Robert Kissler
Maintenance Technician
Industrial Maintenance Technician with an Associate’s in Manufacturing & Controls. Expert in automated packaging systems, electrical troubleshooting, and plant reliability.
Skills & Tools
- Tig A/C D/C WeldingTig A/C D/C Welding
- Gmaw WeldingGmaw Welding
- Stick WeldingStick Welding
- CNC MachiningCNC Machining
- Mill MachiningMill Machining
- Lathe MachiningLathe Machining
- PneumaticsPneumatics
- RoboticsRobotics
- Mechanical Route Cause AnalysisMechanical Route Cause Analysis
- C++ Programming
- Java Programming
- Dart Programming
- VFD Programming/TroubleshootingVFD Programming/Troubleshooting
About Me
Industrial maintenance professional with extensive hands-on experience maintaining automated packaging and processing equipment in high-demand food manufacturing environments. Grounded by an Associate's degree in Industrial Manufacturing and Controls, combining strong mechanical aptitude with advanced troubleshooting for electrical controls, PLC systems, and pneumatic machinery. Proven track record of improving operational reliability, designing custom safety logic and indicator circuits to minimize downtime, and executing rigorous preventive maintenance schedules. Adept at cross-functional collaboration (Bridging Communication Gaps and Working Across Departments) and leadership within fast-paced industrial operations.
Work Experience
September 2022 - Present
Maintenance Technician
Materne Gogo Squeez
Perform comprehensive troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, and repairs on high-speed industrial food packaging and processing equipment.
Diagnose and service complex electrical controls and automation systems, including Allen-Bradley Kinetix drives and REOVIB controllers.
Execute precision mechanical work, including TIG and stick welding on stainless steel process lines and sanitary valves (Alfa Laval).
During operation times and lines are operating I use my time to create 1 point lessons, update p.m's, and 5S projects
May, 2019 - September 2022
Maintenance technician
Swire Coca-Cola
Lead swing and night shift mechanical and electrical projects to minimize line downtime and optimize production efficiency.
Improve preventive maintenance programs and documentation to ensure high reliability across high-speed packaging and bottling systems.
Design custom replacement parts and fixtures, integrating fail-safe mechanisms and enhanced safety features to protect equipment and operators.
Perform advanced troubleshooting and repairs on automated conveyors, drives, and pneumatics under tight production schedules.
2016 - 2018
Crew Lead
Power Enterprise
Directed field operations and managed crew workflow as Crew Lead, ensuring safety, quality, and on-schedule project delivery.
Implemented complex landscape designs for single-site and full-scale subdivision projects from the ground up.
Designed and fabricated full-scale manifolds and custom fluid/irrigation control systems to meet specific site requirements.
Coordinated heavy equipment operation, materials staging, and site troubleshooting to maintain high standards of workmanship across projects.
2013 - 2016
Welder Fitter
Lipert Components
Designed and fabricated custom manufacturing jigs and assembly fixtures to significantly enhance production efficiency for camper seats.
Performed precision welding and fitting of structural metal components according to blueprints, technical specs, and production schedules.
Maintained high quality control standards by ensuring correct alignment, strong weld integrity, and dimensional accuracy across assemblies.
Streamlined fabrication workflows to minimize assembly time and reduce bottleneck delays on high-volume production lines.
2010 - 2013
Foreman
J2 Concrete
Advanced rapidly through internal promotions from Laborer to Finisher, and ultimately stepped up as Crew Foreman to lead operations following department turnover.
Directed crew execution of municipal and commercial concrete projects, specializing in sidewalks, curbs, gutters, and flatwork.
Led the flagship downtown Boise project at the Red Lion intersection, successfully coordinating the installation of ADA pedestrian ramps, sidewalks, and curb & gutters across all five intersections.
Ensured high-grade finishing, structural compliance, and strict adherence to city specifications and safety standards under tight timelines.
Education
2019 - 2020
AAS - Industrial Manufacturing and Controls
Treasure Valley Community College
Selected Work
Filling Machine Centering Guide
centering guides take empty cans and align them with the filling valve. The OEM parts are stainless steel, during production a centering guide came out of position and stopped the machine. From 1250 cans per minute to a complete stop, binding up the gearbox and snapping off framing and more. this damage costed $40,000+ and a weeks down time. After some researching copy rights, for legal and insurance purposes. I designed a centering guide profile with the precision to perfectly align the cans to each valve. This turns the centering guides into a fail safe, if this event was to ever happen again the centering guide will crush instead of lock up the machine. I had tested a few 3d printed parts to start and ran the application for a few weeks. after some positive feedback I had food grade hdpe parts cut with a CNC. 5 years later they are running perfectly on the filling machine.
Cap Elevator Latch
Running of 1 latch with minimal positive air pressure had aloud bacteria to get into the cap elevator. we had to increase our CIP,s from every week to daily as we found a replacement latch, when my shift came back on I replicated the latch on fusion 360 and got a 3D printed part within a few hours and got us back to running a week cycle without bacterial growth.
Lathe Tooling Stand
tig welding angle iron and stainless sheets, adding casters and 3d printed parts holders for a stand that brought all parts together on 1 stand. increasing ease of cleaning and organizing
3d printing
we had issues with constantly having to adjust sensor positions and re applying zipties to continue production so i created mounts that are permanent mounts and others that are adjustable mounts reducing maintenance calls for adjustments.
this conveyor had had a second shaft and sprockets that was daisy chained off this main shaft. the sprockets where the same size and constantly wearing bearings, sprockets, and cutting into the conveyor frame. I removed the daisy chain and deleted the portion of conveyor that was costing us heavily with parts and down time and put all sprockets on the main shaft. this project reduced parts needed ultimately reducing our downtime events
BlowDown and Chemical lines
bent and fitted lines to water sample outlets with flashing cylinders and chemical lines to automatically adjust water chemistry. finished blowdown setup to lead into drain during boiler retrofitting
Corner Punch Cross-Compatibility Standardization
At GoGoSqueez we added 14 new lines recently and as they came in we got filling machines from a different company, these machines used different corner punches that constantly needed rebuilt. the corner punches on the older machines had far less maintenance interventions so I got with tech services and was allowed to build mounts that will retrofit the olderstyle corner punches on the new machines. not only did this reduce our down time dramatically but it also took up less footprint in our parts room.
Certifications
Fundamentals of Electricity - AC
Fundamentals of Fluid Power - Hydraulics
Fundamentals of PLCs - Allen Bradley
Fundamentals of Fluid Power - Pneumatics
