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Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Marysville, OH, United States
Toptal member since December 9, 2024
Bio
Jeremy is a versatile engineer with extensive project management and leadership experience in manufacturing and the military. He has led diverse teams and excels at developing innovative solutions to complex problems. Leveraging his Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and industrial and systems engineering expertise, Jeremy implemented a predictive maintenance system on critical equipment that saved $1.2+ million in downtime costs.
Project Highlights
Raw Materials System Air Compressor Upgrade
Installed a properly sized air compressor to eliminate nearly 400 hours of annual downtime for a critical raw materials system.
Predictive Maintenance System Implementation
Implemented a new predictive maintenance system on critical equipment, avoiding $1.2+ million in expected downtime costs over 2.5 years.
New Model Start of Production
Led and supported the launch of a new process for surface treatment, providing a critical customer with an efficient and high-quality product.
Expertise
- Chemical Engineering
- Industrial Engineering
- Lean
- Microsoft 365
- Project Management
- Reliability Engineering
- SAP Plant Maintenance (PM)
- Six Sigma Black Belt Certified
Work Experience
Senior Reliability Engineer
2024 - PRESENT
Scotts Miracle-Gro
- Joined the team after a year as a maintenance manager and was selected to execute a 5-year facilities maintenance program for critical plant infrastructure while continuing to implement preventive and predictive maintenance best practices.
- Continued the implementation of a remote predictive maintenance system, eliminating three potential failure modes for 50+ pieces of equipment in my first two months in the role.
- Developed a spare parts criticality system that was distributed to the entire network, assisting other sites with determining parts-stocking needs based on lead times, ability to generate a workaround, and costs.
Maintenance Manager
2023 - 2024
Scotts Miracle-Gro
- Eliminated 90% of our backlogged preventive and planned maintenance in my first six months after being selected to lead an industrial maintenance department of 38 mechanics, electricians, and controls technicians for an 800,000-square-foot facility.
- Resourced and completed total rebuilds of 18+ critical systems across the facility through efficient budgeting and capital projects, eliminating failure modes and potential downtime costs due to equipment age or degradation.
- Served as the manager and maintenance engineer for eight months to support the facility's continuous maintenance operations and ongoing capital projects.
Production Supervisor
2022 - 2023
Scotts Miracle-Gro
- Led 30+ personnel in two departments to conduct fertilizer production operations with the recommendation of both the plant director and operations manager.
- Drove eight new product trials with the engineering department—ensuring timely intervention and collaborating on potential failure modes—improving overall equipment effectiveness by 10% YoY.
- Implemented improved communication methods between operations and maintenance by establishing a daily and weekly meeting to develop and act on priorities for near-term and weekend shutdown planning.
Reliability & Maintenance Engineer
2021 - 2022
Scotts Miracle-Gro
- Joined the team as a reliability engineer, assumed maintenance engineering duties due to a sudden vacancy, and began building the foundations of a preventive and predictive maintenance program for the facility.
- Introduced vibrational and thermal monitoring—a predictive maintenance system—to the plant, identifying 12+ critical assets needing repairs and preventing $600,000 of unplanned downtime and repair costs.
- Eliminated 99% of downtime YoY after identifying a shortfall in our compressed air for a critical raw materials system and developing a capital project from repurposed equipment.
Quality & Continuous Improvement Engineer
2020 - 2021
Parker Trutec
- Joined the production team for a new model part at the start of production, creating ideal floor layouts for workflow and assessing process quality until full mass production.
- Created a new part inventory tracker and scheduling calculation system for our largest automotive customer to ensure equipment availability, meet delivery dates, and account for inventory daily.
- Supported mass production efforts for our largest electrocoating line by identifying and training team leads to improve task delegation and production tracking for multiple critical part orders.
- Developed work instructions for quality analysis of coating samples using a scanning electron microscope, allowing for extremely fine detail analysis of surface treatments on substrates.
Operations Officer
2009 - 2017
United States Army
- Planned and performed all-hazards mitigation and logistics training for 400 to 10,000-personnel organizations across the US and the Middle East, supervising 4 to 30-personnel teams.
- Activated a multifunctional, 62-personnel senior-level unit, supporting 24+ Reserve or National Guard organizations of 400 to 800 personnel each across five states: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.
- Coordinated 19+ regional training events across Kentucky and North Carolina in support of strategic logistical objectives, including disaster relief, headquarters relocation, and rapid-response force deployment readiness exercises.
- Developed the first logistics-centric exercise between the US and Kuwait Armed Forces, improving interoperability, training, and bilateral relations.
- Designed and coordinated participation in seven multinational exercises, resourcing 300+ deployed personnel.
- Served as the deputy operations chief and acting transportation officer of a 4,000-personnel organization—coordinating 100+ transportation directives and moving nearly 2,000 personnel, 150 vehicles, and 40 containers to and from Afghanistan.
- Organized and led a movement of 600+ personnel, 250 vehicles, and 18 containers across 540 miles with no stoppage of movement, enabling the organization to arrive and set up operations ahead of schedule for a month-long training event.
Project History
Raw Materials System Air Compressor Upgrade
Installed a properly sized air compressor to eliminate nearly 400 hours of annual downtime for a critical raw materials system.
Determined the actual versus expected CFM needs for a struggling raw materials system, developed a capital project with appropriate mechanical and electrical contractors, and installed an available 50-horsepower air compressor during a shutdown period. Year-to-year downtime due to this system reduced from an annual average of nearly 400 hours to less than 2 hours, saving an estimated $500,000 in unexpected costs due to decreased need for weekend overtime and additional system runtime.
Predictive Maintenance System Implementation
Implemented a new predictive maintenance system on critical equipment, avoiding $1.2+ million in expected downtime costs over 2.5 years.
Partnered with a local startup company to provide predictive maintenance sensors for vibrational and thermal monitoring for approximately 50 pieces of critical production equipment across the facility. In the initial 2-month period, we found and repaired two blower fans, including one recently rebuilt. Lead times for replacement parts in the event of a failure would have shut down the facility for almost a month. However, the early warning provided by the system allowed us to plan for and have parts available for the repair work to avoid downtime.
We also found multiple other critical pieces of equipment with bearing, motor, or reducer defects, which would normally create unplanned downtime. Implementation of this system, monitoring it, and communicating needed critical repairs to our maintenance team reduced the risk of catastrophic equipment failure.
We also found multiple other critical pieces of equipment with bearing, motor, or reducer defects, which would normally create unplanned downtime. Implementation of this system, monitoring it, and communicating needed critical repairs to our maintenance team reduced the risk of catastrophic equipment failure.
New Model Start of Production
Led and supported the launch of a new process for surface treatment, providing a critical customer with an efficient and high-quality product.
Led and developed a process to apply a consistent surface treatment to a new model part with complex geometry, reducing the necessary labor for the process to two part-time operators and providing the customer with an approximate 4-sigma quality.
Operations & Maintenance Partnership
Developed a pathway for operators and maintenance technicians to collaborate on major equipment rebuilds during shutdown periods.
Developed a pathway program between our operations and maintenance departments to facilitate communication, collaboration, and training of 25+ personnel in rebuilding and assessing the operations of their equipment. Year-over-year improvements in downtime reduction for packaging lines were apparent as operators could more rapidly identify root causes and provide the information to maintenance technicians to perform better repairs.
Education
2022 - 2023
Master's Degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Oklahoma - Norman, OK, USA
2017 - 2019
Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering
Ohio State University - Columbus, OH, USA
2013 - 2014
Master's Degree in Environmental Management
Webster University - Fort Leonard Wood, MO, USA
2005 - 2009
Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry
United States Military Academy - West Point, NY, USA
Certifications
OCTOBER 2016 - PRESENT
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Georgia Institute of Technology
Skills
Tools
Zoom, SAP Plant Maintenance (PM)
Paradigms
Lean, Six Sigma, Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)
Industry Expertise
Industrial & Manufacturing
Other
Microsoft 365, Project Management, Bill of Materials, Manufacturing, Google, Six Sigma Black Belt Certified, Reliability Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Industrial Equipment, Machinery, Chemical Engineering, Team Leadership, Organization, Analysis, Environmental Science, Systems Engineering, Predictive Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance (PM), Budgeting, Inventory Management, Training, Cross-departmental Collaboration, Cross-functional Team Leadership
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