Mario McAlister
Engineering Project Manage
Jacksonville,Fl
Summary
Accomplished and result-focused manufacturing professional with strengths in maintenance supervision, maintenance program management, engineering supervision, project management and energy leadership. Proficient in leveraging data and analytical processes to inform business decisions. A highly organized collaborator with excellent written and verbal communication and solid project management acumen. Experience with large budgets, complex schedules, and the technical mindset needed to set and drive requirements. Proficient in lean six sigma practices, continuous improvement, and all phases of project management.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Facilities Engineering Project Manager/Energy Lead
Stellantis - Warren Stamping Plant
Warren, MI
09.2020 - Current
- Led successful completion of $14 million in capital expenditure projects in 2020 by identifying scope changes, addressing issues, and communicating project milestones.
- Reduced project expense by over 20% through successful utilization of on-site resources.
- Reduced energy cost by 15% through lighting initiatives, detailed curtailment plans and internal energy audits.
- Manage all activity budgets, material acquisition, and installation for assigned projects using SAP.
- Plan and schedule resources to meet project milestones.
- Experience managing relationships across multiple business divisions to meet project deliverables
- Control project-related correspondence and documents, including defining customer requirements to project architect, engineers, and other team members.
- Responsible for supervising and mentoring facilities engineers to meet goals related to savings, safety, project planning, continuous improvement and root cause analysis and project management activities.
Preventative Maintenance Operations Manager
FCA US LLC.
Warren , MI
04.2018 - 09.2020
- Responsible for developing and implementing equipment standards, as well as, effective maintenance programs, equipment enhancements on over 2000 machines in a 2.1 million sq. ft. facility across 9 departments.
- Responsible for developing schedule for spare parts ordering and delivery based on predetermined maintenance schedule. Ensured all spare parts are coded and have assigned storage through analysis of MTTR/r and justified B/C ratios.
- Monitored safety compliance to maintain strict standards and protect team members from harm.
- Shrunk knowledge gaps with ongoing training and close employee mentoring for new and less experienced team members.
- Established and documented protocols for preventive maintenance procedures, decreasing equipment issues and reducing downtime 35%.
- Monitored priorities and liaised between maintenance team and management, delegating tasks to complete on time.
- Delegated tasks to carefully selected employees in alignment with resource management goals to restore equipment, standardize & reduce maintenance cost, implement condition-based technology.
Lean Manufacturing Engineer
Chrysler FCA
Warren, MI
01.2015 - 04.2018
- Supervised employee performance, preventive maintenance and safety.
- Completed a changeover restoration project that addressed throughput, run to run, micro stoppage and breakdown phenomena. The major kaizen reduced material change over by 80 minutes, resulting in an annual cost savings of $680,000.
- Developed and executed training programs for salary and union employees covering standardized work procedures, basics of lean manufacturing and ensured that team members could speak to and implement PM methodology and processes.
- Resolved technical and quality issues by collaborating with customer, manufacturing, quality assurance, vendors and supplier personnel.
- Performed concurrent design and manufacturing engineering and other functions for vertical launch of new equipment
- Developed streamlined manufacturing process, which boosted productivity and saved over $500k.
- Identified appropriate methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electronic Engineering
12.2014
Skills
- Strategic planning
- Proposal creation
- Technology integration
- Financial administration
- Vendor sourcing
- Compliance understanding
- Training and mentoring
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Analytical skills
- Flexible & Adaptable
- Self-motivated professional
Accomplishments
- Led and completed over 100 improvement kaizen's with a total cost saving of over $2,000,000 since 2015. I have been recognized and inducted into the facilities $500,000 savings club in 2017 and the Million Dollar club in 2018.
- First in the NAFTA region to progress a machine through step 6 (Reactive to predictive maintenance) process since 2008. This project restored 25-year-old equipment back to its original condition while extending life of components with a cost saving of over $130,000 from continued loss.
- Managed the pilot of an integrated data analytics system (Quick Base) for the stamping division reporting directly to the president of manufacturing. I developed a maintenance specific application and facilitated the development of a scrap revenue application that helped the organization identify over $1 million in unclaimed scrap sales.
- Global assistant auditor earning the opportunity to travel to Mumbai, Pune and Ahmedabad, India with the plant manager. The multi day audits of Magnetti Marelli lighting facilities identified strengths and weaknesses of implemented lean manufacturing methodologies.
- Implemented hardware and cloud-based software to monitor temperature, current, vibrations allowing us to move from time-based maintenance to condition-based maintenance.
Certification
IBM Cognitive Skill Python 101
Timeline
Facilities Engineering Project Manager/Energy Lead - Stellantis - Warren Stamping Plant
09.2020 - Current
Preventative Maintenance Operations Manager - FCA US LLC.
04.2018 - 09.2020
Lean Manufacturing Engineer - Chrysler FCA
01.2015 - 04.2018
Florida A&M University - Bachelor of Science, Electronic Engineering
IBM Cognitive Skill Python 101
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