Member Spotlight: Frank Snook

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BGS San Diego Chapter President

Mr. Frank E. Snook is the Maintenance Branch Team Leader for the Fleet Readiness Center Southwest where he coordinates and motivates 87 artisans and 3 supervisors. His branch is responsible for the maintenance of Industrial Production Machinery, the Facilities that house them and miscellaneous projects ranging from 20 to 2,500 hours. Frank's area of responsibility covers 88 buildings housing more than 10,000 pieces of machinery in over 3.2 million square feet of production space. He is charged with keeping 7 Program Managers satisfied through the effective deployment of a multi-million dollar budget.

Mr. Snook consistently receives praise from Senior Managers for his effective leadership of cross functional, cross competency teams and his ability to successfully integrate front-line workers into teams focused on organizational objectives. He has teamed up with DLA, Environmental and PWC within the last year. He is currently teaming with production to start Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) initiatives. Mr. Snook works diligently to integrate contractor services with his in-house maintenance team and to lead the teams to ever higher performance levels.

Frank is trained in; Reliability Centered Maintenance, Infra-Red Thermography, Power Quality, Laser Alignment, Vibration Analysis and Ultra-Sound. He has effectively utilized his training to resolve problems with problematic pieces of equipment throughout the depot. He was a highly successful Equipment Redesign Engineer for almost 7 years before receiving his assignment to the branch manager position. He successfully performed root cause analysis on many pieces of machinery in the plant and eliminated their repeat modes of failure, making them much more reliable.

Mr. Snook served his country as a soldier in the U.S. Army from 1984 to 1987. He spent the first year of his military career in Germany guarding nuclear weapons bunkers. He maxed out a soldier of the quarter board and was reassigned to the personal protection team for the Commanding General of the 59th Ordinance Brigade. Mr. Snook volunteered for Airborne School when it came time for him to rotate back stateside. He was assigned to the 118th M.P. Co. (ABN) out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Shortly thereafter he became the NCO in charge of the Commanding General's personal protection team.

Frank has a Master of Science Degree in Executive Leadership from the University of San Diego and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering from San Diego State University. He has been accepted at Pepperdine University for this Doctorate in Organizational Leadership. He is an American Society of Quality (ASQ) Senior Member and an ASQ Certified Six-Sigma Black Belt. Frank speaks both Spanish and English fluently and lives in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico with his wife and son. Frank leads at work and at home. He volunteers his time for organizations such as VIP Mentors, US First Robotics, Christmas-in-October and teaches English at a local school near his home in Tijuana. He also enjoys working out, swimming in the ocean and bowling. His favorite sporting events are Boxing, MMA and baseball.

Mr. Snook's lifetime goals are to make his workplace world class. It is his personal belief that the Fleet Readiness Center Southwest should become a high performing organization that is a benchmark for other organizations to utilize. There is no customer more important to him than the Sailors and Marines of the Fleet. It is for this reason that Mr. Snook leads with a philosophy that entails great respect, great compassion; with a focus on always holding the bar ever higher.

What would I like to get from our BGS chapter? I would like to use this experience to expand my horizons. To push my comfort zone into areas where I am not familiar. As chapter president, I feel this is a service role; therefore, my mission is to deliver to the people what they want.

What is my advice to youngsters? To get a mentor while you are young. I mean, how do people know what they want in life? My boyscout training taught me that if I was lost, climb the highest tree and see which way leads home. Mentors are those trees. They point us in the right direction.