Chemical Engineering Plant

STEVE BROOKS

**** ***** ****** ****** ****** Phone: 816-***-****

Country Club, Missouri 64506 Email address: *************@*****.***

SUMMARY

Over 20 years managerial experience with responsibilities for managing reliability engineering, environmental, safety and nuclear regulatory compliance including management of construction projects and reliability improvements. Major strengths include generating creative business solutions, training, planning, communicating, and managing projects and people.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AQUILA/KCPL/Evergy, Kansas City, Missouri 2000-10/31/2019

Investor owned electric and natural gas utility.

Senior Engineer 2008-10/31/2019

Manage reliability engineering and environmental compliance. Activities included working with the plant to maintain environmental compliance and moving from time based to condition based maintenance, preparing root cause analysis, equipment criticality review and preventative maintenance optimization.

Generating Creative Business Solutions

Developed and implemented rebuild of auxiliary boilers rather than replacing them at a savings of approximately $8 million.

Managed design and modification of plant feed water purification system to obtain a higher quality water with greater system reliability with an annual cost savings providing full cost recovery in less than 5 years.

Training

Provided training through all levels at the plant concerning move to condition based maintenance achieving greater than 90% conversion of work from time based to condition based maintenance.

Planning

Managed plant team to optimize preventative maintenance system, concentrating more efforts on maintaining higher criticality ranked equipment.

Communicating

Developed Plant’s Reliability Monthly Newsletter and meeting to review providing information to plant management tracking reliability performance against the Generation Division Goals for reliability.

Managing Projects

Managed a team of turbine engineers to develop modifications to a control valve found at only 4 other plants in the United States to obtain service time between repairs greater than twice achieved at the other plants with the same valves.

Completed analysis of projects totally more than $50 million for reliability and maintainability and making design modifications to economically maximize reliability of the equipment.

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Environmental Manager (2000-2008)

Manage all activities related to environmental compliance for power generation and transmission across multiple states. Activities include obtaining environmental permits and approvals, serving as key liaison with regulatory agencies and staff, development of environmental management systems, supervision of company and contract employees, preparation of annual and long- range work plans and budgets, maintaining effective communication with internal and external stakeholders and managing environmental construction projects as needed. Serve as the primary contact for all safety chemistry issues where environmental and safety overlapped.

Creative Solutions

Negotiated a revision to an existing Missouri regulation, which resulted in savings of $24 million in capital expense and $2 million in annual operating expense.

Developed Environmental Management System which resulted in no environmental non-compliance notifications from regulatory agencies after it was implemented.

Managing Projects and People

Responsible for managing in excess of $100 million in projects from gaining approval from management for the project funding to completion of the projects with all projects completed on time and within budget.

Provided environmental integration support and staff management so integration was achieved without environmental compliance issues resulting from the merger.

EDUCATION

MBA – Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas

BS – Chemical Engineering, University of Missouri, Rolla/Missouri S&T

AAS – Mid-Management-Accounting emphasis, Missouri Western State College

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