Name: Jim Soukup

Title: Director of Operations

Brown & Root

Education:

Mc Lennan College, Waco Tx

University Of Houston Business Administration

Short Courses: RCM II Aladon, RCM Trainer Aladon/Moubry, Vibration Analysis Level 4 Cert., Thermography Level 4 Cert. Academy of Infrared Thermography, Tribology Certification Oil Analysis Lubrication Institute Kansas City, Kansas

Continuing Studies: TPM Training Marshall Institute, Maintenance and Construction Management Systems; Marshall Institute, Hydraulic Fluid Systems and Controls University of Texas, Turnaround Management Short Course

Mr. Soukup has more than 35 years of experience in heavy industrial construction, maintenance, and turnarounds foreign and domestic

He has managed and, directed major turnarounds, capital projects, and commissioning and de-commissioning of major facilities. HE has managed major projects with a value of 1.5 billion dollars and turnarounds of 2.5 million work hours with a peak work force of 6300 craft. He has experience in the refinery, chemical, pharma/bio, upstream oil and gas and manufacturing facilities.

He is responsible for the development of multiple work processes, including maintenance systems and procedures, turnaround and small capital work process, programs and systems and construction and turnaround readiness review systems,

Representative assignments include:

Brown and Root May 1, 2022 – Present

Director of operations responsibilities include, oversite of multiple maintenance sites and small capital projects

Working to design maintenance small capital project work process maps

Vice President of operations Worley. January 2020-May 1, 2022

Responsible for multiple sites and regions of U.S. plant- based services. Directing 7 area managers and an office staff of 12. Responsible for 5000 craft and a P&L of 700 million

dollars

Jacobs Field Service. October 1987- January 2022

Director of Operations sustaining services and Jacobs SME for turnarounds. Responsibilities include the management of the P&L for the Midwest, West Coast, South Texas, regions and the U. S. turnaround division. This includes a daily work force of 2000 craft with a peak of 8500, including four area managers spread across 35 sites. The facilities consist of food processing, chemicals and refining.

Director of Turnarounds and Capital projects Jacobs-ESA Morocco. This is a joint venture program between Jacobs and OCP with an annual P&L of 1.4 billion dollars.

Responsible for developing, training and integrating a turnaround and capital projects program for OCP. Including commissioning of new facilities and de-commissioning of existing facilities, Cataloging equipment and spares

Executive Vice President of Starcon International. Responsible for operations of a 250 million dollar annual turnaround division performing multiple turnarounds annually including an HF Alky division and a 150 million dollar maintenance organization. Developed the capital projects organization for Starcon

Jacobs Director of U.S. field service Operations.

Responsible for maintenance, small capital projects, turnarounds, upstream and downstream for U.S. field operations. Reporting to the Global Vice President of Jacob’s field service. Responsible for a 1.4 billion P&L and 4500 employees daily and a peak workforce of 8400.

Director of Jacobs operations West Coast.

Responsible for the Western division field operations, construction and maintenance and turnarounds for upstream and downstream. The operation peaked at 2800 direct hire personnel. Reporting to the Jacobs President of operations

Site program Manager BP Refinery Carson Ca. Responsible for a 1.5 billion, dollar capital program. Responsible for all construction field related activities. Managing a peak work force of 4500 direct hire and subcontracted employees during the turnaround portion of the project.

Director of Construction /Turnaround Manager, Diabetes Care Facility, 275 million dollar, Construction/Turnaround Revamp, Eli Lilly, Indianapolis. Completed 950,000 work hour turnaround in 23 day’s injury free. Peak work force of 3900 union craft

Consulting manager of construction Leiden Netherlands.

Responsible for the construction management of the 2.3 billion dollar NAM Program on the upstream natural gas distribution system throughout the Netherlands

Global Manager of Turnarounds, Jacobs Engineering, reporting to President Global Field Services

Responsible for Jacobs turnarounds worldwide and the implementation of the Jacobs turnaround process, including project controls, material management, QA/QC, commissioning and startup

Home office Manager of Maintenance and Turnarounds reporting to Operation Manager, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Responsibilities include the management of 24 maintenance and small capital sites.

U.S. Manager of Turnarounds – Jacobs, reporting to President, Jacobs field service. Responsibilities include the development and implementation of the Jacobs turnaround process

Home Office Regional Manager, reporting to Vice President Operations, Houston. Responsibilities include the management 28 various maintenance, small capital construction, and turnaround projects in the Houston Gulf Coast and West Coast areas. Responsibilities include the structure of organization and implementation of best practices.

GE Plastics, Project Manager Port Bienville Mississippi relocation Project. Responsible for decommissioning the HDPE facility. Duties included directing and developing the shutdown plan with operations, inspection and cataloging of 486 pieces, of tagged equipment, and vessels, spare parts inventory, preservation plan, and logistics and transportation plan to new facility for construction.

Site Manager, Exxon Chemicals, Baytown, Texas. Responsibilities included the restructuring of the mechanical maintenance and capital projects organization from five separate business groups to one central organization, development of the site turnaround program and execution of 650,000 work hours of turnarounds over an 18 month period. Reduction of overall contractor costs and implementation of best practices of maintenance and capital projects.

Project Manager Exxon blending plant Houston Texas. Responsible for developing equipment inventory after de-commissioning, for 123 pieces of equipment and motors. Inventory of spare parts, and development of maintenance preservation strategy along with the Exxon maintenance manager. Logistics planning for shipping and installation at the Joliet refinery in Illinois.

Site Manager, Anchor Glass Company, Henrietta, Oklahoma. Responsibilities included coordinating engineering priorities for subcontracting plan. Development of subcontract packages and selection of the subcontractors for a 185 million turnaround and capital project expansion.

Chief Construction Engineer, CITGO Petroleum Company, Lake Charles, Louisiana. Responsibilities included coordinating a peak of nine engineering firms and 17 major projects on a 1.5 billion, dollar construction /revamp project, with a staff of 145 employees including field engineering, Project Controls, procurement, and Subcontract Management.

Construction Engineer, GE Plastics Project, Port Bienville, Mississippi. Responsible for inspecting, punching out and the turnover of piping systems. Also responsible for monitoring, inspecting and turnover of the painting, insulation and fireproofing subcontractors.

Construction Engineer, CIBA-GEIGY Delta Dye Project, St. Gabriel, Louisiana. Responsible for working directly with all field engineers and the Client's engineers in inspecting and the turnover of the project. Also responsible for troubleshooting material and engineering problems for all disciplines.

Subcontract Administrator, Koch Refining Parex No. II Project, Corpus Christi, Texas. Responsible for developing subcontract packages, bidding, coordinating pre-bid and award meetings, bid analysis and overall coordination of schedules. Also performed receiving inspections on vendor fabricated equipment and developed detailed estimates on variances.

Material Manager, Koch Refining FCCU/VRU Turnaround and Cumene Expansion Project. Responsible for shipping, receiving, storing and issuing material and equipment. Also performed material takeoffs and procurement of all piping, electrical and instrumentation bulk shorts. Also responsible for the efficient operation of the tool room and for managing all construction equipment.

Pipe Supervisor and Systems Coordinator at both the Hoechst Celanese HDPE Expansion Project and HIMONT's "E" Line. Responsible for developing systems turnover packages, testing and turnover procedures and the tracking of turnover status. Also performed pre-hydro, hydro and post hydro inspections.

Employment History:

Brown & Root

Director of operations Current

Jacobs Field Service North America

Vice President of Operations Sustaining Services October 2014 – April 2022

Jacobs JESA Morocco

Operations Director of Small caps and Turnarounds December 1, 2014-Sept. 2016

Starcon International

Executive Vice President July 2012-Oct.2014

Jacobs

1987-2012

Director Jacobs Field Services, North America, U.S.

Global Manager of Maintenance & Turnarounds

Director of Turnarounds and Maintenance North America

Turnaround and small caps Manager

Construction Engineer

Field Construction Engineer

Material Controller

Pipe Supervisor

Petro Service and Supply 1985 – 1988

Plant Manager

Sales Manager

Don Love Construction 1984 – 1985

Pipe Superintendent

Armco Steel 1978- 1984

Maintenance Manager Blooming Mill

Pipe Fitter

Millwright

Rigger

Apprentice

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