Chesapeake, Virginia, United States
·Managed entire technical support staff including IT, Maintenance, Materials, and Environmental Compliance. ·Established and monitored KPI’s for all technical support functions taking appropriate action as necessary. · Implemented Predictive Maintenance program improving critical equipment up-time from 80 to over 95%. · Developed SOP’s and robust testing regimen achieved HRSD Platinum award for environmental compliance, first ever for facility. ·Managed and improved all safety programs and reduced TRIR from over 3.5 to 0.6 ·Achieved 35% reduction in waste (estimated $180K annual savings) as a result of Six Sigma Greenbelt certification project. ·Acted as Project Manager for all plant modifications and negotiated all contracts for equipment purchases, service contracts etc. ·Managed portion of $6M annual variable cost budget with expectation of 3% year over year improvement.
·Established and developed entire engineering department which included hiring and supervising multi-disciplined staff, developing standards, procedures, policies, budgets. Within 1 year assumed full responsibility for design of entire product range. ·Reviewed all project specification and manage all mechanical and electrical engineering personnel to ensure compliance to specification, schedule and budgetary constraints. ·Acted as project manager from pre-contract negotiations and estimation through design, manufacture, sub-contract award, test and site start up to ensure successful completion of complex projects. Project value range from $0.5M to $2M. ·Instituted Engineering Design Review procedure, reducing design-related errors by nearly 70%. ·Increased overall efficiency of Engineering Department by establishing priorities and optimizing resources. ·Monitored new product R & D examining design and process for cost effectiveness, ease of manufacture, and compliance to safety and industry standards. Led organization to successfully compete in the pharmaceutical industry. ·Supervised application engineering, project estimation and technical proposal development. ·Conducted associated technical sales presentations.
·Supervised Design staff to develop client specific Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV’s) from conceptualization, through design, manufacturer, assembly, test and site installation, start up, and customer acceptance. ·Interface with sales, controls, purchasing, manufacturing, vendors, sub-contractors, and quality control to ensure conformance to project schedule, budget, and all design constraints. ·Coordinated with field service to resolve site issues in an efficient and cost effective manner.