Leadership
Regional engineering leadership, built plant-side.
I am Regional Manager, Maintenance & Engineering for a seven-site Washington processing region. My accountability spans maintenance and reliability, capital project management, infrastructure and engineering services — the five-year plan for each site, the people who execute it, and the results after commissioning.
I work best where brownfield constraint and greenfield ambition meet: keeping 40-year-old plant running and improving while designing the facility that eventually replaces it. I held end-to-end accountability for the programs presented here — from business case and authorization through engineering, execution, commissioning and benefit realization.
01 — Scope of responsibility
- Region
- 7 processing sites, Washington
- Functions
- Maintenance & reliability · Capital project management · Infrastructure · Engineering services
- Team
- 10 direct reports · 65 indirect reports — maintenance managers, process/project/controls engineers, technicians, controls techs, maintenance planners and MRO/storeroom managers
- Capital
- $600M+ portfolio developed & governed — greenfield plant business case plus multi-site five-year plans
- Disciplines
- Controls & SCADA · Automation & robotics · Refrigeration & utilities · Conveyance & material handling · Sanitary design
- Programs
- TPM/PM pillar, predictive maintenance, storeroom and asset management
02 — How I operate
Capital strategy & authorization
Five-year plans for each site, with every line item carrying a category, rationale, A/B/C priority, basis of estimate and savings type. CARs and BOD packages written, defended and approved — from multi-million-dollar automation lines up to a $500M+ greenfield case — with ROI, IRR and payback modeled, then verified at commissioning.
People & organizational leadership
Hiring and developing site maintenance leadership, setting standards that hold when I am not in the building, and partnering with HR, Operations and Finance on staffing models — including automation transitions that reshaped crews rather than simply cutting them.
Safety, compliance & food safety
Guarding, e-stops, zone safety interlocks, arc-flash and lockout considerations, quick disconnects for sanitation, and sanitary design reviewed with QA and food safety before install — not retrofitted after a finding.
Brownfield execution
Ten-day holiday shutdown installs with prefab staged on weekends, phased mechanical and electrical, onsite engineering through commissioning, operator and sanitation training, and formal signoffs.
Controls & data
First enterprise SCADA platform, PLC/VFD standardization, machine-interface integration across mixed OEM fleets, and uptime/stop-cause reporting leadership actually uses.
Vendor & systems management
OEM and integrator selection through RFP, scope-of-supply negotiation, FAT/SAT and long-lead procurement sequencing across international suppliers, with spend, POs and asset records carried in the plant business systems.