Led a 250-team member site to deliver final products safely and on time. Implemented a safety culture change to move the site toward an interdependent culture, creating a better working environment for the site and a higher respect for the work that was being completed. This led to higher trust between departments and allowed people to work cross functionally to produce better results. • Used continuous improvements to deliver a 40% volume increase at a fraction of the cost proposed by internal and external reviews.• Increased sustainability of site, including CO2 reduction to zero (0) by 2050, and reduction of energy and water to align with global ESGs.• Served as Lead Negotiator for company contract with Bargaining Unit (Union). Created a win-win agreement while maintaining financial integrity for the sites.• Had control of multi-site P&L, three P&Ls covering a continuous site, a batch site and administrative. Reviewed P&Ls monthly to ensure proper trajectory to year end. Quarterly budget forecast to decide if budget adjustments are required. Reduced P&L through multiple means to achieve required targets.• Conducted site strategic planning to ensure proper production rates to support sales demand. Ensuring the sites are aligned with demand and cost that keeps with sales projections over a 10-year period.• Created talent gap charts that were used to train and hire appropriate team members.

Created continuous improvement program to expand site production with customer demand. The program increased production by 40% in incremental steps to match the requirements of the commercial business cases. The improvements also lowered overall variable cost, strengthening the P&L. • Led 100-person team with focus on safety, and revenue while producing 250 unique products for the personal care, agricultural care, and chemical industries. • Built a new company culture to reflect parent company that was based on pride in Company through job ladders, products and work life balance. • Decreased technical attrition through mentoring. Helped technical staff understand their importance and future job prospects. Created a stable team and better working atmosphere. • Managed union laborer relations including contract negotiations, and grievances.• Maintained a 10-year plan for capacity increases and site growth to maintain expected sales volume growth. Worked with sales team to ensure customers received forecasted products. • Advanced ERP systems to reduce overall errors in procurement, production, maintenance, and QA/QC.

Managed day-to-day safety, engineering, operations, maintenance, QC/QA and shipping.• Owned company strategic plan for internal and external resources, ensuring the site had stable resources to produce products safely with 100% quality for our customers. • Built customized teams for multiple projects including mechanical, chemical, and electrical systems. Teams were created with specific task and time frames using a blend of direct hires and contractors to allow for faster execution and completion of the work required.• Led groups through all phases of documentation for the main manufacturing facility. This included site policy, safety, environmental, engineering, maintenance (PM program), operations, shipping and receiving, inventory control, and accounting. Guaranteeing a repeatable product for customers. • Created and led presentations for the Board of Directors reporting on the facility status including current and future production outputs, resource status, CAPEX, OPEX and scheduling. • Budget and cost control for capital projects and process improvements. • Directed designers and fabricators to create unique equipment to meet process specifications. This included reviewing and finalizing engineering drawings, fabrication drawings and the physical fabrication of the equipment.• Hired, trained, and managed the manufacturing operations team. The team consisted of engineers, operators, mechanics, electricians, lab techs and various managers.• Led the engineering efforts on a second plant build. Includes preliminary engineering design, with NEC, NFPA and IBC requirements.

•Hands on leader in fast paced chemical engineering consulting firm.•Work directly with safety, client care, scheduling, and hiring. •Work directly with customers to understand their ideas and help outline a plan to move forward safely and cost effectively.•Lead team efforts with clients, researchers, engineers, PhDs, vendors and suppliers to create custom equipment.•Manage projects from conception through startup. Personnel involved usually consist of engineers, mechanics, electricians and insulators.•Prepare fixed cost project bids for engineering services.•Prepare time and material estimates for customer request.•Oversee mechanical completion, and startup of pilot plants. Operating requirements were 850C and 5 mTorr.•Manage “upfront engineering” for production plant.•Startup and operation of still. Operating parameters were 550C and 0.5 mTorr.•Facilitate improvement projects at customer sites, with focus on de-bottle necking. •Research, write specifications, purchase and install equipment (pumps, filters, valves, tanks, RV, RD).•Experience handling and transferring Alkali Metals (Sodium, Lithium, Potassium, NaK), Boron Trifluoride, HF, SiF4 and other poisonous, corrosive and flammable material.

•Oversee nylon batch process with daily emphasis on reactor area.•Lead product development activities within the production area.•Coordinate production activities with process technology, project engineering and maintenance.•Supervise and manage union operators.•Manage “Development Engineers”, engineers with 0-5 years experience.•Create reports for plant manager and VP’s outlining production statistics.•Attend quarterly reviews with French management to support plant standings.•Monitor and track asset utilization (AU) and operational asset utilization (OAU).•Engineering support for extrusion, rotary dryers, cryogenic grinding and packaging.•Author, review, and revise operator instructions.•Member of safety review team.•Member of hiring team.•Internal ISO 9000 auditor.•Lean / Six Sigma trained.

•Manage Supervisors.•Schedule personnel including supervisors and union laborers.•Product development, design trials to create product for potential customers•Produce daily and monthly reports with emphasis on production cost and production rates, including root causes and corrective actions for items outside of specification.•Hire, train, and qualify plant operators•Internal ISO 9000 auditor•Work with maintenance to create, adjust, and schedule preventative maintenance.•Work with “Project Team” to create capital project scopes and justifications•Create and review SPC charts and graphs for process abnormalities•Support bulk unloading and supply of liquefied Vinyl Chloride Monomer•Optimize and support the “Dry” process side of the plant, includes 2 spray dryers, 11 grinders, 6 packers and bulk loading•Support utility operation, includes air compressors, boilers, chillers, cooling towers, and deionized water•Waste water treatment plant and VCM incinerator cost reduction•LOPA Certified and an active PHA participant•Six Sigma Certified, Green belt member for several projects

• Technical Writing, writing test procedures and result reports for nuclear vitrification process for DOE

• cGMP process startup and control.• Supervise 100,000 lb conveyor bin startup. • Supervise and research heat stability process.• Grinder setup and operation for new product specifications.• Fluidized bed setup and operational test.• Near infrared spectral analysis startup, troubleshooting and training.• Manage river sump clean out.• Daily utility tracking to ensure proper usage per unit of product.• Cost benefits analysis, calculated versus actual.