About this Candidate
DAVRON CV: Candidate 1913841
OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE LEADER | RELIABILITY, CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT & PLANT OPERATIONS
Core Expertise
- Plant operations leadership across 24/7 manufacturing, distribution, and processing facilities.
- Maintenance and reliability strategy delivering sustained downtime reductions and equipment uptime improvements.
- Continuous improvement using Lean Six Sigma, root cause analysis, and KPI-driven problem solving.
- Team leadership including union relations, training programs, and talent development for hourly staff.
- ERP and CMMS implementation and super-user experience supporting production reporting and work management.
Project Background
- Led global reliability excellence initiatives across 30+ sites, establishing standard maintenance roadmaps.
- Transformed reactive maintenance into proactive predictive programs, achieving significant schedule compliance gains.
- Delivered cost control through capital planning, expenditure management, and stakeholder collaboration.
- Drove production improvements and set site production records through data-driven reliability actions.
- Managed safety and regulatory compliance programs, achieving extended periods without recordable incidents.
Key Skills
- Reliability Engineering | Predictive Maintenance | Root Cause Analysis
- CMMS | Planned Maintenance Programs | ERP (ROSS) implementation
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt | Continuous Improvement
- KPI Development & Data-Driven Decision Making
- Team Leadership | Union Labor Relations | Training & Development
- Safety Management | Regulatory Compliance | Incident Reduction
Education
- BASc, Mechanical Engineering (Honours), University of Windsor
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt — Corporate College
Awards & Recognition
- Leadership Excellence Award — employer recognition for operational leadership
- Site production record and recognition for exceptional throughput and uptime
Why Interview this Candidate?
A seasoned operations and maintenance leader with 20+ years driving reliability and production improvements across heavy manufacturing and processing plants. Proven ability to reduce maintenance downtime by half, improve schedule compliance, and deliver record production through data-driven maintenance, RCA, and continuous improvement. Experienced in ERP/CMMS deployments, union environments, and developing high-performing teams ready to scale operations.
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