Chemical Engineering Manager

Robert J Osterhold PE

Executive Profile

Site Director accountable and responsible for manufacturing at two sites in North America. Outstanding environmental, health, and safety results achieved through safety leadership and operational discipline. Improved and sustained asset effectiveness achieved through reliability, maintenance process implementation, and cultural alignment of maintenance and production.

Skill Highlights

Leadership

Strategic Development

Program Implementation

Budget Planning

Greenfield Plant Startup

Project Management

Organization Restructuring

Continuous Improvement/LEAN

Asset Management

Delegation

Core Accomplishments

Operations Management: Lead site culture change to operational discipline. Achieved Injury Rate of 0.11 from 2010 to present. Recognized with the Texas Chemical Council Caring for Texas Environmental Award in 2012 and 2014. Achieved three years (August 2012 to current) without any environmental Notices of Enforcement from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Maintenance and Engineering: Implement maintenance processes and reliability programs Improved Asset Effectiveness result by 30% year over year from 2012 through 2014. Project Management: Project Leader

Led Project ICON implementation at a flagship site that resulted in financial improvement of $120M by waste reduction in processes, implementation of LEAN tools, technical process optimization, mindsets and behaviors learning, and site reorganization.

Professional Experience

BASF - Site Director - Pasadena, TX and Cornwall, ON - March, 2011 to Current Accountable for all aspects of Phthalic Anhydride, C5 Alcohol, and Plasticizer manufacturing, including safety and environmental, production, maintenance, quality, personnel, budgeting, capital, and site strategy. BASF - Project ICON Leader - Freeport, TX - September 2009 to March 2011 Developed and implemented project to change the strategic, technological, financial, organizational, and cultural direction of the site.

BASF - Operations Manager Acrylates, Freeport, TX - September 2006 to September 2009 Responsible for daily operations of the 2-Ethyl Hexyl Acrylate, Butyl Acrylate, and Glacial Acylic Acid Plants, including safety and environmental, production, personnel, budget, and capital. BASF - EHS Team Leader - Freeport, Bishop, Pasadena, TX Sites - August 2004 to September 2006 Proposed, designed, and built the first Mobile Emergency Response Vehicle for BASF. Created and implemented the A/B Incident Risk Model that is used in North America. BASF - Operations Manager Chemical Intermediates - Geismar, La - August 2001 to August 2004 Responsible for daily operations of the Tetrahydrofuran, S-MOIPA, and Poly-Tetrahydrofuran Plants, including safety and environmental, production, personnel, budget, and capital. BASF - Delegate Assistant Plant Manager - Ludwigshafen, Germany - August 1999 to August 2001 Responsible for daily operations of the Poly-Tetrahydrofuran and Methyl Amines Plants, including safety and environmental, production, personnel, budget, and capital. BASF - Operations Engineer - Intermediate Plants - Geismar, La - February 1990 to August 1999 Start-up of grass roots Aniline and Mono-Nitrobenzene plants. 9002 Stones Throw Lane, Missouri City TX 77459

Home: 281-***-**** - Cell: 979-***-**** - **********@***.*** Responsible for Carboxy production.

Manufacturing Representative for the Methyl Amines Project. BASF - Professional Development Program - Louisiana and New Jersey - June 1988 to February 1990 Rotational assignments in MDI production in Geismar, La, Tetrahydrofuran marketing in Parsippany, NJ, and 1,4 Butanediol construction in Geismar, La.

Education

Master of Science : Chemical Engineering, 1999

Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge, La, USA

Bachelor of Science : Chemical Engineering, 1988

Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge, La, USA

Professional Engineer : Chemical Engineering, 1997 Registration Number 27148 - Louisiana

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