MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN CANDIDATES

Candidate MT9:

• Candidate MT9 has a BS in Biochemical Engineering and 8+ years of Management experience in the food industry and is Bi-lingual.
• She is responsible for increasing production efficiency from 30% to 65% within 6 months by implementing preventative maintenance programs, realigning the parts program and by teaching accountability to the operators.
• She is currently responsible for overseeing 4 direct reports at management level and 70 indirect reports at frontline level. Her management is to actively coach and listen to her team members.
• She has been responsible for turning around performance in a department by creating a team environment within the supervisors and front-line team members.
• She has also been responsible for reducing general equipment downtime by equipment failure a total of 20% with the first 6 months.
• She can read schematics and blueprints and can troubleshoot PLC using Ladder logic, although it has been a while.
• She increased high-speed packaging efficiency from 40% to 65% within 3 months of assuming responsibility.
• She has also had plenty of experience with filling equipment: USBottlers, pouch fillers, cup fillers, small individual size pouch fillers (HAMBA), and various dry product packers. Cartoning, what she would call box makers and sealers, she does have experience with some box makers and sealers and case packers.
• Throughout her 12 years of manufacturing experience, she has dealt with different levels of automation. From fully automated and enclosed processes to semi-automated to very manual labor-intensive. The array of processes come from fluids, snacks, sauces, bottles, pouches, individual portions, cold, hot, CIP systems, mixers, extruders, ovens, dryers, HTST’s, microfiltration, ultrafiltration, separators, evaporators, and the list goes on. She is a very fast learner and very hands-on learner. She enjoys a challenge and thinks a piece of equipment just has to be learned and understood in order to troubleshoot it and repair it. Programs, logics, sensors, servos, timers, etc.
• Her project management experience includes the installation of minor equipment like palletizers, which was an $800,000 project to the project of installing a new pasteurizing machine for vinegar, which was a $2.5 million project. Most of my experience has been in the operations side of the business, managing the production floor, the maintenance group, and the quality group or like now, managing the entire plant.
• She has developed Preventative Maintenance Programs for equipment, implemented these programs and made sure they were being completed.

Candidate MT7:

• Candidate MT7 has worked with both Fanuc and Motoman robotics controls.
• He has basically worked with hydraulics, pneumatics, motors, and controls everywhere he’s worked.
• He’s also worked with HMI’s. They converted all their start/stop switches in the cutting operations at A.K. to HMI control. He’s worked on Mitsibushi, Rockwell and others.

Candidate MT5:

• Candidate MT5 works for a Robot integrator services company based out of Ohio.
• He has been working as a Robot Technician for the company since 2014.
• In his day to day, he is involved in Mechanical and Electrical robot building, troubleshooting and maintaining systems predominately for the Automotive industry.
• He has PLC problem-solving experience as well as HMI, Control panel, and Servo Motors problem-solving experience.
• He works with FANUC robots with AB and Mitsubishi PLC’s.
• Candidate MT5 is located in Ohio, but happy to relocate.