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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 with stakeholder collaboration, and that quality and reliability are reflected in project designs. Key achievements:• 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 environmental regulations; mentoring junior engineers; supporting career development of employees; and providing vision and leadership to the operating facility. Key achievements:• 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 included financial improvement, regulatory compliance, employee morale and environment, health and safety.

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 successfully completed on budget and on schedule; evaluating catalyst and equipment replacement options to minimize or defer costs and maximize plant reliability; and monitoring and complying with environmental regulations. Key achievements:• 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 through to commissioning; continuously evaluating methanol plant performance; and implementing new operating parameters to improve plant production and efficiency. Key achievements:• 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