Rick Crebbin Email & Phone Number

BC, Canada

- Management of the Thunder Bay TMP-Bio/Kraft Lignin pilot plants team and the BioKraft team.- Support of development and applications research.- Provision of guidance, mentoring and development opportunities for staff.- Promotion and enforcement of health and safety practices ensuring safety standards compliance.

Gibsons, BC, Canada

Sales management of high consistency refiner plates and provision of technical support to mechanical pulp mills in western Canada and USA. 80% travel from home office.

Port Mellon, BC, Canada

Operations/maintenance management and support of an 840bdt/d thermo-mechanical pulp mill.- Project definition/budgeting/implementation/follow-through- Process improvement/debottlenecking- Safety process development and support; incident investigations, emergency response- Operator training and development- Daily operations/maintenance planning and management

Nanaimo, BC, Canada

Technical sales and service support of pulp and paper industry equipment for Western Canada, Asia, Australasia and South Africa:- 80% travel from a home office- Customer training session preparation and presentation- Customer trial planning and implementation

Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada

Manager of the technical, IT and environment departments of an integrated TMP newsprint mill:- Managed the Emergency Response Team.- Designed and implemented ISO14000 system- Overhauled the mill IT approach

Ottawa, Ontario

Corporate technical services: support of technical competence, communication, benchmarking, assessment and implementation of new technologies, management of research and development, mill and senior management assistance and product development. Internal and external asset auditing.

Thunder Bay And Ottawa, Ontario

See above; When Bowater took over Avenor the basic roles were much the same but expanded to the larger company.- Planned and executed many mill peer-group round-table sessions.- Strong focus on mechanical pulp and recycle process development/troubleshooting/optimization.

Vancouver, BC And Many Other Locations

NLK was a consulting engineering company that specialized in pulp and paper industry work. The majority of my work was field commissioning and start-up assistance:- Canfor Taylor, BC, Canada, Market BCTMP; troubleshooting process issues, writing technical manuals.- Howe Sound Pulp and Paper, BC, Canada, integrated TMP/News; writing technical manuals.

Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland

• The Kymmene Corporation of Finland built Caledonian Paper to manufacture light-weight coated paper for the UK market. Started very early in the project and involved in many critical stages of the mill's development.
• Recruitment and training of operators and supervisors.
• Operations manuals preparation.
• Commissioning, start-up and operations management of the pressurized groundwood pulp mill.

Shotton, Flintshire, North Wales

• Shift Supervisor Paper Machine / Finishing Shift Supervisor Pulp Mill / Wood-handling / BoilersTMP Pulp Mill Operator "Graduate training" following start-upShotton Paper, built by United Paper Mills of Finland, was the.
• Construction supervision of chemical systems contracts.
• Construction, commissioning, start-up and shift operation of the TMP mill and paper machine.
• Project work and troubleshooting.

Bsc Hons, Wood Science

Activities and Societies: Student Charities Appeal, Motorcycle Club (President), Gym Club

Education record

Activities and Societies: Volleyball, camp councillor