Doug Weber Email & Phone Number

Paducah, Ky, Us

North Charleston, South Carolina, Us

•Responsible for activation, acid recovery, char-drying, catalyst, finishing, powder bagging and shipping.•Servant Leader to 60+ operators, engineers & area coordinators → promoting safety, production, innovation & sustainability.

North Charleston, South Carolina, Us

•Effectively managing multiple departments at the Wickliffe Facility, including: Activation, Offgas, Sawdust Handling, Plant Air, Steam Generation and Drying Departments.•Managed the commissioning & training of (2) 800-HP Firetube Boilers; along with (2) 600-HP FS Elliott Air Compressors to supply the plant's increase in steam & air demand.•Employing multiple improvement projects, including Air Measurement on Char Dryer Baghouse, Safety E-Stops on Boilers & a Ground-Breaking Moisture Analyzer on the Char Dryer.

Miamisburg, Ohio, Us

•Process Owner of three 1.60 MM#/Day Recovery Boilers, 2 Evaporator Trains and Black Liquor Oxidation Systems that support the Wisconsin Rapids Mill 1,200+ ADBTPD Kraft Pulp Mill. •Managed an outstanding group of 25+ team members in the Recovery Department. Held accountable for qualification, training & development of the entire group.•Trialed different style black liquor gun nozzles on all 3 of the Recovery Boilers in an attempt to reduce carry-over, boiler pluggage & liquor blowback. Sustained overall gains in production that exceeded $1.95MM in annual pulp tons. •Process owner of a >$12MM rebuild on the #2 Recovery Boiler. Managed the commissioning team to develop a safe & prompt start-up of the boiler after a 5-week rebuild of the lower furnace & tri-level air system

Miamisburg, Ohio, Us

•Millwide responsibility of driving Realizable Gap (R-Gap) closure. Led & implemented gap closure on various opportunities versus Best Practice benchmarks identified with Verso's acquisition of NewPage Corporation. •Three month period where I overseen the project development, organization & closure of over $2 million in Realizable Gap closure across the entire pulp & paper mills.

Miamisburg, Ohio, Us

• Ensured opportunities from unit losses were identified & resolved in the Power & Recovery Department. Identified such losses through Pareto & Waterfall chart analysis & resolved such issues with LSS tools – FMEA, QCO & 5-S methodologies.• Classify & communicated operating unit goals & technology plans with respect to health, safety, environmental concerns, unit operations & technical opportunities.• Implemented Spent Caustic intake into Recausticizing Plant to reduce the required makeup sodium hydroxide by >40%. An annualized savings exceeding $1MM.

Miamisburg, Ohio, Us

• Coordinated the entire operation of the Power & Recovery Department's Recausticizing & Lime Kiln area.• Conducted a LSS project around our lime mud filter to increase the dry solids doctored off to the lime kiln; increased average solids from 70% to 77%, yielded an annual savings of $300,000.• Led the implementation of a new dregs filter system. Involved in developing a process control scheme, training/qualifying operators, developing lockouts & SOP’s. $1.25MM Reduction in Sodium Hydroxide Purchased in 2011.

Miamisburg, Ohio, Us

• Completed a thorough material & energy balance on the LTV six-effect evaporator system to determine steam economy & evaporation distribution. • Optimized the displacement washing on the Lime Mud Filter system to increase Mud Filter % Solids. • Developed a correlation between filtrate conductivity & soda content in order to reduce sodium carry-over & prevent ringing in the Lime Kiln.

Memphis, Tennessee, Us

• Responsible for management & inventory control on dozens of chemical applications.• Monitored microbiological growth & entrained air on four of NewPage’s paper machines.• Researched & studied defoamer performance in an effort to reduce coating recipe costs.• Implemented & improved batch-on-the-fly felt washing on two of NewPage's machines by correlating pH & conductivity to washing efficiency.

Miamisburg, Ohio, Us

• Supervised the E1 color building and coating & additives department• Active member of the E1 LSS Steam Reduction Team.• Reduced the E1 paper machine GPC starch cooker’s warm-up cycles by analyzing starch granules microscopically and decreasing excess starch flow to the sewer; $40,000 savings. • Alternated coater sluicing water from mill water to warm reclaim water by re-routing the sluicing feedwater & completing a material & energy balance on the warm water system; $20,000 savings.

Miamisburg, Oh, Us

• Worked primarily on the state-of-the-art Q41 Paper Machine & occasionally in the Recovery & Utilities Department with the Engineering Group.• Developed several spreadsheets & produced control screens in PI ProcessBook that were utilized to monitor the Dryer Section and Super Calender steam load & temperatures on Q41.• Trialed & monitored new Video Historian to capture web breaks across the machine's press & dryer sections.• Implemented an infrared thermocouple and oxygen sensor on the Lime Kiln to monitor temperature profiles and oxygen levels on the DCS.

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemical Engineering

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management

Paper Science & Engineering, Paper Science, Chemistry

Science, Engineering, Cad