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

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.

• 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.
• 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.