{"id":1816,"date":"2023-01-23T16:25:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T20:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mriomega.com\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2025-09-05T01:40:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:40:46","slug":"chemical-process-engineer-140501-green-belt-biofuels-chemical-power-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/engineering\/chemical-process-engineer-140501-green-belt-biofuels-chemical-power-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemical Process Engineer (140501) Green Belt \/ Biofuels, Chemical, & Power Projects \/"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Diversely experienced Chemical Engineer with 20+ years of experience. He is a Six Sigma Green Belt who is skilled in continuous and batch chemical processes, as well as, thermal, mechanical, chemical, and combustion processes. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has worked safely worked around multiple hazardous materials including H2 gas, syngas, fission product gases, NH4OH, NaOH, HCl (including anhydrous), paper pulping liquors and boiler chemistry chemicals. He is proficient in ASME, API, NFPA, and other RAGAGEPs. Brian is more than capable of delivering individual or team contributions to process\/project\/PSM deliverables. He is currently employed as a Consultant but is interested in finding a permanent role. He is willing to relocate from his South Carolina location. His impressive experience includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Experienced with process safety, reliability, and efficiency, in that order.
\u2022 Solved throughput issues with batch hydrolysis reactors
\u2022 Commissioned organic solvent extraction columns
\u2022 Oversaw 6 company and third-party engineers and 10 contractors
\u2022 As area supervisor for the power center, lime kiln, and water works, oversaw 35 operators and was responsible for all aspects of daily production, coordinating preventive and corrective maintenance, and planning outages with a heavy contribution to capital project oversight.
\u2022 Experience using and upgrading the Emerson DeltaV control system.
\u2022 Limekiln produces up to 388 tons\/day of lime-burning gas, oil or petcoke solid fuel and provides white liquor to support pulp\/paper mill operations.
\u2022 Operations saw a substantial improvement with increased reliability and performance with reduced variability.
\u2022 Supervised water works facility producing 25-26 million gallons\/day of potable, deionized, and filtered process water using 2 settling basins and an up-flow clarifier to support mill operations and nearby municipalities.
\u2022 Responsible for all aspects of boiler operations, including system P&IDs, natural gas distribution, burner management including PLCs, transducers, and transmitters related to the implementation of a new state-of-the-art Foundation Fieldbus digital control system.
\u2022 Development of biomass-based chemical and power projects
\u2022 Develop clean power projects using waste wood in the Pacific NW
\u2022 Numerous kiln and recausticizing capital projects and process upgrades requiring extensive personnel training to improve process operation were completed.
\u2022 Chemical Plant Operations
\u2022 Biofuels
\u2022 Consumer Chemicals
\u2022 Industrial Gases
\u2022 Inorganic Chemicals
\u2022 Organic Chemicals
\u2022 Pulp\/ Paper
\u2022 Specialty Chemicals
\u2022 Sulfuric Acid
\u2022 Bicarbonate Filter Cake
\u2022 CO2
\u2022 Extrusion Operations
\u2022 Identify Production Plan Threats
\u2022 Identify Opportunities for Margin, Energy Improvements
\u2022 Ensure Optimization of catalyst\/chemicals Usage
\u2022 Working Closely With Production Team
\u2022 Participating in Shutdowns
\u2022 Implementing System Upgrades
\u2022 Increasing Production Capacity
\u2022 Engineering Team Management
\u2022 Monitoring Plant Performance Data
\u2022 Troubleshooting Equipment Problems
\u2022 Training Operations Personnel
\u2022 Process Engineering
\u2022 Process Safety Management Auditing
\u2022 Evaluation of process unit operations
\u2022 Chemical Analysis
\u2022 Reaction Kinetics
\u2022 Using Statistical Process Control
\u2022 Creating SOPs
\u2022 Troubleshooting Process Unit Problems –
\u2022 Optimizing Processes –
\u2022 Inspecting Equipment Internals
\u2022 Piping, Pressure Vessel, and Storage Tank Inspection Program
\u2022 Increasing Yield \u2013 Jacobs, Brown & Root, Integro, HCL
\u2022 Reducing Operation Costs
\u2022 Planning Plant Outages
\u2022 Leading Problem-Solving Teams
\u2022 Using Six Sigma Projects \/ Tools
\u2022 Creating Project Specifications
\u2022 Capital Project Execution
\u2022 Managing Multiple Projects
\u2022 Working with Plant Maintenance
\u2022 Mass Transfer Operations
\u2022 Creating Block Diagrams
\u2022 Process Flow Diagrams
\u2022 Energy Balances
\u2022 Heat Balances
\u2022 Heat Transfer Calculations
\u2022 Hydraulic Calculations
\u2022 Fluid Flow Dynamics
\u2022 Pumping Head Calculations
\u2022 Operating Indices
\u2022 Material Balances
\u2022 Developing Design Drawings
\u2022 Economic Planning
\u2022 Using Root Cause Analysis
\u2022 Implementing Lean Manufacturing
\u2022 P&IDs, PFDs, PS&Ds
\u2022 Repair Operations
\u2022 Preventative Maintenance
\u2022 Reviewing Processes
\u2022 Reviewing Equipment Drawings
\u2022 Reviewing Vendor Quotes
\u2022 Working in a Process Safety Environment
\u2022 Technical Document Review
\u2022 Technical Writing
\u2022 Chemical Process Modeling
\u2022 Aspen Software
\u2022 MATLAB
\u2022 Minitab
\u2022 Particle Reduction
\u2022 Calcination<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Education<\/strong>
\u2022 Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering \/ University of Washington
\u2022 Green Belt \/ Lean Six Sigma training \u2013 New Page<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naval Nuclear Power Training<\/strong>
\u2022 Completed Nuclear Machinist Mate \u201cA\u201d School
\u2022 Completed Naval Nuclear Power School
\u2022 Completed Mechanical Operator and Engineering Laboratory Technician certifications at a training prototype nuclear power plant in Windsor Locks, CT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Diversely experienced Chemical Engineer with 20+ years of experience. He is a Six Sigma Green Belt who is skilled in continuous and batch chemical processes, as well as, thermal, mechanical, chemical, and combustion processes. He has worked safely worked around multiple hazardous materials including H2 gas, syngas, fission product gases, NH4OH, NaOH, HCl (including anhydrous),…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307,311],"tags":[65,66,100,144,175,270,298,524,561,622,623,624,625],"class_list":["post-1816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-production-operations-quality","tag-operations","tag-chemical","tag-power","tag-green-belt","tag-chemicals","tag-process-engineer","tag-gases","tag-process","tag-psm","tag-biomass","tag-biofuel","tag-energy","tag-wood"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1825,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions\/1825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}