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Houston, Texas Area

Chicago, Illinois

Directed all of company’s food grade and pharmaceutical salt production operations in US and Canada. Supervised ten direct reports including facility managers from eight production sites as well as manager of process engineering and solution mining manager. Oversaw safety, environmental compliance and sustainable development, quality, reliability, production, budget compliance, and capital deployment. Led strategic direction of evaporation operations group including meshing strategies with other departments such as procurement, supply chain, sales, and marketing. • Reduced operating cost by $7,000,000 using Lean Six Sigma tools and other approaches to reduce waste, save energy, lower quality losses, improve OEE of various production lines, and achieve labor savings in both overtime reduction and headcount reductions through line balancing. • Lowered occupational incident and injury rate (OII) from 1.2 to 0.37 by expanding employee engagement opportunities, delivering constant safety messaging, and applying root cause analysis to all near misses.• Managed capital deployment process for areas of responsibility including replacing old coal fired boilers with natural gas fired boilers, improving environmental compliance as well as reducing energy cost. • Developed strategy for expansion projects to meet demands of growing product lines.

Chicago, Illinois

Led maintenance and reliability efforts at 23 operating sites in US, Canada, and Bahamas. Oversaw reliability efforts and culture change from reactive culture to proactive culture using best in class practices. Improved uptime of operations. Directed maintenance strategy of organization. Solved root cause problems of "bad actor" equipment. Led SAP-PM conversion team. • Significantly reduced diesel particulate matter exposure to miners.• Led SAP conversion team responsible for PM module, involving setting up functional locations for all equipment for 23 operating sites in US and Canada. • Converted storeroom materials at various sites to standard parts numbering system and eliminated 25% duplicate part numbers. • Developed maintenance and reliability strategy for overall company, positioning company for successful growth through year 2020.

Grand Saline, Texas

Managed site with 165 union and 40 salaried employees. Oversaw all production of food grade and USP salt, rock salt from mining operation, and food grade and USP production of potassium chloride facility. Directed safety, environmental compliance, quality, production, reliability and maintenance, budget control, and capital deployment for site. • Built new $18,000,000 food grade and USP salt production facility utilizing mechanical vapor recompression technology, completing project on time and on budget.o Generated $5,000,000 in annual energy savings and increased capacity 50%.o Reduced greenhouse gas emissions and water usage to meet corporate sustainability goals. • Reversed trend of unfavorable budget performance by setting ambition KPI goals and holding staff accountable for results. • Improved cost through automating processes, replacing ten manual palletizing stations with three robotic palletizers.

Manistee, Michigan

Managed site with 120 union and 28 salaried employees. Oversaw food grade salt facility and magnesium oxide facility. Managed safety, environmental compliance, quality, reliability, production, budget control, and capital deployment for site. Completed integration of magnesium oxide plant with salt production facility. Designed and implement reorganization to combine two separate management teams and union contracts under one team. Increased capacity of water conditioning product by 33%.

Manistee, Michigan

Administered day to day activities of all operating departments including power and production, salt mill, maintenance, and shipping and receiving. Supervised six direct reports. Ensured safe operation of facility. Oversaw budget compliance of all operating cost centers. Maintained production levels and production schedules. Managed scheduling and reliability efforts, as well as plant TQM efforts. • Awarded Morton International Inner Circle Award for cost savings as well as the Morton Salt Crystal Society Award for quality improvements.

Grand Saline, Texas

Led optimization of newly installed potassium chloride production facility. Managed energy consumption, production rates, and development of new products including various crystal size distributions as well as low lead product. Efforts resulted in key customer presenting plant with quality supplier award.

Silver Springs, Ny

Oversaw development and implementation of capital projects for facility. Implemented energy saving project utilizing waste stream to preheat brine prior to evaporation, saving $60,000 per year with less than two-year payback period. Directed rail loading weigh belt project to eliminate charges from rail for overweight cars.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Chemical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Chemical Engineering

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