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SUMMARY
25+ years experience in the coal mining industry in maintenance management positions. Extensive experience in electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, safety, diesel, and cost efficiency systems. Supervision of up to 80 employees. Ongoing work with vendors, contractors, and government agencies. Personal goal to be a contributing member of a professional management team in a progressive organization.
MAJOR QUALIFICATIONS
- Proven maintenance manager
- Working together as a team with supervisors and employees, ensuring maximum safety, efficiency, and production
- Proven, communication, and decision making skills
- Proven leadership, managing, and supervisory skills
- Proven skills in planning, scheduling, organizing and problem solving
- Worked with MSHA and NIOSH on testing and research of various diesel after-treatment devices, compliance issues, new component design, etc.
- Full responsibility for all aspects of maintenance both underground and surface
- Responsible for equipment specification, purchases, and rebuilds
- Implementation of preventive/ predictive maintenance program.
- Ability to manage budgets
- 24 years in a coal mining supervisory position - 29 years total coal mining experience.
SIGNIFICANT EMPLOYMENT POSITIONS:
Maintenance Superintendent/Diesel Equipment Compliance Coordinator
Energy West Mining Company, Huntington, UT
Mine Maintenance Superintendent
Energy West Mining Company, Huntington, UT
General Maintenance Foreman
Energy West Mining Company, Huntington, UT
General Longwall Mechanic Foreman
Utah Power and Light Mining Company, Huntington, UT
DETAILS OF SIGNIFICANT WORK EXPERIENCE
Maintenance Superintendent / Diesel Equipment Compliance Coordinator,
Energy West Mining Company, Deer Creek Mine, 2+ years
Major responsibilities included:
- Ensuring 26 permissible pieces of the heavy-duty diesel fleet met the Federal Government's July 15, 2002 Particulate Final Rule Compliance deadline.
- Ensuring Deer Creek Mine's non-permissible heavy-duty diesel fleet also met the July 2003 Particulate Final Rule deadline.
- Investigating new engine technology equipment design.
- Researching, testing, and designing diesel exhaust after treatment devises.
- Working with equipment manufacturers, MSHA, NIOSH, mining company¡¦s, and labor to resolve compliance problems, design problems, safety, cost and other issues.
- Overseeing machine design modifications and rebuilds as needed.
- Establish cost analysis and budgets for equipment modifications and up-grades
- Plan and schedule equipment cycle from mine through rebuild shop so as not to impact the daily needs of the mine.
Mine Maintenance Superintendent,
Energy West Mining Company, Deer Creek Mine, 6+ years
Major work duties included:
- Responsibility for all aspects of maintenance, underground and surface, to ensure maximum safety, availability, production, cost and quality for 2 continuous miner sections and 1 longwall section, over 9 miles of underground belt, 3 miles of surface belt, 4 mine fans, 2 surface high pressure pump houses, 2 surface high voltage substations, surface water treatment plant, offices and bathhouse, surface shop, underground pumping and dewatering, underground high voltage distribution, underground diesel equipment, and conspec mine monitor system.
- Coordinating duties and schedules with maintenance supervisors and hourly employees to maintain a 24/7 operation.
- Develop specification and cost budgets for capital equipment purchases.
- Develop specification and cost budgets for equipment major overhauls.
- Maintain Maintenance department labor, equipment, parts and supply cost budget
- Responsibility for processing and shipping coal to coal-fired power plant.
- Supervision of maintenance team consisting of 18 salary and 62 hourly employees (80 total).
General Maintenance Foreman
Energy West Mining Company, Deer Creek Mine, 20 months
Worked directly under the Mine Maintenance Superintendent with responsibilities for the following duties:
- All aspects of maintenance on 2 to 3 continuous miner sections, outby power distribution, belt systems, pumping and dewatering.
- Planning and scheduling predictive / preventive maintenance.
- Coordinate and schedule daily, weekly, and monthly PMI inspections.
- Manage Maintenance staff of 3 Maintenance foremen 26 hourly employees to ensure duties were completed down to the last detail.
- Work directly with production / operations to ensure maximum equipment availability, production combined with safety and cost.
General Longwall Mechanic Foreman
Utah Power & Light Mining Company, Deer Creek Mine, 8 years
Job duties included:
- Ensured maximum equipment availability combined with safety, production, and cost guidelines.
- Planning and scheduling predictive / preventive maintenance.
- Coordinate and schedule daily, weekly, and monthly PMI inspections.
- Responsible for the24/7 maintenance of the longwall.
- Planned and scheduled longwall moves and equipment rebuilds.
- Supervised 3 foremen and 8 hourly employees.
- Coordinate and schedule daily Maintenance activities.
AWARDS
Spirit of Excellence, PacifiCorp
For Design of a Longwall Roof Bolter¡¨
Numerous Safety Awards, Energy West Mining Company
Annual Bonuses, For meeting Cost, Safety, Production, And Equipment Availability Goals.
CERTIFICATIONS
MSHA Certified Electrician Low, Medium, and High Voltage
MSHA Certified Fireboss
MSHA Certified Surface Foreman
EDUCATION
Diesel Conferences and Workshops in Canada, Pennsylvania, Utah, Colorado, and Kentucky
Advanced Management Training
Team building Management training
Cost Management training
Safety training
PLC training
Graduate, Emery County High School, Castle Dale, UT
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