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Friendswood, Tx, Us

Friendswood, Tx, Us

Lake Jackson, Texas, United States

Responsible for site integration, infrastructure, and I-Park implementation activities at Dow's Texas City Operations (TCO). Lead a focused, experienced team in coordination and execution of infrastructure related capital and expense projects on the site. Manage partner and tenant relationships, contracts and land agreements.

Texas City, Texas, United States

Freeport, Texas

Responsible for the alignment of production targets and performance at the manufacturing plant with the business goals and planning. Coordinate with raw material planners, logistics and supply chain to manage receipt of raw materials and shipment of products and byproducts out of plant. Provide key input and strategy to annual turnarounds and maintenance outages to ensure continuity of product supply.

Freeport, Texas

Front-end loading for projects, small project management, change management, process safety (LOPA/LPP/reviews), process code review, OD development, project scoping, technical interface with construction, commissioning and startup, service level agreements.

Deer Park, Texas

Increased quality by 10% through application of SPC techniques to product wheel at emulsion plant. Systematically worked on operational and equipment limitations to raise quality. Successfully brought back high-profile problem product to the plant through green belt six sigma project. Completed entire HAZOP from scratch for the acrylic emulsion plant. Implemented projects for heat exchanger cleaning to reduce maintenance and operations downtime. Led EHS team to initiate spill reduction program at manufacturing plant to reduce spills by 75%. Saw 40% reduction in first year.

Knoxville, Tennessee

Wrote OD and DeltaV recipes for batch emulsion processes; monitored and improved processes; improved quality and asset utilization on chemical equipment; conducted EHS reviews including LOPA/LPP updates, audits.