Jerry Putt

About Jerry

Jerry Putt recently retired after 38 years of industrial experience with the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. During his tenure with Goodyear, he held key management positions in corporate engineering, production and maintenance, with the last 12 years spent creating a process reliability team with worldwide responsibilities. Jerry served approximately one-third of his career overseas in South Africa, England and Argentina. For the last 11 years with Goodyear, Jerry developed and managed Goodyear’s global maintenance and reliability engineering function.

A mechanical engineer, Jerry has a certificate of mechanical competency from the Republic of South Africa and is a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP). In addition to being an executive member of the Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP) for more than 10 years, he has been on the advisory board for the International Council for Machinery Lubrication (ICML) since 2001. Jerry has delivered numerous papers at reliability conferences and was the keynote speaker for one of Noria’s early Lubrication Excellence conferences.