Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Affiliations
Certification
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Matthew Stang

Cumby,TX

Summary

Ambitious leader with 8+ years of manufacturing industry experience. Proactive, resourceful, and hardworking, consistently demonstrating strong follow-through. Possesses excellent problem-solving skills and effective time management abilities. Dedicated professional committed to driving success in the manufacturing sector.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Maintenance Mechanic

KDCONE
10.2023 - Current
  • Conducted mechanical and electrical maintenance of factory equipment.
  • Generated and completed work orders for repairs, maintenance, and component replacement.
  • Used arc welding, tig welding and plasmas cutting equipment to repair metal structures, components, and manufacturing machinery.
  • Completed necessary ISO documentation and records to show compliance.
  • Troubleshot and repaired conveyorys, filler, case packing equipntment, stretch wrappers and shrink wrappers.

Maintenance Technician Senior Mechanic

Ecolab
03.2020 - 10.2023
  • Responsible for troubleshooting and repairing electrical circuits such as,
  • Perform work order repairs, inspections and adjustments.
  • Ensure optimal area efficiency with proactive preparation, properly perform all assigned task and maintain an efficient work place.
  • Read and interpreted technical documents blueprints to disassemble and reassemble equipment for repair components.
  • Adhere to safety, health and environmental rules and regulations to avoid workplace injury and machine productivity.
  • Equipment

  • Create a process flow with step by step guidelines for product assembly.
  • Conduct and record testing procedures per production specifications.
  • Build, Calibrate, and repair testing equipment and calibration instruments.
  • Adhered to safety policies, procedures and regulatory criteria to maximize preventive controls.

Extrusion Operator

Ecolab Inc.
08.2017 - 01.2019

Extrusion Operator- Responsible for maintaining high efficiency in productively and minimizing waste and scrap. Ensuring all product are up to quality specs for customer satisfaction. Also helping managnent to increase production cycles time as well as production goals. Responsible for doing any product change overs as necessary, and trying to minimizing the scrap loss of wasted powders and liquids.


  • Measured extruded products to identify imperfections and adjusted controls to adhere to project specifications.
  • Examined and troubleshot extrusion equipment including the extruder, controls, water trough and powders, PLCs
  • Completed product traceability, logs and production reports to accurately document extrusion-related activities.
  • Responsible for achieving production requirements.
  • Maintained necessary level of communications between shifts.
  • Conducted experiments to test new or alternate feedstock fermentation processes.
  • Organized work to meet demanding production goals.
  • Monitored machine operation and diagnosed malfunctions.
  • Calibrated machines to keep them running at peak performance.
  • Monitored product standards and quality-control programs.
  • Ensured that all health and safety guidelines were followed.
  • Set up and verified the functionality of safety equipment.

Robotic Weld Program Adjuster

Watson & Chalin Mfg Inc/ Hendrickson Trucking
03.2017 - 08.2017
  • Tier one supplier to paccar.
  • Did daily adjustments to all robotic weld components on Fanuc, ABB, Genesis robots.
  • Making all weld adjustments as necessary or creating a new program to run more efficiently and decrease downtime.
  • Did daily PMs on all robotic lines wether it was electrical or mechanical.
  • Submit daily work order request as needed.
  • Filled out daily cooperate docs for production needs as needed.

Production Team Leader

Kirchhoff Automotive
12.2013 - 03.2017

Responsible for 50plus employees. Maintain targets for production demands and implemented K.A.P.S. (kirchhoff Automotive Production System). Help assist upper management with improving 5s, TPM plans. Made sure that all production requirements were made on time according to customers demands. Did daily inventory counts of RAW and F/G inventory. Train all new employees on (SOS, JES, F/O, M/O). Reviewed all quality alerts at beginning of shift with employees, and pre-shift inspections.

  • Trained, coached and mentored staff to ensure smooth adoption of new program.
  • Maintained project quality with a hands-on management style.
  • Hired and trained staff.
  • Exceeded company objectives with [results].
  • Collaborated with KAPS to develop scopes and implement project plans.
  • Oversaw shipping Materials Department.

Blow Mold Operator

Plastipak Packaging Inc.
08.2013 - 12.2013

Was responsible for running and operating two Sidel blow mold machines. making sure equipment was running correctly and up to quality standards, as well as GMP regulations.


  • Set up the blow mold and all associated equipment to minimize line changeover times.
  • Followed start-up, production and      cleaning protocols, as well as completed required logs and documentation. 
  • Analyzed test results, machine error messages and information to diagnose equipment problems.
  • Adjusted machine recipes correctly to produce good quality bottles
  • Organized work to meet demanding production goals.
  • Maintained quality assurance and customer satisfaction objectives.
  • Coordinated procedures for facility and equipment maintenance or modification, including the replacement of machines.
  • Responsible for achieving production requirements.

Education

Industrial Maintenance Engineering Systems

El Centro College

High School Diploma - undefined

North Garland High School
2013

Skills

  • Strong client relations
  • Natural leader
  • Team building expertise
  • Excellent work ethic
  • Training development aptitude
  • Safety processes and procedures
  • Team oversight
  • Goal-oriented
  • Strong conflict resolution skills
  • Employee relations
  • Critical Thinking
  • Troubleshooting and Diagnostics

Affiliations

  • Was nominated to be apart of the head safety team at Kirchhoff Automotive board.

Certification

  • AWS certified for GMAW through Kirchhoff Automotive.
  • First Aid and First Responder certified through Richland College.
  • Fire and Safety training through city of Dallas.
  • Leadership certified through Richland College provided by Kirchhoff Automotive.
  • 30hour OSHA safety certified through El Centro College.
  • Fork Truck lincense certified through El Centro College.

Timeline

Lead Maintenance Mechanic

KDCONE
10.2023 - Current

Maintenance Technician Senior Mechanic

Ecolab
03.2020 - 10.2023

Extrusion Operator

Ecolab Inc.
08.2017 - 01.2019

Robotic Weld Program Adjuster

Watson & Chalin Mfg Inc/ Hendrickson Trucking
03.2017 - 08.2017

Production Team Leader

Kirchhoff Automotive
12.2013 - 03.2017

Blow Mold Operator

Plastipak Packaging Inc.
08.2013 - 12.2013

High School Diploma - undefined

North Garland High School
  • AWS certified for GMAW through Kirchhoff Automotive.
  • First Aid and First Responder certified through Richland College.
  • Fire and Safety training through city of Dallas.
  • Leadership certified through Richland College provided by Kirchhoff Automotive.
  • 30hour OSHA safety certified through El Centro College.
  • Fork Truck lincense certified through El Centro College.

Industrial Maintenance Engineering Systems

El Centro College
Matthew Stang