Vicente Vives

• Procured pricing information from various vendors to support cost-effective purchasing.
• Planned scheduled maintenance outages as part of preventive maintenance program for all Haas CNC Machines and Manufacturing Belt
• Monitored priorities and liaised between maintenance team and management, delegating tasks to complete on time.
• Completed partial or full dismantling of equipment to quickly repair or replace defective components and restore functionality on HVAC Lennox and HAAS
• Supervised employee performance, preventive maintenance, and safety.
• Documented inventory of spare parts to enable tracking history and maintain accurate records using HIPPO Cmms system.
• Scheduled regular inspections of equipment and facilities to manage wear and tear.
• Established and documented protocols for preventive maintenance procedures, decreasing equipment issues, and reducing downtime.
• Trained maintenance technicians to apply proper techniques and best practices and comply with safety protocols and OSHA Regulation in and outside the building.
• Hiring and training staff, developing and implementing maintenance plans, and managing the department's budget.

· Coordinates activities for the shift mechanics to engaged in setting up, change overs, installing new parts, repairing, and trouble shooting and maintaining machinery such as Cremmer Pill sorters, and PharmaFil cs2 models, neck bands and Fill Cottoners , Heat inductors and heat tunnel for the neck band.

· Assists workers in diagnosing malfunctions in machinery just as PLC trouble shooting Siemens and Allen Bradley PLC’s 24 dc and 110 ac plc units. Properly following Lock out Tag procedures on each equipment.

· Tracking daily and weekly downtime conducted on the production floor. See, and improve work ethic, and improving downtime correctives and schedule proper PM’s according with equipment maintenance manuals or early detection on wear and tear of the equipment.

· Train new mechanics on new equipment vision inspection ICQ-2-80

· Create recipe on the icq-2-80 following the engineering evaluation and tolerance spec of the rejects and acceptable format

· Create Weekly meetings for Safety concern on the floor and equipment to create better work environment

· Maintain order for parts, bearing, cylinders from Bimba, Festo on Mac Master carr, Rodwell. Verifying cost of inventory monthly.

· Verification of employees weekly hours and Human Resource verification payroll on CMMS

• Diagnosed mechanical failures to determine and delegate corrective actions.

• [Filling Machine/ Tray loader/ Sterilizer/Oprail Inspection/ Lead Senior Technician]

· Maintenance and repairs on mechanical and electrical equipment such as ac/dc electrical motors, BOSTON gear boxes, conveyors, elevators (hoppers), Bimba, festo Pneumatics, vibratory-bowls and indexers.

· Optrail Senior Mechanic: High speed automated vision inspection systems, responsible for identifying product defects and segregation of defects accordingly.

· Performing Line changeovers, setups Including COGNEX vision systems performance adjustments and data collections.

· Maintenance, troubleshooting, and repairs on electrical servo motors, proximity, photoelectric, fiber optic sensors.

· Installation of Trio 24vdc MC206x,PLC SLC 5/05 cpu slc 5/03 cpu, Cognex Vision cameras, and S200 series drives.

· Diagnostic and adjustments with the use of Trio Motion 2 software and basic understanding of the Ladder logic on the plc’s and HMI’s.

· Upgrading and modifying the filling and packaging machines to perform to the requirement of the Engineer and Manufacturing proactivity.

· Day to day training on all GMPs and SOPs OSHA regulations and performing corrective Lock out tag out on machines being repaired and WIP corrective maintenance machines.

· Support Manufacturing Engineer group and Product Development departments with ongoing and new projects and their validations, and participating in scrap reduction projects, by modifying and upgrading special custom manufacturing equipment

· Work independently with minimal supervision.

· Complete repair and performance log on a daily/weekly/monthly basis

[ March – Present ] Second Job [Nutrastar] [Farmindale NJ]

[Mechanic Supervisor Packaging and Hall wall pill assembly Second shift]

· Coordinates activities for the shift mechanics to engaged in setting up, change overs, installing new parts, repairing, and trouble shooting and maintaining machinery such as Cremmer Pill sorters, and PharmaFil cs2 models, neck bands and Fill Cottoners , Heat inductors and heat tunnel for the neck band.

· Assists workers in diagnosing malfunctions in machinery just as PLC trouble shooting Siemens and Allen Bradley PLC’s 24 dc and 110 ac plc units. Properly following Lock out Tag procedures on each equipment.

· Tracking daily and weekly downtime conducted on the production floor. See, and improve work ethic, and improving downtime correctives and schedule proper PM’s according with equipment maintenance manuals or early detection on wear and tear of the equipment.

· Train new mechanics on new equipment vision inspection ICQ-2-80

· Create recipe on the icq-2-80 following the engineering evaluation and tolerance spec of the rejects and acceptable format

· Create Weekly meetings for Safety concern on the floor and equipment to create better work environment

· Maintain order for parts, bearing, cylinders from Bimba, Festo on Mac Master carr, Rodwell. Verifying cost of inventory monthly.

· Verification of employees weekly hours and Human Resource verification payroll on CMMS

[January 2003]-[November-2008] [Huntleigh Healthcare] [Eatontown],[NJ]

[Line Supervisor/ Mechanic] 2nd Shift

· Responsible for the day-to-day coordination of production activities on a semi-automated production line involving over 20 people.

· Repairs on dye cuts equipment, on RF-molding equipment, garment printers, video Jets and connector insertion equipment, and also industrial sewing machines.

· Electrical and Mechanical maintenance on all equipment on the production floor.

[June 2004] –[ July 2008] [DHC Freehold Toyota ] [Freehold],[NJ]

[DHC Freehold Toyota A- Tech ] 1st Shift

· Tire and wheel mounting, wheel balancing on a Snap On balancer, oil, and fluid changes, tune-ups, motor belt mounting, 12v batteries mounting, engine overhaul repairs, timing belts, brakes, and suspension.

· Interpret work orders and technical manuals. Repaired or replace defective parts, components and full front and back Hunter Alignments.

[August 2001]-[January-2003] [JDS Uniphase] [Eatontown], [NJ]

[Fiber optic, electrical board calibrator]

· Performed complex PC Board modifications, reviewed assembly drawings, build test platforms and assemble products.

· Assembly and test knowledge of electronic or electro-optical components and assemblies.

· Experience with automated pick & place epoxy/solder-based assembly equipment.

· Circuit board assembly (PCBA) and box-build. Ability to troubleshoot fiber optic communication problems.

• Wrote work orders and updated accounts in workshop computer.
• Troubleshot and diagnosed faults with vehicle systems and components using OEM-specific code readers, diagnostic trees, and online knowledge bases.
• Maintained cleanliness, safety
• Used problem-solving skills to alleviate issues efficiently with minimal supervision.

· Responsible for the day-to-day coordination of production activities on a semi-automated production line involving over 20 people.

• Used problem-solving skills to alleviate issues efficiently with minimal supervision.

· Repairs on dye cuts equipment, on RF-molding equipment, garment printers, video Jets and connector insertion equipment, and also industrial sewing machines.

· Electrical and Mechanical maintenance on all equipment on the production floor.

• Prepared reports to evaluate workflow and production output to identify areas for targeted improvement.
• Trained employees to operate and maintain production line equipment such as Sawing machine and (RF) Welders