Lead Chemical Plant Operator
Centauri Technologies
Pasadena, Tx
• Work experiences included many types of pumps, columns, compressors, reactors, furnaces, cooling towers, and Honeywell Experion Distributed Control System (DCS)• Worked with crane and forklift operations on a daily routine • Handled daily shipping and receiving of products in box trucks, rail cars, tank trucks and ISOs • Captured and analyzed samples using Karl- Fischer gas chromatograph and spectrophotometer • Routine transfers of product, intermediates, and feed as needed per process evaluation • As different product needs were required, charged catalyst and ceramic balls to fixed bed reactors • Installed, maintained, serviced, and rebuilt: oil pumps, process pumps, high pressure feed pumps, reactors, distillation columns, exchangers, tanks, valves, cooling towers, knock-out pots, mass meters, and instrumentation • Loaded and unloaded trucks and railcars, drumming, labeling, banding and shipping of products per customer needs • Daily vessel entry, inspection, and cleaning of ISO containers, tanks, and sumps; received, inventoried, and storage of parts and raw materials • Safe operation and basic knowledge of cherry picker, forklift, and rigging • Assisted in the day to day operations of distillation, batch process/continuous fixed bed reactions • Working experience of Honeywell Experion DCS