Chris Strabley

Experienced professional in overseeing facilities operations, maintenance management, and manufacturing processes. Specializes in predictive and preventative maintenance, plant management, TPM, and Lean principles. Ensures reliability through standardized work practices and effective supervision. Skilled in managing security, emergency operations, space reorganization, and ensuring compliance with OSHA standards and building codes. Proficient in problem-solving, quality assurance, project management software utilization, budgeting, and resource allocation. Experienced in implementing continuous improvement initiatives, managing capital projects, and ensuring adherence to legal requirements with a focus on environmental and safety regulations.

• Ran day-to-day operations while promptly addressing problems and concerns such as machinery malfunction, interruptions to production, facility, client, contractor, budgetary decisions, and safety compliance, ensuring adherence to company policies and procedures, improving overall efficiency and performance.
• Oversaw and managed team members attendance and work progress, ensuring quality assurance with leadership skills and effective communication, fostering a culture of safety leadership and collaboration through regular safety training and standardized work, driving reliability and operational requirements.
• Implemented and sustained a maintenance program through Tabware (SAP), achieving 95% adherence for 72 different pieces of equipment, focusing on preventative maintenance, corrective actions, and reliability while utilizing CMMS.
• Achieved the highest machinery uptime percentage overall for Deluxe Corp, with a strong team, leadership, and critical thinking in complex situations, applying continuous improvement principles and safety leadership, while coordinating multi-disciplinary teams.
• Moved a Deluxe printing facility seamlessly from Pennsylvania to New Jersey, without a loss of production or revenue
• Lead and organized teams for purchase, installation, and launching of $3 - $8MM equipment, pre-install, install, and sign-off of equipment, ensuring compliance with all regulatory requirements and standards, providing oversight and successful implementation of project coordination.
• Provided leadership, development, direction, and support for team success of maintenance programs, focusing on cross-functional collaboration and motivation to achieve organizational goals, and influencing skills, emphasizing safe work practices and operational requirements, while conducting meetings to facilitate communication.
• Directly supervised and trained team members in performing scheduled maintenance and troubleshooting repairs while monitoring and maintaining a safe work environment, in compliance with OSHA standards and building code requirements.
• Worked with city, state, and federal regulatory agencies, for building, safety, and hazardous waste removal and transportation, ensuring strategic decision making and compliance with quality systems, leveraging layout design.
• Worked with corporate on environmental issues saving the company millions in fines.
• Partnered with corporate engineering in developing new production equipment, ROI and cost of equipment, ensuring adherence with capital projects and audit processes, driving successful implementation.
• Handled multiple job functions, ensuring smooth operation and effective coordination of tasks across various departments, preventive maintenance program, implementing a plant safety program as a Safety Champion, working on quality, productivity, inventory management, and specialized issues through comprehensive job planning.
• Created and maintained inventory for a $42mm operation, emphasizing management of multi-site operations and discipline in maintaining inventory accuracy, supported by productivity and statistical analysis and coordinating procurement activities.

• Forklift Training
• Certified CPR
• U.S. Soccer National C License