Highlights:Hardworking, forward-thinking, detail-oriented, and tenacious project manager and maintenance professional, equipped with career-long expertise of 19+ years in crucial facets of industrial operation in heavy industries such as Oil & Gas, Iron & Steel, and Mining, facing challenging situations in a multicultural environment (Peru, Brazil, Mexico, and United States). Outstanding organizational, goal-driven, planning-executing, and problem-solving skills. Managing KPI metrics not only of maintenance activities, but also non-routine and CAPEX projects, to achieve department targets (based on industry benchmark), to ensure success and high-quality deliverables by managing company salary team, union workforce, and specialist contractors (external and internal long-term). Adept at coordinating with stakeholders and leading cross-discipline multicultural teams.

Skills:Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering, Automation, Project Management

Goal:Project Planning to meet 100% Compliance on Scope, Quality, Time, Budget. Project Execution to meet 100% according to Plan Design and Implement World-Class Maintenance and Automation Systems on Manufacturing Heavy-Industry

Membership:PMI (Project Management Institute) – www.pmi.org PMI ID: 873914 (Active Member) Certified Member: 3386996 (PMP certification). Member of (SIG: Specific Interest Group): SIG Automation Systems Member of (Chapter): Lima, Perú / Guadalajara, Mexico / Cleveland, USA SCRUM (Agile Project Management) - www.scrum.org Certified Member ITC (Infrared Technology Center) – www.infraredtraining.com Certified Member: 100371 (Certification Level 1): Mechanical and Electrical applications. Member of: Cleveland, USA SMRP (Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals) – www.smrp.org SMRP ID: 158389 (Active Member) Member of the Electronic Engineering (Chapter): Ohio, USA ISA (Instrumentation and Automation Society) – www.isa.org ISA ID: 32979866 (Active Member) ? Automatic Control System Division / Mining & Metals Industries Division ? Process Measurement & Control Division / Member of (Chapter): Lima, Perú IAM (Institute of Asset Management) – www.theiam.org IAM ID: 1031291 (Active Member) CIP (Peruvian Engineers Association) – www.cip-trujillo.org CIP ID: 108645 (Active Member) Member of the Electronic Engineering (Chapter): Trujillo, Perú APS (American Purchasing Society) – www.american-purchasing.com CCP ID: 132046 (Active Member) Certified Purchasing Manager

Certification:Project Management Institute - PMP Infrared Technology Institute - ITC1 American Purchasing Society - PPM

Maintenance Manager Planning and Project 12/2022 - current
Republic Steel, Canton, OH United States
Industry: Steel - Special Bar Quality
? Responsible for developing plans and supporting outages, projects, and maintenance activities (upgrade, revamping, repair, troubleshooting, or replacement of plant equipment and systems) to ensure productivity and quality on target, by directing activities of asset-health engineers, field supervisors, union workforce. Decreased unplanned downtime by 48%, and increased proactive-preventive maintenance execution by 33%. ? Responsible of plant equipment inside of 6 manufacturing sub-processes from scrapyard to refining, including internal utilities of Melting area.
? Facilitate work with operations, and other functional areas to understand work priorities and determine resource allocations based on craft capacities, equipment availability, and production schedules. Oversee CMMS scheduling to achieve 95% capacity utilization. ? Increased planner throughput by 70% through the improvement of the CMMS work order process and the development of guidelines with KPI metrics. ? Shot-up Ready to Schedule (RSCH) backlog to 3,800 man-hours (from 190) while also increasing work orders completion rate by 43% within 6 months of implementing newly defined supervisor, planner, and scheduler roles and responsibilities on assigned areas. ? Increased Legacy CMMS Master Data accuracy by 200% in 4 months by developing and maintaining an MS Windows-based centralized Master Data system that supports record tracking for equipment, functional locations, materials, maintenance plans & task lists.--
Maintenance Manager 12/2020 - 12/2022
Republic Steel, Canton, OH United States
Industry: Steel - Special Bar Quality
Responsible to ensure successful work on plant equipment, improvement projects, and all maintenance activities (including support to Safety, Environmental, and Quality) over Meltshop areas: Scrapyard, Stockhouse, Baghouse, Melting work areas, Site Services (Ladles, Slide Gates, Lances) and Internal Utilities, by supporting planners, field supervisors, union workforce. Decreased unplanned downtime by 20%, and increased resource utilization by 42%.
? Developed and maintained KPI indicators in a single, user-friendly dashboard for the Maintenance & Reliability group to drive improvements in Maintenance Processes and Asset Reliability ? Partnered with operations to implement a cost-effective maintenance program by streamlining maintenance processes and optimizing efficiency during the difficult times brought on by the COVID crisis. ? Produced $180K in annual cost savings and avoid losses – by updating OEM engineering maintenance guidelines-plans, and performing equipment criticality risk assessments to balance the site’s cost and risk profile. Major Projects : o Commissioning and startup of 5-strand Billet Caster (Idled for 10+ years), ensuring product yield above 90%+ o Manage Annual Outages, to decrease unplanned downtime and ensure uptime of equipment under the assigned area.--
Purchasing Manager 10/2018 - 12/2020
Republic Steel, Canton, OH United States
Industry: Steel - Special Bar Quality
? Responsible for management of tactical buyers to deliver key buyer metrics including Requisitions to PO placement, PO confirmations, Past Due POs, Return/repair execution, Efficiency of MRP actions to successful and timely PO placement, Expedites / Delays / Cancels, Past Due POs & Requisitions, Escalations. Decreased backlog of Open Orders by 23% in the 4 months and improved lead time on critical items by 40% under CIA terms.
? Responsible for corporate-wide Procurement cycle, for plant equipment, consumables, and services for facilities to support Operations to achieve productivity, cost, quality, and safety goals. ? Produced $330K in annual cost savings (and avoid losses) by facilitating synergy with Mexico-Brazil sites and analyzing current spending, processes, and practices, to develop and deploy direct material sourcing strategies. Major Projects : o System of tracking and reporting prices of strategic consumables across all Company sites (Brazil, Mexico, United States) to implement monthly plans for corporate Procurement towards cost-saving and material availability. o Implementation of a system for tracking the status and physical count of critical spare equipment to support operations for reordering and replenishment towards reliability. o Decreasing non-conformances of material and services by 25% under the target threshold defined by the Quality and Audit team.--
Reliability Maintenance Manager 11/2015 - 10/2018
Republic Steel, Canton, OH United States
Industry: Steel - Special Bar Quality
? Responsible to analyze and review all maintenance activities to optimize the determination of work priorities for repair, maintenance, and installation of equipment to ensure continuous production operations. ? Responsible to coordinate engineering activities (such as execution, modification, etc) and designs for equipment utilization and optimization.
? Participated in the development of a preventive maintenance program in conjunction with operations and maintenance staff. ? Responsible to track, reviewing, report production, quality control, and maintenance reports and statistics to plan and modify maintenance activities. ? Confers with maintenance and engineering management to resolve maintenance problems and recommend measures to improve operations and conditions of machines and equipment. ? Responsible to lead the improvement of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), Equipment Availability & Downtime, by tracking and improving Preventative (PvM) and Predictive (PdM) Maintenance practices and results. ? Develop plans to eliminate or reduce losses through reliability analysis tools such as Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA). Major Projects : o Annual Outages, planning, execution, and managing investment of $8MM+ to decrease unplanned downtime by 40% and ensure uptime above 95% of critical equipment plantwide. o Implementation of predictive maintenance techniques such as infrared technology and vibrational analysis for tracking and reporting as valuable feedback for the Maintenance Management team--
E&I Maintenance Manager 12/2013 - 11/2015
SIMEC, Guadalajara, Jalisco Mexico
Industry: Steel - Rebar and Steel Frames
? Responsible for all maintenance and project activities to ensure target uptime and reliability of industrial control equipment on all site facilities: Scrapyard, Meltshop, Refining, Billet Caster, Rolling Mill (2), and Utilities.
? Responsible to ensure successful work process workflow (CMMS planning, scheduling, etc) and managing projects in electronic, automation, instrumentation, low-voltage power, and industrial IT (hardware and software), not only for improving safety, productivity, and availability for operations but also to support department KPIs. ? Managing a staff of engineers, shift technicians, and interns to ensure good quality of technical support and troubleshooting skills. o Increase by 38% of Meltshop Production (Record 2014) by improving control settings on the regulation system and transformer for Electric-Arc Furnace (60Ton). o Replacement of Legacy equipment such as Robicon DC Drives for ABB ACS800 and Loop Controllers DELTA to reduce downtime and product loss by 24%. o Specification change of instrumentation for temperature monitoring, length measuring, and position detection, to increase the life of equipment by 25%, decrease product losses by 21%, and increase personnel safety.--
Plant Application Sr. Specialist / Control 02/2010 - 12/2013
HUNT Oil - LNG, Lima, Lima Peru
Industry: Oil & Gas
? Responsible for leading technical assistance on all plant applications to support operations of the LNG production facility. ? Responsible for implementing and adapting PMI standards on the Project Management Office (PMO®) for all projects of the Plant Technology group. ? Liaison between OEM contractors and operations team for any project and activity towards improving, maintaining, and implementing plant apps (hardware & software).
Major Projects : o Implementation of the complete suite of OSISoft PI modules and API connection to Emerson DCS DeltaV system, as the foundation of plant application architecture following ISA95 standards and the concept of Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT). o Implementation and commissioning of Wonderware Field Data Collector based on handhelds, including roll-out and connectivity to j5 Saint James Logbook, this is to support compliance with LNG standards. o Implementation support (up to Go-Live) of maintenance processes and software solutions such as SAP PM Module, Weibull, and RCM++.--
Electronic Engineer. Automation & Instrumentation 05/2004 - 02/2010
GERDAU, Chimbote, La Libertad Peru
Industry: Iron and Steel
? Responsible for providing technical support on automation, control systems (corrective, and preventive), and projects (planning & commissioning) across specific areas such as Meltshop, Blast Furnace, Alloy Transportation, Oxygen Plant, Direct Reduction, and Hot Strip Rolling Mill.
? Responsible of ensure reliability and successful improvement of all industrial processes in the assigned area to increase safety and productivity in operations activities by programming PLCs, Industrial Networks, Interfaces (HMI & SCADA), Drivers, and Instrumentation (Conventional & Analytical). Developing drawings and operation guidelines, including preparing instrument specs, loop sheets, wiring diagrams, etc. ? Responsible to review and apply worldwide standards such as NFPA, NEC, IEC, ISA, and other relevant industry codes to level up design requirements to implement robust / failure-proof control systems. ? Assigned personnel to support and facilitate the implementation of corporate standards, policies, and practices (maintenance and projects) from Brazil to Peru (GTemplate). Major Projects : o Implementation of Automation Platform for Direct Reduction Plant: Continuous weight control of raw materials, speed control of Rotary Kilm Furnaces, and combustion control. o Implementation of Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks on critical processes such as combustion control, length measurement, current monitoring, and position tracking for improving the efficiency of gas consumption, product cutting, pattern recognition, asset protection, and alloy consumption. o Implementation of the Industrial Network (Level 1 and Level 2) and development of the Plant Process Database (Level 3) following ISA95 and OPC standards. o Corporate implementation for SAP-PM module, plant equipment hierarchy, and work management workflow--

UPAO Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego 03/1999 - 12/2003
Trujillo, La Libertad, Peru
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Electronic Engineering
Minor:Industrial Automation and Instrumentation
Electric/Electronic Engineering

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