Engineering and Maintenance Reliability Manager (192507) CMRP / Will relo

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He is highly skilled in planning and running Maintenance/Reliability, turnarounds, and Capital Projects in the chemical industry. He is a Certified Maintenance Reliability Professional whose hands-on leadership demonstrates the highest level of performance, and management of costs and assets to maximize the return on investment. He has held progressive roles in chemical manufacturing and has amassed a track record of improving performance in production, productivity, equipment uptime, cost savings, and safety, Get into a conversation with him and you soon discover he has a passion for applying continuous improvement to work processes and resource utilization. Plus it gets better! He is willing to relocate!

• Skilled in engineering/maintenance/turnarounds/capital project
• 3 yrs. direct engineering/design – Chemical
• 3 years direct Project Engineering/Maintenance/Reliability -Pulp & Paper/Power Generation
• 21 years direct Maintenance/Reliability/Turnaround/Capital Project/Plant Management – Chemical
• 8 years Project Management/Project Controls Management/Contract Management – Refining/Chemical
• Led culture change management for an organization improving safety performance from a 4.0 Total Injury Frequency Rate (TIFR) with 2 separate Lost Workday cases, to a current safety performance of 0.0 TIFR for two-plus years, with zero Lost Workday cases, zero Recordable Injuries, and eighteen months zero First Aid cases.
• Achieved record annual production rates in 2008, and 2011, along with record production rates for best month, best week, and best single day.
• Implemented continuous monitoring of key process variables, and development of key operating targets with ownership of those targets being operator owned.
o Improved production yields by 15%
Provided regular technical engineering support and guidance in the scope development and cost estimation of capital projects for both Mechanical and Instrument/Electrical/Controls.
Established safety performance guidelines and expectations to ensure workplace safety was significantly improved from an Incident Rate of over 8.0 prior to 2003 to less than 1.0 beginning calendar
• Re-organized Maintenance structure and organization consistent with Asset Management Strategy and philosophy.
• Initiated full utilization of SAP Computerized Maintenance Management System including preventive Maintenance Plans, backlog management, priority coding, and equipment failure tracking.
• Established Preventative Maintenance Plans with supervisors and planners utilizing SAP and a streamlined reliability-centered maintenance approach, including vibration/condition monitoring program, and infra-red thermography monitoring where practical.
• Provide leadership to a team of planners, engineers, and technicians in support of routine plant operations and maintenance activities, as well as plant turnarounds.
• Provided leadership for the formation and transition a new plant team comprised of Maintenance and Operational planners, schedulers, technical advisors, and support personnel. This team fostered the maintenance work processes which.
o Increased operational uptime.
o We were running under 12,000 barrels/day and raised it to 14,500 barrels/per day.
o Improved, equipment reliability and reduced needed turnarounds by 50%
o Achieved cost reductions of $12M down to $8M on the maintenance budget.
• Responsible for the planning and execution coordination of major maintenance and repair, catalyst changeout, and plant shutdown activities achieving the goal of
o No injuries
o No environmental impacts
o On-time completion of the planned schedule
o Cost expenditure at or underestimated budget for outages in the last 5 years.
• Provided engineering technical support in mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, civil, and process operations capacities for troubleshooting maintenance and operational problems.
• Provided front-line direction and leadership to Maintenance Planning and Support Team consisting of planners, scheduler, engineers, advisors, and clerical/administrative personnel.
• Implemented planning and scheduling CMMS for daily planned maintenance activities
Implemented equipment Preventative Maintenance activities, and Predictive Maintenance tools and strategies achieving the highest on-stream equipment availability in plant history, 100% for 20 consecutive months.
• Initiated methodology to track and analyze equipment failures thereby reducing maintenance and repair costs.

• Developing Standard Operating Procedures
• Ensuring Process Equipment Application Suitability
• Equipment Utilization Metrics
• Establishing Written Procedures
• Managing PM Work Orders
• Eliminating Work Order Backlogs
• Mechanical Integrity Maintenance Training
• Process Safety Management (PSM)
• Reducing Mechanical Breakdowns
• Maintaining ASME Certifications on Pressure Vessels
• Maintaining Mechanical Integrity Documentation
• Maintaining Process Equipment Inspection Documentation
• API Codes / ASME Codes / ISA Codes
• Asset Integrity Management systems
• Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP)
• Failure Analysis Investigations
• Finite Element Method
• Identifying Equipment Deficiencies
• Improving Equipment Reliability
• Inspection / Testing Task Planning
• Inspection, Testing and Preventive Maintenance (ITPM) plans
• Management of Change (MOC)
• Reliability Centered Maintenance
• Reliability Modeling
• Risk Analysis
• Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA)
• Corrosion Analysis
• Design Failure Analysis
• Fatigue / Creep Analysis
• Fault Tree Analysis
• Non-Destructive Testing
• Testing Process Equipment
• Thermal Stress Analysis
• Thermography
• Vibration Fatigue Analysis, alignment
• Weibull Analysis
• Training Contractors on Processes

Education & Certifications         

• Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering Technology (Process Control) University of Houston
• Certified Maintenance Reliability Professional #02035 – Society for Maintenance Reliability Professionals
• Industrial Fire Fighter Training – Texas A&M, College Station, TX
• Incident Command Training – Texas A&M, College Station, TX