Michelle LaChapelle
Houston,USA
Summary
Dynamic PM Planner/Scheduler with extensive experience in project and personnel management, excelling in prioritizing and completing multiple tasks simultaneously. Adept in vendor management and customer service, with a focus on achieving production goals and enhancing operational efficiency. Recognized for hands-on approach and finding solutions to complex problems, ensuring projects are completed on schedule and within budget. Flexible and detail-oriented team player committed to advancing business goals through careful team management.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
PM Planner/Scheduler, Buyer/Trainer/Inventory Management
Texas United Management - United Salt Hockley, LLC
Hockley, TX
05.2024 - Current
- Manage plant equipment data, vendor data, purchase materials and enter receivables.
- Kit and stage parts for scheduled work, and third party repairs/reman.
- Gather quotes and create purchase requisitions; goods receipts and reversals, review vendor invoices for deficiencies, and assist accounts payable to correct and update purchase orders.
- Meet weekly with maintenance team leaders and the maintenance supervisor to determine schedule of work, identify task priority, and communicate the weekly schedule with production to resolve possible conflicts so not to hinder weekly production goals.
- Perform data analysis for creating SAP Master Data: Functional locations, Equipment, and Work Orders, Functional Location and Equipment Tasks, Maintenance Items and Maintenance Plans and schedule PM.
- SAP Training - Creation of Notifications, Work Order Closure Process, Purchase Requisitions, Material Document Reporting for repair expense and history.
- Vendor and 3rd Party Service provider point of contact to resolve accounting errors, material returns, warranty, reman, and repairs.
- Report on asset depreciation changes to corporate.
- Create new Vendor requests which encompasses review of Vendor EH&S Questionnaire Forms, assessing risk, collecting COI details, and banking information.
- MaintainX - Approve Work Requests, Create Parts, Assign Work Orders, Fulfill P.O.'s, assign parts to work orders, create asset bill of materials, create Automation, create Metered Equipment PM's, record hours for condition-based PM work orders.
Asset Data & PM Analyst/ PM Optimization
Sullexis, LLC (Contractor) BP
Houston, TX
10.2019 - 05.2024
- Performed analysis of Gulf of Mexico BP Platform Maintenance Plans, Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (PID's), Data Sheets, equipment IOM's, Vendor Data, Materials, Equipment Tags, and bill of materials to ensure alignment with defined Maintenance Strategies for multiple systems and critical equipment.
- Liaison between Data Team, Engineers, and Offshore Maintenance Leaders ensuring preventive maintenance requirements align with platform specific goals.
- Consult with Engineers, Maintenance Team Leads, Maintenance Specialists, Offshore Planners, HSE, and Vendors for development of Maintenance Plans to ensure efficient and safe maintenance execution offshore.
- Review existing maintenance and create proposals based on data analysis and engineering specifications.
- Update and/or enrich existing maintenance plans, including schedules, work activities, and bill of materials.
- Research equipment and materials to determine appropriate preventative and reliability requirements.
- Analyze maintenance order and planning data (Work Packages) to develop SAP load sheets for updating applicable master data in SAP PM, Asset Hierarchy, and Material Management.
- Perform gap analysis to ensure validation of equipment classification, hierarchy, and functional location validation.
- Ensure alignment of equipment type with Maintenance Plan requirements and criticality.
- Validation of FLOC and equipment classification for Systems and resolve any conflicts via SAP Load templates.
- SAP Technical Support - extract PM and MM details for engineer review, advise which SAP transactions are best suited for providing data requested, explain process of SAP PM additions and updates to meet BP requirements, and demonstrate tools for more efficient SAP data gathering, example, Power BI Reporting.
- Perform data analysis for data cleansing and migration of data for Functional location, Equipment, Work Order history, Task Lists, and Maintenance history. Equipment Bill of Materials and Maintenance Plan Materials, and PM task operation work center and hours allocated for execution.
Maintenance Lead Planner/ Project Coord/ Scheduler
Jones Lange LaSalle/ Amazon
Houston, Texas
07.2017 - 10.2019
- Collaborated with Amazon Area Mangers, (MHE) Material Handling Equipment SME's, and JLL Operations Manager to ensure projects, repairs, large PM jobs, and new equipment installation work was executed safely, within budget, and on time.
- Created project timelines, requested bids, expedited parts, communicated estimated cost of work, and reported milestones and progress to stakeholders.
- Mitigated schedule delay challenges by expediting parts, verbal and written communication with 3P, and expediting quotes, bids and purchase order approvals.
- Third Party Contractors (3P) - escorted and facilitated job walk downs, project timelines, client expectations, safety training, and certification requirements. (Amazon Safety Orientation, Visitor Badges, Fork-lift and Genie-lift Operator Certification).
- Post launch activities: Walked down equipment in EAM to ensure accurate description, make, model, tags, and bill of materials were loaded. Created missing equipment.
- Built PM equipment routes for efficient inspections and cleaning.
- Updated EAM - equipment and material deactivations resulting in BoM and PM corrections.
- Reporting - KPI's, Bad Actors, PM Planned vs. Actual hours, Weekly PM Completion & Compliance, prepared summary for PM incompletions each week.
- Maintain Radios, Infrared Equipment, Strobe and Ultrasound Guns, battery chargers, and made sure lifts and electric pallet jacks were put back on charging stations after use.
- Set up EAM access for new hires.
- Steward emergency purchase orders, 3P for electrical, HVAC, Dock Door and Elevator repairs, and quarterly Grainger keep stock.
- Maintained outside service and parts provider contact information and pricing contracts.
Operations Coordinator/ Production Planner
CG Industrial Specialties LTD.
Edmonton, Canada
06.2015 - 05.2016
- Coordinate daily warehouse and assembly operations for severe service valves for oil & gas customers.
- Expedite parts orders and oversee on-time delivery customer orders (MRO and Specialty Valve orders).
- Assign tech work and coordinate with application engineers to assure updated valve drawings, functions and assembly of new and repaired valves are conducted safely and efficiently to meet delivery deadlines.
- Schedule warehouse and shop equipment inspections and equipment maintenance; forklift service, overhead crane inspections, shop tools and maintain warehouse supplies, good housekeeping, inventory management and cyclical inventory counts.
- QA/QC parts and valves before shipping to customers and ensure data is current in the CMMS.
- Utilization of Microsoft Dynamics CMMS to expedite and receive customer valve orders from Canada and the U.S.A. for actuation assembly in-house.
- Expeditor - Parts Orders (100% on time delivery), Large Valve Orders for Customer Projects (>2.0 million average per shipment) for severe service valves.
- Warehouse Manager, Shipping and Receiving, Inventory Audits, Customer Services for returns and corrected orders.
- Shipping - Schedule crate builders, ensure QA/QC documents were accurate and completed, coordinated trucking company for delivery.
Production Planner
Flowserve QRC
Deer Park, Texas
06.2014 - 05.2015
- Review New Valve Build Spec Sheets, diagrams, and functional specifications; ensure parts lists are accurate and customer specification requirements are met.
- Manage daily assembly schedule for new valves and parts orders, provide quotes to inside sales associates, submit weekly and monthly forecast for bookings, fill new parts orders, resolve bill of material errors, purchase parts, expedite raw materials from suppliers for machinists.
- Maintain backlog and open order reports; coordinate large project order planning strategies, i.e., machining (forgings, castings) for purchased parts, schedule in-house leak tests and function tests for delivery preparation.
- Maintain communications with all customers on order status and delivery tracking details.
- Oracle - Purchasing, Assembly Planning (Allocation of Parts Required), Expedite Parts.
- SAP - inventory parts verification at other locations for transfer as needed.
- Purchasing - RFQ, Research Bill of Materials, create requisitions, Keep Stock.
Production Planner
Pentair Valves & Controls
Stafford, Texas
11.2012 - 06.2014
- Provide project managers' production schedules, historical data for past due orders and oversee execution of assembly of valves.
- Coordinate with shipping to ensure all documentation was complete and all QA/QC testing was performed.
- Utilize SAP PLM functionality to correct and update bill of materials, compare material data for substituting required parts when needed, change order operations for production work orders as needed, print work packages for assembly line and ensure all hardware keep stock consistently maintained.
- Oversee assembly line ensuring delivery is met and all quality checks are completed on time.
Maintenance Scheduler
Suncor Energy
Fort Mackay, Canada
08.2008 - 11.2012
- Daily review of hours available versus PM and Corrective work hours scheduled, and parts availability.
- Met weekly with Plant Manager, Operations Team Leads, and Maintenance Managers to discuss compliance challenges, carry-over PM work, equipment system condition requirements, and 2-week schedule look ahead.
- Met weekly with Supply Chain to confirm schedule and reprioritization, expedite materials, and minimize backlog.
- Provided weekly work packages for all disciplines (work centers) to execute scheduled PM's.
- Bi-weekly informal meetings with Scaffold and Welder team leads to ensure support requirements were on schedule for execution of PM work.
- Turnaround Planner support: Employee and contractor mobilization, Propose Preventive Maintenance Work to perform during shutdown, provide cost estimates of PM work, update and communicate Turnaround schedule.
SAP Administrator
Petro-Canada
Fort Mackay, Canada
07.2004 - 08.2008
- Create/Build SAP database: Equipment and bill of materials, Functional locations, PM Strategies, Work Packages, Task Lists, and Completed audit of maintenance expenses from 2002-2004 with procurement cards.
- Maintenance tech training: Create notifications and how to Create Purchase Requisitions using existing material masters.
Education
Functional Leadership Training - Organizational Leadership
Texas United Management
Houston11.2024
Maintenance Asset Planning -
Keyano College
Fort McMurray, AB, Canada05.2011
Some College (No Degree) - Project Management
Emerald Associates
Calgary, AlbertaSkills
- SAP SME - MM
- SAP SME - PM
- SAP SME - FICO
- EAM
- Maximo
- Oracle
- Azure DevOps (ADO)
- Power BI
- SPHERA (Materials Data Management)
- MaintainX
- SAP Fiori
- Microsoft Office Suite 365
- Microsoft Edge
- SharePoint
- Excel
- Teams
- Word
- Outlook
- PowerPoint
- Projects
- Dynamics
- Access
- Google Drive
- G-mail
Education Certification Training Awards
- SAP PM, MM, Purchasing, 16+ years
- Sullexis, LLC, Employee of the Year, 12/2021, Houston, TX
- Functional Leadership Training - Texas United Management, 11/2024
- Keyano College, Maintenance Asset Planning, Certification, 05/30/11, Fort McMurray, AB, Canada
- Suncor Energy Excellence Award, Planning Dept., 2011, Fort Mackay, AB, Canada
- Primavera P6 Training, Certification, 05/2011
Experience And Key Competencies
Execute sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations., Work closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery., Direct and lead development team from project initiation through the delivery of final product., Address problems through risk management and contingency planning., Conflict Management Skills, Planning and Organizing, Risk Management, Excellent documentation skills including status updates., Demonstrated ability to work with and support cross-functional project teams., Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and under pressure., Ability to apply Project Management skills and methodology to manage resources, proactively mitigate risks, resolve issues, and escalate only as needed., Communication - Professional; exceptionally good understanding of etiquette in every platform., Influential and collaborative leader with outstanding project management skills., Initiative-taking and innovative thinker with excellent analytical and critical thinking skills., Excellent interpersonal and communication skills., Ability to deliver results, prioritize activities, accountable, and transparent., Possess strong relationship building skills, build and maintain client confidence, team members, managers, and senior executives., Continuously meet and surpass expectations; credible and reliable., Ability to adapt and operate effectively in ambiguous and rapidly changing environments.
Qualifications Summary
Meticulous Asset Management professional with over twenty years of SAP experiences leading multiple phases of diverse maintenance projects. Possess savvy business acumen who delivers business process solutions and project support. Adept at conceptualizing solutions for complex problems and providing objective analysis to facilitate business decisions. Goal oriented and resolute professional with proven record in providing business and asset maintenance solutions. Ability to influence and collaborate with individuals across multiple disciplines, cultures, and organizational levels.
Affiliations
- Sole Proprietor - Residential HVAC/Heating Parts and Supplies
- Bookkeeping and Tax Preparation
- Member of CCA Texas (Coastal Conservation Association)
Accomplishments
- Sullexis, LLC, Employee of the Year, - 2021, Houston, TX
- Suncor Energy Excellence Award, Planning Dept., - 2011, Fort Mackay, AB Canada
- High School Graduation - Top 10%, Varsity in Basketball, Volleyball, Cheer
Languages
English
Professional
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
PM Planner/Scheduler, Buyer/Trainer/Inventory Management
Texas United Management - United Salt Hockley, LLC
05.2024 - Current
Asset Data & PM Analyst/ PM Optimization
Sullexis, LLC (Contractor) BP
10.2019 - 05.2024
Maintenance Lead Planner/ Project Coord/ Scheduler
Jones Lange LaSalle/ Amazon
07.2017 - 10.2019
Operations Coordinator/ Production Planner
CG Industrial Specialties LTD.
06.2015 - 05.2016
Production Planner
Flowserve QRC
06.2014 - 05.2015
Production Planner
Pentair Valves & Controls
11.2012 - 06.2014
Maintenance Scheduler
Suncor Energy
08.2008 - 11.2012
SAP Administrator
Petro-Canada
07.2004 - 08.2008
Functional Leadership Training - Organizational Leadership
Texas United Management
Maintenance Asset Planning -
Keyano College
Some College (No Degree) - Project Management
Emerald Associates