Dave Rosato, Facility project manager
    Curtis Packaging Corp.,
    Sandy Hook, Connecticut

Curtis Packaging produces paperboard boxes for products ranging from cosmetics to sporting goods and hand tools. The Sandy Hook plant’s 200 employees run three shifts. Keeping this machine running is a team of three maintenance workers: a supervisor, a technician and Dave Rosato, whose title is facility project manager. He has worked full time for Curtis Packaging for seven years now, but he also worked for the company as a construction subcontractor for five years prior to that.

Dave’s projects take him literally from the top to the bottom of the plant, from coordinating roofing subcontractors to digging trenches and the wells for the company’s water supply.

“Dave is the go-to guy for virtually any type of maintenance job that comes up,” says Lou Granata, purchasing manager.

Curtis owns its 10-acre industrial park, so Dave also maintains other facilities as well as his own 200,000-square-foot plant. From water and plumbing systems and storm drain excavation to energy efficient lighting, Dave is the key maintenance interface both for internal customers and external subcontractors.

When the company added new printing presses, Dave supervised their installation, designed and built the electrical panel enclosures and safety cages and coordinated the outside electricians on the job as well.

“He’s a real renaissance man,” Granata says. “If the furnace goes out, he gets the call. If the alarm goes off, he gets the call. He even built the office I’m in right now.”

Dave also shares his expertise with other employees on home projects.

“Dave has also helped me personally,” Granata adds. “And he has helped a lot of people here, even with things that aren’t work related. And he’s always right — he knows his stuff.”

This article appeared in the December 2007/January 2008 issue of MRO Today magazine. Copyright 2007.

Back to 8th annual All-Pro Team list

Back to top

Back to MRO Pro archives