Lance Johnson, Crl Email & Phone Number

Pine Bend, Mn

Site resource for equipment strategies and complex RCA.

Pine Bend, Mn

Optimize Asset Risk and Availability• Steward of Process Safety • Opportunity framing and evaluation• RCFA facilitation• Project Management• Reliability representative for capital investments• Management of maintenance spending to advance competitive position

Pine Bend, Mn

Coached, mentored and supervised a team of outstanding maintenance engineers

Asphalt industry consultant providing production and troubleshooting services, technical training and plant auditing to identify and remove production limitations.

Provide formulation and process support to multiple asphalt facilities across the midwest and western United States.•Coordinate laboratory work to provide ongoing raw material evaluations and formulation optimization.•Contribute to cross functional business teams to aide in the development and execution of business plans.•Develop and manage QA & QC management programs for my asphalt facilities to ensure product is properly produced, tested and certified. •Maintain good relationships and clearly communicate with multiple departments of transportation agencies. •Train the operations and marketing groups on testing requirements, specifications, key production & process variables, general product knowledge sharing, DOT requirements and product handling guidelines. •Assist the project engineering group in reviewing the designs for capital and maintenance projects and assist in the purchasing of equipment.•Work with the engineering group to create and maintain best operating practices that provide production and operating guidelines that establish consistency between multiple locations, improves product quality and improves equipment reliability.•Support the operations and engineering groups in the scale up of new product production from lab settings to full scale production.•Evaluate production processes to identify constraints and inefficiencies. Propose projects and their justification to remove them.•Support investigations and the resolutions of outstanding claims of off specification product to minimize financial penalties and to help strengthen relationships with customers.

Successfully managed maintenance and project activities in the utilities area, (waste water treatment plant, boiler house, cooling towers, water reuse system and wells), of the refinery. Key accomplishments include:• Created a system for performing root cause failure analysis, capturing and communicating findings and identifying projects designed to prevent future repeat failures.• Developed reliability strategies for key WWTP assets which saved hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, reduced exposure, improved process availability and increased run time between failures. • Mitigated risks associated with safety, health and cost by optimizing and prioritizing planning, scheduling, and maintenance resources.• Provided design and startup support for a first of its kind water reuse system that consists of multimedia filters, ultra filtration, reverse osmosis and demineralizers that convert waste water into boiler feed water.

Provided daily process health monitoring, communicated and troubleshot issues as they arose and optimized operation of the waste water treatment plant, boiler house, cooling towers and wells. Key accomplishments include:• Provided scope and process support for turnarounds to ensure safety, cost effectiveness, timeliness and to minimize negative impacts. • Identified and justified capital upgrades needed to improve process health and manage risk. • Collaborated with the operations group to create and revise procedures to ensure process limitations and key technical concerns are addressed and communicated. • Managed risk by developing alarms to maintain process conditions within acceptable operating ranges to protect employees and equipment which led to longer run times between failures.• Provided process support contributing to the longest run without major waste water treatment plant upsets.

Provided process and formulation support for eight asphalt production facilities throughout the Midwest as well as traveled across the country supporting the production of new specialty products. Key accomplishments include:• Successfully supported more plants than any other employee in the same role across the country. • Created and managed site specific quality control and product certification programs that minimized day to day trouble shooting which allowed focus to be directed to larger operability and bottleneck problems. • Maintained relationships with departments of transportation across the Midwest.• Designed, justified, managed and executed capital projects for emulsion cooling systems to expand product slates, improve quality and maintain maximum production rates. • Provided design reviews for the engineering group to ensure operability and consistency.• Contributed to cross-functional business teams throughout the Midwest to support growth and improve communication.