Chris Tagoe

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Senior Vice President HSE @ LyondellBasell
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Spring, Texas, United States, United States
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About Chris Tagoe

Multi-disciplined (Operational Excellence, Health, Safety & Environment, Security, Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, Reliability and Manufacturing) Operations leader. Extensive experience in the chemical and energy industries leading manufacturing and technical teams to turn around under-performing assets/teams. Able to communicate effectively across diverse international cultures. A reputation for developing people, leading organizational change, and empowering work groups to reach organizational goals, has resulted in varied and challenging senior leadership assignments. Strong values of honesty and integrity. Primary competencies of responsibility and ownership, focus, analytical skills, relationship building, and listening skills.Specialties: Technologies; Olefins (NGL and naphth cracking ethylene plants), polyethylene, titanium dioxide, ethylene oxide/ethylene oxide derivatives, Oil and Gas equipment manufacturing/services.Management; Multi-disciplined Manufacturing Executive (Manufacturing, Maintenance, Reliability, Health Safety and Environment, Security, Operational Excellence, Six Sigma executive green belt, ISO9000 auditing, Engineering, Information Technology, planning and scheduling, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures).

Chris Tagoe's Current Company Details
LyondellBasell

Lyondellbasell

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Senior Vice President HSE
Chris Tagoe Work Experience Details
  • Lyondellbasell
    Senior Vice President Hse
    Lyondellbasell Oct 2022 - Present
    Houston, Tx, Us
    Global responsibility for HSE, operational excellence, product safety, security and quality.
  • Kraton Corporation
    Snr Director Hses And Engineering
    Kraton Corporation May 2022 - Oct 2022
    The Woodlands, Texas, Us
    Global responsibility for HSES (Health, Safety, Environmental Compliance and Security), and engineering, reliability and maintenance for the Polymer segment.
  • Kraton Corporation
    Snr Director Global Hses
    Kraton Corporation Jul 2021 - Apr 2022
    The Woodlands, Texas, Us
    Global responsibility for Product Stewardship and Regulatory Assurance, and HSES (Health, Safety, Environmental Compliance and Security). Led company to the best HSES performance, 2 years in succession. On track for another year of great performance in 2022.
  • Kraton Corporation
    Director Global Hses
    Kraton Corporation Jul 2019 - Jul 2021
    The Woodlands, Texas, Us
    Global responsibility for HSES functions of process safety, personal safety, environmental compliance, and security.
  • Independent
    Consultant
    Independent Apr 2018 - Jun 2019
  • Schlumberger
    Hse Manager / Vice President
    Schlumberger Apr 2016 - Mar 2018
    Houston, Texas, Us
    Global responsibility for HSE and security for the Research, Engineering, Manufacturing and Sustain (REMS) functions of the company.(Schlumberger acquired Cameron)
  • Cameron
    Vice President - Health, Safety, & Environment
    Cameron Aug 2011 - Mar 2016
    Houston, Tx, Us
    Global responsibility for corporate Health, Safety, & Environmental (HS&E) programs. Key task of creating a single global HS&E support organization and set of programs from one that was decentralized within the five different divisions of Cameron. Orchestrated a 60% drop in previously stagnated injury rates over first 4 1/2 years, expanded the scope of support services while reducing the cost of overall HSE support.Cameron was acquired by Schlumberger in 2016.
  • The Quaker Group
    Partner
    The Quaker Group Mar 2010 - Jul 2011
    Consulting on Health, Safety & Environmental improvement, and Manufacturing Operational Excellence (including operations, maintenance and reliability best practices) within the chemical and oil and gas industries.
  • Lyondellbasell
    Vice President Information Technology Operations
    Lyondellbasell Jan 2009 - Mar 2010
    Houston, Tx, Us
    World wide responsibility for operational aspects of Information Technology platforms, including hardware and applications support. Scope includes datacenters, client services, applications, security, local and wide area networks, telecommunications, and desktop devices. Oversee design development and technical architecture of all applications. Remit is to introduce and deploy manufacturing and operational excellence concepts to the development, maintenance, operation and delivery of information technology services across the globe.LyondellBasell had about $40B in revenue at the time.
  • Lyondellbasell
    Vice President, Engineering Services
    Lyondellbasell Jan 2008 - Dec 2008
    Houston, Tx, Us
    World wide responsibility for energy reduction, process automation systems & instrumentation support, electrical distribution systems, maintenance & reliability processes, machinery and fixed systems support, engineering standards, and process engineering. Also provided engineering project estimation and Quality Assurance/Quality Control services in support of turnarounds and capital projects.-Delivered $36MM in savings in the first year while leading the effort to identify and execute synergies for manufacturing/engineering within chemicals division.-Oversaw a $120MM reduction in energy usage.
  • Lyondellbasell
    General Manager / Vice President Health Safety & Environment
    Lyondellbasell 2007 - 2008
    Houston, Tx, Us
    Global responsibility for health, safety and environmental functions (product stewardship, process safety, occupational safety, occupational health, environmental compliance, government advocacy, security, critical situations/emergency response management). Role also included oversight of Lyondell’s Operational Excellence standards and practices, and coordination of the Six Sigma effort. -Integrated two global HS&E organizations as a result of Lyondell merger with Basell.-Lyondell had $20B revenue and the combined company after it was aquired (LyondellBasell) had $40B in revenue at the time.
  • Lyondellbasell
    General Manager/ Vice President Operations / Engineering Director
    Lyondellbasell 2004 - 2007
    Houston, Tx, Us
    Manufacturing and engineering responsibility for worldwide inorganics organization, specializing in the manufacture of TiO2 (Titanium Dioxide) and silicates. Direct reporting relationship to site directors and a combined 2700+ work force, including represented and non-represented sites. Manufacturing facilities were located in the U.K., France, Australia, Brazil and the United States.-Managed the turnaround in reliability performance at a number of critical sites through implementation of Operational Excellence strategies.-Achieved a worldwide injury rate of 0.41 for employees across all sites, one of the best in the industry at the time.-On M&A and divestiture team for the division.(Millennium was a division of Lyondell)
  • Lyondellbasell
    Plant Manager
    Lyondellbasell Dec 2000 - Nov 2004
    Houston, Tx, Us
    Responsible for Olefins and poly-olefins (LDPE and LLDPE) manufacturing facilities at La Porte, Texas. -Achieved record safety and reliability performance. -Implemented maintenance work flow process to increase efficiencies and reduced maintenance spending. There was a 10 fold reduction in overdue preventive work orders and resource utilization was improved from 50% to 86%.-Turned around the morale of the organization and made the highest scores for the site in corporate opinion surveys. -Empowered the workforce and greatly improved employee involvement in site operational excellence initiatives.
  • Lyondellbasell
    Production Manager
    Lyondellbasell 1998 - 2004
    Houston, Tx, Us
    Various roles including operations responsibility for an Ethylene Oxide and Derivatives unit. (Occidental/Oxy enters into a partnership with Lyondell and Millennium Petrochemicals. Lyondell eventually aquires 100% ownership of partnership)
  • Oxy
    Various
    Oxy 1989 - 1998
    Houston, Tx, Us
    (Occidental acquired Cain Chemical)
  • Cain Chemical
    Various
    Cain Chemical 1988 - 1989
    Production engineer for utilities, C4 and BTX extraction train.(Cain acquired Petrochemical business and assets of DuPont)
  • Dupont
    Various
    Dupont Apr 1984 - 1988
    Wilmington, De, Us
    Responsibility for olefins feedstock quality and cracking pattern evaluation. Eventually became the corporate expert on olefins feedstock quality evaluation.

Chris Tagoe Skills

Petrochemical Engineering Manufacturing Energy Process Engineering Operational Excellence Management Leadership Operations Management Safety Management Systems Change Management Occupational Health Process Safety Integration Leadership Development Environmental Management Systems Chemical Engineering Continuous Improvement Process Improvement Engineering Management Safety Cross Functional Team Leadership Industrial Safety Process Optimization Energy Industry Mergers Lean Manufacturing Process Control Iso Ehs Chemicals Hazop Polymers Risk Management Materials Oil/gas Quality Management Capital Projects Environmental Awareness Health Commissioning Factory Gas Environmental Compliance Instrumentation Maintenance Management Petroleum Process Simulation Travel Emergency Management Green Belt Regulatory Compliance Strategic Leadership People Development Osha Cost Reduction

Chris Tagoe Education Details

  • Northeastern University
    Northeastern University
    Chemical Engineering
  • University Of Massachusetts Lowell
    University Of Massachusetts Lowell
    Chemical Engineering
  • Boston University
    Boston University
    Biomedical Engineering

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