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GreenWood Represents at SMRP

Written on 11/15/2023. Posted in Press Releases.

GreenWood attended the 31st annual SMRP conference recently held in Orlando, Florida for several days of education, networking, innovation and more. This premier event brought together over 1,200 maintenance, reliability and physical asset management professionals from more than 20 countries. There were over 200 hours of education sessions presented by experts across an array of industries. Tracks included manufacturing process reliability, equipment reliability, organization and leadership, work management, emerging technologies, and workshops. GreenWood proudly supports SMRP which is a not-for-profit professional society formed by practitioners to advance the maintenance, reliability and physical asset management profession.

Representing GreenWood (L to R): Thomas “Tamp” McClellan; John Shepherd; Trent Bailey; Toney McCallum; Chris Dailey; Kevin Crittendon

Shane Westfall Named as Site Supervisor

Written on 09/26/2023. Posted in Press Releases.

Shane Westfall has been named Site Supervisor at our project location in Buffalo, West Virginia. In this position, Shane leads the GreenWood mechanical and maintenance teams to ensure production efficiency delivered through maintenance best practices centered on world class safety standards. He brings 17 years of experience in the plant maintenance and construction industry gained from various project responsibilities. Shane’s background includes technical school training in welding along with numerous plant-specific training coursework involving lifts and rigging. He is also scaffold trained. Prior to this position, Shane served as a millwright/fabricator and was responsible for leading team efforts that focused on plant cost saving measures.

Celebration Recognizes “Always Aware” Safety Success at West Virginia Project Locations

Written on 08/22/2023. Posted in Press Releases.

GreenWood recently held a mid-year safety celebration at the company’s West Virginia project locations to mark continuous safe work performance without a lost time event. Several projects in this area provide services for heavy industrial maintenance, electrical, instrumentation, mechanical and civil for multiple client locations. Our company’s “Always Aware” program emphasizes employee safety and wellness which has resulted in over 20 years of project safety performance in West Virginia. The celebration recognized this team’s consistency in placing safety first in everything they do. As a result, safe work environments are maintained at all times. Congratulations to everyone at Team GreenWood! See more celebration images on our LinkedIn post.

Rudy Duncan Joins GreenWood, Inc. as Project Site Leader

Written on 03/29/2023. Posted in Press Releases.

Rudy Duncan has joined GreenWood as Site Manager at our project location in Carrollton, Georgia. Rudy leads the GreenWood team responsible for executing maintenance best practices that support manufacturing and facility operations through a continuous improvement process centered on world class safety standards. For this leadership role, Rudy brings expertise gained from previous manufacturing responsibilities as Maintenance Supervisor, Project Manager, Program Manager, and Technical Services Supervisor after spending time at Stanley Black & Decker, John Bean Technologies Corporation (JBT), Schwan’s Global Supply Chain, Tyson Foods, and Perdue Farms.

Rudy holds a Bachelor of Science in Project Management from Columbia Southern University as well as an Associates of Applied Science in Technical Studies from Middle Georgia Technical College.

Merck Celebrates 6 Million Safe Work Hours

Written on 12/06/2022. Posted in Press Releases.

A BIG Congratulations to our project team at Merck in Elkton, Virginia, as we recently celebrated a major safety milestone with over 6 million safe work hours without a lost time event. This is a culmination of over 3 decades of continuous work and the partnership with Merck is as strong as ever. Thanks to all our team members, our clients and suppliers. This doesn’t happen without everyone keeping safety as the top priority in everything we do every day.

Congratulations to the Following Who are On the Move at GreenWood

Written on 07/06/2022. Posted in Press Releases.

We are pleased to announce several individuals at GreenWood who have been appointed to site leadership roles at projects across the U.S. Derrick Shifflett is now Site Manager at our project in Elkton, Virginia. Jeremy Farley has re-located to Emporia, Kansas to lead our project there as Site Leader. In the Greenville, SC area (Piedmont), Chris Culbreth has been named Site Leader to lead the maintenance team at this project. Congratulations to these new leaders at Team GreenWood!

GreenWood Earns Safety Award for 12th Consecutive Year

Written on 03/16/2022. Posted in Press Releases.

GreenWood, Inc. was recently presented with the McGriff Workplace Safety Excellence Award for achieving excellence in safety performance throughout the company. This prestigious award is issued by McGriff Insurance Services only to companies who achieve outstanding overall safety performance based on workers’ compensation policy loss ratio, workers’ compensation experience modification (EMR), and BLS/DART/OSHA recordable incident rate. GreenWood has now earned this award for a 12th consecutive year and is the only company to achieve this level of recognition.

“McGriff Insurance Services proudly recognizes GreenWood, Inc. for their outstanding safety results in 2021,” says Warren Blanchard, McGriff Insurance Services. “We commend their ongoing focus on zero incidents through their comprehensive safety program centered on providing a safe and healthy environment for their employees.”

Mike Simmons, Corporate Director of Safety for GreenWood adds, “We personalize our approach to safety because we care about the well-being of project teams, staff, vendors and employees. Safety emphasis is in our DNA and is more important than anything else we do. Our commitment to zero incidents will never change as we maintain an ‘always aware’ mindset at all times. This recognition from McGriff Insurance Services underscores why safety is the top priority at GreenWood, Inc.”

Trent Bailey Named Site Manager

Written on 02/02/2022. Posted in Press Releases.

Trent Bailey has been named Site Manager at our project location in Augusta, Georgia. His background includes several years in industrial maintenance as a technician, planner/scheduler, and then supervisor. Trent was a logistics specialist in the Army and earned a bachelor’s degree in project management from Colorado Tech University. Originally from Illinois, Trent and his family moved to the South in 2016 and they love it!

Continuous Improvement Requires a Proactive Maintenance Approach

Written on 09/01/2021. Posted in Press Releases.

Maintenance should be a constantly improving activity, which enhances the quality of service, streamlines processes and optimizes operating costs. A continuous improvement environment includes the necessary elements to assess situations and determine improvement opportunities through the application of the following:

• Defining maintenance processes and how critical equipment will be maintained with a focus on failure modes for critical components
– Every maintenance task needs to be directly aimed at creating the best “value” from the assets.

• Assessing the available resources and required tools necessary for proactive maintenance jobs
– Work needs to be executed efficiently and effectively which requires a meticulous work management process to prevent wasteful reworks.

• Establishment of overall objectives with KPI’s for progress checkpoints
– The development and implementation of a ‘balanced scorecard’ of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and the support and communication from management are the keys to delivering improvement.

• Integrating the process into a maintenance management system to capture all data points, track activity, and provide reporting analysis
– All data points related to equipment, critical assets, work orders, backlog, labor/man hours, costs, PM schedules, spare parts and more should be monitored and measured to identify where improvements have been made and where they are needed.

Expect the Unexpected
Planning and scheduling is an important element that contributes to maintenance productivity and continuous improvement. However, unexpected failures will occur and disrupt the completion of planned and scheduled work. With this in mind, increased planned work that is focused on eliminating defects (the causes of unplanned work) will result in efficiency gains.

It Continues – as it Should
Ongoing improvement means it continues without ending. The maintenance process requires regular reviews, modifications and adjustments when things change. Taking this approach to continuous improvement will increase uptime and throughput, reduce safety incidents, increase equipment reliability and planned maintenance work resulting in lower maintenance and operating costs.