CAREER SUMMARY
Over 15 years as engineering professional working in a fast regulated GMP pharmaceutical environment providing technical support and supervising colleagues in different maintenance areas like; Calibration, Utilities, Manufacture, and Packaging. Successfully ran multiple improvements’ projects reducing equipment’s downtime, operational costs, improved OEE, investigate and solve Quality issues. Five years of experience as general contractor project engineer running highway lighting, wireless, and high and low voltage electrical installation projects. Strong safety oriented, team player, SOPs and Preventive Maintenance designer, hands on, QA and Safety audit knowledge, and training skills.
SKILLS
•Strong cGMP (ex. FDA, EMA, Germany, Japan, Brazil) and Safety oriented.
•Strong knowledge in QA Compliance (CAPA, QTS, IQ, OQ, PQ, Investigations, and Improvements).
•QA and Safety audit knowledge (internal / externals).
•ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001 standard
•DMAIC / 5S / Poka-yoke/ Value Stream Mapping / FMEA
•Design equipment’s PM procedures, guidelines, SOPs, and provides training.
•Electrical, highway lighting and wireless equipment installations.
•Develop project and departmental budgets and MTOL.
•Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, and Visio knowledge
•Able to work under pressure / Hands on person.
CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAININGS
•OSHA 30 hours and NFPA 70E trainings.
•Reliability Excellent for Managers Training (Life Cycle Institute).
•Kaisen Leader and Yellow Belt Certification (Green Belt Certification in progress)
•Trainer Certification
•Department of State Engineering Certificate #15493 (EITA)
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus / Mayor: Power
EXPERIENCE
Technical Team Leader Maintenance Engineering – Packaging (January 2014 until present), Pfizer Pharmaceutical
•Lead and coach, 3 shifts, packaging engineering maintenance team (11 colleagues).
•Achieved maintain the equipment’s downtime below the maximum annual downtime target hours; performing improvement and assuring preventive maintenance activities execution on time.
•Established bi-monthly inspections in to identify safety and GMP issues to avoid any accident or quality issue.
•Improved the communication in the maintenance team establishing huddles between a shift, a communication board, and shift reports.
•Keep the maintenance colleagues 100% in training compliance.
•Reduced 80% documentation errors providing trainings of how document correctly the PM Tasks.
•Reduced overtime by 5%.
•In charge of the machine shop which Puerto Rico OSHA recognized as ones of the best machine's shop in the industry of Puerto Rico.
•Monitoring packaging lines room’s cleanliness and coordinate resources to correct any issue.
•Perform internal QA audits.
Sr. Maintenance Engineer - Manufacture (May 2008 to December 2013), Pfizer Pharmaceutical
•Lead 3 shifts, 21 maintenance technicians, assuring the appropriate utilization and distribution of the colleague to support maintenance projects to perform: emergency works, preventive maintenance activities, reliability maintenance, and maintenance evaluations.
•Successfully lead emergency and scheduled equipment’s upgrade projects reducing production suites' downtime and improving the OEE.
•Proactive participates in safety inspections around the plan to identify possible safety issues to avoid accidents.
•Reduced the amount of PM Tasks by 83% ($500,000.00 in cost avoidance) using Kaisen tools.
•Reduced maintenance execution time by 10% and documentation errors by 90%; implementing visual PM Tasks and optimizing them.
•Perform internal GMP audits.
Maintenance Reliability Engineer (January 2008 to April 2008), Pfizer Pharmaceutical
•Development equipment’s maintenance strategies and correct system deficiencies.
•Lead first phase of the regional Engineering cost reduction which 10% expenditure reductions were identified.
•Safety Champion for Engineering Department.
Maintenance Team Leader - Site Utilities (November 2006 to December 2007), Pfizer Pharmaceutical
•Lead 3 shifts, utility maintenance team (20 colleagues); coordinate the operations, scheduled and non-scheduled maintenance activities, and assure monitoring systems good operation of plant common utilities.
•Improved the human resources use and the capability to proceed when and issue occurs centralizing the monitoring of the common building utilities (ex. HVAC System, USP Water System, Waste-Water Treatment Plant, Steam System).
•Assure that all areas are clean performing periodic inspections.
•Safety Champion for Engineering Department.
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