1. Patrick King
Summary of experience
I have a unique background of over 25 year’s experience, as both a
mechanic in industrial automation, and as a planner, scheduler, and purchasing
agent, for almost every company that I’ve worked for. I believe my experience as
a mechanic has helped me as a planner/scheduler in identifying opportunities for
improving reliability, and significant cost reductions, that most
planners/schedulers, and even purchasing agents may not be able to see. I have
two complete resumes that showcase all of my skills, one for the mechanical
experience, and one for the planning, scheduling, and purchasing experience. All
of the positions that I’ve held have started off as a mechanic, and have
eventually developed into a position of supervision, equipment reliability, and
parts procurement. I’m extremely detail oriented, and have an innate ability to
find a better way to organize, and execute plans.
I’ve been with Frito Lay for just over 11 years, the first five as a warehouse
mechanic, and the last six as the maintenance planner/scheduler, for both the
warehouse and facilities departments, with 14 mechanics total, responsible for
the maintenance, repair, and reliability of 600+ pieces of equipment. In the last
18-24 months alone I’ve saved the warehouse department upwards of $30k, not
by cutting corners, or using inferior parts, by leveraging my current vendors to
allow me to buy the same parts directly from the part manufacturer, instead of the
equipment builder. I also get to see the frequency of failures, which gives me the
ability help re-engineer the piece of equipment to reduce the failures. I’ve been
able to reduce failures on equipment by over 40% overall. In the last 6 years the
roles of the planner/schedulers at Frito Lay have contributed significantly in
keeping equipment downtime to less than 1% per period.
In any role that I’m assigned, one of the very first things I do is assess the
current condition of the equipment, current PM schedule, frequency of failures,
effectiveness of the PM’s currently in place, inventory on hand, and availability of
critical spare parts. I have assessed and rewritten every PM for every piece of
equipment for both of my current departments, to optimize the equipment, ensure
we have the parts on hand to perform any tasks required, and ensure we’re
spending our maintenance hours on the correct things. I’ve built a very good
rapport with all the department managers to ensure support when there are any
equipment issues. In the last five years I’ve been able to double the PM
completion rates for both of my departments, reducing unexpected failures by
35%, and reducing emergency calls by 60%. In my opinion an effective planner,
is as crucial to a maintenance team, as the mechanics are.