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Calgary, Canada Area

• Provide leadership and direction to the Maintenance, Operations, Project and Reliability Departments. Manage risks to safety, production and the environment. Ensure that capital and maintenance projects are completed.
• Improved maintenance planning and preparation for production facility outages by ensuring that pre-work was completed prior to outages.
• Developed and implemented a new process to prevent work order recycle due to inadequate energy isolation planning.
• Led a multi-disciplinary team to automate facility shutdown to prevent equipment damage.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Responsible for forecasting, planning and analyzing gross profit for Agrium's phosphate and sulphate businesses. Performed business analyses as required. Key achievement:
• Developed a standard for summarizing unit production cost and price volume variances for reports presented to senior management.

Edmonton, Canada Area

• In addition to leading a group of eight staff, responsibilities included: managing a five-year capital plan valuing $50 million; minimizing variable costs through maximizing plant efficiencies; ensuring compliance with.
• Initiated the development and implementation of a plant-monitoring tool to improve environmental performance, reduce variable cost of production and increase plant reliability.
• Identified an opportunity to prioritize business improvement ideas, and in collaboration with workers and trade supervisors, implemented a ranking process to reduce over 400 ideas into a list of 10. Ranking criteria.

Alberta, Canada

• Ensured safe and efficient operation of the production facilities through: providing technical support to the Operations and Maintenance Departments; working with project teams to ensure capital projects were.
• Identified and initiated an opportunity to reduce piping corrosion by 18%.
• Led a project that modified a cooling water system to maintain the life of the plant cooling equipment.

Kitimat, BC

• Provided technical support to the Operations and Maintenance Departments for methanol and ammonia production facilities. Specific responsibilities included: managing multiple plant improvement projects from conception.
• Developed a corporate-wide best practices policy for monitoring pumps, compressors, turbines, heat exchangers and catalysts.
• Led hazard analyses and participated in the design of a methanol terminal facility.

Executive Master Of Business Administration

Bachelor Of Applied Science, Chemical (Process) Engineering