Provide daily monitoring to Crude, Solvent De-asphalting, HF Alky, Gas Plant, and DHT units. Assist Maintenance Planners with scheduling and coordinating unit maintenance. Daily troubleshooting with Operations staff to improve unit performance. Monitor HF Alky unit chemicals and place orders as needed. Provide unit updates in morning Operations and Maintenance meetings with refinery staff.Assist in planning and executing unit outages and turnarounds

Provide technical support and daily monitoring for crude, SDA, ASU, and tank farm.Provide process engineering support for crude flexibility project.Process engineering support for crude tower re-tray, desalter revamp, and other small T/A projects.Participant in HAZOP/PHA for Crude and SDA units.Participant in design review/HAZOP/PHA for new crude unit and WWTP upgrades.

Monitor day to day operations of crude and gas plant units.

Promote safety through MOC’s, unit walkthroughs, and daily interaction with OperationsLead RCA’s on unit safety and process events, propose action items, and implement changes for improvement with over 10+ completed to dateConduct unit trainings to improve Operator knowledge of unit interlocks and process conditions Prepare documentation and support unit trials for new productsReduced unit purging in 2011 by 33% for an estimated increase of $500,000/yr in productionImplemented process changes through work process ranging in value of $10 – 50MCompile multi-functional teams to troubleshoot solids separation, unit plugging, production, and safety incidents

Proposed process improvements for an estimated savings of $200,000/yrScribe/Participant in Process Hazard Analysis Study of Solution Hydrolysis UnitLead Process Engineer in heat exchanger design ($250M), Dryer modifications ($600M), and several other projects ($10-50M)Lead Engineer for HAZOP, siting study, fault and event tree, safety instrumented system design, MOC process, and implementation of new reactor ($6MM)Assisted Project Engineering in detailed design, vendor meetings, and early (one week) delivery of installed reactorSuccessfully implemented all projects within 2010 T/A scheduleConducted Operations training for T/A process changes and improvements and held follow-up meetings for additional questions Implemented process change enabling 7% production increase of single product and enabling the maximum production of other products within same product familyMember of Celanese Value Award team receiving award from CEO for unit production improvements

Develop design and complete build and modify packages for process improvements. Apply engineering fundamentals to daily tasks.