Engineer Plant
Resume:
Timothy J. McDonald
Huntington, WV 25705
E-mail: abipc4@r.postjobfree.com
Objective: To obtain a position in operations / manufacturing management
utilizing my Chemical Engineering background.
Education: Bachelors Chemical Engineering, University of Dayton, 1990
Engineer in Training, State of Ohio
Experience:
2007-Present AK Steel - Coke, Ashland, KY
. Unit manager of Sulfiban and Byproducts with daily responsibility for
productivity, safety, environmental compliance, and plant operation.
. Maintain production standards of light oil, tar, and sulfur in byproduct
recovery of coke oven gas. Conducted training for hourly employees.
. Organized annual maintenance outages of $1.3 million.
. Conducted safety meetings for hourly employees.
. Conducted daily safety orientation for contractors.
. Plant received national recognition for safety performance and program.
. Participation in quality system and SRI accreditation.
1999 - 2007 Pregis Corporation, Wurtland, KY
Technical Manager / Process Engineer
. Plant Engineer of polypropylene sheet foam extrusion manufacturer.
Responsible for all technical aspects of plant operation, safety,
environmental, productivity, maintenance, quality, training, and
efficiency.
. Maintained requirements within Title V air permit and NPDES outfall.
. Process operations included plastic extrusion, solvent recovery utilizing
carbon adsorbtion, heat transfer, material handling, and single unit
process operations. Improved recovery efficiency of blowing agents while
significantly reducing energy consumption of process. Many processes
were controlled either via Yokogawa DCS or Allen Bradley PLC. Completed
modernization of DCS in 2007.
. Maintenance manger responsible for scheduling and assignment of
maintenance project schedule. Achieved greater than 95% on-stream while
significantly reducing maintenance expenditures. Implemented TPM
program.
. Project management from scope, design, acquisition, fabrication, and
implementation. Projects included capital projects to $100K.
. Created technical database of operations and procedures available to all
employees via plant computer network. Documents were presented as
electronic training materials. Trained all extrusion and solvent
recovery operators. The format of the program was modeled after ISO9000.
. Provided direct supervision of extrusion operators and relief supervision
of shift production. Presided over safety instructional meetings.
1994-1999 A, C, & S Inc., Nitro, West Virginia
Operations Engineer
. Operations Engineer of a small independent specialty chemical
manufacturer. Production capacity of organic dye unit was increased over
33% due to installation of new units, improved training and procedures,
maintenance and reduced downtime.
. Provided technical support to plant operations, utilities and analytical
laboratory.
. Developed new processes and procedures for chemical production unit.
. Project management included all stages of project development. Project
identification, scope, design, acquisition, construction, procedure
development, start up, and operation.
. Projects included powder grinding and blending unit, raw material tank
farm, finished product tank farm, specialty chemical unit expansion,
waste water treatment plant expansion and packaged ice plant.
Construction was accomplished using plant maintenance.
. Supervised all maintenance activities including; daily work schedules,
project design, construction, fabrication, vehicle maintenance, plant
breakdown, facility preventive maintenance, part specification and
acquisition, and technical direction of ten maintenance personnel.
. Wrote or updated company safety policy manual, safety procedures and
three process safety manuals compliant to OSHA PSM standards.
. Conducted training on all company safety policies and procedures.
. Wrote and developed quality assurance program to meet the requirements of
Association of American Railroad Specification M-1003 for a Class E
facility to meet DOT HM-201 requirements. Conducted training on all
quality procedures.
. Managed production of custom powder grinding and blending unit, including
daily interface with customer.
. Responsible for computer maintenance
. Maintain current Auto-CAD drawing database.
1994 3V Inc., Georgetown, South Carolina
Production Supervisor
. Supervised shift production of 15 people on several batch and semi-batch
processes in specialty chemical plant.
. Maintained plant emphasis on quality control, productivity, safety, and
environmental compliance.
. Provided engineering and production assistance in start-up and
troubleshooting on new production processes.
. Responsible for achieving calculated batch yields and raw material usage.
1990 to 1993 Calgon Carbon Corporation, Catlettsburg, Kentucky
Production Engineer
. Process Engineer in the production, sizing and regeneration of granular
activated carbon. Assignments related to productivity, safety,
environment, quality, or communication. Developed continuous improvement
of production through statistical problem solving techniques. Project
responsibilities included the implementation of ideas through the
training of personnel in production operations.
. Supervised shift operations crew of five of more in the reactivation
process of activated carbon. Maintained compliance with RCRA and
environmental regulations. Set job priorities for shift. Stress safe
work practices in the assigning of jobs.
. Performed safety audits recommending safe work practices and developed
corrective action of unsafe situations.
. Developed a training manual for the fine mesh sizing operation and
trained operators in the operation. Performed process engineering duties
relevant to daily production demands to meet maximum production and
maintain product quality.
. Specified process operating conditions for the production of different
grades of activated carbon on a prime manufacturing line and fine mesh
tower screening process.
. Created database on plant network to improve communication on product
optimization and records.
. Provided engineering assistance and trouble shooting for daily
manufacturing problems, which increased efficiency in other departments.
. Received two plant certificates of appreciation: one for a Waste
Reduction Project and a second for the Development of the Network
Database.
Summer 1989 FMC, South Charleston, West Virginia
Summer Intern
. Conducted material balance for continuous process of the manufacture of
hydrogen peroxide. Maintained performance data for catalyst study.
. Updated PID for existing plant.
. Maintained environmental compliance of plant NPDES discharge. Performed
necessary lab work.
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