor and procurement to drive up productivity while reducing costs

 Documented in print and video standardized procedures for maintenance, administration and safety

 Development and oversight of a $30MM operating budget

 Productivity metrics, overall KPI’s and SOP’s for the maintenance organization and overall supply chain activities to broaden awareness of costs and develop a competitive behavior throughout the organization

1998–2005 Chiquita Fresh, NA Cincinnati, OH

Director of Terminals and Equipment Engineering

 Overall responsibility for word-wide equipment maintenance organization moving refrigerated products, port and warehouse management for the vertically integrated banana company

 Equipment maintenance, regional/world-wide shop management, spare parts purchase/ inventory, tire program, engineering and overall strategic planning with day to day responsibility for world-wide fleet of 15,000 pieces of transportation/heavy equipment

 Oversight for five North American port locations and refrigerated warehouse facilities

 Development and oversight for a $50MM operating budget

 Implementation of High Performance Management style of associate development for 300 maintenance and port personnel

1988–1998 Chiquita Fresh, NA Wilmington, DE

General Manager, Port Operations

 Managed a company staff of 12 associates for terminal, dispatch, and maintenance functions with union labor staff of 75. Responsibility to oversee and control the importation, dispatch, exportation and fleet management of 1,000 refrigerated containers of fruit per week.

 Maintenance responsibility for 1,000 domiciled pieces of equipment

 Implemented metrics and KPI’s to have oversight of maintenance, operations and port productivity with the goal of lowering overall costs

 Largest port in North America for Chiquita

1985–1988 Leaseway Motor Transport Newark, DE

(Auto Carrier Division)

Maintenance Manager

 Overall Maintenance and repair oversight and planning for a fleet of 125 tractors and trailers responsible to move new automobiles from rail-heads to dealers show rooms

 Led 32 teamster mechanics/welders

 Spare parts procurement and inventory control

 Reduced equipment downtime by introducing three-shift work environment

Education 1978–1980 Oklahoma State University

Okmulgee/Stillwater, Oklahoma

 A.A., Technology. Major, Diesel and Heavy Equipment Technology/Maintenance

Affiliations SAE ( Society of Automotive Engineers) – 9 years

TMC ( American Trucking Association’s Maintenance Council) – 15 years

IANA (Intermodal Association of North America) – 6 years

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