Darrell Evans Email & Phone Number

Port Arthur, Texas, United States

Port Arthur, Texas, United States

• Additional duty of Site Digital Transformation Lead
• Interim Site Maintenance Manager from October 2018 – November 2019
• Responsible for all Reliability programs at the site (replacement value approx. $2.5B)
• Lead a team of 8-10 direct reports focusing on improving Mean Time Between Failure
• Provide recommendations for long term reliability strategy to site leadership
• Track Maintenance spending and produce monthly forecasts and back-casts ($28M / yr.)

Port Arthur, Texas, United States

• Initiate corrective actions based on “Bad Actor” program for the facility and generate notifications in SAP
• Lead and facilitate site Reliability work group and report goals and accomplishments to BASF TOTAL Petrochemicals Technical Advisory Committee
• Member of the site reorganization core team that helped address known challenges, and made recommendations to site leadership team
• Lead site Risk Based Maintenance process, performing criticality assessment, FMEA, equipment maintenance plans, Root Cause Analysis, and RCM Blitz
• Oversaw planning and scheduling group (10 direct reports) during execution of daily Maintenance and small outages, and tracked Key performance Indicators
• Negotiated contracts with suppliers for goods and services to optimize cost saving

Port Arthur, Texas, United States

• Managed team of 10 Mechanical Planners and Schedulers during $100MM 2012 TAR
• Negotiated and procured goods and services for Mechanical work prior to TAR execution
• Helped determine manpower loading based on planned work (~ 300,000 direct MHrs)
• Responsible for Discovery work and tracked associated costs of changes
• Produced daily schedule for General Contractors on site (~ 800 direct workers)

Orange, Texas, United States

• Initiate corrective actions based on predictive reports. Track problem areas in the facility and generate notifications using SAP
• Led team of 5 employees in Reliability efforts

Orange, Texas, United States

• Create unit Maintenance budget and track monthly costs versus budget ($8M / yr.)
• Submit budget and track capital spending for unit projects (up to $3M / yr.)
• Responsible for all maintenance and inspection activities in two operating units (replacement value approximately $250 MM)
• Helped Negotiate 3 year contract for Scaffolding, Painting and Insulation services
• Direct reports: 4 Maintenance Supervisors / Planners; 20 Indirect reports

Orange, Texas, United States

• Participate in evaluation and selection of on-site contracted services ($600k / yr.)
• Initiated Vibration Monitoring program for site by training 5 Technicians and 5 Unit Engineers on basic vibration principles and data collection techniques
• Manage capital projects for multiple units, up to $500,000 each
• Coordinate inspections for over 400 pieces of equipment in production unit

Beaumont, Texas, United States

• Formerly North Star Steel
• Implemented a real-time data collection system for recording production levels, downtime, and scheduling of products
• Trained over 60 employees in the use of the system and wrote the user’s guide
• Redesigned roll passes, reduced quality-related downtime, saved $1,000,000 per year

Beaumont, Texas, United States

• Formerly North Star Steel
• Performed Computer Aided Design and drafting (AutoCAD) of various disciplines (structural steel, piping, mechanical)
• Supervised fabrication of components in Weld Shop or Pipe Shop
• Followed installation of designs in the field
• Designed and supervised installation of 393 foot long barge dock for transporting finished goods produced at the site
• Worked on completing Mechanical Engineering degree part-time

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Arts And Sciences

Associate Of Arts And Sciences - Aas, Computer Aided Drafting