Humble, Texas, United States
10+ years of industrial refinery maintenance and construction, 3 years as an environmental operator at a lead smelter, currently a maintenance and engineering manager in a food processing facility. Responsibilities include driving low downtime results, ensuring budget constraints are met, employee safety is ensured, environmental compliance is met, drives resource conservation efforts, responsible for site security as well as food security, and manages hourly mechanics as well as a coordinator and a salaried parts purchaser.
Ensure optimum equipment reliability, reduce downtime, coordinate major projects, monitor employee health and safety, contractor safety, environmental quality, site security, and maintain resource conservation.
Run Waste Water Treatment Facility, and Bag-house facility as well as the Crystallization Unit. Assure proper operation implementation and ensure that standard procedures and regulations are followed. Verify that each unit functions within prescribed parameters; troubleshoot equipment and production issues, protect environmental quality, and maintain safe and proper working conditions. Knowledge of the environmental impacts of each process is essential to each of these positions.
Ensure Crystallization Unit operates at peak efficiency to make sodium sulfate Troubleshoot and isolate system level faults, perform repairs and adjustments to maintain proper equipment working conditions, implement and enforce all required safety procedures
Provided technical expertise to maintain and operate Reactors, Separators, and Heat Exchangers Professional knowledge of reactor column repairs; catalyst removal and replacement; sieve, valve, chimney, and collection tray orientation; arc gouging; plasma cutting; and welding Supervised crews of 5-10 people; created Job Safety Analysis reports to prevent workplace injuries