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Brett Neslund

Machesney Park,IL

Summary

Supports the packaging lines by making routine and non-routine adjustments that insures a high quality product. Collaborate with other departments and Maintenance Mechanics to obtain information or experience to keep lines running at an efficient rate. Perform preventive maintenance, changeovers, repairs, and running adjustments. The ability to systematically gather information from a variety of sources, analyze the information, identify implications of data, draw appropriate conclusions, generate viable, alternative solutions to a question or problem, and evaluate the consequences of choosing each alternative. The ability to assert personal ideas and opinions to convince others. This includes gaining others support through one's own actions, examples or persuasion in an ethical manner. The ability to define, diagnoses, and resolve problems. This includes seeking, logically examining, and interpreting information from different sources to determine a problem's cause and developing a course of action to resolve the problem and to prevent its recurrence. Provides guidance to others by responding to questions; observing work activity; giving direction when necessary; and providing on-the-job training. Use a variety of hand tools and power tools in order to perform you duties. Detect faulty operations, defective material and report those and any unusual situation to proper personal. Read interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and services. Knowledge of and adherence to all PCI, cGMP, and GCP policies, procedures, rules. Prompt escalation to supervisor of any safety issue, quality issue, or downtime following the established escalation protocol. Perform Single Minute Exchange of Dies, (SMED) activities on packaging lines. Execute initiatives relating to OPEX objectives. Analyze equipment failures to improve overall reliability of the equipment, while maintaining productivity. Update setup documentation to insure all settings are current and accurate. Work with The Business Units and Scheduling to accurately maintain a timeline for any launches or validations of products. Audit and maintain a high level of 5s in the facility to help maintain a safe, organized, clean high-performing workplace. Document and drive actions for your respected value stream. Audit the centerline document system to insure sustainability and a high level of productivity. Give feedback and follow-ups when outages occur from the centerline document

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Operations Specialist - Vision

PCI Pharma Services
02.2023 - Current
  • Setup, Troubleshoot, and Maintain vision systems on over 30+ production lines that includes over 80 separate vision systems.
  • Create new vision system programs for new job launches including thoroughly testing and challenging all inspections.
  • Training, leading, and taking ownership on projects including repairs, upgrades, and building new vision conveyors.
  • Making backup hard disk drives on all vision systems in case of hard drive failures.

Maintenance Mechanic 3

PCI Pharma Services
05.2005 - 02.2023
  • Supports the packaging lines by making routine and non-routine adjustments that insures a high quality product
  • Collaborate with other departments and other Maintenance Mechanics to obtain information or experience to keep lines running at an efficient rate
  • Perform preventive maintenance, changeovers, repairs, and running adjustments
  • The ability to systematically gather information from a variety of sources, analyze the information, identify implications of data, draw appropriate conclusions, generate viable, alternative solutions to a question or problem, and evaluate the consequences of choosing each alternative
  • The ability to assert personal ideas and opinions to convince others
  • This includes gaining others support through one's own actions, examples or persuasion in an ethical manner
  • The ability to define, diagnoses, and resolve problems
  • This includes seeking, logically examining, and interpreting information from different sources to determine a problem's cause and developing a course of action to resolve the problem and to prevent its recurrence
  • Provides guidance to others by responding to questions; observing work activity; giving direction when necessary; and providing on-the-job training
  • Use a variety of hand tools and power tools in order to perform you duties
  • Detect faulty operations, defective material and report those and any unusual situation to proper personal
  • Read interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and services
  • Knowledge of and adherence to all PCI, cGMP, and GCP policies, procedures, rules
  • Prompt escalation to supervisor of any safety issue, quality issue, or downtime following the established escalation protocol
  • Perform Single Minute Exchange of Dies, (SMED) activities on packaging lines
  • Execute initiatives relating to OPEX objectives
  • Analyze equipment failures to improve overall reliability of the equipment, while maintaining productivity
  • Update setup documentation to insure all settings are current and accurate
  • Work with The Business Units and Scheduling to accurately maintain a timeline for any launches or validations of products
  • Audit and maintain a high level of 5's in the facility to help maintain a safe, organized, clean high-performing workplace
  • Document and drive actions for your respected value stream
  • Audit the centerline document system to insure sustainability and a high level of productivity
  • Attend Tier I Daily Directional Setting (DDS) meeting
  • Give feedback and follow-ups when outages occur from the centerline document

Feeder Bowl Fabricator

Vibracraft Inc.
01.2000 - 03.2002
  • Fabrication of Feeder Bowl Systems from raw material for Industrial use
  • Stainless steel welding
  • Grinding, polishing
  • Use of air powered hand tools

Mill/Lathe Operator

Ingersoll Milling Machines
01.1997 - 01.2000
  • Operate Manual Milling machines and Manual Lathes
  • Use of calibrated measuring instruments including calipers, micrometers
  • Machining parts in tolerance per blueprint specifications

Education

Maintenance And Electrical

IMEC

Electrical I, Electrical II, PLC Programming I, Mechanical Drives, Pneumatics/Hydraulics, Blueprints, Computer Programming (did not finish degree)

Rock Valley College
Rockford, IL

Computer Programming

Illinois State University
Normal, IL

Diploma -

Harlem High School
Loves Park, IL
05.1995

Skills

  • Extensive knowledge of all PCI vision systems
  • Basic electrical troubleshooting
  • Basic PLC Programming
  • Equipment maintenance and repair
  • Work order management
  • Blueprint reading
  • Malfunction Troubleshooting
  • Circuit Testing
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Good organization and leadership skills

Timeline

Technical Operations Specialist - Vision

PCI Pharma Services
02.2023 - Current

Maintenance Mechanic 3

PCI Pharma Services
05.2005 - 02.2023

Feeder Bowl Fabricator

Vibracraft Inc.
01.2000 - 03.2002

Mill/Lathe Operator

Ingersoll Milling Machines
01.1997 - 01.2000

Maintenance And Electrical

IMEC

Electrical I, Electrical II, PLC Programming I, Mechanical Drives, Pneumatics/Hydraulics, Blueprints, Computer Programming (did not finish degree)

Rock Valley College

Computer Programming

Illinois State University

Diploma -

Harlem High School
Brett Neslund