Fernando Cruz Rivera
Lancaster,PA
Summary
Production specialist with strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results. Skilled in machine maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair, ensuring smooth operation and minimal downtime. Reliable, adaptable, and capable of flexing with changing needs. Efficient in problem-solving and committed to maintaining high safety and quality standards.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Production Mechanic
Universal Ingredients Shanks Extracts
07.2024 - Current
- Perform changeovers and setups
- Performing adjustments to the line to ensure continuous run of the line
- Troubleshot electrical issues within production equipment, restoring full functionality quickly to minimize disruptions.
- Implemented quality control measures during routine maintenance checks, maintaining high standards across all machinery operations.
Extraction Technician
Universal Ingredients Shanks Extracts
01.2022 - 07.2024
- Performs botanical extractions and conducts distillations of various botanicals.
- Reports and enters data information into manufacturing database (Plex) and Excel
spreadsheets. - Cleans and maintains equipment. Performs routine maintenance and repairs to equipment such as heaters, hydraulic bombs, etc.
- Reduced downtime with proactive troubleshooting of extraction equipment issues.
Assembler
Staffing Service USA (School Specialty)
01.2020 - 12.2021
- Adhere to Standard operating procedures.
- Selection and proper setup of assembly tools.
- Utilize all safety equipment and precautions for the positions.
- Complete all required paperwork ex-timesheets, quality control reports forms.
Education
Certificate of Completion - Electrical Industrial Maintenance Course
Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology & Tec Centro
Lancaster, PA12-2024
Associate of Technology - Automotive Mechanics with Computerized Fuel Injection
Mech Tech College
Caguas, P R04-2019
Skills
- AC motors single and three-phase
- Electrical schematic reading
- Basic electrical circuits and measurements
- Electromagnetism
- AC and DC motor control circuits
- Electrical component identification and wiring
- VFD (variable frequency drives)
- Control logic diagrams
- Logistics and Technology IT
- Motor troubleshooting techniques
- Basic PLC programming and troubleshooting
- Pneumatic circuits
- Lock Out/Tag
- Control cabinet wiring
- Electrical safety
- Collaborative communication
- Customer service skills
- Fuses and circuit breakers
- Quality control
- Machine operation
- Mechanical repair
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Attention to detail
- Problem-solving abilities
Certification
- Forklift Certification
Languages
English
Professional Working
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Production Mechanic
Universal Ingredients Shanks Extracts
07.2024 - Current
Extraction Technician
Universal Ingredients Shanks Extracts
01.2022 - 07.2024
Assembler
Staffing Service USA (School Specialty)
01.2020 - 12.2021
- Forklift Certification
Certificate of Completion - Electrical Industrial Maintenance Course
Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology & Tec Centro
Associate of Technology - Automotive Mechanics with Computerized Fuel Injection
Mech Tech College
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