Todd Abbott
Louisville,KY
Summary
Professional with significant experience in maintenance leadership, skilled in managing teams to ensure optimal performance and reliability. Known for fostering collaboration and adaptability, consistently meeting evolving needs. Expertise includes preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, and process improvement, combined with strong organizational and problem-solving abilities. Reliable and results-focused, ready to drive operational success.
Overview
32
32
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Maintenance Team Manager
FORD MOTOR COMPANY
06.2014 - Current
- Oversee the Ford F-Series Paint maintenance department, previously:
- Root Cause strategies for issues in the department, utilizing multiple types of systems to ensure reliability.
- Provide leadership and mentorship across all departments for production needs, projects, and manpower needs.
- Investigate current practices, implementing best practices or creating best practices for the region.
- Prioritized system repairs and upgrades, ensuring reduced MTTF and MTBF.
- Ensure breakdowns are managed most efficiently to bring production back online.
- Work with the new model year team to coordinate equipment updates in multiple areas for next year’s vehicles.
- Manage multi-million-dollar budgets and projects, including JPH increases and end-of-life projects.
- Prepare and execute business plans for the maintenance department to adhere to the corporate goals and objectives.
- Maximize workstation efficiencies and reduce operator redundancies.
- Create projects to secure funding for improvements and headcount reductions through ROI initiatives.
- Develop and implement plans to obtain department, plant, and corporate goals, including budget and manpower reductions.
- Manage multiple onsite vendors and leverage their support to ensure the maximum return on investments with them.
Maintenance Supervisor
CHRYSLER LLC
01.2013 - 06.2014
- Maintenance planning with their new robotic body weld facility. Implementing the World Class Manufacturing standards. Along with:
- Kaizen activities
- Collaboration with all departments to meet production requirements.
- Cost reduction activities, manpower rearrangement, and optimization.
- Lean manufacturing
- Implementation of standardized work instructions.
- 5S activities
- Maintenance Planning
Maintenance Area Manager
NISSAN NORTH AMERICA
11.2012 - 01.2013
- I managed the night shift maintenance in their Body Shop for 8 different model types.
- Plan the weekend non-production maintenance work.
- Coordinate shift-to-shift information transfer to optimize the performance of the department.
- Analyzed the recurring problems with the lines
- Prioritized the repairs and upgrades to them.
Maintenance Supervisor
AEROTEK
01.2012 - 11.2012
- Contract supervisor for Chrysler LLC. Supervised the development of the maintenance system of their robotic body weld plant. Managed the commissioning of their new robotic body in white plant.
- Mistake and error-proofing equipment
- Setting up standard maintenance procedures
- Developing preventive maintenance schedules
Maintenance Supervisor & Production Engineer
FIC AMERICA CORP
01.2001 - 01.2010
- Managed maintenance personnel. Maintain all automated equipment and modify it to meet customers’ requirements.
- Modifications include changes to PLC programming, changes in the material handling devices, and reprogramming of 6-axis robotic arms (by Motorman and Panasonic). Normal daily activities include:
- Maintain an efficient PM program.
- Implement benchmark activities from the Japanese parent plants.
- Installation and start-up of new equipment.
- Implement continuous improvement of all machines, including Kaizen and 5S programs.
- Training of new employees, as well as older employees, on new or newly updated equipment.
Maintenance Supervisor
WEBVAN
01.2000 - 01.2002
- Responsible for all electrical systems in an automated distribution center. The systems included over four miles of conveyors and a refrigeration system that cooled approximately half the building.
- All maintenance issues for the distribution center and up to 6 satellite stations.
- The ordering of parts, both new and warranty issues.
- This position required close work at times with our IT department to resolve several computer problems and networking issues.
Electrician
MODERN DROP FORGE
01.1994 - 01.2000
- Completed a four-year electrical apprentice program. I have worked with voltages from 6 volts to 4160 volts, both ac and dc. The electrical department was a team responsible for:
- New constructions, running conduit, pulling wire, terminating, and testing the circuits.
- Maintenance of all electrical components on the machinery (and related mechanical equipment).
- Troubleshooting of the equipment.
- Diagnose and troubleshoot problems with PLCs and relay logic controls
Education
Cert. Applied Sciences (Summa Cum Laude) -
Prairie State
Chicago Heights, IllinoisB.S. Business (Cum Laude) - undefined
Rasmussen College
Rockford, IllinoisMaster’s in Business Administration (MBA) (Summa Cum Laude) - undefined
Sullivan University
Louisville, KentuckyDoctorate in Business Administration (DBA) - Organization Leader Development
Capella University
Skills
- Scheduling and planning
- Safety protocols
- Health and safety compliance
- Maintenance strategy development
- Problem-solving
- Time management
- Leadership skills
- Problem-solving abilities
- Reliability
- Team collaboration
- Maintenance planning
- Continuous improvement
- Teamwork and collaboration
Certification
- Six Sigma Green Belt Certified
- Six Sigma Black Belt trained
- Member of The National Society of Leadership and Success
- Delta Mu Delta – International Honor Society for Business
- Phi Theta Kappa - International Honor Society
- World Class Manufacturing Training
- Kaizen Training
- Lean Manufacturing Training
- Nissan Way Management training
- Rockwell Automation's Fundamentals of Programmable Controllers
- Rockwell Automation's Maintenance & Troubleshooting the SLC 500
- G.E.’s PLC training at the G.E. training facility.
- Allen-Bradley SLC series (in-house) training.
Timeline
Maintenance Team Manager
FORD MOTOR COMPANY
06.2014 - Current
Maintenance Supervisor
CHRYSLER LLC
01.2013 - 06.2014
Maintenance Area Manager
NISSAN NORTH AMERICA
11.2012 - 01.2013
Maintenance Supervisor
AEROTEK
01.2012 - 11.2012
Maintenance Supervisor & Production Engineer
FIC AMERICA CORP
01.2001 - 01.2010
Maintenance Supervisor
WEBVAN
01.2000 - 01.2002
Electrician
MODERN DROP FORGE
01.1994 - 01.2000
B.S. Business (Cum Laude) - undefined
Rasmussen College
Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) (Summa Cum Laude) - undefined
Sullivan University
Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) - Organization Leader Development
Capella University
Cert. Applied Sciences (Summa Cum Laude) -
Prairie State