Alonso Felix
Sparks
Summary
Resourceful Manager bringing 20+ years of experience performing diverse maintenance and repair duties. Dedicated to maintaining optimal equipment functionality by managing routine and complex equipment and facility matters. Strong knowledge of facility management and continuous improvement, significantly improving equipment reliability and performance. Skilled in project management and environmental compliance.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Area Maintenance Manager
Chewy RNO1
07.2024 - Current
- Manage and develop technicians to ensure reliability and performance of warehouse assets and all production equipment
- Use data metrics and tableaus to measure team performance and availability within current available labor hours
- Coordinate with outside and third-party vendors to ensure adhering to company policies while performing work on-site
- Lead projects, that directly impact KPI’s, continuous improvement, MTTR, and availability for all assets
- Plan jobs and repairs for daily activities needed to support our production customers, in the event of a downtime
- Audit current completion and documentation in CCMS system to capture data and metrics for completion and improvements to current work assignment
Maintenance Planner
Tesla Gigafactory 1
01.2023 - 05.2024
- Communicate and collaborate with operations planners to optimize scheduling and ensure critical equipment needs (corrective work, safety issues, PM work, etc.) are considered for the build planning process
- Work planning process, identifying labor, materials tools, and safety requirements for work order completion
- Provide resources and information concerning maintenance work, equipment repairs, projects to help reduce costs while improving service
- Reduce costs to maintenance and operations by providing availability of components, materials, or specialized equipment to complete tasks
- Analysis of tasks providing technical knowledge and maintenance experience to determine labor resources; time needed to complete each job
- Maintain accurate backlogs of all forecasted work to provide scheduled work based on equipment availability and customer needs
Production Engineering Supervisor
Tesla Gigafactory 1
07.2021 - 01.2023
- Team workforce management with day-to-day operations, in house repair work, vacation scheduling, weekend overtime and training opportunities
- Establish and manage sustainable process to support failure analysis and teardown activities for engineering, quality, and process teams
- Working with equipment engineers to help increase equipment utilization, performance and support root cause investigations, corrective actions
- Project management both for internal and external, liaison to external parties for contracted work to ensure all company safety policies are adhered to while performing contracted work
- Drive improvement activities across the shift to improve team knowledge and capabilities
- Providing operations/planners estimated work completion and task requirements of job assignments
Maintenance Technician
Tesla Gigafactory 1
07.2019 - 07.2021
- Work with Process and Equipment engineering and other cross functional groups to resolve maintenance issues, improve equipment reliability, review procedures, and minimize equipment downtime
- Diagnose equipment failures, find root cause, and communicate actions needed to support repair as well as preventative measures
- Organize and maintain shop inventory/consumables by using manufacturing systems (MES, Spares)
- Perform major equipment repairs and rebuilds, troubleshoot automation, conveyance, electromechanical systems
- Ability to support major repairs with fabrication/machining and multi-process welding experience
- Fanuc weld line working with robotics and PLC’s, modular cell integration automation and controls
Lead Maintenance Technician
Perfection Pet Foods
10.2015 - 05.2019
- Lead technician focusing on equipment upgrades, new equipment installation and modifying existing equipment to have the ability run new RD products
- Daily assessments of plant equipment availability based on scheduling demand, scheduling technicians for downtime repairs needed to ensure availability
- Worked directly with maintenance manager and technical director in oversight of equipment reports/repairs/availability and upcoming projects and budgets mandated for set projects
- Project oversight included acquiring materials from sizing electrical components needed to make changes, fabricating/modifying, as well as running electrical for projects
- Working with contractors and third-party entities to ensure proper installation of equipment and testing to meet EPA guidelines
- Updated all inventory parts with clerks for existing and new equipment, phasing out unused parts to consolidate
- Oversight of third-party vendor budgets for consumable parts, tooling, etc., needed for daily operations and special projects
Vibration Analyst
Leprino Foods
08.2013 - 05.2015
- Vibration analyst for reliability engineering department evaluating several types of equipment based on schedule to help eliminate machine faults
- Acquired data with Enpac 4 channel analyzer and ran through AB Emonitor software to determine machine fault, (lubrication, mechanical, electrical, etc.)
- Generated reports based upon machine fault and severity; reports attached to emails for department managers
- Scheduled down time with department managers to make repairs, times needed for repair and prevention due to alignment, balancing and improper lube type schedules based on data acquired and manufacturers recommendations
- New equipment would require full assessment regarding bearing types, oil usage/type, internal rotating parts to use in extracting data to generate the equipment running frequencies for all moving parts
- Create baseline for new equipment, check for correct installation regarding alignment, balancing, soft foot, etc., to ensure good initial startup
- Create schedule and parameters for new equipment testing frequencies based on baseline measurements and manufacturers recommendations
Utility’s Maintenance Manager
Marquez Brothers Inc.
02.2012 - 08.2013
- Oversight of utilities dept
- Wastewater/ boilers-steam/ refrigeration freon and ammonia, associated systems condensing towers, and evaporative units service to all
- Water system management for chlorine dioxide, chlorine free systems, and UV systems to treat water supply to all plants
- Set up emissions testing for whey plant dyers and boiler contractors for third party compliance entities
- Headed major projects in upgrading condensing towers and changing from electromechanical components to drives and PLCs for efficiency and helped tracking water usage
- Acquired approvals for hiring utility tech per shift once need was validated, with work needed versus cost against contract labor usage in the past
- Spearheaded projects for improvement in wastewater management by installing, wiring, plumbing, positive displacement pumps to improve output of solids removal at wastewater plant
- Oversaw integration of metering/dosing pumps to help mitigate chemical injection costs throughout wastewater treatment plant
Education
Reliability Improvement and Condition Monitoring Training/ CAT I -
Mobius Institute
San Diego, CA01.2013
FES Screw Compressor and Controls Training -
GEA FES Systems Inc.
Salinas, CA01.2007
Industrial Mechanics and Maintenance Technology -
Fresno City College
Fresno, CA01.2005
Skills
- Maintenance Planning
- Facility Management
- Asset Management
- Environmental Compliance
- HVAC Systems
- Capital projects
- Continuous Improvement
- Project Management
- Operational Efficiency
- Budgeting and cost control
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Area Maintenance Manager
Chewy RNO1
07.2024 - Current
Maintenance Planner
Tesla Gigafactory 1
01.2023 - 05.2024
Production Engineering Supervisor
Tesla Gigafactory 1
07.2021 - 01.2023
Maintenance Technician
Tesla Gigafactory 1
07.2019 - 07.2021
Lead Maintenance Technician
Perfection Pet Foods
10.2015 - 05.2019
Vibration Analyst
Leprino Foods
08.2013 - 05.2015
Utility’s Maintenance Manager
Marquez Brothers Inc.
02.2012 - 08.2013
FES Screw Compressor and Controls Training -
GEA FES Systems Inc.
Industrial Mechanics and Maintenance Technology -
Fresno City College
Reliability Improvement and Condition Monitoring Training/ CAT I -
Mobius Institute
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