Director of Maintenance Operations at Pitney Bowes

Dan Papucci

QUALIFICATIONS:

•	Over 10+ yrs. Management experience leading Maintenance teams.
•	Experienced in leading network wide sites and staffing of 80+ including salary and hourly direct and 
indirect reports. 
•	Goal and Safety oriented Management strategies.
•	Proficient at planning and maintaining daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly, operating budgets.
•	Proficient at planning and maintaining short- and long-term capital budgets.
•	Planning and utilizing data to determine cost effectiveness of assets.
•	Streamlining business processes to create multiple cost savings models.
•	Thorough with CMMS systems utilizing, predictive, preventative, and reactive maintenance planning to maintain goals and objectives set in place.
•	Over 25 yrs. experience working in the electrical/mechanical maintenance field including automations, plc’s, robotics, and conveyance and production equipment.
•	I am a data driven and process oriented innovative leader, who strives to improve quality and throughput in the company while continuing to find cost savings measures.
•	Proficient in Team building to align with company goals and objectives.
•	New site implementation and commissioning.
•	Warehouse needs
•	Lean Manufacturing Processes
•	Distribution and Fulfillment Center Maintenance Management
•	Parcel Network Solutions
•	Capex Budgeting
•	EHS and OSHA compliances
•	Network wide department building and modeling

EDUCATION:
•	1988-1993 Switzerland County Junior/Senior High School
•	1992-1993 South Eastern Career Center (Industrial Electricity)
•	1995 CBT Hydraulics I/II, Motor Controls, Pneumatics I
•	1995 Allen Bradley PLC training SLK 500 RS Logics 500
•	1998 HK Systems Fanuc Robotics setup, operation, and repair
•	2008 Allen Bradley prophy bus systems diagnoses and repair
•	2008 Automation Industries Servo Robotic operations and repair
•	2009 Lean Manufacturing Practices 5S Standards & Implementation 
•	2013 Siemens Step 7 Tools, Troubleshooting, and Programming I
•	2013 Fanuc Robotics Programming and Electrical repair I
•	2013 ABB Robotics Teach Pendant Programming and Maintenance
•	2014 Gateway College Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing Green Belt Certified
•	2014 LLDP Leading Leaders Development Program
•	2014 COMMWIP Waste Management and Lean Practices
•	2015 HCAAP certification
•	2019 Enabling High Performance Curriculum
•	2020 Crafting a better future Management platform I/II
•	2020 Leadership Essentials for Supervisors LES
•	2021 Leadership Essentials for Managers LEM
•	2021 Inclusive Leadership
•	2021 Pitney Bowes Mentor Program – Mentor for building another Managers career goals

I oversee a team of 120+ people consisting of various trades.  This team includes regional managers, maintenance managers and maintenance technicians.  Oversight of operating budgets, to include planning and control of those maintenance budgets.  Directly involved in commissioning of new material handling equipment with multiple vendors simultaneously.  Responsible for holding vendors accountable for new launch issues that could result in widespread problems for the network in the future if left unaddressed.  Management of identifying needed site spares and managing the receiving of those parts through their addition to the CMMS management system.  I am constantly sought out to provide guidance and solve difficult problems which include sorter crashes, cultural problems, and lack of continuity in sites

Director of Maintenance

Oversee a team of 87 people consisting of various trades.  This team included regional managers, maintenance managers and maintenance technicians.  Oversight of operating budgets, to include planning and control of those maintenance budgets.  Directly involved in commissioning of new material handling equipment with multiple vendors simultaneously.  Responsible for holding vendors accountable for new launch issues that could result in widespread problems for the network in the future if left unaddressed.  Management of identifying needed site spares and managing the receiving of those parts through their addition to the CMMS management system.  I am constantly sought out to provide guidance and solve difficult problems which include sorter crashes, cultural problems, and lack of continuity in sites.

Sr. Regional Manager, Network Reliability and Maintenance a

Direct management of the eastern region for PB Global Logistics.  In addition to managing the region I supported the entire network traveling to all sites providing direct support to new launches, and training new maintenance teams.  The training included various levels of maintenance staff including regional managers, maintenance managers, and maintenance technicians.  I was responsible for identifying needed site spares, site tool needs, and technical training needs.  I have been directly involved in new builds to ensure that punch list items were completed by the vendor when previously vendors felt comfortable leaving many items unaddressed.  Developed KPI’s that measured and directed our actions to ensure we were behaving as a successful maintenance team.  I created a training matrix to standard technician skillset across the network.  Also, implemented lean maintenance practices to ensure the teams were being efficient and eliminating waste.

Regional Manager, Maintenance Operations

As a corporate maintenance manager for the FDR division, I directly managed a team of 12 maintenance technicians covering two facilities.  In addition to managing these sites I traveled and supported five new facilities that were opening in the network.  Managed all material handling equipment within the two facilities and managed building grounds, HVAC, electrical, and plumbing.  Managed a 10-million-dollar capital expansion that helped build support for new client growth.   Launched a corrugate recycling program in CVG that reduced operating costs by 360k per year, since inception of this program it was adopted at a network level with a revenue stream of several million dollars.  This program also gave the company government credits for sustainability and reduced our carbon footprint.

Maintenance Manager

As a maintenance manager I had direct oversight of a team of 20 people running a 24/7 production operation.  I was directly responsible for facility, production, and fleet maintenance.  This included very complex wastewater systems, boilers, ammonia cooling systems, freezers, ovens, processing equipment, packaging, and lift equipment.  In this role I was the safety director for the site in charge of all safety training for the facility to include LOTO, HACCP, GMP, SSOP, and SQF’s.  Launched a preventive maintenance program that was not established inside of the company.  This resulted in increased uptime and reduced operating costs for the business.  Directly responsible for making the facility OSHA compliant in Arc Flash, and LOTO which were missing and very much needed. The OEE improvements made from these efforts resulted in a 22% reduction in downtime.

As a maintenance supervisor I managed a team of 47 maintenance technicians that maintained and repaired 126 Fanuc robots, 67 ABB robots, 324 Makino 5 axis CNC’s, 96 Heller 5 axis CNC’s, 4 laser engravers, and Cognex vision systems.  I was tasked with daily operational support which included shift scheduling, budgeting, MRO stockroom management, and managing scheduled outages.  Implemented standardized training for the team to improve the overall skillset of the maintenance team and introduced consistency to each shift’s repair capabilities.  Managed the use and drove improvement using a CMMS system.  Daily meetings with our maintenance team, and customers.  Improved the preventive maintenance practices at the site which were inconsistent and incomplete for the site’s needs.  I made it a daily standard to visit each machine and get feedback from operators to improve the overall site output and ensured that my team was a contributor in that success.

Maintenance Supervisor

•	I was the 2nd shift Lead Maintenance Technician.
•	My primary duties were to respond, troubleshoot, and repair high speed packaging equipment.
•	My secondary responsibilities were to perform preventative maintenance on all the packaging equipment we had at our facility. 
•	I was trained in GMP, DEA, and SOP processes at this facility.
•	With Forest I was involved with a lot of product R&D, and qualifications.