1. Jerome W. Ware II
Carrollton, Ga. 30117
Jwwhalen267@icloud.com
Specific examples of work currently performed as Maintenance Scheduler to support the
maintenance department, production departments, consolidated supply, as well as safety and
engineering departments, for Southwire Carrollton Utility Products Plant, Carrollton, Ga.
May 2015 to Present.
 Work to procure parts, tools and equipment as required to maintain plant systems and
production machinery at Southwire’s largest facility, which includes almost every type of
machinery to fabricate almost every type of wire Southwire manufactures, some
examples include:
o (16) drawing lines single and dual, Copper and Aluminum Rods, with and without
annealing capability.
o (14) bunching lines (bow rotating) lines including North Hampton, Ceeco, Bartell,
and Caballe.
o (7) strander lines (bobbin rotating) including Caballe and Watson, with various
processes included on the lines depending product setup. These lines produce
overhead bear transmission wire and also provide wire to the Medium Voltage
production products including moisture block.
o (14) extrusion lines which insulated products like Hi-score, Sure seal, provide PVC
pipe for Cable in Conduit, Jacketing and Medium Voltage Products.
o (7) plexing lines, wires are twisted and packaged to complete the process
o (4) production ovens to anneal wire to specification.
o (2) wet High Voltage testing processes
o (1) dry High Voltage testing process
 Work with vendor services to maintain and keep systems at a high state of readiness for
24/7/365 production goals: such as completing Quarterly OSHA Hoist Inspections for
Safe Operation of more than (100) hoist systems, environmental partners that remove
our oil waste, as well as Safety-Kleen that maintains our cleaning sinks and remove the
waste handling it properly, as well as many other vendors and contractors whose
invoices need auditing and processing for timely payment for the services they provide
to help us produce quality wire safely and on time to our customers.
 Work with Procureit and SAP programs to purchase parts, track orders, research orders
and other information, track project budgets, and help others with there questions and
like needs and work to resolve any issues discovered.
 Work with CMMS and other parts standard databases to assist maintenance workers in
finding stocked parts and non-stocked parts to help in fulfilling their request for items
required.
 Work with team to stock items required with long lead times to maintain production
goals and limit down time.
 Write Capital Request for projects and equipment request to be a well rounded
resource to the plant as for first understanding and researching what is needed,
considering safety and OSHA compliance, obtaining quotes, then writing the request to

2. Jerome W. Ware II
Carrollton, Ga. 30117
Jwwhalen267@icloud.com
explain the need and benefits of the capital expense, then ordering and insuring the
items are put into service, to following up for warranty items and stocking possible
spare parts and furthermore maintaining databases for other to find and repair to
maintain maximum plant efficiency and provide the quality products to our customers
within the deadline of the order if not sooner. Also the same actions for items not
meeting the lower limit for Capital Expense Procedures.
 Continue to work to maintain VPP Certification doing my part for employee participation
to make sure all change is managed, assigned areas inspected for hazards and issues,
push to continue to drive the plant above and beyond the OSHA Compliance
regulations, and complete all safety related task as assigned, including informing new
employees of plant history and programs to help them get up to speed with our Safety
Programs.
 Work to maintain and assist with keeping our fleet of forklifts and motorized vehicles
operational and add features to insure reliability and high visibility of the (50) plus
forklifts, walk behinds and vehicles to support the plants production goals with projects
like changing all batteries to a better sealed AGM battery to prevent safety issues we
were experiencing by removing the versions prone to failure by overheating, leaking and
self discharge, as well as ordering battery test equipment and working as a team to save
money by having the new batteries on hand to change as they failed to get the
maximum amount of use before making the change. The procedures and test
equipment allowed us to control the risk and hazards to safely make this managed
change. Another example of increased reliability and team work was to change all lights
to LED versions as they fail to increase reliability of the “required to operate lights” as
well as control cost by getting the most out of prior investments.
 Working to increase efficiency of plant lighting by working within small team which
included the installer and distributors to find the best replacement light fixtures to
install in the plant to ensure not only our normal lighting was improved but also that the
emergency lighting was corrected and improved with the best battery powered LED
High Bay fixture that has sufficient power to provide safe exit and movement within the
plant when power is lost. Like wise to control cost the plan is to retrofit the Battery
Powered LED for the fluorescent versions and once completed move to replacing regular
fluorescent fixtures with the regular LED as they fail and also on new installations. The
plan is to replace all lighting in the plant to LED versions to lower the cost of
maintenance all the while realizing the benefits of LED to maintain a safe working
environment, meet sustainability goals of using less power and maximize the quality
production at our facilities with the proper lighting.
 Working to realize further cost saving by working within a team and to place and
distribute our personnel protective equipment via vending machines to not only
consolidate our equipment provided to employees but use the benefits of vending to
ensure personnel are profiled by job to have access to the proper PPE to match their Job
Hazards and collect real-time data for usage and verify the cost of items by studying
how they hold up to the recommended use. We are expecting to realize possibly saving

3. Jerome W. Ware II
Carrollton, Ga. 30117
Jwwhalen267@icloud.com
30% or more in the first year. The cost saving should exceed $150,000.00 at no real
additional cost to the company.
 Work with Microsoft Programs, Adobe Programs, and AutoCAD to maximize efforts to
document and distribute, information and records, as well as pdf files creation and
modification to manage change and assist with training personnel and making
information readily available for a positive impact on maintaining and reaching our
production goals.
 For the Financial year of 2015, as part of the team, the plant lowered it operational cost
by 6% while production quotas were increasing. The plant produces about 22 to 25
million pounds of wire product monthly.
 Flexibility, have almost 12 years at Southwire. Worked as Electronics Technician,
Maintenance Supervisor, Technician at the Cofer Center, OPS Safety Specialist, and back
to Maintenance Supervisor, then to the present day Maintenance Scheduler, all of those
years were built on top of being blessed with a mother and a father who directed and
applied discipline to get me through high school and some college following with (11)
years in the Naval Nuclear Power Program as an Electrician, I served on Los Angles Class
Submarine the USS Oklahoma City SSN-723 to a few years in the at the Nuclear Support
Facility doing Radcon work as Radiological Controls Shift Supervisor on the Emory S.
Land AS-39, to finish out the final years to follow the USS Louisiana SSBN-743 from the
second person present in new construction to all trials and inspections. After the
military, my post military career began with Owen-Brockway Plastics in Atlanta until the
plant closed pushing me to the next step of working for Shenandoah Electrical Services.
When Shenandoah decided to part ways with my services after working (80) hour weeks
to help the company grow, I landed in Carrollton and started working for Southwire on
July 27th, 2004.