SUMMARY
A manufacturing professional with extensive multi national work experience in plant operations, turnarounds, green field start up, training and engineering. Experienced through a variety of roles in batch, continuous and semi- continuous process operations in the Petro-Chemical industry under OSHA PSM frameworks. Strong technical, organizational and leadership skills used to train and mentor new recruits for the implementation of safe, innovative and cost effective solutions for continuous plant operations and improvements. A highly motivated, adaptable self-starter challenged by new experiences and applying best practices at new and existing plants.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
HEMLOCK SEMICONDUCTOR LLC, Clarksville, TN 2013 – Present
Responsible for the safe and efficient operation of the utility plants for HSC’s new Clarksville site as part of a $1.5B Greenfield capacity expansion.
MANUFACTURING ENGINEER
• Identify opportunities and implement changes to improve the capability,
reliability and productivity of the processes.
• Manage process changes in accordance with OSHA's PSM standard.
• Troubleshoot new or existing plant problems involving designs, materials, or
processes.
• Identify plant maintenance opportunities, trying to limit the number of
disruptive work orders using SAP.
• Coaching, training and development of operators, taking them through to internal
certification.
• Prepare engineering and training documentation for new and existing
manufacturing processes.
• Utilize lean manufacturing methods to maintain safe and productive operation.
• Engineering responsibility for the safe and reliable operation of air
compressors, chillers, hot water boilers, steam boilers, reverse osmosis units
and cooling tower systems.
• Maintain equipment and piping integrity by preservation of commissioned and
idled assets.
• Site lead for instrumentation and analyzer reliability.
• Capital projects manufacturing representative.
• Coaching, training and development of operators, taking them through to internal
certification.
• Planned maintenance for disruptive breakdowns and work with vendors to establish
critical spare parts list.
Achievements:
• Cost savings of over $200,00 in city water usage by implementing different
operational philosophy for the chilled water system.
• Cost savings of over $100,000 in sewage and maintenance by improving the
reliability and online time of the site waste water facility.
• Coached and trained the entire utilities operation team to safely and reliably
operate the air compressors, chillers, hot water boilers, steam boilers, reverse
osmosis units and cooling tower systems.
HEMLOCK SEMICONDUCTOR LLC, Clarksville, TN 2011 – 2013
Responsible for the training program for 150 plant operations technicians, and 30 manufacturing engineers for HSC’s new Clarksville site. Coaching and mentoring of training officers for the delivery of the integrated training program between sister plants within the company.
TRAINING ANALYST
• Organize, facilitate, and support operator and engineer training for all
technologies.
• Orientation and induction training for new employees.
• Evaluate training effectiveness using test results, competency assessments,
trainer evaluations and feedback.
• Identify training process improvement opportunities, and develop solutions to
optimize training process workflows.
• Assist trainers and subject matter experts in the design and development of
training materials, including training manuals, presentation materials and
tests.
• Work with third parties as needed to develop and deliver training programs.
• Site training delivery of the distributed control system.
• Development of the site's operator training simulator.
• Manage the operator-training simulator program.
Achievements:
• Managed the acceptance of the operator-training simulator program for a 10,000
I/O plant that had a medium fidelity simulation of the proposed plant.
• Developed a competency based distributed control system training program for all
plant operators and engineers.
• All 150 operations staff passed through competency plan, and signed off in 18
months from inception.
DOW CORNING, Zhangjiagang, China 2007 – 2011
Work with EPC’s and Internal Project organization to accept the new $1.2 billion green field Integrated Chemical facility site on behalf of Dow Corning, and prepare for plant start-up and continuous operations.
START-UP ENGINEER
• Operability and maintenance reviews u...
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