Jorge Mario Cañas Ramirez

Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.
Support a strong company culture focused on employee engagement, collaboration, and continuous learning opportunities.
Streamlined workflows in existing systems and implementing appropriate solutions.
Led cross-functional teams to achieve project goals, fostering collaboration and innovation.
Established team priorities, maintained schedules and monitored performance.
Cross-trained existing employees to maximize team agility and performance.
Develop and ensure operational reliability standards for Amcor Rigid Packaging Latam assets (machines, utilities and peripherals), contributing to the continuity of production processes for 23 plants in 9 countries
Develop investment options in automation systems focused on the storage and analysis of process data (SCADA) that allow for process improvement.
Develop reliability programs (preventive and predictive maintenance) for factories in the region
Support the process of use and operation of the CMMS SAP-PM in plants in the region, promote spaces for training and updating self-training tools
Regional support in major maintenance and machine updates.
Regional analysis of Pareto, MTBF and support to plants in action plans.
Develop the training plan for Maintenance leaders/coordinators by OEM specialists.
Prepare Investment plans for Major Plant Maintenance through CAPEX management.
Evaluation management for technological update due to machinery obsolescence.
Develop a treatment program to improve the quality of process water (chiller and cooling tower), unify criteria and socialize best practices, promote standardization and unification in a single monitoring platform.

Lead the company's comprehensive maintenance team and spare parts warehouse in order to achieve asset performance objectives through effective problem resolution, manage human talent by carrying out effective interventions, repairs and continuous improvement plans
Define the maintenance strategy by optimizing resources and ensuring the best service and complying with corporate policies, working under the RCM methodology
Establish and lead plant safety objectives with weekly monitoring of safe observation indicators, incident reports, closing of red cards, participation in the safety committee.
Ensure compliance with all safety policies and procedures, compliance with the action plans of the findings of the audits of the support areas corresponding to maintenance.
Responsible for the individual development of the maintenance staff, reliability and spare parts warehouse team in compliance with the laws and company policies through the individual development plan programs.
Establish and maintain a culture of continuous improvement, quality, high performance and process excellence through the use of root cause analysis methodologies, SMED, business excellence, and Green Belt procedures.
Establish individual and team responsibilities to resolve problems and reduce costs by building and implementing job descriptions and process maps.
Lead and direct immediate equipment repairs
Ensure effective utilization of labor in conjunction with areas to allow for maximum return on labor investment.
Supervise/manage direct reports (including decision making for hiring, promotion, disciplinary actions and dismissals).
Ensure coordination of plant downtime with schedules.
Partner with Human Resources to ensure effective management of human capital.
Maintain records in compliance with ISO standards.
Help the plant comply with regulations, internal and external audits.
Assist in developing the area's budget and expense control.
Ensure effective implementation of 6S culture.
Manage spare parts inventory management warehouse according with Free Trade Zone procedures and manage cost control.
Train the personnel in the area that can potentially replace the role.
Manage investments in assets via Capital Expenditures (CapEx) by carrying out the necessary technical, financial and administrative justifications.
Manage investment projects with a rate of return (Energy savings, reduction of waste, reduction of maintenance costs).

Review and audit the diagrams (Mechanical, Electrical and P&ID) of all the equipment in the plant.
Identify chronic performance, availability and productivity problems and identify corrective actions to be taken.
Collaborate with the preparation of the budget for predictive and preventive maintenance of the equipment.
Implement preventive and predictive maintenance together in order to improve productivity and reduce costs.
Participate in identifying and developing training to ensure that the department has the skills needed to support the business.
Prepare the Capex necessary for the continuity of the operation in agreement with the maintenance area
Support and maintain a culture of continuous improvement, quality, high performance and process excellence
Develop the area's process map and implement the use of key indicators such as the MTTR and MTBF of the production lines and, based on monthly monitoring, implement action plans to prevent and correct electrical and mechanical failures.
Collaborate in the contracting and auditing of predictive maintenance and lubrication service contracts with the SKF company

Identify, manage and initiate improvement projects that help meet regional and/or plant goals.
Provided technical expertise throughout all phases of the project, ensuring accurate execution of designs and specifications.
Maintained records for each project and engineering discipline.
Monitored installation of materials and equipment for compliance with drawings and specifications.
Completed construction tasks while providing safe working conditions, staying on budget and meeting project deadlines.
Perform the validation process stages, DQ, IQ, OQ, PQ in each executed project and ensure its documentation.
Perform risk and feasibility analysis of projects; with tools such as FMEAs
Responsible for being the representative of Berry Global before visitors and project contractors.
Ensure compliance with the norms and standards that apply at all project stages.
Ensure sufficient and necessary information to be reliable to complete the maintenance records of the projects in compliance with the norms and standards that apply at all project stages.
Collaborate with EHS&S and Quality for compliance with plant regulations.
Plan, direct and coordinate activities related to the design, construction, modification and maintenance of new equipment and machinery for site
Provide technical support for engineering, process development and energy improvement to the plant.
Provide necessary documentation to assist with the projects spare parts identification.

Comply with company policies, procedures and standards, Analyze predictive reports and generate action plans in coordination with the Maintenance and Project Manager
Perform audits of maintenance activities to ensure the quality of machine interventions.
Manage the Maintenance Requests database as fundamental data for scheduled maintenance
Optimize maintenance costs through effective and efficient plans for the production line and associated equipment

Conducted root cause analysis on recurring equipment failures, implementing corrective actions that significantly reduced future occurrences.
Use and ensure the updating of drawings, catalogs, technical manuals and lead their continuous study by the entire team of mechanical technicians.
Manage predictive and preventive maintenance activities
Analyze the vulnerability and criticality of machines and spare parts.
Lead a culture of continuous improvement and train area personnel in new diagnostic methodologies, analysis techniques and failure prediction
Propose to maintenance management based on facts and statistical data the stoppage of a line to intervene equipment with the certainty of the case, due to the degree of failure critical variables trending.
Ensure maintenance technicians team and contractor personnel maintain the best safety conditions for people and equipment, respecting and complying with all safety measures stipulated by the company and considered in machinery catalogues.
Control and ensure compliance with action plans in accordance with ISO commitments
Inform and verify the status of the plant in a prior meeting with Production Engineers, Process Engineers and Maintenance team before attending daily operations meetings.

Verify and communicate the necessary technical information in daily meetings, retransmitting and analyzing the information with the maintenance technicians team and leading the resulting agreements.
Prepare and monitor resources within the established schedule and according to the guidelines of the Maintenance and Projects management
Supervise execution of activities in the Production LIne preventive maintenance and follow-up of action plans and improvement programs.
Propose and/or suggest solutions for prevention and improvement equipment operation, collaborating in the development of the analysis of anomalies and preventive actions.
Cost the Scheduled Preventive Maintenance, monitoring compliance with the scheduled maintenance budget.
Evaluate and develop reliable suppliers (Outsourcing) for maintenance activities
During this role, I participated in the reconstruction of one of the production lines affected by the flooding of the free zone in 2010, joining forces with machinery manufacturers from Germany, Italy and USA, local assembly and maintenance companies, achieving compliance with the scope, quality, safety, budget and estimated time for the start-up of the assets

Planning of work orders based on production service requests from the 2 extraction plants, one with a capacity of 55 ton/h and the other of 17 ton/h
Planning of special preventive work orders (mechanical, electrical, welding, instrumentation, metrology) in PM-SAP software
Generation of daily maintenance programs
Supervising the execution of scheduled work orders
Rescheduling of unexpected activities
Planning of additional maintenance activities evidenced in preventive and/or corrective maintenance tasks
Verification and adjustment of preventive maintenance programs
Planning of requirements and consumption of materials with requests prior to purchases
Control of metrology monitoring and measurement devices (program plans and execution)
Supervision of contracted maintenance tasks, coordinating from the contracting, receipt and settlement of agreed work
Verifying the specifications of the materials and spare parts received
Monitoring and controlling management indicators
Implementation of improvement actions
Support in programming activities of the extraction plant process shifts
Actively participate in the company's TPM program, leading the maintenance pillar and an improvement team
Manage the comprehensive maintenance program of the extraction plant through the SAP PM program
Support in the project to expand the extraction plant from 35 ton/h to 55 ton/h in the palm section and from 60 ton/day to 100 ton/day in the palm kernel section, reviewing equipment specifications, receiving equipment by sections, making improvements to the designs delivered.
Ensure the performance of activities, in conditions of optimal industrial safety, Occupational Health and environmental management of the company's maintenance personnel, both its own and contractors

Supervise corrective, preventive and predictive mechanical maintenance tasks in the Tissue Machine section at Kimberly Klark facilities
Management of industrial and grinding mechanics workshops
Planning and scheduling of weekly shifts and tasks using the CMMS maintenance program
Collection of technical information on equipment for the migration of the maintenance program to SAP - PM
Supervision of crews in planned maintenance, review of work, use of tools, assembly of spare parts and start-up of intervened equipment
Monitoring daily inspection routines, thermography and vibrations of equipment in the area, request and management of spare parts and consumables.
Ensure the performance of activities, in conditions of optimal industrial safety, occupational health and environmental management

Responsible for the process of 2 crude palm and palm kernel oil extraction plants, the first with a capacity of 20 Ton/h and the second of 60 Ton/day, direct management of 100 people, plus contractors.
Responsible for the shipping and logistics of loading, transport and unloading of palm and palm kernel oil from the plantation to the bulk terminal
Manage the industrial and agricultural maintenance department of the company, with 4 workshops in charge: Industrial Mechanics, Welding, Electrical and Agricultural, service to approximately 400 pieces of equipment
Support in product export tasks in the bulk dispatch terminal at the International Marketing Company C.I Mira, Pumping capacity 400 Ton/H, arrange shifts, ensure machinery status, keep inventories and yields.
Expansion of the crude oil extraction plant at the de-fruiting station, supervision of the assembly of new equipment and satisfactory receipt
Supervision and maintenance of Caterpillar 3412, 3406, Cummins and Lister generator sets
Operation and maintenance of biogas valorization system for electric energy generation with methane, monitoring of system operation with CAT3512 600 Kw generator
Formulation of policies for preventive maintenance program, use and support in software development
Capacity expansion in the palm kernel extraction plant, installation of 1 expeller, screw conveyors, relocation of bucket elevator, tanks, pumps, motors and electrical network
Design, manufacture and assembly of metal structures for roofs and communication antennas.
Development of interdisciplinary projects. Planning, logistics and implementation of work groups
Replacement in absences of the administrative director, support in payroll tasks, payment of suppliers, transportation programming and other tasks related to the position.

Design, construction, assembly and maintenance of equipment in industrial sites in the Buga, Tuluá area and surrounding sites.
Design, construction and assembly of metal-mechanical structures in civil works in Tuluá city.
Workshop Administrative management, staff hiring, relations with suppliers, quotes, designs and negotiation with clients
Responsible for the company's tax and banking obligations