John W. Downey *** Wood Trace Benton, KY ***** 270-***-**** epu508@r.postjobfree.com

GENERAL BACKGROUND

Experienced Project, Plant, and Process Engineer. Twenty five years’ experience working in the chemical process industry in supervision and engineering. My abilities include managing projects at plant level from conception to completion. This includes project scoping, cost estimating and control, equipment specification and procurement, construction management and project startup. I have the ability to develop P&ID and perform engineering design calculation. My abilities include managing projects at plant level from conception to completion.

EDUCATION

B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Michigan

M.S. in Engineering Technology from Murray State University.

M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kentucky

COMPUTER SKILLS

I have experience using the following software packages; AutoCAD, SAP, MS Project, Mathcad, Microsoft Office and Minitab statistical software package.

CERTIFICATIONS AND AWARDS

Certified Six Sigma "Black Belt"

Gold Star(Level 4) Bravo Award for Completion of the Restart Project

Registered Professional Engineer January 1996

TRAINING

Process Improvement Master (Four Week Six Sigma Training Course, Black belt)

Moore Products DCS Installation and Maintenance Training

Advanced Modicon PLC Training

Wonderware Intouch Configuration Training

Modicon Concept Software Configuration Training

Moore Products DCS Configuration Training

Allen Bradley SLC 500 Training

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Project Engineer PotashCorp/Austin Industries 2010 - 2012

• Responsible for project scoping and capital appropriations for projects up to $10 million.

• Perform project designs, cost estimating and cost control, project planning and scheduling, construction supervision, installation and start-up.

• My responsibilities include specifying, procurement and installing of process equipment in accordance with ASME, ANSI, and NFPA and Company standards.

• Projects include the following:

o DEF Production: Engineering and installation of a fast track project to produce DEF. This project had a short deadline. The project was scoped, engineering, installed in four mouths.

o Consolidated Control Room; Ten million dollar project to build a new control room and move all instruments and controls from the existing control rooms to the new control room.

o Cool tower biocide addition.

o Ultrafiltration/Reverse Osmosis system installation. Eight million dollar project to install an ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis system to provide boiler feed water to a 1500 psig boiler system.

Controls Engineer Hexion Chemical 2008 – 2009

• Responsible for maintaining and improvement to the plant control systems which include Allen-Bradley PLC, Wonderware HMI, Fisher-Provox DCS, and InSQL plant data historian.

• Assist manufacturing in daily troubleshooting and problem solving with computer control systems.

• Design and implement minor control system changes for process safety and process optimizations.

Technical Manager Amfine Chemical 2006 – 2008

• Responsible for process and project engineering in a small specialty chemical plant.

• Responsible for troubleshooting daily operations

• Responsible for upgrading plant controls.

• Serve as technical expert in PHAs

• Partial List of Projects

o New product dryer installation and reactor modification

o Centrifuge Automation

o Reactor installation for new product.

Project/Process Engineer 1996 – 2006

Honeywell (formally AlliedSignal), Metropolis, IL 62960

• Responsible for project scoping and capital appropriations at a plant level. I also perform project designs, cost estimating and cost control, project planning and scheduling, construction supervision, installation and start-up.

• My responsibilities include specifying, procurement and installing of process equipment in accordance with ASME, ANSI, and NFPA. This includes specifying and procurement of chemical process equipment that includes reactors, tanks, pumps and piping systems, vessels, heat exchangers and other equipment.

• Functioned as the controls engineer where I was responsible for maintaining configuring PLCs and HMIs.

• Managed contractors and was responsible to make sure the adhered to plant and OSHA standards

• Partial List of Projects

Design and installation of drum crushing and handling system.

Install communication between the fluorine plant and plants that consume fluorine so the plant operators would know the flow rate of fluorine they are consuming.

Other projects have included facility upgrade projects that include roofing systems, ventilation systems, and civil projects.

Upgraded the waste treatment facility that eliminated a possible environmental issue, instrumentation and equipment upgrade on the fast track to meet new regulatory requirements.

Installing a new drum dumping and crushing system

Calciner Upgrade

Fluorine cell control project where I applied the skills from AlliedSignal's Six Sigma training to reduce annual plant operating cost by $500K per year.

Ore blending project were we developing a new blending process that allowed the plant to process ore from different suppliers.

Uranium tetrafluoride study that demonstrated we could use the dry process to make uranium tetrafluoride that could be used in the manufacture of uranium metal.

Install a PLC network were 25 PLC were networked together.

UF6 cold trap controls upgrade

SF6 process controls upgrade.

Other projects have included facility upgrade projects that include roofing systems, ventilation systems, and civil projects

Installed new pumps, vessels and other equipment upgrades to the plant

EPF control upgrade. This is where we switched from PLC control to DCS control

Process Engineer, 1987 -1996

Vanderbilt Chemical Murray, KY 42071

This is a specialty chemical plant, which uses glass lined and stainless steel reactor to make rubber additives and oil additives.

• Responsibilities included production supervision and process engineering.

• Responsible for writing operating procedures for new chemical processes and revised the existing ones to meet process safety standards and other standards.

• Partial List of Projects

I was part of the team that installed and startup of a new process to separate hydrogen sulfide from carbon disulfide.

Installed new product drying system.

Plant Engineer 1985 - 1987

Estron Chemical Calvert City, KY 42029

Small chemical plant where I did project work along with general plant improvements including new equipment installations. My work included installation of evaporator equipment and reactor temperature control modification.

Production Supervisor 1985

Johnson-Matthey

Supervised operation of precious metals recovery plant. I was also responsible for implementing a precious metal inventory control system.

SUMMARY

Personal attributes include strong technical and engineering capabilities. I am also a hard worker who enjoys a challenge and learning new skills.

References will be furnished upon request.

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