Brandon Pitre
Olathe,KS
Summary
Throughout my career, I have held longstanding leadership roles where I successfully identified and resolved mechanical, electrical, and controls issues to ensure uninterrupted plant performance. My expertise lies in overseeing the functionality of the plant, ensuring safety, and maintaining optimal working conditions for facilities systems and equipment. Dedicated to applying best practices and improving processes, I coach staff in root-cause analysis and implement corrective actions. With excellent communication, time management, problem-solving, and organizational skills, I am confident in my ability to exceed expectations. Experienced in overseeing maintenance and repair activities for systems and equipment, I am a professional and dependable asset to any organization. Eager to discuss this position and my qualifications in more detail.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Maintenance Supervisor
General Motors
07.2023 - Current
- General Maintenance Supervisor supervises and coordinates the general maintenance of buildings, equipment, and/or machinery
- Oversees staff that performs masonry, painting, electrical, carpentry, tool-making, and/or machine shop work
- Inspected sites regularly to identify problems and necessary maintenance
- Prepared weekly maintenance schedules and allocate work as per forecasted workloads
- Employ, supervise and train workers
- Coordinated daily cleaning and maintenance activities
- Oversee all repairs and ensure that work is completed on time
- Maintained all inventory and equipment, and ensure proper storage
- Complied with all health and safety regulations and practices on site
- Conducted preventative maintenance work
- Conducted follow-ups on all maintenance and repair work
- Conducted safety inspections as scheduled
- Establish strategies to meet workload demands on time
- Responded to maintenance requests
- Made sure projects stayed on schedule
- Lead safety inspections at worksites
Sr. Manufacturing Engineer
ThermoFisher Scientific
02.2021 - 07.2023
- Responsible for file maintenance of calibration and preventive maintenance records
- Accurate data entry of calibration certificates and PM reports
- Ensure that files are accurate, complete, and current
- Coordinate scheduled and unscheduled calibration requests with designated external calibration suppliers and calibration contacts
- Assist calibration contacts as needed
- Conduct monthly calibration and preventative maintenance audits on equipment and records and follow up on corrective action responses
- Troubleshoot electrical, mechanical, and pneumatic systems as required
- Complete preventative maintenance and general repair work orders as scheduled
- Fabricate minor replacement/repair parts as needed within maintenance machining/welding shop
- Assists in analyzing and correcting problems encountered during Maintenance work to ensure work is performed according to SOP's
- Daily communications with Maintenance Lead regarding shift-to-shift transfer information
- Connect with supervisor/engineering regarding equipment condition and provide recommendations for improved reliability plan
2nd Shift Supervisor - Robotics Maintenance
Sodecia Automotive
04.2018 - 02.2021
- Supervision of maintenance personnel and coordination of maintenance work schedules and shift coverage to meet site requirements
- Tracking of maintenance metrics; including downtime and effectiveness
- Management of preventive, predictive, and project maintenance activities
- Follow all OSHA safety regulations and procedures
- Identify and insure that safety hazards and unsafe practices are promptly corrected
- Ensure equipment start-up readiness for production
- Assist and teach maintenance troubleshooting techniques to improve mean time between failure and mean time to repair
- Coordination and communication of maintenance activities with production, quality, and shipping departments
- Training and evaluation of maintenance personnel to meet current and future needs
- Demonstration and assurance of safe work practices by maintenance personnel
- Travel periodically between sites for training and assistance
- Show good interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate with maintenance staff, outside contractors, vendors, suppliers, and personnel from other company departments
Maintenance Tech II
PPC Flexible Packaging
06.2015 - 02.2018
- Systematically troubleshoot and communicate/work with specialized technicians
- Complete maintenance work orders as assigned for equipment and facilities
- Accurately and completely account for all machinery repairs, enhancements, upgrades and preventative maintenance to help identify problematic equipment or processes
- Take direction and learn from Management to develop maintenance skills and knowledge and experience to help provide support to production and distribution plan
- Assist with the installation of production and facility equipment, provide support with mold changes, detecting faulty operations, defective material, and report those and any unusual situations to help with production and facility needs
- Accurately diagnose and troubleshoot machine issues as needed to better help with production demands and to help minimize down time
- Be available for overtime and to be on call when necessary to provide necessary support for production and distribution demands
Maintenance Technician/Welder Fabricator
Sugar Creek Packing Company
08.2011 - 05.2015
- Review and complete work orders timely, conducting necessary maintenance or repairs as needed
- Follow Lockout/Tagout procedures at all times and ensure all Maintenance Personnel are following Lockout/Tagout procedures at all times
- Inspect, operate or test machinery or equipment to diagnose machine malfunctions
- Dismantle machines, equipment or devices to access and remove defective parts, using hoists, cranes, hand tools or power tools
- Perform routine maintenance, such as inspecting drives, motors or belts, checking fluid levels, replacing filters or doing other preventive maintenance actions
- Diagnose mechanical problems and determine how to correct them, checking blueprints, repair manuals or parts catalogs as necessary
- Repair machines, equipment or structures, using tools such as hammers, hoists, saws, drills, wrenches or equipment such as precision measuring instruments or electronic testing devices
- Maintain constant communication with Plant Management regarding any maintenance issues that may arise
- Complete daily reports outlining maintenance or repairs conducted over the course of the shift
- Complete setup and teardown of machines and equipment at beginning and end of shifts
- Comply with federal, state, and company policies, procedures and regulations
- Support all safety, food quality and sanitation initiatives and policies
Education
Certificate for Collision Repair -
Emanuel Tech
Kansas City, MOBachelors Degree -
Pittsburg State University
Pittsburg, KS05.2015
Skills
- Preventive Maintenance
- Team Supervision
- Facilities Maintenance
- Maintenance recordkeeping
- Work Order Management
- Troubleshooting
- Staff Management
- Employee performance evaluation
- Deadline Management
- Production Scheduling
- Staff Scheduling
- Maintenance Planning
- Skilled Maintenance and Repair
- Lockout and tagout procedures
References
- Charles Hayden, (816) 506-4371
- Chris Grimmett, (816) 328-6306
- Dean Murray, (816) 328-4756
Internship
Residential & Commercial Field Adjuster, Nationwide - CAT Team, 05/01/14, 08/01/14
Timeline
Maintenance Supervisor
General Motors
07.2023 - Current
Sr. Manufacturing Engineer
ThermoFisher Scientific
02.2021 - 07.2023
2nd Shift Supervisor - Robotics Maintenance
Sodecia Automotive
04.2018 - 02.2021
Maintenance Tech II
PPC Flexible Packaging
06.2015 - 02.2018
Maintenance Technician/Welder Fabricator
Sugar Creek Packing Company
08.2011 - 05.2015
Certificate for Collision Repair -
Emanuel Tech
Bachelors Degree -
Pittsburg State University
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