Michael Tolle

I have filled this position across multiple plants as needed by the customer. This has required me to work directly and coordinate with maintenance, production, logistics, engineering, and corporate management to ensure a safe work environment where production needs are met.

Maintenance Trainer/Coordinator: Teach lockout/tagout compliance and other safety principles associated with industrial equipment and automation cells. Teach new hires or transfers, the importance of 5S, electrical, pneumatic, mechanical, and hydraulic theories of operation. Teach basic troubleshooting and diagnosing of industrial equipment including; slides, clamps, lift and tilts, roll-up doors, conveyors, turntables, trunnions, nut and stud feeders, adhesive units, clench stations, light curtains, electrode and tip changes, servo motors, nut runners, and ENET/DNET, repair/rebuild of cylinders, Rivnut guns, Leoni dress packs, HMI and pendant navigation, point touchups and assist with on-site run support and employee training on Fanuc, ABB, Nelson, Nordson, Emhart, Lincoln, Bollhoff equipment.

Service Manager/Shop Foreman: Responsibilities included diagnosing customer equipment for repairs, delegating tasks to the service shop, supervising repairs, ensuring correct parts were ordered to complete repairs, reviewing completion of work orders, and updating customers on repair progress. When work load required it, I would fill a technician spot or go to the field to complete major on-site repairs.

Parts Manager: Responsibilities included inventory control, work order updates, retail sales, parts lookup for the shop and walk-in and call-in customers. Daily tasks required me to coordinate with vendors and customers.

Schools attended: Mahindra, Kawasaki, Stihl, Gehl, Kioti, and Kohler.

Graduated Academy Class President and was assigned to the Detention Division. After a year, I tested and interviewed for a position with the Court Services Division and was selected. 6 months later, I tested and interviewed for the Patrol Division and was selected. I was selected as a member of the Honor Guard and was part of the Peer Support Team.

Electro-Optical Ordnance Repair. Attended the School of Ordnance upon completion of basic and combat training. During my service, I received multiple personal awards and meritorious promotions to E4 and E5.
I was selected by the Colonel of Marine Forces Europe to attach with the unit as the Georgian Deployment Program International Security Assistance Force Non-Commissioned Officer in charge. While deployed to the country of Georgia, I was responsible for the accountability and movement of 6,500 troops during training exercises from Georgia to Germany and combat deployments from Georgia to Afghanistan. In addition to personnel accountability, I was responsible for overseeing, ordering, distributing and accounting for more than five million dollars of gear and supplies. My responsibilities were split between troop training, field operations, and logistical duties at the United Stated Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia. I was awarded a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for the performance of my duties.