Mikel "Shane" Raney
Oklahoma City
Summary
Dynamic Maintenance & Refrigeration Manager with a proven track record at Dorada Foods, excelling in project management and team leadership. Achieved a remarkable 10% reduction in maintenance spending while implementing predictive maintenance strategies. Passionate about driving operational efficiency and fostering a collaborative team environment to enhance performance and safety compliance.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Maintenance & Refrigeration Manager
Moms Meals
Oklahoma City
09.2024 - Current
- Achieved highest line uptime and lowest M&R cost across the enterprise over the last rolling 12 months.
- Cut equipment M&R over 24% in 2025, through several different approaches. Planning and managing downtime, dramatically decreasing utilization and necessity of outside resources, as well as by increasing MTBF through audited PM tasks.
- Implemented two cost savings initiatives that have saved 346,200 annually in LN2 spend, and $302,200 annually, via wastewater treatment pathology.
- Developed Maintenance Planner's skills in MTTR, MTBF, useful life, predictive vs. preventative maintenance, and Gantt charts, resulting in a budget reduction of one month within six.
- Completed installation of "Auto Case Pack Project" after FA testing identified necessary vendor changes, achieving deployment within 60% of allotted plant downtime for effective pre-launch testing.
- Manage 1 Maintenance and Refrigeration Supervisor, 1 Maintenance Planner, 4 Maintenance Supervisors, 19 technicians, 2 wastewater technicians, and 5 Refrigeration Technicians.
Maintenance & Refrigeration Manager
OK Foods
Oklahoma City
08.2022 - 09.2024
- Manage 1 Maintenance and Refrigeration Superintendent, 1 Maintenance Planner, 3 Maintenance Supervisors, 12 technicians, 2 wastewater technicians, and 4 Refrigeration Technicians.
- Completed unfinished 2020 Maintenance CapEx projects, such as a new 500hp Boiler and DA install, MCC upgrade with 2 new switch-gears, and demo and removal of an ammonia pump out compressor and oil generator. These projects were incomplete and undriven due to management changes within. All projects completed within 60 days of onboarding.
- After reviewing the existing state of the PM tasks, completion rates, and lack of PM auditing, I re-wrote all of the PM's first according to OE recommendations, secondly by speaking with the most tenured mechanics covering them, and lastly by availability at the machine. Mechanical downtime at start up was reduced over 83%.
- Implemented a cost savings initiative concerning fryer belting. Due to breakage an SOP had been implemented to force the change of fryer belting every two weeks, at a cost of $15k each occurrence. I sought and sourced belting with a proven run life of one year without breakage. As it was relatively new in the industry, I garnered a deal with the manufacturer to install across all of my fryers free of charge. The project was a success with a six week ROI, and subsequently a $680,000 cost savings first 12 months.
Maintenance & Refrigeration Manager
Dorada Foods
Ponca City
01.2020 - 08.2022
- Manage 1 Maintenance Superintendent, 7 Supervisors, 63 technicians, 4 purchasing agents, and 1 Maintenance Planner.
- Designed, built, bought, commissioned, and successfully started up new $29 million line addition, that reached expected efficiency within 1 week of start-up.
- Operated on a $40 million repairs budget, a $6.4million CapEx budget. Reduced Maintenance Labor costs by $240,000 (14%) in 2020, with a further reduction of 5% more in 2021.
- Implemented Inventory Control techniques.
- Read and revised PM scope, schedule, and frequency, becoming predictive and preventative versus reactive. Used the Superintendent and Supervisors to assist me with investigating predictive tests and tools. Upon purchase and implementation, the entire team was on board and excited to see and use procedures such as weekly amp draw on motors, heat and vibration analysis, and thermal imaging to prevent and predict failure, therefore preventing downtime.
- Successfully reduced unplanned downtime from 13% to 3%.
- Worked closely with Operations Manager to elevate OEE over 14%.
- Reduced Maintenance spending 14% on $40 million budget.
Maintenance & Refrigeration Manager
John Volpi Foods
St. Louis
05.2015 - 01.2020
- Have reduced unplanned downtime by over 50% in 1 year.
- Collaborated with Operations Director to elevate OEE by over 22% in one year.
- Reduced maintenance spending by 9% across all four facilities.
- Completely rewrote critical equipment PM's scope, and frequency.
- Successfully implemented 5S into maintenance shop, including inventory control management.
- Lead three teams consisting of 2 Supervisors, 18 Maintenance Technicians, 1 Continuous Improvement Technician, and 2 HVAC Technicians.
- Emphasized servant leadership, focusing on team needs to drive success.
- Have grown two maintenance technicians from job-seekers into a critical thinking Maintenance Planner, and the other a very formal, servant, quick thinking Maintenance Supervisor.
Maintenance Superintendent
Butterball L.L.C.
Carthage
09.2011 - 05.2015
- Lead three teams, beginning with the night shift maintenance crew, and next the day shift maintenance crew.
- Interim role of Maintenance Manager.
- Oversaw 32 employees, and another 14 indirectly.
- Maintain low labor rates, provide feedback, and daily direction on work assignments.
- Manage capital projects while driving contractor accountability to keep tasks within budget, and plan.
- Communicate with the Safety and Operations teams, and attend and assist with USDA and KPI meetings.
- Ensure GMP's are being followed while assisting the maintenance team to make timely repairs, with little to no impact upon the operations team.
Senior Toolmaker
La-Z-Boy
Neosho
01.2003 - 06.2011
- Transitioned from Senior Toolmaker to Maintenance Supervisor at La-Z-Boy.
- Engineered and built progressive stamping dies to enhance production capabilities.
- Redesigned technology to produce same product using alternative processes, increasing throughput and minimizing bottlenecks.
Education
Carthage Senior High School -
Carthage Senior High School
MOMissouri Southern State College -
Missouri Southern State College
MORepak School -
Repak School
Boston, MARETA Certified Operator 1 -
RETA Certified PSM/RMP -
Skills
- Predictive maintenance and trend analysis
- Inventory control and safety compliance
- Performance monitoring
- Project management and strategic planning
- Budget management and cost reduction
- Team leadership and operational efficiency
Timeline
Maintenance & Refrigeration Manager
Moms Meals
09.2024 - Current
Maintenance & Refrigeration Manager
OK Foods
08.2022 - 09.2024
Maintenance & Refrigeration Manager
Dorada Foods
01.2020 - 08.2022
Maintenance & Refrigeration Manager
John Volpi Foods
05.2015 - 01.2020
Maintenance Superintendent
Butterball L.L.C.
09.2011 - 05.2015
Senior Toolmaker
La-Z-Boy
01.2003 - 06.2011
Carthage Senior High School -
Carthage Senior High School
Missouri Southern State College -
Missouri Southern State College
Repak School -
Repak School