Engineer Manager

MICHAEL J. RADKE

*** ******* ****

Woodruff, South Carolina 29388

864-***-**** home

(864) 906-9957cell

Email to *********@********.***

Objective: BS CHEM E/ HVAC/R with manufacturing & maintenance

management experience

Lean Six Sigma SPC/DOE ISO 9001 TPM/CMMS/TQM

Strong troubleshooting and organizational skills

Experience:

INNOVATIVE FIBERS LLC 1/09 – 2/09 layoff

PRODUCTION ENGINEER

-Responsible for PET fibers line.

-Provides hands-on production and maintenance support to address day to day processing and utilities issues and resolve them in a timely manner.

-Forming, creeling, web handling, sizing application, stretching, crimping, drying, chopping and baling

-Boiler, Chiller, Air compressors, Pumps, Dryers, Ovens, Controllers, HVAC

EXIDE CORP. 11/97 - 12/08

PROCESS/MAINTENANCE ENGINEER

-Worked with operators to resolve process problems as they occurred in a wastewater treatment plant.. -Performed failure analysis and electromechanical repair of process and utility equipment including : tanks, pumps, air compressors, agitators, piping, filter presses and conveyors.

HVAC/R-certificate-,Greenville Technical College

COLUMBIA FARMS CO. 11/96 – 11/97

MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR -Working Maintenance Supervisor at Columbia Farms-6 hourly maintenance techs on the off shift. Responsible for all areas of the plant including process,facilities and wastewater. Disassembled and reassembled sanitized piping. Performed boiler, air compressor and process equipment PM’s and breakdown troubleshooting and repair. -HAZMAT Trained Ammonia Refrigeration PM’s

AMERICAN PALMETTO 4/93- 11/96

RESIDENTIAL CONTRACTOR

-Built single family dwellings. Responsible for all aspects of construction, including : grading, foundations, framing, siding, plumbing, electrical, insulation, drywall and finishing.

TEKNOR APEX 9/91 - 4/93

PLANT ENGINEER

-Construction manager for $11M PVC extrusion facility Hired maintenance team of 20 people with 3 direct reports and 17 hourly . - Implemented spare parts inventory and established maintenance procedures (work order system), hands-on troubleshooting and debugging of production lines.

- Developed ISO 9000 audit procedures.

-Lean Six Sigma trained. Implemented DOE projects.

ROSS CHEM, INC 12/88 - 6/91

PLANT MANAGER

-Overall responsibility for operations at a specialty chemicals plant producing liquid defoamers, -Managed 5 direct reports and 42 hourly. P&L responsibility.

-Process owner working closely with QC and R&D to assure production teams met objectives.

-Wrote SOPS. Established SPC parameters.

-Performed ISO 9001 process audits.

-Wastewater treatment certification- Greenville Technical College

-Established PM system and assisted with equipment inspection repair and lubrication.

AMOCO POLYMERS, INC. 7/87 - 12/88

PRODUCTION ENGINEER

Responsible for carbon fiber line at a DOE (depart. of energy) facility.

-Non- Woven web handling ( furnaces, incinerators ,binder coating ,drying ,curing , winding)

-Worked closely with production team ,on the line, to assure product specifications were met. resolved daily problems. Improved binder application efficiency 30% with equipment change.

- Construction/start-up engineer for furnace rebuild. $5 M capital expenditure.

-ISO 9000, TPM/TQM (P. Crosby)

OWENS CORNING, INC. 6//77 - 12/86

PROJECT ENGINEER 6/77 - 8/83

-Responsible for project engineering at the corporate and plant levels ($5K to $500K capital spending).-Specified, designed and installed chemical reactors, blend tanks, heat exchangers, pump and piping transfer systems, boilers, chillers, HVAC, air compressors, process water systems, cooling towers, incinerators, waste treatment equipment, electrical distribution, process equipment, ovens, conveyors and non- woven web handling equipment. Chemineer Kemper Tregoe trained.

MAINTENANCE MANAGER 8/83 - 12/86

-Responsible for CMMS and preventative/predictive maintenance

-Managed six direct reports and 100 hourly reports.

- Coordinated major equipment rebuilds/shutdowns plant-wide. Installed and implemented PC-based 5,000-pt. vibration monitoring system (reliability engineering) on critical rotating equipment. Train-the-trainer quality circle facilitator plant-wide.

-Factory Mutual Property Conservation

Education: University of Toledo, Toledo, OH – B. S. Degree in Chemical Engineering

Greenville Technical College, Greenville, SC – Certificate in HVAC/R

Certification: SC Physical Chemical "D" Level Wastewater Certificate 5/10/91; Hazardous Materials Incident Response Operations OSH 29 CFR 1910.120 and EFA 165.15 6/13/97; Technician Universal

(HVAC/R) Certificate ARI 40 CFR 82 Subpart F 12/13/2005

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