Kevin Hansen Email & Phone Number

Nekoosa, WI

• Maintains site environmental permitting and compliance in all medias, including air, wastewater, stormwater, groundwater and RCRA.
• Manages site laboratory consisting of 1 supervisor and 4 lab technicians.

Wichita, KS

• Managed technical department comprised of 31 employees. The department is responsible for process, electrical and project engineering, process controls, process safety management, laboratory, quality assurance and IT.
• Served as Food Safety Representative for the site.

Nekoosa, WI

• Served as lead technology resource for the chlor-alkali business, including plants at Port Edwards, WI and Saskatoon, SK.
• Performed preliminary process design, capital estimates and evaluation of chlor-alkali business opportunities up to $300MM.
• Evaluated changes to chlor-alkali raw materials.
• Provided summary reporting of chlor-alkali plant costs and performance.
• Served as technical representative to the company wide environmental committee.

Nekoosa, WI

• Managed department comprised of 9 employees.
• Led the $6MM demolition, decontamination and disposal of all mercury and mercury bearing equipment.
• Managed resolution of post-startup issues with the membrane conversion project.

Nekoosa, WI

• Responsible for the detailed planning of the transition from mercury cells to membrane cells in the existing cell room.

Nekoosa, WI

• Managed $135MM project for the conversion of the Port Edwards plant from mercury cell technology to membrane technology from inception through design.
• Served as primary contact with WDNR in the environmental permitting effort.

Port Edwards, WI

• Managed technical department comprised of 6 employees. Department was responsible for process and project engineering, environmental compliance, plant laboratory, and quality assurance functions.
• Transferred permits after sale of plant from Vulcan Chemicals to ERCO Worldwide.
• Led assessment of conversion to membrane cell technology.

Nekoosa, WI

• Managed technical department comprised of 6 employees. The department was responsible for process and project engineering, environmental compliance, plant laboratory, and quality assurance functions.
• Led Title V air permitting process.
• The Port Edwards plant was sold to ERCO Worldwide in 2005.

Nekoosa, WI

• Managed maintenance department comprised of 17 non-exempt employees. Responsible for plant maintenance and capital budgets.
• Completed implementation of OSHA PSM mechanical integrity program for processes containing chlorine and sulfur dioxide.
• Led recertification of the chlorine system process hazards analysis. Completed ISO 9002 registration of the potassium carbonate and sodium hydrosulfite production processes.
• Implemented department redesign. Implemented new computerized maintenance management system.

Nekoosa, WI

• Responsible for various process and project engineering projects, environmental reporting and coordination of plant quality assurance program.
• Completed WPDES wastewater permit reapplication and other environmental reports.
• Completed ISO 9002 certification of the hydrochloric acid production process. Completed ASQC certification for quality engineer.

Danville, IL

• Utilized quality management techniques such as statistical process control, cause and effect diagrams and Pareto analysis to implement quality improvement in chemical production and environmental areas.

Danville, IL

• Managed plant environmental and plant laboratory functions and technical aspects of chemical production.
• Coordinated the first complete shutdown since 1957 and subsequent startup of chemical operations when the plant was damaged by fire.
• Completed toxic release inventory reports for submission to EPA.

Danville, IL

• Managed chemical production department comprised of 5 supervisors and 35 to 45 UFCW union employees.
• Implemented process modifications resulting in 3% increase of product yield.
• Developed computer program for production scheduling of a time and temperature dependent reaction critical to product quality.
• Coordinated successful salaried operation of department during a 7-week union strike.

Danville, IL

• Co-authored bid specification for turnkey installation of $1.2MM distributed control system.

Danville, IL

• Relieved production supervisors and department superintendent for vacations.
• Participated on team which formulated applications for a distributed control system in the chemical production area.

Danville, IL

• Direct supervision of 8 to 15 union employees, scheduling and shutdown of equipment for maintenance and reaction to product quality issues.