Colin Campbell — Regional Manager, Maintenance & Engineering
Multi-site engineering leader — capital strategy, automation, reliability and complex plant modernization.
I lead projects from operational problem and business case through authorization, design, installation, commissioning and verified ROI.
7
WA sites in my region today
$600M+
Capital portfolio developed & governed
0.8 yr
Best-in-portfolio payback
75 → 8
HC converted to automated FTE
01 — Selected work
Five programs, five dimensions of engineering leadership.
Automated Cod Portioning Line
Manual bandsaw cutting across three locations capped throughput and quality, and no OEM believed cod could be portioned automatically.
- 0.8 yr
- Simple payback
- 75 → 8
- Headcount to FTE
- $4M+
- Capital project, board approved
Greenfield Processing Plant Program
A 40-year-old multi-level plant was running far past design capacity and carrying nine figures of catch-up capital that bought no new capability.
- $500M+
- Total installed capital, greenfield program
- 3x+
- Capacity expansion vs. the legacy facility
- $90M+
- Modeled annual run-rate benefit (yield + labor)
Ignition — First Enterprise SCADA
Every asset ran its own HMI island, so line state, stop counts and stop causes could only be gathered by walking the floor.
- 19+
- Assets integrated in phase 1
- Enterprise
- Scaled beyond the pilot site
Mezzanine Conveyor Optimization
Conveyor crossovers, poor transfers and manual sanitation across four packaging lines were driving contamination risk and product loss.
- 1.8 yr
- Payback
- ~450,000 lb
- Annual mezzanine waste targeted
- 3 FTE
- Labor released (1 floor + 2 sanitation)
Fillet Line Optimization — Multivac Infeed & Skinning
Step loss across the whole-fish-to-fillet flow was running at 11% with no stop-cause data to aim improvement at.
- 11% → 5%
- Site step loss
- +2%
- Yield recovered
- $1MM
- Annual savings
02 — Capabilities
Capital strategy
Five-year plans, business cases and board authorization.
Automation
Robotics, portioning, grading and packaging lines.
Controls & SCADA
Enterprise Ignition platform, PLC/VFD standards.
Reliability
TPM pillar, predictive maintenance, storeroom and asset management.
Brownfield execution
Shutdown installs inside running plants, commissioned on schedule.
Engineering leadership
10 direct and 65 indirect reports across a multi-site region.
03 — Proof
Scale, and what it produced.
$600M+
Capital portfolio developed & governed
Greenfield plant business case plus multi-site five-year plans
7
Sites in my region
Maintenance, reliability, capital and engineering services
100+
Capital projects tracked
Categorized, prioritized and estimated across the region
75 → 8
Labor converted on one automation line
Manual bandsaw crews to automated-line FTE
0.8 yr
Best project payback
Verified against the model that funded it
$90M+
Modeled annual benefit
Greenfield program run-rate gross margin case
04 — Leadership
Accountable for the plan, the people and the result.
I run maintenance, reliability, capital project management and engineering services for a seven-site region — 10 direct and 65 indirect reports, brownfield plants kept running and improving while the greenfield facility that replaces them is designed.
More about my experience- Multi-site engineering leadership
- Capital program ownership
- Team leadership & development
- Brownfield + greenfield delivery
- Automation & reliability focus
- Full project lifecycle accountability
05 — Contact