Brodrick Gilliam
Altamonte Springs,FL
Summary
Dependable Maintenance Technician offering experience in installation, preventive and predictive maintenance processes, troubleshooting, and the repair of automated material handling equipment to ensure high equipment availability rates. Strong safety record and excellent follow-through. Highly productive, self motivated, creative, focused, with excellent communication skills. Team- oriented with a commitment to completing tasks in a timely manner. Eager to embrace and learn rapidly changing technologies to support the successful operation of the supply chain facility.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Maintenance Technician II
Harbor Freight Tools Distribution Center
23400 Cactus Ave, Moreno Valley Ca,92553
05.2019 - 04.2024
- Operated varied hand and power tools to complete repairs.
- Used problem-solving skills to alleviate issues efficiently with minimal supervision.
- Troubleshot equipment breakdowns and performed preventive maintenance.
- Followed work orders and specifications for machine and equipment replacement, repair, or maintenance.
- Completed daily, weekly, and monthly checklists on building equipment to maintain records of scheduled maintenance procedures.
- Maintain and troubleshoot all electrical and mechanical aspects of material handing equipment on site, including conveyor systems, sortation, robotics, or automated storage and retrieval systems.
- Adjust scanners, cameras, field bus/profibus, scales and printers applicators.
- Repair, reset, or replace adjustable components (belts,chains,cables) and wearing components (guides, bearings, wheels, rollers, pulleys, v-belts, polycord, clog belts, intelli-Q belts, festoon cables, air modules).
- Clean, lubricate and calibrate equipment use appropriate procedures, job plans and manuals.
- Maintain and troubleshoot motors, photo eyes, relays, proximity sensors, limit switches, solenoids, mac valves, air cylinders, motor starters/soft start, tachometers, encoders, VFDs, MDR rollers, MDR cards, etc.
- Assist with basic electronics/programmable logic controls troubleshooting conduct maintenance and basic troubleshooting of all types of industrial robots.
- Utilize handheld devices such as zebra TC72 and asset maintenance connection to create and close work orders with appropriate data (labor hours, downtime, problem/cause/remedy) and parts used.
- Develop and maintain positive working relationships across all levels of the organization.
- Follow appropriate safety procedures and use of personal protective equipment while maintaining equipment (lockout/tagout, arc flash, etc) and ensure a safe environment by eliminating potential equipment safety hazards.
- Operation of (scissor lift, JLG toucan boom lift, one man M3/M6 vertical lift, swing reach truck, stand up reach truck, order picker, walkie, walkie rider pallet jack, walkie rider double pallet jack,) and asset with battery changes on low battery equipment.
Print Lead
Nursery Supplies
Kissimmee, FL
08.2017 - 08.2018
- Operated desco and kase printers efficiently.
- Managed changeovers and machine setups for printers with three to four color heads.
- Managed mandrel change, set timing on mandrels to print drum,
- Adjusted angle, pressure, and height.
- Adjusted pot infeed timing to mandrels.
- Adjusted flamer, uv light, guide rails on infeed and out.
- Verified correctness of spec sheet and print plate alignment before mounting plates on magnetic cylinder
- Optimized performance of color heads through roller replacements, cleaning and greasing tasks followed by addition of ink to the fountain
- Achieved efficient operation by fine-tuning speeds and pressure for rollers, conveying systems on the oven, and the pot stacker along with precise adjustments of the pot kickoff lever and sensors based on individual pot sizes.
- Printed labels and updated JDE on PC to correct run and pull samples.
- Maintained effective communication with supervisors and ensured timely completion of paperwork.
PM Mechanic
Niagara Bottling, LLC
Ontario, CA
02.2013 - 05.2017
- Progressed from blow mold operator to pm mechanic by successfully completing the rigorous two-year JMP Training Program, which encompassed instructional courses and hands-on experience.
- Developed a versatile skillset by working across different departments within the PM crew such as blow molders, filler/cappers, labelers, packers, palletizers,maintenance of facilities,and operation of huskies equipment while strictly following clean/grease protocols.
- Operated HMI PC functions on various machine equipment, conducted air leak testing, adjusted timing on labelers and blow molders, assessed lamps using a voltage meter, and replaced faulty lamps in ovens
- Replaced water filters, water membranes and air conveyor scripting
- Installed conveyer belts.
- Adjusted or replaced UV sensors, displacement sensors, retro sensors, and reflective sensors
- Adjusted belt tensions.
- Rebuilt valves, blow nozzle cylinders, filler valves, gripper fingers, transfer arms, cams, and open/close mold hangers.
- Completed weekly PM and monthly PM scripts
- Created and completed work orders.
- Extracted components from VLM and parts cage.
Machine Operator/Tech
Graham Packaging Company L.P.
Henderson, NV
05.2005 - 01.2013
- Managed mold change-overs efficiently to ensure bottle quality.
- Oversaw weekly PM tasks, executed first article checks, and maintained records of round-the-clock production logs
- Loaded preforms into hopper,
- Checked quality and monitored bottles for quality using the Nour and ALP tests.
- Monitored coders for accuracy and communicated with quality auditors and shift supervisors to address any quality issues that arose.
- Maintained a safe work environment by adhering to safety procedures and regulations.
Education
High School Diploma -
Blythe Community High School
Blythe, CA1997
Skills
- Industrial Maintenance
- Prevention and Predictive Maintenance
- Maintenance Documentation
- Lockout and Tagout procedures
- Programmable Logic Controllers
- Mechanical Troubleshooting
- Industrial Controls and Electronics
- Troubleshooting basic Input/Output functions
- Equipment Maintenance
- Work Order Management
- Time Management
- Collaboration
Timeline
Maintenance Technician II
Harbor Freight Tools Distribution Center
05.2019 - 04.2024
Print Lead
Nursery Supplies
08.2017 - 08.2018
PM Mechanic
Niagara Bottling, LLC
02.2013 - 05.2017
Machine Operator/Tech
Graham Packaging Company L.P.
05.2005 - 01.2013
High School Diploma -
Blythe Community High School