Benjamin Vasquez Email & Phone Number

Mims, Fl

Birmingham, Alabama Area

Manage operations (production and distribution) budget, maintenance, outage planning, safety, environmental compliance, health, quality assurance, staffing, and personnel development and performance evaluations •Effectively aligned depts. under 1 mgt., removed business silos & barriers for high performance org.•Successfully made safety, health, environmental (SHEQ) and quality part of the field ownership•Embedded SHEQ in field planning & execution, improving decision making by people empowerment, supporting new supply organization with the SHEQ role making a more positive and safer impact to all operations. Ensured SHEQ compliance; process safety and engineering management of change standards, ensuring that all products met FDA standards. •Met performance target goals. Completed cross-training plan (flexible and trained workforce)•Ran the assigned plant locations in accordance with the Linde process operations operating model.•Recruited / screened / hired, trained, developed and motivated staff of 15 production and 26 delivery and transportation employees.•Evaluated staff performance for performance ratings and salary increases for 41 employees.•Oversaw the operation of 4 ASU plants (annual operating budget of $26MM for assets totaling $85MM) and 5 N2 on-site plants (annual operating budget of $2MM for assets totaling $35MM); also product pipelines in Birmingham and Axis, AL, ensuring safety and reliability as well as efficiency•Exceeded supply KPI targets in operational cost, downtime, profitability, HPO controllable costs, overtime, and safety lost time / avoidable; Linde I Am Taking the Lead Award recipient for Customer Service for critical key customer account, The Southern Company.

Overall responsibility for supplying PEMEX with 50,000 TPD Nitrogen Gas Pipeline by leading safety, reliability, budgeting & cost performance, staffing, developing and motivating, staff performance evaluations, labor union relations, reporting to the board of directors of operations and projects (including Module 5).•Managed Mega-N2 Plant / Pipeline (annual operating budget of $100MM on assets of $1.75BB); accountable for a large scale major plant turnaround planning & execution at 4 large ASU plants•Achieved excellent 5-year safety record (1MM man-hours/yr. incl. construction of M-5 & 4 major T/A’s•Efficiently oversaw the reorganization of the Management Team (financial and performance audits).•Successfully selected, promoted, and developed 7 department managers •Successfully guided large scale major plant turnaround planning & execution at 4 large ASU plants•Recorded a successful 5 years of labor contract negotiations with Mexican Petro-Chemical Labor Union.•Provided knowledge and industry expertise to successfully support early completion of the Module 5 ASU construction and commissioning.•Served on a large Mexico project staffing committee member conducting technical interviews, screenings and facilitating job offers.

Ensured compliance with SHEQ standards and met set performance targets.•Managed the assigned plant(s) in accordance with the process operations operating model.•Recruited / screened / hired, trained, developed and motivated staff of 20 production employees.•Successfully evaluated staff performance for performance ratings and salary increases.•Managed the operation of 2 ASU and 2 CO2 plants (annual operating budget of $2MM for assets totaling $10MM), ensuring safety and reliability as well as efficiencies.•Exceeded supply KPI targets in operational cost, downtime, profitability, HPO controllable costs, overtime, and safety lost time / avoidable, by developing and empowering operations staff

Corpus Christi, Texas Area

Manage plant operations and staff in S. Texas; ensured compliance with safety, health, environmental and quality (SHEQ) standards; develop operations budget and set performance targets•Recruited / screened / hired, trained, developed and motivated staff of 6 employees.•Evaluated staff performance for performance ratings and salary increases.•Managed the operation and budgeted costs of the assigned plants (1 CO2, 3 N2 customer on-site plants); ensuring safety and reliability as well as efficiency.•Exceeded supply KPI targets in operational cost, downtime, profitability, HPO controllable costs, overtime, and safety lost time / avoidable; Total Quality Mgt. Leader; •BOC Safety & Quality Manual development committee member / writer; ISO 9002 quality coordinator•Volunteered business support by acting as interim CO2 plant manager for Baytown, TX for 8 months•Successfully supported construction and commissioning of Corpus Christi CO2, Valero N2 and O2 plants•Safely completed numerous plant turnaround planning and execution per scope and budget •Achieved the Process Operations Management Award for exceeding performance metrics – Oct 1999•Volunteer member in the LEPC (local emergency planning committee) •Oversaw and trainer in computerized maintenance management system, ensuring reliability of operations

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