Donald Mills

• Manage maintenance teams performance, preventive maintenance, repairs, and safety.
• Scheduled regular inspections/audits of equipment and facilities to manage wear and tear.
• Trained maintenance technicians to apply proper techniques and best practices and comply with safety protocols.
• Planned scheduled maintenance outages as part of a preventive maintenance program.
• Established and documented protocols for preventive maintenance procedures, decreasing equipment issues, and reducing downtime.
• Responsible for maintaining a 2.3 million square foot building, 192 forklifts, and 12 jockey trucks.
• Responsible for managing monthly and annual budgets.
• Manage a team of 17 mechanics, 6 facility upkeep, parts clerk, and 4 battery techs. Also, ensured their engagement is at the highest of levels.

Courses and Training:

• Completed lean six sigma courses.
• Completed 100 hours of Haz-Mat training.
• Completed courses with Kalmar, Ottawa and Autocar industrial trucks.
• Completed trouble shooting courses for Raymond electrical fork lifts. Models: 8400, 8510, 7000, 5000, 4150, 4250 and 4810.
• Completed trouble shooting courses for GNB and Exide industrial battery chargers.
• Completed 40 hour course on team inclusion and diversity.

• Operated varied hand and power tools to complete repairs.
• Troubleshoot equipment breakdowns and perform preventive maintenance.
• Followed safety protocols to minimize workplace accidents.
• Quickly responded to internal service calls regarding malfunctioning equipment and completed repairs.
• Used problem-solving skills to alleviate issues efficiently with minimal supervision.
• Followed work orders and specifications for machine and equipment replacement, repair, or maintenance.

• Had to ensure we had clean and sanitary working conditions.
• Operated weigh scales to ensure we had the correct yield.
• Had to ensure the product was cooked/smoked to the appropriate internal temperature.
• Maintained quality assurance for all product.