Graeme Mack Email & Phone Number

Red Deer, Alberta, Canada

Leadership of the Health and Safety function for Evraz's Canadian Operations. As a member of the Senior Leadership team, we are developing and implementing our safety transformation strategy. We are focused on our safety culture and setting our team up to succeed through engagement, building trust & relationships, and ensuring our systems and processes are clear and workable for all. The goal is to be best in class among peers knowing statistics are an outcome of taking care of our… Show more Leadership of the Health and Safety function for Evraz's Canadian Operations. As a member of the Senior Leadership team, we are developing and implementing our safety transformation strategy. We are focused on our safety culture and setting our team up to succeed through engagement, building trust & relationships, and ensuring our systems and processes are clear and workable for all. The goal is to be best in class among peers knowing statistics are an outcome of taking care of our people.Successfully reduced recordable injuries by 30% through focused hazard identification and mitigation. We are driving our strategy on serious injury reduction and engagement through Human and Organizational Performance principles Show less

Leadership of Suncor's Fort Hills Fixed Plant Maintenance, Turnaround, Plant Reliability, Central Maintenance Services and Project Integration (RFO) organization. The Fixed Plant assets include Ore Processing, Primary Extraction, Secondary Extraction and Bitumen Separation, Utilities including Cogeneration facility with associated steam and water production delivering 200 kppd. Closely collaborate in a Cross-Functional leadership team model leveraging the OMT model with… Show more Leadership of Suncor's Fort Hills Fixed Plant Maintenance, Turnaround, Plant Reliability, Central Maintenance Services and Project Integration (RFO) organization. The Fixed Plant assets include Ore Processing, Primary Extraction, Secondary Extraction and Bitumen Separation, Utilities including Cogeneration facility with associated steam and water production delivering 200 kppd. Closely collaborate in a Cross-Functional leadership team model leveraging the OMT model with shared accountability for facility occupational and process safety, environmental and regulatory performance, production performance, asset performance and our people. Led strategy development and execution of a workforce and asset strategy transition from the start-up organization to sustaining operation. Realized a reduction of $75+ MM in maintenance and engineering spend and associated workforce Developed the sustaining Long Range Plan for asset reliability, availability, outages and turnarounds. Through revisiting the timing and sequencing we unlocked $60+ MM per year starting in 2022. Stood up the outage management program for the site. To date, successfully executed over a dozen events meeting safety, schedule and cost targets Integrated the turnaround execution strategy into the Suncor enterprise and regional program Leadership of the team that delivers commissioning, start-up and operational readiness for capital projects across the site with values up to $750 MM. Provide the role of Emergency Operations Center Director Member of the Enterprise Maintenance and Reliability Director network Leadership Member of the Joint Workplace Health and Safety Committee Lead the Fort Hills wide employee and community engagement network fostering employee connection to the community through events and fundraising Show less

Fort Hills

Leadership of the Utilities maintenance organization at Suncor’s Fort Hills Oil Sands facility ensuring the safe and environmentally responsible operation of the co-generation power plant, steam plant and utilitiesDirect leadership of a team of managers, supervisors and coordinators accountable for a maintenance team delivering routine maintenance, major maintenance and plant outagesMember of a cross functional plant leadership team delivering an organizational transition from… Show more Leadership of the Utilities maintenance organization at Suncor’s Fort Hills Oil Sands facility ensuring the safe and environmentally responsible operation of the co-generation power plant, steam plant and utilitiesDirect leadership of a team of managers, supervisors and coordinators accountable for a maintenance team delivering routine maintenance, major maintenance and plant outagesMember of a cross functional plant leadership team delivering an organizational transition from new facility start-up to steady state operations with a focus on sustaining processes, people and cultureAccountable for the development of the long-term maintenance and reliability plans for the facility utilizing an Operational Excellence framework leveraging a team of operations, maintenance, technical and financeProviding coaching and leadership on work process implementation and integration to reliability principles Show less

Member of the site leadership team delivering safe reliable operations of an integrated petrochemical facilityRegional leadership of an organization consisting of multi-discipline project teams delivering sustaining capital projects. Accountable for a leadership team of 7 managers with an overall organization of 250-300 staff and contractorsOrganizational leadership of regional Process Safety (PSM) programs and Process Automation teams including accountability for Management of… Show more Member of the site leadership team delivering safe reliable operations of an integrated petrochemical facilityRegional leadership of an organization consisting of multi-discipline project teams delivering sustaining capital projects. Accountable for a leadership team of 7 managers with an overall organization of 250-300 staff and contractorsOrganizational leadership of regional Process Safety (PSM) programs and Process Automation teams including accountability for Management of Change (MOC) processesDeveloped and led the organization using an Operational Excellence framework focusing on team performance, work process and culture improvements to drive competitive results. Utilizing action based key performance indicators, teams are tracking towards a 30% improvement in project costs Leadership of engineering and construction contract management teams in coordination with Supply Chain Management (SCM) to deliver long term relationship performanceAccountable for portfolio development, planning, executing and reporting for a $100 MM + portfolio of projects ranging from $100 K - $30 MM through a stage gate project processDeveloped departmental operating budgets and drove opportunity development and actions to improve cost resultsCoached and facilitated NOVA’s regional high potential leader development program to build a pipeline of future leadersLead the regional technical employee network with a focus on employee development, engineering knowledge retention and transferOwner of the APEGA Professional Practice Management Plan (PPMP) and operated as NOVA's COO for engineering as defined by APEGAProvided regional emergency response leadership as an Emergency Operations Center Manager and Incident Commander. Show less

Red Deer

Manufacturing plant leadership of NOVA Chemicals proprietary solution phase high-pressure Polyethylene facility accountable for safe manufacturing of polyethylene in close integration with Sales & Operations Planning and Quality functionsFront-line leadership of a multi-discipline maintenance organization in the safe execution of routine maintenance to meet safety, quality, cost and schedule key performance indicatorsAchieved zero recordable injuries over the 3-year period… Show more Manufacturing plant leadership of NOVA Chemicals proprietary solution phase high-pressure Polyethylene facility accountable for safe manufacturing of polyethylene in close integration with Sales & Operations Planning and Quality functionsFront-line leadership of a multi-discipline maintenance organization in the safe execution of routine maintenance to meet safety, quality, cost and schedule key performance indicatorsAchieved zero recordable injuries over the 3-year period through clear coaching and visible field leadershipLed the transition from a pilot plant operating context to a steady state manufacturing facility operating contextDelivered leadership for on-stream time and product quality improvements initiatives ultimately delivering production records two years in rowDelivered an overall reduction of maintenance budgets of 10% through efficiency and reliability strategy improvementsDeveloped long term operational plans, workforce plans and budgets including managing performance to targets Member of a site wide team who developed a 10-year strategy defining operating context, workforce plan, fixed costs plan and capital planLed ongoing preventative and predictive maintenance program development and execution utilizing SAPAccountable for execution of the regional asset integrity plan ensuring mechanical integrity compliance with government regulationsOperated as the Execution Manager for unit outages and turnarounds ensuring safe execution and schedule complianceDirect contractor management for base crew maintenance contractors focused on safety performance and compliance to maintenance processes and procedures Show less

Leadership of the reliability and maintenance engineering team as an integrated member of the plant leadership team on UNIPOL and NOVA proprietary technologiesDeveloped the basis of the reliability integration strategy and organization for a new build polyethylene plantOwner of the 5- year asset plan to deliver plant on-stream time targets through equipment strategies defining outage and routine maintenance plans Accountable to deliver risk-based reliability strategies… Show more Leadership of the reliability and maintenance engineering team as an integrated member of the plant leadership team on UNIPOL and NOVA proprietary technologiesDeveloped the basis of the reliability integration strategy and organization for a new build polyethylene plantOwner of the 5- year asset plan to deliver plant on-stream time targets through equipment strategies defining outage and routine maintenance plans Accountable to deliver risk-based reliability strategies, preventative and predictive maintenance plan improvements and obsolescence strategies Led the site wide reliability strategy development team on developing integrated and consistent equipment strategies and owned the implementation within the plants and suppliers Developed key OEM supplier relationships in Polyethylene extrusion to drive supplier quality and equipment reliability improvementsLeveraged SAP and GE APM - Meridium for analytical assessments of equipment strategy performance and business justifications to reliability issues under a Lean Manufacturing frameworkProject champion for the development of sustaining capital projects focused on plant up-time improvements, bad actor resolutions and equipment obsolescence programs Show less

Leadership of a team of project controls specialists delivering estimating, cost and schedule control for a sustaining capital portfolioSite accountability for engineering data integrity including quality assurance and improvementsLed the corporate Engineering Systems team with a focus on asset strategies for engineering software and databases

Direct project management of projects in water treatment, civil and buildingsAccountable for the full lifecycle of a project from development, engineering through construction and close-outDeveloped project execution plans and directly managed scope, cost and schedule

Turnaround Manager on Co-generation power plants delivering people leadership, scope development, cost, schedule and execution in a unionized environmentDeveloped and implemented a centralized turnaround management process

Member of a team that delivered proposals for new power plant development projects. Worked closely with commercial and development teams on business case development. Directly accountable for plant performance models, capital budgets and operating budgets.

Project Manager on civil and mechanical capital projects on Hydro power plantsDirect Leadership for safety, engineering consultants and construction management

Delivered capital and maintenance projects in support of operational improvements and turnarounds in the refineryAs a development opportunity, I worked as a process operator in the upgrader area to develop plant knowledge and Operations skillsets

B. Sc Mechanical Engineering (W/ Distinction)

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