Experience

Taylor Steel Inc.

• Canada
• Mining
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Engineering and Maintenance Manager

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  Stony Creek, Ontario Canada Taylor Steel is one of North America's leading Flat Rolled service centres for both domestic and export markets. Has over 1,250,000 sq. ft. of plant space in 5 Canadian facilities and over 256,000 sq. ft in the Ohio facility. Housed within 1,500,000 sq. ft of floor space are 18 processing lines that give an annual capacity in excess of two million tons. My responsibilities are to look after all maintenance, engineering and operational efficiency of all production equipment, material handling… Show more Taylor Steel is one of North America's leading Flat Rolled service centres for both domestic and export markets. Has over 1,250,000 sq. ft. of plant space in 5 Canadian facilities and over 256,000 sq. ft in the Ohio facility. Housed within 1,500,000 sq. ft of floor space are 18 processing lines that give an annual capacity in excess of two million tons. My responsibilities are to look after all maintenance, engineering and operational efficiency of all production equipment, material handling devices, and buildings; oversee the department’s preventative maintenance program to continually improve machine performance and production uptime; oversee the installation and commissioning of new equipment, production lines and facilities. Show less



GREENMANTRA Technologies

• Canada
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Reliability Engineering

  • Feb 2020 - Dec 2021

  Brantford, Ontario, Canada Work with Project Engineering to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations. Responsible for adhering to the Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM) process throughout the entire life cycle of All Assets Participating in the development of design and installation specifications along with commissioning plans. Evaluating of equipment and technical MRO suppliers and technical maintenance service providers. Developed acceptance tests and inspection… Show more Work with Project Engineering to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations. Responsible for adhering to the Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM) process throughout the entire life cycle of All Assets Participating in the development of design and installation specifications along with commissioning plans. Evaluating of equipment and technical MRO suppliers and technical maintenance service providers. Developed acceptance tests and inspection criteria. Responsible for the final check out of new installations, to assure adherence to functional specifications. Guides efforts to ensure reliability and maintainability of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls, and safety/security systems. Professionally and systematically defines, designs, develops, monitors and refines an Asset Maintenance Plan that includes: Value-added preventive maintenance tasks Effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems Provides input to a Risk Management Plan that will anticipate reliability-related, and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operation. Develops engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations, include capacity, quality, cost or regulatory compliance. Using Data analysis techniques that can to perform Root-cause and Root-Cause Failure Analysis (RCA, RCFA) Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) Working with Production to perform analyses of assets including: Asset Utilization Overall Equipment Effectiveness Remaining useful life Other parameters that define operating condition, reliability and costs of assets Provides technical support to production, maintenance management and technical personnel. Applies value analysis to repair/replace, repair/redesign, and make/buy decisions.

• Maintenance Manager

  • Dec 2018 - Jan 2020

  Brantford, Ontario



Ingenia Polymers

• Luxembourg
• Plastics Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Maintenance Manager

  • May 2017 - Nov 2018

  Houston, Texas Area Oversaw maintenance activities of 10 polymers production lines. Managed $1M budget for Maintenance, Facilities and Oils and Lubes. Increased machine up-time from 59% to 91% through root causes analyses, machine reliability studies and implantation of corrective actions. Improved spare parts availability from 61% to 94% and improved plant efficiency average from 50% (to 75%) through use of turnover rate studies, lead time studies, flexibility of parts and budget allocations. Reduced… Show more Oversaw maintenance activities of 10 polymers production lines. Managed $1M budget for Maintenance, Facilities and Oils and Lubes. Increased machine up-time from 59% to 91% through root causes analyses, machine reliability studies and implantation of corrective actions. Improved spare parts availability from 61% to 94% and improved plant efficiency average from 50% (to 75%) through use of turnover rate studies, lead time studies, flexibility of parts and budget allocations. Reduced unexpected large expenditures and improved month-end closing, from 75% of operating parameters to 98% within budget, by developing / implementing strategy that monitored MRO purchases, receivables and service invoices. Improved preventive maintenance proficiency from 10% to 85%. Show less



Feature Renewable Energy Systems (FRES Solar)

• Engineering And Maintenance Manager

  • Sep 2015 - May 2017

  KSA Designed a state of the art, fully automated PV Module assembly production line from start to end Worked with equipment supplier’s engineers to resolve technical issues, optimize process flow and reduce cycle time Prepared for Factory Acceptance Test (FAT), and Site Acceptance Test (SAT) in suppliers’ and FRES factory sites Created all technical documents, product and process specs, and work instructions



Canadian Solar Inc.

• Canada
• Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering And Maintenance Manager

  • Nov 2010 - Sep 2015

  Guelph, Ontario, Canada Led Engineering group to improve production lines throughput by reducing cycle time which contributed to production cost reduction by ~5%. Managed three projects to redesign all production lines to the way that reduced labor and cost as well. Managed a project to establish a new production line in our new factory in London, Ontario for Solar modules and MV station production. Managed team of process and manufacturing engineers to improve factory yield by ~3.2%. Managed maintenance… Show more Led Engineering group to improve production lines throughput by reducing cycle time which contributed to production cost reduction by ~5%. Managed three projects to redesign all production lines to the way that reduced labor and cost as well. Managed a project to establish a new production line in our new factory in London, Ontario for Solar modules and MV station production. Managed team of process and manufacturing engineers to improve factory yield by ~3.2%. Managed maintenance team for better scheduling of preventive and overall maintenance to reduce equipment downtime. Managed spare parts stock to insure production lines readiness and overall maintenance cost control. Show less



Teledyne MEMS

• Canada
• Nanotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Process and Test Engineer

  • Jan 2008 - Oct 2010

  Edmonton, Canada Area Managed three major projects to install, calibrate, and qualify test equipment (in clean rooms) within a limited time frame. Designed all mechanical parts needed to customize new ZYGO station to test our products. Developed calibration and gage R&R schedules for all running test tools to monitor any out of specs issues. Created all necessary documentations for new installed test tools (work instructions, trading checklist, preventive maintenance, and calibration procedure)… Show more Managed three major projects to install, calibrate, and qualify test equipment (in clean rooms) within a limited time frame. Designed all mechanical parts needed to customize new ZYGO station to test our products. Developed calibration and gage R&R schedules for all running test tools to monitor any out of specs issues. Created all necessary documentations for new installed test tools (work instructions, trading checklist, preventive maintenance, and calibration procedure), and modified existing documents for running tools as necessary. Trained technicians and operators for test tools and programs as necessary. Modified and automated some of test programs to improve cycle time and eliminate operator’s errors. Show less



Automation Tooling Systems

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Reliability Engineer

  • Jul 2003 - Dec 2007

  Cambridge, Ontario Analyzed a production issue then developed and implemented a process that reduced scrap cells by~ 80%. Conducted thermal aging studies using TC- DH- HF chambers, to understand product life cycle over 25 years life cycle. Worked on project for qualifying our products for UL and IEC certificates. Developed a test program for four different photovoltaic products and implemented database for managing test systems and analyzing results