Clayton Dause

• Supervised employee performance, preventive maintenance and safety.
• Delegated tasks to carefully selected employees in alignment with resource management goals.
• Monitored priorities and liaised between maintenance team and management, delegating tasks to complete on time.
• Procured pricing information from various vendors to support cost-effective purchasing.
• Established and documented protocols for preventive maintenance procedures, decreasing equipment issues and reducing downtime 25%.

• Generate PM schedules and procedures
• Define manufacturing performance standards and review outcomes of performance goals to set future targets
• Plan, direct, coordinate and assign manpower to meet aggressive production schedules
• Prepare and administer preventative maintenance work orders.
• Supervise a team of multi-craft technicians in repair and maintenance of highly automated robots, conveyors, air supply houses, ovens etc.
• Coordinate and Monitor maintenance for large repairs
• Maintain compliance with company standards to perform all maintenance activities
• Improve safety, quality, productivity, cost control, and positive employee relations using principles of Kaizen and TPM
• Negotiated schedules, work plans and payment structures with subcontractors
• Coordinated with vendors to identify and procure appropriate equipment necessary for project completion
• Managed engineering changes using SAP systems
• Scheduled routine maintenance and repair of facility equipment such as 14 electrical substations, capacitor banks, facility air compressors (Sullair), Fire protection systems (Honeywell), HVAC systems (Johnson Controls system monitoring) and all plant water supplies
• Procured pricing information from various vendors to support cost-effective purchasing.
• Managed efficient teams of up to 30 employees.
• Onboarded new employees with training and new hire documentation.
• Evaluated facility operations and personnel for safety and health regulations compliance.
• Conducted weekly inspections of facility grounds, external structure, systems, and equipment.
• Maintained facility grounds, equipment and safety compliance.
• Developed and oversaw budgets for facilities and worked within cost restraints.
• Reviewed and oversaw construction and renovation projects.

Increased sales volume by adding accounts and servicing current clients in the Northern half of Indiana as a territory.

• Monitored market activity and quoted pricing to maintain healthy profit margins.
• Negotiated prices, terms of sale and service agreements.
• Built client relationships by providing prompt and professional customer service.
• Contacted regular and prospective customers to explain services and solicit orders.
• Consulted with clients after sales and contract signings to resolve problems and provide ongoing support.
• Supervised the work of eight NETA certified testing technicians, offering constructive feedback on their work performance.
• Directed all phases of electrical testing projects from initial contact with client, walk-throughs, writing scopes of work and quoting project cost.
• Completed customer agreed scope of work projects as quoted, by assigning appropriate manpower, including sub-contracting other union electrical contractors to assist.
  
• Rapidly created work - arounds to resolve issues with projects.
  

• Coordinated and monitored vendor maintenance for large repairs.
• Employed wide variety of precision measuring instruments and electronic testing devices.
• Followed company procedures to maintain work environment in an neat and orderly condition.
• Responded to high priority breakdowns as sole emergency technician of plant site.
• Attended multiple equipment manufacturers supplied off-site training classes.
• Proficient in SAP, Microsoft office. Kronos, Maximo.
• Maintained compliance with environmental standards.
• Liaised with engineering staff on special projects to assist with configuration, installation and interoperation of system equipment
• Scheduled preventive and predictive maintenance actions based on failure analysis