1. Marion Garza
204 Montezuma Dr. • Victoria, Texas 77904 • (361)575-1065
Summary
Strong leader with experience in a wide variety of fields including Contract
Administrator with four years experience, Maintenance Supervisor with five years
experience, Equipment Reliability Leader with two years experience, and Production
Supervisor with six years experience. 34 ½ years total experience in process
manufacturing, maintenance, reliability, logistics, and construction. Experience includes
20 years in process manufacturing equipment upkeep including: troubleshooting,
reliability, design, installation, and preventative maintenance, and 4 years experience in
Contract Administration/Logistics role. Company and customer focused for win/win
situation. Strong leadership and organizational skills with emphasis on safety, teamwork,
high motivation, ability to adapt to changing environments, and strong belief in leading
by example. Excellent communication skills with the ability to set expectations and goals
for self and others. Outgoing personality with ability to interface with all levels of
organization on a global basis. Maintenance background has served well in Contract
Administrator, Reliability, and Specialists roles. Volunteer to to perform various roles to
help Company be successful. Have met and exceeded all targeted development and
personal goals in all roles during my career.
Volunteer Credentials
• Transportation Emergency Response Team (12 years) – response and mitigation
of offsite emergencies involving Company products being transported by rail,
barge, truck, and ships.
• Hiring Team (6 years) – Test, interview, and hire prospective employees.
• Site Fire Brigade Team (5 years) – Respond to and mitigate on site emergencies
• Texas State Technical College Representative - Attended semi-annual employer
meetings and provided feedback to TSTC for prospective maintenance co-op and
employee needs and qualifications.
Professional Experience
Invista, Victoria, Texas Manufacturing Plant
Reliability Day Leader/Specialist– Power/Cogeneration/Outlying Areas 10/11 -
present
• Drive work process
• Drive Preventative Maintenance process
• Coordinate Project and maintenance resource scheduling
• SAP review and approve maintenance expenditures
• Drive resolution of Contractor Safety incidents
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2. • Responsibilities:
- Audit work process elements
- Utilize SAP to develop metrics to drive work process improvement
- Set work process targets
- Institute work process element changes per metrics
- Review planned work and approve release for material purchases and scheduling
in SAP
- Review vendor invoicing in SAP and authorize payment
- Develop Power Point training presentation to drive improvement of equipment
repairs identification, description, and prioritization in SAP
- Audit preventative maintenance process elements
- Develop metrics to drive preventative maintenance process improvement
- Set preventative maintenance process targets
- Institute preventative maintenance process changes per metrics
- Coordinate identification of new equipment in SAP
- Coordinate identification and set-up of critical equipment spare parts in SAP
- Review weekly Project scheduling
- Review weekly maintenance scheduling
- Coordinate scheduling of maintenance resources to support Project activities
- Audit Contractor safety
- Lead investigation and documentation of Contractor safety incidents
Invista, Victoria, Texas Manufacturing Plant
Gatekeeper/Reliability Systems Resource – Power/Cogeneration/Outlying Areas
09/08 – 10/11 (3 years)
• Drive prioritization of equipment repairs to meet Business needs
• Audit process areas for improvement
• Responsibilities:
- Review identified equipment repair needs in SAP
- Prioritize equipment repair needs in SAP
- Prioritize scoping and planning of maintenance activities in SAP
- Review planned work and approve release for material purchases and scheduling
in SAP
- Prioritize scheduling of maintenance activities in SAP
- Review vendor invoicing and authorize payment in SAP
- Perform routine walkthroughs of all areas and identify improvement opportunities
- Audit area production, maintenance, and contractor work and quality performance
- Audit area production, maintenance, and contractor safety performance
Invista, Victoria, Texas Manufacturing Plant
Asset Availability Leader – Power/Cogeneration/Outlying Areas 11/06 – 09/08
(2 years)
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3. • Drive equipment reliability process for area with 10,000+ pieces of equipment
including compressors, turbines, boilers, pumps, coolers, condensers, valves, meters,
piping systems, tanks, relief devices, etc.
• Transformed reactive temporary equipment repairs response philosophy to proactive
long term equipment reliability philosophy.
• Responsibilities:
- Review equipment historical trends
- Set up group meetings to review reliability strategies
- Assign Technical ownership
- Assign scoping responsibilities
- Drive maintenance history input and recording
- Develop Preventative Maintenance plans and procedures
- Solicit training opportunities for maintenance personnel
- Solicit repair funds
- Review and authorize repair invoices
- Vet vendor shops
Invista, Victoria, Texas Manufacturing Plant
Bulk Storage Contract Administrator/Logistics Specialists – Americas 08/02 – 11/06 (4
years)
• Bulk Storage Contract Administrator/Supervisor for 11 contracted facilities in the
United States, Canada, and South America.
• Responsibilities:
- Create scopes for required services to be contracted out
- Present scopes for contracted services to interested parties for bids
- Review contract service bids and negotiate pricing, terms, and conditions
- Create Excel spreadsheets for contract service bids comparisons and present to
management for review and approvals to proceed with awarding contracts
- Negotiate contracts with terms and conditions that are favorable to company
- Assure that all parties involved meet contractual obligations
- Set safety, environmental, and manufacturing goals for contracted facilities
- Communicate expectations to contracted facilities
- Interface with site manufacturing operations for needs
- Interface with Global business’s for needs
- Interface with Global supply chains for needs
- Interface with Global technical resources for product specifications
- Interface with Global technical resources for packaging specifications
- Interface with Global sourcing in contractor selection process
- Interface with Global Customer Service Representatives
- Interface with Global Contract Administrators/Logistics Specialists
- Interface directly with Global customers
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4. - Be available to all parties on a 24/7/365 basis
- Project annual budget costs
- Revise contracts as needed
- Terminate contracts
- Coordinate product shipments to contracted facilities
- Coordinate Global product shipments to customers
- Investigate customer complaints
- Verify receipt of services
- Authorize invoice payment for contracted facilities
- Approve service entries in SAP RTP
- Develop and gather metrics for use in costs comparisons and performance audits
- Conduct performance audits of contracted facilities
- Conduct safety audits of contracted facilities
- Conduct quality audits of contracted facilities
- Conduct equipment inspections at contracted facilities
- Participation in ISO audits
- Review inventories at contracted facilities
- Troubleshoot equipment problems
- Arrange company IT access for contracted facilities (SAP)
- Create product handling procedures
- Create equipment operation and maintenance procedures
- Review and revise procedures as needed
- Procurement of vessels for export bulk shipments
- Develop new strategies and ideas for packaging and transportation of products
DuPont/Invista, Victoria, Texas Manufacturing Plant 02/81 – 08/02 (21 years)
Maintenance Supervisor – Adipic Acids Manufacturing Unit 05/97 – 08/02 (5 years)
• Maintenance supervisor for large Adipic Acid manufacturing unit
• Through self-motivation, a desire to excel, hard work, and dedication to the company
in every position that I held, I was promoted to First Line Supervisor. This position
required excellent leadership, organizational, communications, and teamwork skills.
• Area equipment included: Centrifugal pumps, centrifuges, gas compressors, vapor
compressors, fluid bed dryers, rotary dryers, columns, crystallizers, water cooler
towers, gear boxes, rotary valves, relief valves, multi-stage sump pumps.
• Responsibilities included:
- Safety and productivity of 37 mechanics
- Communicate safety and productivity expectations to subordinates
- Provide training opportunities to mechanics
- Emphasis on repairing of equipment versus patching
- Equipment uptime maximization
- Emphasis on equipment details and tolerances
- Communicate expectations to Operations
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5. - Interfacing with Operations on equipment needs
- Interface with Technical on equipment repairs & design
- Interface with site machine shop and welding shop for area needs
- Interface with regional Contract Services group
- Be available to all parties on a 24/7/365 basis
- Set equipment repair priorities
- Planning and scheduling of equipment repairs
- Planning and scheduling of manpower
- Preventative maintenance program
- Reliability program
- Troubleshooting of equipment problems
- Create equipment operation and maintenance procedures
- Equipment inspections
- Participation in ISO audits
- Budget projections
- Review budget status’s
- Participate in job scope write ups for existing equipment repairs, new equipment
needs, and new construction
- Participate in job scope presentations and reviews with prospective bidders
- Participate in contract negotiations
- Communicate schedule, safety, and quality expectations to contractors
- Audit contractors schedule, quality, and safety performance
- Interface with Sourcing
- Adherence to product quality specifications
- Review of boiler plates
- Use of industry best practices
Projects/COD Team Maintenance Lead 05/94 – 05/97 (3 years)
• Maintenance lead on design and installation of Capital Projects and Changes of
Design for Power area
• Responsibilities included:
- Participate in Process Hazards Analysis
- Provide information for front end loading of design data
- Provide design specifications for piping and equipment
- Interface with Operations and Maintenance personnel on equipment design needs
- Interface with regional Contract Services group
- Review of, and revision of designs
- Participate in contractor bidding process
- Communicate schedule, safety, and quality expectations to contractors
- Audit contractors schedule, quality, and safety performance
- Communicate with personnel at all levels of all groups
- Communicate expectations to Operations and Maintenance
- Participate in equipment inspections
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6. - Oversee project field installations
- Review budget status’s
- Documentation of changes in design to original project scope
- Plan and schedule construction activities
- Interface with Quality Control
- Participate in project pre-startup safety and quality inspections
- Review of boiler plates
- Use of industry best practices
Major Work Organization (MWO) Coordinator 05/91 – 05/94 (3 years)
• Liaison between on site contractor and manufacturing plant operations &
maintenance for Power, Adipic Acids, and C-12 areas
• Responsibilities included:
- Coordinate construction activities between plant and construction
- Participate in contractor bidding process
- Review project costs
- Oversee project implementations
- Communicate safety expectations
- Review budget status’s
- Documentation of changes in design to original project scope
- Plan and schedule construction activities
- Interface with Quality Control
- Participate in project pre-startup safety and quality inspections
- Assure that all crafts were ready prior to requesting isolation of equipment
- Participate in contractor bidding process
- Communicate schedule, safety, and quality expectations to contractors
- Audit contractors schedule, quality, and safety performance
- Communicate with personnel at all levels of all groups
- Review of boiler plates
- Use of industry best practices
Major Work Organization (MWO) Mechanic 05/88 – 05/91 (2 1/2
years)
• Lead Mechanic in charge of installations of Changes of Design throughout the plant.
• Responsibilities included:
- Planning and Scheduling of equipment and piping installations throughout plant
- Assigning individual responsibilities to group mechanics
- Coordinating equipment and piping installations with individual plant areas
- Participate in project pre-startup safety reviews and quality inspections
Packaging & Industrial Polymers Unit Maintenance Mechanic
05/82 - 05/88 (6 years)
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7. • Maintenance mechanic
• Area equipment included: Natural gas drive ethylene compressors, electric drive
ethylene compressors, fan/water process coolers, water cooling towers, gas scrubbers,
high pressure Graylock connections, high pressure tubing, product shakers, polymer
extruders, air product conveying systems, centrifugal pumps, multi-stage sump
pumps, gear boxes, relief valves, conservation vents, flame arrestors, check valves,
three-way valves, excess flow valves.
• Responsibilities included:
- Equipment preventative maintenance
- Equipment repairs
- Equipment installations
- Equipment inspections
- Equipment overhauls
- Spare parts overhauls
Plant Security 02/81 - 05/82 (1 year+)
• Security guard
• Responsibilities included:
- General plant security.
Alcoa, Point Comfort,Texas Manufacturing Plant 01/79 – 10/80 (1 year, 10 months)
Laborer
• Labor force at plant ship docks
• Responsibilities included:
- Unload ships containing bauxite ore for product manufacturing
- Maintain heavy equipment
- Maintain bauxite conveyor system
Florida Gas Transmission Company, McKamey, Texas 01/77 - 12/78 (2 years)
Maintenance Technician/Operator
• Maintenance Technician and Operator at a natural gas transmission plant
• Responsibilities included:
- Maintain and operate gas compressors
- Maintain all plant equipment and facilities
H.B.Zachry Construction, 01/74 – 10/76 (1 year, 10 months)
Pipefitter
• Pipefitter at DuPont Victoria, Texas manufacturing plant
• Responsibilities included:
- Installation of piping systems for manufacturing process
- Testing of piping systems
- Fabrication of piping systems
- Worked my way from pipefitter third class to journeyman in 1 ½ years
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8. Education
Victoria College, Victoria, TX - 1 ½ years
Victoria College – Continuing Education Courses, Instrumentation
Victoria High School – Diploma, 1973
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