WORK EXPERIENCE
Congoleum Corporation
Marcus Hook, PA
Process Engineer - R&D
July 2016 - May 2017
- Process Engineer working directly with Research and Development and Plant Operations to provide product improvement and quality assurance for all plant raw materials, production processes, vinyl plastisol mixing, and product formulation.
- Worked with product development for new flooring products, raw materials as well as process development.
- Initiated long term product quality investigations and utilized root cause analysis and statistical methods to resolve defects, roll-core lap-marking defects, and subflooring movement issues.
- Managed experimental production trials and followed up on testing and reports
- Coordinated experimental production runs with plant scheduling for new product development, raw material changes, and investigations into quality issues to minimize operations interruptions.
- Responsible for electrical and mechanical troubleshooting to ensure product quality and production reliability.
- Analyzed test data, draw conclusions and recommend action based on trial results
- Assisted in raw material evaluations, associated trial management, and customer audits
Preferred Sands
Radnor, PA
Project Engineer - DustPRO
October 2014 – April 2016
- Project Engineer on the process design, implementation, and development of the DustPro system, a chemical-based respirable silica dust suppressant system that flash coated fracking proppants/sands.
- Designed and engineered the DustPro system from conceptual phase into full production using operations results and customer feedback to drive improvements and product quality.
- Sized and selected process equipment not limited to: pumps, piping, valves, air compressors, and instrumentation.
- Up to 80% travel managing three different $500k to $1M project installations at mine sites in Arizona, Nebraska, and Wisconsin. As well as three additional $500k mixer installations at Marcellus Shale region sand terminals.
- Teamed up with plant personnel, customers, and contractors during site evaluations to develop installation game plans and prevent any unscheduled interruptions to production.
- Managed the construction of equipment installations and supervised up to 15 tradesmen driving schedules, setting priorities, pushing through obstacles, and starting up units in a faced paced oil & gas market.
- Managed project budgets, bidding, procurement, invoicing, and performed estimations for new customer projects.
- Performed system startup and shake downs to ensure consistent production of quality product, trained site operators, managers, and maintenance crews on system operations.
- Maintained project and equipment documentation including procedures, customer documentation, PM schedules, spare parts, and drafted drawings, P&IDS, and schematics in AutoCAD.
LORD Corporation - Saegertown Chemical Operations
Saegertown, PA
Manufacturing Engineer
May 2011 – October 2014
- Plant Engineer for specialty batch chemical facility performing both process and project engineering, and providing production support to LORD’s manufacturing line.
- Managed the entire lifecycle of capital installation projects, with budgets up to $3M, to bring new processes online, improve plant safety, automate processes, reduce waste costs, update and repair equipment, and improve facilities.
- Estimated project budgets and analyzed project economics to obtain Appropriation Request approvals.
- Developed work scopes, performed quote/bid walkthroughs, procured equipment and contract services.
- Directly managed mechanical contractor activities of teams up to 12 including: industrial pipe fitting, industrial electrical installation, steel building and mezzanine construction, pressure vessel code weld repairs, piping and vessel insulation, HVAC ducting, fire protection piping, automation integration, and more.
- Collaborated with operators, managers, contractors, and all plant departments to plan and complete new projects on-schedule and on-budget and ensure continuous plant operations.
- Developed equipment documentation files and operations procedures, and trained unit operators on new equipment and changes.
- Designed and calculated new process and process improvement requirements including pump and pipe flow, compressed air demand, reactor venting, heat exchanger sizing, insulation an...
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