Summary of Qualifications
• Over ten years of operations management experience focusing on providing competitive products, in a timely manner, to customers.
• 10 years of Project Management of facilities for specialty chemicals, water treatment, and oil field industries.
• Lean and Six Sigma (LSS) Black Belt trained.
• Excellent communicator and proactive leader.
Professional Experience
2013 – Present Georgia Pacific Chemicals
Crossett, Arkansas
ASSISTANT PLANT MANAGER
• Assistant Plant Manager for a PSM regulated Tall Oil Fractionation facility managing 6 salary and 27 union production employees.
• Manages the day to day operations focusing on delivering customer value utilizing the Market Based Management principle system.
• Lead the department safety culture to achieve zero accidents by improving safety performance through utilization of job hazard analysis, safe work permitting, behavior based safety, root cause analysis, housekeeping and training.
• Initiates capital project request for capital project improvements.
• Lead Operational Excellence efforts in the areas of production efficiencies, product yield, operating costs and product quality by developing and incorporating roles, responsibilities and expectations for salary and hourly positions.
• Maintain and improve plant process safety information (PSI), support and participate in process hazard analysis (PHA). Oversee development, review and improvement of standard operating procedures (SOP’s). Review management of change (MOC), authorize start-ups utilizing pre-startup safety review procedures (PSSR), oversee and conduct process training, and conduct & follow-up on incident investigations (RCA).
• Oversee all aspects of the operation including raw material ordering, production scheduling, and timely mechanical integrity (MI) inspections and planning of scheduled plant outages.
2010 – 2013 Baker Hughes – Petrolite Division
Kilgore, Texas
PLANT MANAGER – Kilgore Texas
• Plant Manager for a PSM regulated Blend Plant managing 6 direct and 24 non-union employees (production, scheduling, quality, and maintenance).
• Initiates capital project request for capital improvements.
• Work closely with HSE on capital expansion projects, root cause analysis, PHA’s, safety committee and site Title 5 Permit modifications.
• Responsibilities include production, capital project cost control, maintenance, quality, shipping/receiving and other related operations.
• Leads the workforce in continuous improvement activities, both systems and processes, and benchmarks appropriate standards of conduct throughout the operation.
• Keeps employees informed of dashboard metrics, supports quality, consistency and integrity in all transactions.
• SAP power user developing site specific reports managing manufacturing goals and costs.
SENIOR MANUFACTURING ENGINEER – Pasadena Texas
• Project Manager for capital projects. Utilizing E&C consultants to develop scoping requirements, budget estimates and execute projects on time and under budget.
• Generate capital request (AFE) to achieve desired annual capital spend
2006 –2008 Chemtura Corporation – Great Lakes Chemicals
El Dorado Arkansas
PRODUCTIVITY / QUALITY SYSTEMS LEADER – LSS Black Belt
• Manage productivity efforts for the three South Arkansas f...
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