Manager Maintenance

dney T. Richards

*** ***** **. 205-***-**** or 205-***-****

Centreville, Al 35042 e-mail: **********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Maintenance Manager

Tube City IMS Tuscaloosa, Al. Sept. 2008 - Present

• Manage the day to day operation of the maintenance department, which runs twenty four hours a day seven days a week, maintaining a minimum of ninety percent equipment availability.

• Prepare and coordinate work schedule for over twenty five maintenance personnel.

• Schedule and coordinate all preventive maintenance for over sixty pieces of equipment.

• Manage any planned or unplanned equipment repairs.

• Coordinate equipment dealer involvement for repairs, parts, and any warranty issues.

• Negotiate any invoice issues.

• Manage a monthly budget.

• Prepare a yearly capital spending budget request for replacement of equipment or major components, by tracking component hours, oil sample reports, and data from previous component life studies.

• Direct all supply and parts purchase to insure the best value for dollars spent.

• Assist in the training of maintenance personnel with technical and safety items.

• Review applications, conduct interviews, and make final decision on hiring all maintenance personnel.

• Liquidate depreciated equipment that has been replaced.

Equipment Manager

Clark Hunt Construction Clearwater, Fl Oct. 2005 – Sept. 2008

• Manage preventive maintenance program, repairs, and parts purchases for a fleet of more than one hundred units.

• Plan and coordinate transportation of all equipment.

• Supervised any dealer involvement for repairs, parts, warranty or invoicing issues.

• Negotiated and implement contracts for oils, fuel, and parts purchases for overall cost savings.

• Organized and developed inventory system for job materials stored on yard.

• Reviewed and installed all repair history on every unit by using fleet maintenance manager software. Set it up to track all dollars spent including fuel cost.

• Assist estimating department with equipment applications and cost for bidding job.

• Assist implementing company safety program and policies.

• Review all applications, conduct interviews, and hire all maintenance & transportation personnel.

• Compare specs and negotiate pricing on all equipment rentals & purchases to insure company received best valve for dollars spent.

• Developed relationship with used equipment dealers, equipment brokers, and major auction companies through out the country to insure the company received top dollar for equipment being liquidated.

Maintenance Superintendent

International Mill Services Tuscaloosa, Al Jan. 2005 – Oct. 2005

• Managed the preparation of equipment for site start up.

• Oversaw the installation of all attachments and safety items on equipment.

• Coordinated the interviewing and hiring of all maintenance department personnel.

• Developed a work schedule for maintenance personnel to cover twenty four hours a day seven days a week.

• Implemented preventive maintenance schedule for equipment.

• Scheduled all planned and unplanned repairs.

• Coordinate with equipment dealers repairs, including warranty tracking, and parts purchases.

• Performed all data entry in the J D Edwards system for maintenance. Didn’t have any clerical personnel in the beginning.

• Assist site superintendent in implementing safety program and policies.

• Involved in implementing job site attendance and discipline program.

Equipment Repair Coordinator

Saiia Construction Co. Birmingham, Al Dec. 2002 – Jan. 2005

• Prioritize and implement the day to day repairs on job sites for a fleet of three hundred units. This included sub contract and vender mechanics.

• Coordinate the delivery of parts and supplies to various job sites for equipment repairs.

• Organized and catalogued parts & attachment inventories.

• Reviewed all dealer repair invoices to assure charges were not warranty and were justified.

• Provided assist in overall operation of entire equipment department.

Owner and operator

Premier Vinyl Fencing Centreville, Al. Jan. 2001 – Dec. 2002

• Started business in Jan. 2001.

• Managed marketing, advertising, sales, and installation for all products.

• Preformed irrigation and landscaping service also.

Manager of Field Services Operations

Thompson Tractor Co. Tuscaloosa, Al. Oct. 1996 – Dec. 2000

• Coordinate work assignments as customers call in for repairs.

• Conducted all paperwork from opening work orders to invoicing them.

• Negotiate any disputes of invoices with customers.

• Implement any warrantable repair.

• Assist mechanic with diagnoses and coordinated training.

• Responsible for personnel and safety issues.

• Held accountable for controlling department expenses.

• Managed and scheduled mobile preventive maintenance vehicles from this branch.

• Supervised and scheduled fifteen to twenty service department personnel on any given day in three different divisions.

• Managed to increase this department profit after direct expense by ten to fifteen percent each year I held this position.

Shop and Field Serviceman

Thompson Tractor Co. Tuscaloosa, Al Apr. 1986 – Oct. 1996

Thompson Tractor Co. Birmingham, Al Mar. 1979 – Apr. 1986

• Started as trainee and worked up to A class serviceman.

• Completed all standard and advanced Caterpillar training courses.

• Completed all required engine certifications.

• Completed advanced training on Caterpillar E series and 300 series hydraulic excavators.

• Completed the necessary courses to become a Caterpillar Marine Analyst. This took over two weeks of classroom work and two full days on a vessel running a marine par test. I was required to recertify every two years. At the time there were only two hundred fifty in the world. Very proud of this achievement.

• Worked as a field serviceman for over twelve years in a lot of different equipment application environments.

Additional Training and Skills

• Successfully completed time and stress management classes.

• Adequate knowledge using Microsoft word and excel.

• Experienced with programs often used in maintenance such as J D Edwards, Ross, Paccar, Fleet Maintenance Manager and Michelin.

• Sufficient knowledge of construction process from ground breaking to completion, including all utilities.

• Ability to establish and implement a preventive maintenance program.

• Experienced in equipment leasing and purchase processes, from initial negotiations to delivery.

• Versed in preparing a capital expensed budget for replacing equipment or components on a yearly basis.

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