Experience

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  Trillium HCP

  • Canada
  • Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
  • 200 - 300 Employee

  • Reliability Engineering Leader

    • Mar 2015 - Present

    Reliability Engineering Leader for the Semi Solids / Solid Dose Focus Factory Operations at TrilliumHCP. Current responsibilities are focused improvements, centerlining, rapid changeover, mechanical training matrix, daily process reliability, PLC programming and maintenance, preventative maintenance systems and equipment spares. I am the SSP / SDP department liason on initiatives and engineering changes. I own reliability outages and maintenance procedures. My main focuses are standard work principals, rapid changeover, centerlining, change control, product initiatives, defect identification and elimination, department reliability and customer daily OEE.

  • Reliability Technology Leader

    • May 2012 - Present

    I accepted employment with Trillium in May of 2012. I started as an MSO and moved into the Reliability Technology Leader role in 2013. Responsibilities - Focused Improvements for the SSP / SDP packaging departments, Centerlining, Rapid Changeover, Mechanical Personel Training matrix, daily process reliability for SSP and SDP, PLC programming, Preventative Maintenance for the SSP and SDP department, equipment spares. Liason with site engineering on new and existing initiatives. Current focus in this position is reliability and O.E.E of 9 Pharma production lines. Current ownership is in the development of a Standard Work Platform for the SDP / SSP department operations.

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  Procter and Gamble

  • Brockville, Ontario, Canada

  • Controls and Instrumentation Technitian / MES SSO (Site System Owner)

    • Oct 1984 - May 2011
    • Brockville, Ontario, Canada

    In this position I was required to support the manufacturing processes. This included Electrical Maintenance up to 600 v, PLC and Motion controls, design and implementation and maintenance, project management, and Data Analysis. Mechanical setup, troubleshooting and repair of all production lines and systems. Project Management on projects that included Automated Uitizers, Conveying systems, Vision Cameras, MES systems, Data collection, Converting machines and packaginf end of line equipment. Key training focuses. PLCs and Motion Control- Allen Bradley, Mitsubishi, Omron, Schneiders and Texas Instruments.MES - Maple, Wonderware and Profecy. I was the Site System Owner (SSO) at the Brockville P&G site. This required the support for a multitute of computer platforms, data collection programming in the manufacturing equipment, troubleshooting and corrective action planning, reporting and upgrades to the MES systems for the entire manufacturing site in Brockville, Ontario. I was a trainer for trainers, high level resource in Pneumatic and Electrical systems and a trainer and qualifier for mechanical and Electrical shop training.

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  Butterfield

  • Smiths Falls

  • Machine Setup Operator

    • Sep 1982 - Oct 1984
    • Smiths Falls

    Machine Operator for the Centerless Grind operations. Setup of high precision grinding machines designed to manufacture precision tooling. This included, End Mills, Drills, Reamers, Center Drills and a number of Customer specific tooling for companies such as Bell Canada and Ontario Hydro.

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  Guildline Instruments

  • Smiths Falls Ontario

  • General Machinist Numerical Control Programmer

    • Sep 1979 - Sep 1982
    • Smiths Falls Ontario

    Guildline Instruments was a Metrology company where I served my apprentiship in General Machine Shop and Numerical Control Programming. The positon required all aspects of the General Machinist Skill Set. Guildline Still operates today and I considered my training there priceless. I had the opurtunity to learn precision techniques under some very highly trained machinists from countries such as Hungary, Italy, Germany and England. I studied my apprentiship at Algonquin College Woodroffe Ottawa Campus.