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-Drive continuous improvement initiatives and capital projects for the Skittles value stream.

• Identify, develop and execute diverse capital projects for the facility.• Develop, coordinate, and execute projects ensuring budget, schedule, safety, quality, and performance parameters are met.• Collaborate with all levels of the organization to drive process improvements and innovation.• Develop monitoring tools to show key metric visibility for all levels of the operation. • Day to day troubleshooting, running trials on problematic equipment and making formal recommendations.• Develop improvement strategies and mange change implementation. • Executed an on time and within budget annual outage with zero unplanned events.• Provided a project savings of $60,000 in project cost and implementation for new state of the art boiler camera equipment. • Proficiency in Distributed Control Systems (DCS) , PI, Aspen and Microsoft Word ( i.e.: Excel, Teams, Powerpoint and Word)

• Engineering lead responsible for the daily operations and productivity of an 800,000 lb/hr steam rate biofuel boiler and evaporator system.• Reduced operations cost by 20% by identifying and implementing equipment improvements and process changes that resulted in best in class operational efficiency and yield for necessary environmental compliant equipment. • Developed and executed the weekly maintenance and equipment schedule for the operating area.• Assisted in the design and implementation of new projects by engaging the workforce on opportunities to drive operational and cost improvements to achieve production needs in support of the business• Organize and develop annual budget and operating plan to senior leadership based on equipment and department projects and needs. • Participated as operations lead in process hazard analysis for evaporator integrated methanol system. This included identifying and risk ranking process deviations, safety operational concerns and making the appropriate and timely recommendations that are in line with corporate health safety and quality standards.

• Supervise and develop a high performing team of twenty five operators across three departments through effective performance management, coaching and training.• Ensure daily production goals are achieved while operating safely and within environmental compliance.• Directed a large contractor group for the recovery boiler precipitator annual outage and inspection, ensuring that the outage was within schueldule, scope and budget.• Provide techincal support and knowlegde when troubleshooting equipment downtime and malfunctions.• Drive productivity standards by analyzing metrics surrounding key performance indicators.• Perform incident investigations, develop root cause analysis and document corrective actions taken to resolve operational and safety exceptions.• Serve as techincal resource in capitial project meetings while engaging associated departments on potential risks, design alternatives and project status.• Manage maintenance and performance of large operation assets including three natural gas boilers, waste and water plant facilities, a bleach plant and pulp mill. • Develop operational SOPs, equipment lockouts and employee/contractor work risk assessments. • Champion and lead new and existing change initiatives for continuous improvement.

• Designed a operational water reclaim tank that salvaged treated condensate. This now implemented reclaim tank system produces a savings of $28,000 per year for the facility.• Created a metric spreadsheet on how to effectively operate a new seven step evaporator set based on baseline capacity, viscosity and boiling point rise calculations.• Assembled a valid facility water usage balance sheet to comply with the MPS/ OSHA permit process.• Identify, acquire, and prepare process data to support work processes and align operation assets with strategic business objectives.• Participated and served as facility representative in the corporate process safety management audit.• Prepared a transparent manual entry process control program for powerhouse operators to input their daily test results on treated water ph, color and phosphate concentration.• Implemented an environmental compliance tracking sheet for diesel firewater pumps.

• Designed hard piping purge point for hazardous material in distillation column.• Collaborated with site energy experts to perform economic evaluation on repairing existing equipment.• Enhanced safety operations procedures by adding proper decant system to storage tank.• Incorporated pump curves, FATHOM software and hydraulic calculations to determine capacity of pump in piping model. • Monitored hydrogen cyanide unit, including troubleshooting and enviromental incident calculations.• Verified temperature and throughput of tanks during enviromental air audit.

• Modified existing control systems to TCEQ permitted value.• Calculated and revised logic diagrams to maximize transfer flow in multipurpose tanks.• Diminished process hazard association concerns by air gapping equipment to prevent accidental exposure.• Designed vessel inspection packets for upcoming outages.• Daily reporting and monitoring of unit.• Edited existing piping and instrumentation diagrams