Experience

Lincoln Paper & Tissue, LLC.

• Paper and Forest Product Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Maintenance Superintendant

  • Oct 2013 - Present

  Supervise 26 Millwrights to maintain 3 tissue machine, 1 Biomass Boiler, 2 Power Boiler, 1 waste treatment Facility, 1 Steam Turbine and all support infrastructure, Reorganize maintenance section after Mill restructured, Develop a new plan for a reduced salary supervision by implementing a new planner position and providing training to hourly employees allowing them to perform tasks that had be limited to supervision level prior. Build a team structure to allow Production and Maintenance to share rolls and have more direct input into maintenance activities. Establish a new reduced maintenance leadership team structure and mentor mechanical team leaders to allow them to grow in their ability to use problem solving techniques and positive encouragement to steadily increase maintenance productivity while continually reduce the Mechanical OSHA incident rate. Show less

• Recovery & Utilities Maintenance Supervisor

  • Jun 2010 - Oct 2013

  Supervise 11 Millwrights to maintain 3 Power Boiler, 1 Recovery Boiler, 1 Lime Kiln and 1 Waste Treatment Facility, 2 steam turbines and all support infrastructure, Establish check list for area round of all assigned sections to allow optimizing of mechanical resources and maintaining a 98% up time rate between scheduled annual outages. Plan, schedule and coordinated all minor and major outages to including insuring materials, contractors and mill resources are ready and in place to insure completion of all outages on time. Implement a new safety culture that reduced the accident incident rate during all outages to zero for millwrights for 3 years running. Implemented a co-operation initiative to have Production, Electrical and Maintenance work as team members during problem solving and daily operation of their assigned facilities. Resulting in an increase in maintenance efficacy and improved quality and a 25% reduction in the back log in the work order system. Show less

• Recovery & Utilities Maintenance Foreman

  • Jun 2008 - Jun 2010

  Lead 11 Millwrights to maintain 1 Biomass Boiler, 2 Steam Turbines, 2 Power Boiler, 1 Recovery Boiler, 1 Lime Kiln and 1 Waste Treatment Facility and all support infrastructure, Provide leadership of the team while encouraging individual growth of team members and providing training in various maintenance techniques. Develop a person skills review for assigned millwrights and goals for their future development. Use person skills reviews to assign teams to tasks with mentors to insure continues growth in skills while insuring daily operation of facilities. Help implement new work order and material tracking software to allow the documentation of work and tracking of work performed and advanced scheduling of work and reduce delays of scheduled jobs. Show less

• Millwright

  • Jun 2006 - Jun 2008

  Preformed assign work to include fabrication, welding, repairs and alignment of mill equipment. Worked as a member of a 2 person team on shift that was responsible for all equipment at the entire Facilities from 3pm to 7am and on all weekends. Was assigned to Recovery/Utilities during days shifts to supplement manning and provide specialty skills in Pressure vessel repairs/inspections and maintenance. Responsible for Lock box verification while on shift assignment. Completed all assigned tasks on time and with a zero safety incident rate. Show less



Fastco Corporation

• Lincoln, Maine

• Lead Fabricator

  • Jul 2001 - Apr 2006

  • Steel fabrication, Review prints, calculate required materials, estimate fabrication times, layout, fabrication and quality control from start to finish of assign projects • Certified welder, Identify repair needed, preform repair required and document repairs preformed. Preformed both shop and field code repairs on pressure vessels in North Eastern United States • Steel fabrication, Review prints, calculate required materials, estimate fabrication times, layout, fabrication and quality control from start to finish of assign projects • Certified welder, Identify repair needed, preform repair required and document repairs preformed. Preformed both shop and field code repairs on pressure vessels in North Eastern United States