Project Manager Engineer

Jon M Groves

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Management Professional

Operations Management, Production Management

Results-driven and innovative process engineer with 4 years of experience managing union production employees in

the lime stone/mining industry, and 1 years of experience as a project manager performing environmental compliance

testing. Proven track record for maximizing resources, improvin g efficiencies, and lowering downtime for major

equipment. Outstanding project management skills meeting tight time constraints and deadlines. Strong organizational

and analytical abilities to achieve desired goals and results.

Key Competencies Include:

Written and Verbal Communications Strong Presentation Skills

Relationship Development Project Management

Strong Mechanical Aptitude Efficiency Improvement

Proposals Negotiation/Review Process Restructuring

Staff Development Excel and Microsoft Access

Professional Experience

Mississippi Lime: 11/2007 - Present

Process Engineer

Oversee the day to day operations of two preheater rotary kilns to maximize throughput while keeping fuel efficiencies

and power consumption below budget. Schedule refractory brick installations and other major maintenance items during

outages. Manage outages to insure they are on schedule and performed up to company standards. Work with outside

contractors to meet company s needs and goals.

Key Achievements

Developed a cross functional team to perform work that was supplied by outside contractors. This team

reduced contract labor by $350K/year.

Developed an on-stream cleaning protocol for the kilns to reduce power consumption by draft fans, and

eliminated the need to take kilns down to clean.

This cleaning resulted in 8 extra days of on-stream time for each of the kilns and reduced power consumption

by roughly $600 to $900/day.

Leading a project to redesign one of the process bag houses. The goal is to lower power consumption by $100

to $200/day and will reduce contract labor by $225k / year.

The baghouse project combined with the cleaning on this kiln will increase throughput by 100 tons/day,

roughly $1000/day increase in profit. This production rate will surpass the designed production rate for that

kiln.

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JON M GROVES

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Carmeuse Lime North America, Natural Chemicals: 2/2005 - 11/2007

Production Supervisor

Oversaw and managed day to day operations for the South Chicago manufacturing facility, which included operations

of two rotary kilns, loading of trucks and railcars, and a team of 15-20 production employees per shift. Total production

team was 50 employees. In charge of coordinating production employees and operations to meet the daily needs of

customers, such as shifting the process to make water grade or steel grade lime. Oversaw inventory management for

kiln outages, which included the movement and storage of railcars.

Key Achievements

Developed a testing and operations protocol to make water grade lime. This process involved changing the size

of feed material to the kiln and required testing of all screen sizes of lime. This insured we were maintaining

quality through the entire size matrix of the lime. The purpose of this development was to address customer

complaints for our water grade lime.

Initiated a railcar inspection form to insure quality and consistency with our product and shipping of railcars.

Reduced cost of bagging operations by $18/ hour by redesigning the layout of the operation and lowered FTE

by 1.

Initiated a lockout/tagout system for all major equipment by labeling and documenting all of the Motor Control

Centers in the plant. This was initiated in order to meet MSHA regulations.

Carmeuse Lime North America, Natural Chemicals: 8/2004 3/2005

QA/QC Lab Technician

Set up and maintained testing protocol on new product line for US Steel in Gary, IN.

Worked closely with sales individuals and client to maintain quality and inventory for this customer. This product line

is the company s most expensive product and has the largest profit margin: it sells for $98 per ton and costs $25 per ton

to make; the average margin for lime is $10 per ton.

Maintained quality of new product through batch to batch Acid Titration testing.

ARI Environmental Inc: 2/ 2003 7/2004

Field Technician/ Project Manager

Onsite Consultant responsible for setting up Emissions Monitoring Equipment, testing emissions and advised clients on

how to optimize operations while maintaining compliance with EPA Standards. Wrote and filled reports to the EPA for

clients. Worked directly with companies such as BP Petroleum, Marathon, and Johnson and Johnson.

U niversity of Oklahoma: Administrative Director

2000 - 2001

Contracted out by the city of Norman, OK to develop a storm water management plan. Worked with city

engineers and provided modeling information for city officials. Developed Best Management Practices for

the city and presented them to key city officials, city engineers, city council members, and the Mayor

Education and Training

University of Oklahoma- Norman, OK: 5/2002

B.S. Chemistry, Environmental Science

Leadership and Management Courses

Six Sigma Green Belt Trained

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