Reliability, Maintenance, and Asset Management

RELIABILITY & ASSET ANALYSIS ENGINEER
Georgia-Pacific (Dixie), Easton, PA
Chief reliability and asset management improvement leader for cup (paper and plastics) and lid plant (5MM cups/day).
• Champions the culture-transformative “Playbook Initiative” for the plant, by installing closed-loop monitoring systems, RACI structures, processes, and cadences to identify key leading and lagging performance indicators (KPI’s) and to enable the plant to accelerate cost-competitiveness.
• Directs asset data steering efforts and aids in the development of the site precision maintenance program, platform-wide asset strategy improvement, technician adaptive work system (AWS), and asset OEE improvements through driving downtime, top losses, and waste-reduction efforts.

RELIABILITY COORDINATOR (Maintenance Supervisor)
Crossett, AR
Managed the mechanical maintenance crew, maintenance activities, and long-term reliability-centered solutions for four tissue machines (500 tons/day).
• Lead execution of reliability and maintenance strategies to improve equipment health, reduce maintenance costs, and improve maintenance crew capabilities
• Launched maintenance workforce zone ownership to enhance performance of asset strategies
• Developed workforce capability in lubrication best practices with NORIA support training and matured the oil cleanliness program (incorporated work-processes through sampling, reducing leaks and contamination)
• Mentored workforce to cultivate computer skills and better utilize computer-based workflow processes
• Conducted planning and scheduling of routine mechanical maintenance jobs
• Steered the precision maintenance program and ensured mechanics utilized precision maintenance and validation practices (tools, alignment, predictive technology, procedures)
• Coached mechanics to become more self-reliant and to take on supervisor responsibilities in my absence
• Sustained 90% Preventive Maintenance adherence, 98% lubrication adherence, drop-point management cleanliness, and consistent precision attainment in maintenance activities

MANUFACTURING ENGINEER
Crossett, AR
Held technical and financial responsibility for a crescent-forming tissue paper machine (95 ton/day).
• Improved Operator-Based Care, asset care, quality and softness, and process-optimization strategies resulting in 83% OEE (9% improvement vs. 2016-2018 average)
• Drove focus on culture, technician zone ownership, accountability, self-reliance, knowledge, and crew teamwork
• Enabled technician capability improvement in process, equipment, maintenance, EHS, and reliability
• Enriched crew alignment, leadership-employee relations, and refined shutdown and startup practices
• Attained 90% quality green zone and increased product softness to maintain machine’s competitive position

ASSET AVAILABILITY LEADER (Production Reliability Leader)
Crossett, AR
Oversaw the reliability improvements for three tissue machines (350 tons/day).
• Performed as department-liaison during consultant-lead, process, and management change initiative to improve OEE by 10%-15%, reduce maintenance spending, and improve machine outage efficiency.
o Collaborated to deliver installation of meeting cadences, technician resolution processes, asset care strategies, equipment and process improvements, and maintenance backlog management
o Raised average mechanic wrench-time to above 60% and set up center-lining and operator enveloping tools to decrease process variation, improve quality and reliability, and monitor critical machine parameters.
• Principled RCA’s in water-in-oil ingression, exhaust fan fires, and (six) 3600-rpm fan pump motor failures

RELIABILITY ENGINEER
Crossett, AR
Executed asset strategy improvements and root causes analyses for the Tissue Dept. at the 650-acre pulp and paper mill.
• Spearheaded change management and renovated the lubrication program
• Rose annual lube adherence by 40%, improved lube cleanliness standards, built an industry-standard cleanroom, and nurtured the capability of the Lubrication Technicians
• Reduced lubrication-related failures by 90%, maintenance manhours by 50%, usage by 60%,
• Increased OEE of two tissue converting lines by 14% (double the average across the company) with a small team.
o Focused on culture, technician self-reliance, capability, and ownership
o Applied SMED-principles to reduce parent roll changes
o Initiated technician Deep Clean-to-Inspect practices to reduce defects and sources of contamination
o Conducted a comprehensive tissue converting machine outage study to increase resource efficiency

FACILITY ENGINEER
Carteret, NJ
Supported four liquid petroleum distribution terminals in New Jersey, New York, and Maryland as the technical support lead for troubleshooting, equipment installations, small projects, reliability, and risk improvement practices.
• Steered vapor recovery unit (VRU) reliability, truck loading rack optimization, and pipeline emergency response

MAINTENANCE ENGINEER
Naperville, IL
Provided project manager support for pipeline asset maintenance and repairs across six states in the Midwest.
• Specialized in DOT-Compliant In-Line Inspection and Pigging Repairs, pumping station decommissioning, pipeline relocation, horizontal directional drills, emergency break-ins, 3rd party encroachments projects.
• Executed an environmentally-sensitive pipeline repair in the Mississippi River, IA resulting in $14MM of savings

Machinery Lubrication Technician Level I Training & Certification

National Association of Corrosion Engineers
CP 1 - Cathodic Protection Tester

Technical Associates of Charlotte, PC Level II