Maintenance / Facility / Construction Supervisor with over 20 years experience in all areas of plant maintenance.
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Education:
Allen-Bradley - PLC 2, 3, and 5 with Blue Hose, Ethernet, and Fiber Optic Cable Communications.
Public Service Electric and Gas - National Electric Code, Industrial and Commercial Power Dist.
Essex County Vocational and Technical School - Air Conditioning and Refrigeration,
High and Low Pressure Boilers and Carpentry
Newark College of Engineering - One year Electrical Engineering
Radio Electronics Technical School (R.E.T.S) - Associates Degree in Electronic Engineering
Essex County Vocational and Technical High School - Electrical Theory and Construction

Experience:
Anheuser-Busch Inc. - Newark N.J.
Resident Construction Electrical Engineer: .2005 2009
Production Group Manager: ...2004 2005
Instrumentation Manager: ..1999 2004
Brewing Reliability Manager: ...1994 - 1999
Brewing / Utilities Shift Maintenance Superintendent: ....1986 1994
Packaging Maintenance Supervisor: ......1982 1986

Resident Construction Electrical Engineer:
Directed and installed a 3 million dollar electrical contract that was part of a 17 million dollar Brew House modernization project.
Directed and installed a 4 million dollar electrical/pipefitting contracts that were part of a 9 million dollar Automatic Valve Manifold for all production lines.
Manage installation and startup of electrical and instrumentation equipment, assuring the installation was according to OSHA, the NEC and Anheuser-Buschs Technical Provisions.
Development and training of Maintenance and Production Managers.
Set guidelines for and set up Spare Parts Inventory.
Group Manager:
Managed the production of Beer in the Chip and Finishing Cellars while training Supervisors and hourly employees in the maintenance aspect of the equipment.
Instrumentation Manager:
Brewery-wide responsibility for scheduling, calibration, qualifying, repair, updating, and documentation for all instrumentation via the Automatic Instrumentation Management System.
Established manpower, standardized instruments, calibration equipment, procedures, frequencies and tolerances.
Brewing Reliability Manager:
Established Equipment PM Schedules, procedures, reducing manpower requirements, and parts needs.
Established and enforced safety procedures.
Monitored line efficiencies and downtime against maintenance and equipment reliability.
Shift Maintenance Superintendent:
Responsible for all safety, production maintenance, equipment overhauls, new installations, training, and rebuilding activities.
Maintenance Supervisor:
Supervised shift maintenance craft activities for Brewing, Utilities, and Warehouse


Anthony James Conforti - 376 Three Bridges Rd - Hillsborough, N.J. 08844 - tjconforti[at]verizon.net - (908)-369-1236)


Anheuser-Busch Accomplishments:
As Resident Construction Electrical Engineer, I worked with vendors, outside contractors, and engineers to complete two main projects along with several smaller projects. All were completed safely, without accidents, under budget and ahead of schedule.
As Instrumentation Manager: I tightened instrumentation tolerances, which allowed tighter product specifications reducing loss and increased profits of 15%.
As Brewing Reliability Manager: Increased craft proactive work from 25% to over 80%.

Skills Summary:
Exceptional knowledge and experience in the supervision of maintenance and construction trades. This transcends a variety of crafts including Electricians, Machinist, and Pipe Fitters which also include a safe working knowledge of materials, tools, drawing and procedures. This experience enables the identification of potential issues and alternate designs recommendations in the planning stage and prior to the facility being impacted. This is accompanied with superior troubleshooting skills on all Electrical, Mechanical, Hydraulic and Pneumatic equipment.

Proficient in the use of various computer programs such as Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SAP, Project, PEMS, and AIMS. SAP use includes work orders, scheduling jobs, reserving materials, setting up spare parts, equipment PM, and purchase requisitions, along with tracking and running reports. Prior assignments have made it necessary for to work independently and within a group, while demonstrating, understanding and integrating customer service needs into day-to-day decision making. This also includes scheduling equipment maintenance and repairs, along with prioritizing assignments during emergency response situations. This is demonstrated and employed by using problem-solving approaches that are sensitive to the customer, organization, community, and the local authority.

Possess Human Resource skills interviewing new associates, labor agreements negotiation, conflict resolution, maintenance grievance and disciplinary hearings.