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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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

• 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

Education record

Education record