REGINALD T. FORD
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facility plant engineer
• Dynamic, qualified, and highly ethical Facility Plant Engineer with 36 years' extensive experience applying excellent customer service, efficiency, and mechanical reliability skills to day-to-day facility maintenance operations; expert in anhydrous ammonia systems, production equipment, and building operations.
• Expert in analyzing data, resolving problems, and providing superb customer service along the way.
• Experienced in developing process improvements to streamline workflow; improving line efficiencies; redesigning and enhancing production and plant improvements; scoping projects; controlling budgets; utilizing engineering crew in most effective manner; prioritizing customer service practices; implementing and maintaining plant safety practices in regards to environmental programs, including Anhydrous Ammonia Systems; overseeing government agency audits (e.g., MOSH, EPA, WSSC, WASA, and DC & MD State Health Departments); creating and maintaining HACCP engineering programs and practices; and effectively managing all aspects of production equipment and material handling, including welding.
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal, and written and verbal communications skills; innate ability to build rapport with clients and colleagues and succeed in high-pressure, challenging, and deadline-driven environments.
• Computer Skills: AutoCAD 2000-20013, Excel, MS Works, Lotus, NT Netscape Communicator; PMC 2000 Computerized Maintenance systems and development; Micro-Maintenance programs and development; Siemens EMS plant controls and logic development
• Equipment/Tool Proficiency: Sanitary and general welding, wiring and electrical controls, schematics and plant drawing readings. Proficient in production and refrigeration equipment modifications. Also made modifications to packing, fillers, material handling, stacker cranes, rv pallet movers, & conveyors. Lathes, milling, pumps and gearboxes. Fire alarm and other safety controls. HTST and pasteurize systems. Water and sewer controls to WSSC rules and regulations
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Customer Service
Facility Maintenance Operations
Anhydrous Ammonia Systems
HACCP Engineering Programs
Project Management
High-Voltage Equipment
Blueprints/Schematics Production Equipment
Plant Management
Building Operations
Analysis/Problem Resolution
Material Handling
Equipment Maintenance
Troubleshooting Process Improvements
Budgeting
Plant Safety Practices
Audits
Welding
Operations
Engineering
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Pete Pappas & Sons Produce Plant 1982 – Present
Facility Plant Engineer (Plant is relocating)
Successfully maintain building, equipment, and Ammonia Refrigeration Systems.
Trigen/Pepco / New Washington DC Convention Center 2003 – 2005
Contractor / Shift Supervisor
Oversaw shift operations of chillers, boilers, pumps, and 1200K generators. Collaborated with colleagues in improving equipment and controls for two Honeywell EMS Systems. Executed excellent troubleshooting practices for high-voltage equipment. Scoped and installed new electrical controls and circuits.
Safeway Stores, Inc. 1974 - 2003
Facility Plant Engineer / Chief Engineer, Ice Cream Department (Plant closed in 2003)
Proactively maintained and oversaw plant and equipment updates and efficiencies. Updated and maintained environmental and safety programs. Efficiently scoped and managed plant projects in a timely manner and remained within budgets. Implemented new PMC2000 micro-maintenance programs. Successfully created and developed new M&W 2000 department management systems for Engineer Department. Read and implemented blueprints and electrical systems schematics. Experienced in diverse range of hands-on mechanical and material handling skills, including pallet jacks, forklifts, round and square half-gallon fillers and freezers, novelty lines, sandwich lines and freezers, overwraps, shrink wraps, stretch wraps, CIP lines and controls, boilers, chillers, urea systems, cooling towers, and condensers, rotary, reciprocating, screw compressors for ammonia and CFC systems, and any of the before-mentioned equipment...
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