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Sabine Pass, Texas, United States

United States

Beaumont, Texas, United States

Confirm movements across the wharf, assist in demurrage analysis.

Port Of Port Arthur

• Managing the port facility, storage capacity of 65000 MT of wood pellets. Overseeing all aspects of receiving and shipping of industrial wood pellets.
• Direct transportation activities to maintain efficiency, profitability and customer satisfaction.
• Monitor budget, operational metrics, and compliance throughout terminal.
• Oversee the entire terminal, including driver and dispatch personnel.
• Responsible for all technical issues with the the fleet.
• Oversee all aspects of loading cargo into vessels (handy max)

Dupont SRW

Maintain a safe work environment by following all safety rules and procedures. Ensures accurate and timely entries of manual SFRs – Standard Freight RecordsMaintains thorough understanding of the Freight Payment ProcessAnalyzes and investigates all records on the Suspended Freight Bill report and reconciles all suspended freight bills prior to force.

Port Arthur

Procurement and sourcing of all warehouse materials, create and maintain all material masters and vendor information records in SAP for stock and non-stock items and vendor consignment materials. Coordinate with all refinery crafts such as electrical, instrumentation, machinists, and analyzer departments. Generate all purchase orders for these materials.

Responsible for all maintenance at assigned sites. Responsible all safety & regulatory compliance issues at assigned sites.

Point person on all sales in Maricopa proper.Job bidding. Managing 60+ drivers.Handling all hiring, terming, training and safety compliance issues for assigned area. Active within the construction industry as a member of Arizona Rock Products Association.

• Sales representative for 124 + accounts, selling aggregates, cement and pozzolans.
• Managed all aspects of developing and maintaining vendor relationships for haulers of bulk materials.
• Overseen all aspects of shipped material throughout 4 states, coordinating with multiple levels of operational personal from manufacturing locations to terminal locations to insure quality products, timely deliveries &.
• Supervised a team of 6 direct reports while overseeing the implementation of a new billing system.
• Developed and instituted manage order billing procedures effectively reducing all cost and increasing efficiency in all aspects associated with manage order billing.
• Successfully merged two billing systems into one.

Point person on all unsolicited sales calls.Contract editing/review on direct jobs. Assist in all direct jobs bid including pricing, logistics & overseeing job thru completion.Managed all aspects of internal sales from quote to cash.Managed all aspects of developing and maintaining vendor relationships for haulers of bulk materials. Coordinated all sales.

Off loading of bulk cementitious and pozzolanic materials, pneumatic and bottom dump rail cars (Haliburton System). Off loading and loading of bulk tanker trucks.Dispatch and logistics for both bulk tankers and rail cars from terminals.Billing of material sold from terminals. General maintenance, clean up of terminals. Certified by the American Concrete.

Business Management

Applied Sciences 2001 Business Management