ESPIRITU VIGIL

• Machine Setup and Adjustment: Configuring and fine-tuning seaming machines for different can sizes and materials, ensuring proper, airtight seam integrity.
• Preventative Maintenance: Conducting routine inspections, cleaning, lubrication, and parts replacement to minimize downtime.
• Troubleshooting and Repair: Quickly diagnosing and repairing mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and sometimes electrical issues on the production line.
• Quality Control: Inspecting finished seams using precision tools (e.g., micrometer, calibration gauges) to adhere to safety and quality standards.
• Safety Compliance: Adhering to strict safety regulations, including Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) protocols.

Skills and Qualifications

• Technical Knowledge: Strong mechanical aptitude with experience in high-speed packaging equipment.
• Specialized Knowledge: Familiarity with specific models like Angelus 60L, 61H, 120L 58/59 p and Continental 2003 seamers
• Experience: 6+ years of industrial maintenance experience, food/beverage or canning environments.
• Physical Ability: Able to work in fast-paced environments, lift, and work in varied shifts

• Responsible for performing highly diversified duties to install, troubleshoot, repair and maintain production and packaging equipment.
• Perform emergency/unscheduled repairs of production equipment during production and performs scheduled maintenance repairs production and to packaging equipment.
• Perform mechanic skills including, but not limited to, mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, troubleshooting.
• Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance.
• Diagnose problems, replace or repair parts, test and make adjustments to production and packaging equipment.
• Perform regular preventive maintenance on equipment, and plant
• Comply with safety regulations LOTO
• Perform on-call responsibilities as required to all production and packaging equipment.
• Production equipment includes dry freeze cylinders, hoppers , motors , gearboxes and various pumsps.
• Dry freeze rooms fans ice boxes, temperature gauges
• Electrical duties repair replace 120v 3 phase motors, inspect vfds , pressure sensor and other

• Oversight of all aspects of the maintenance department, production lines and affiliated equipment, building and grounds
• Scheduled work and manpower to meet production demands; planned and scheduled work force efficiently
• Maintained the preventative maintenance system; monitored downtime occurrences to maintain consistent operations and monitored the efficiencies of the production lines, paying special attention for maintenance and mechanical trends
• Worked toward meeting or exceeding the plants safety and uptime goals
• Trained, motivated and directed employees to adhere to safe work methods and standard
• Controlled maintenance expenses by monitoring overtime and parts expenses weekly
• Established and maintained mechanical integrity and equipment reliability programs to ensure employee, safety provide environmental security and maximize the plant’s availability, product quality, and cost effectiveness
• Ownership of the plant’s PM/PdM activities; continuously evaluated PM/PDM activities and frequencies to ensure optimum use of manpower and resources in maximizing equipment reliability
• Leadership of equipment performance tracking and repair/improvement prioritization
• Technical guidance and coaching of mechanical craftsmen
• Engineering support of maintenance and capital projects
• Maintained a cooperative working relationship with USDA officials
• Ensured compliance to all OSHA safety regulations and standards
• Maintained equipment for efficient operation within maintenance budget; operating within the constraint of the union contract and USDA regulations
• Assumed full ownership of predictive and preventive maintenance activities including oil analysis, vibration analysis, engine-compressor analysis, and infrared thermography
• Double seam training, operating and maintaining equipment, adjustments and calibration, and fine tuning to keep in operational range with QA.
• Seamer mechanic expertise
• Overhauling and repairing international gallon seamer and Angelus seamers with gas nitrogen and steam fed 61H, 101, 121, 59P
• Changeover of different diameter cans sizes, tooling and seamed height; ranging from 8oz to gallon size cans
• Daily maintenance of juice and product fillers
• General maintenance inclusive of conveyor systems repairing and replacing belting, sprockets, chain and table top
• Maintained JBT pressure cookers and atmospheric cookers and coolers

• Welding manufacturing of machines as needed
• Welding electrical
• Replaced and repaired three face motors
• Worked on valve systems replacing and repairing actuators
• Chain drive systems installation
• Water treatment maintenance
• Pneumatic and hydraulic pumps repairs
• Running electrical wiring conduit and hardwiring
• PLC trouble shooting and programming
• VFD and RFD
• Fabricating, Drill Press, and Plasma cutters
• Trouble shoot electrical 110v, 220v, 400v
• Maintain and repair air compressor Quincy
• Roller chain, table top chain

• Responsible for machine set-up and ensured proper sanitation of machines
• Pre-maintenance
• Water bottle filler operator
• Minor repairs
• Re-set of machines

• Responsible for maintaining shift operations excellence
• Demonstrated exceptional shift leadership behaviors
• Ensured proper financial accountability during each shift
• Motivated and mentored team members to deliver customer service excellence
• Opened and/or closed store as required
• Performed all safety and security tasks
• Followed all safety, cash handling and operation procedures and policies
• Participated in the interviewing and hiring process for new team members.

• Repaired and maintained airless and pressure washing Equipment 3500 psi
• Hydraulics, Pneumatics Electrical Motherboards
• Repairs and installations; replaced electric and gas motors on various machines
• Trouble shoots 3 phase motors on paint shakers
• Calibrated and programmed color machine for accuracy