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Senior Industrial Operations Specialist

Location:
Hammond, LA
Posted:
November 21, 2025

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Billy C. Pierce

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Career Objectives

To secure a position leveraging and utilizing over 29 years of strong, professional and personal management skills.

Skills Summary

● Trained on SCADA, DCS board, SAP, Traction Reports, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Word, Ph meters, and other lab equipment

● Certified Forklift Driver

● Certified in handling the following chemicals: hydrogen, aluminum chloride, chlorine, tin, tetrachloride, caustics, and acids.

● Trained in filtration systems and lab equipment

● 19 years of experience running distillation towers, centrifuges, separators, and decant systems

● 40 hour HAZWOPER Certificate, 10 hour OSHA Certificate, and a TWIC card. Professional Employment Experience

Huhtamaki October 2022-Present

Packer

● Read specifications prior to inspecting and packing any product

● Complete production records

● Inspect product for quality and visual defects

● Monitoring quality by measuring, testing, recording results, and visual inspection

● Communicate to Molding Operator when defective product is discovered

● Evaluates when equipment is malfunctioning

● Work safely and follow all GMP and PPE’s

Harcros Chemicals December 2018- August 2022

Operator/Warehouse

● Sample incoming trucks

● Unload tankers

● Fill drums and totes

● Batch maker

● Transload tankers

● Run modules

● Sample and treat waste water

● Trained in handling food grade items

● Pull orders

● Load and unload trucks

● Package and put away orders

Clean Harbors/Safety Kleen June 2017- December 2018 Foreman

● Load and unload railcars and trailers

● Sample railcars and trailers

● Transfer and sample tanks

● Swtichman

● Trained in WinWeb

● Ran centrifuges

● Pumped, filled, and transferred tanks

● Sampled readings

● Hydroblasting

● Getting permits

● Inspecting jobs when done

● Loto System

October 2016- May 2017 City of East ChicagoWater Filtration Assistant Operator

● Make samples on incoming water every hour

● Sample water and make chemical adjustments as needed

● Run Scada, water membrane, lab samples, Ph, and Phosphate. November 2012- June 2016 Veolia North America

Assistant Operator

● Ran Scada

● Sampled Sludge and ran tests for moisture

● Loaded and Unloaded Trucks

● Made adjustments on equipment (burners and pelletizers)

● Ran pelletizers, bucket elevators, silos, and thermal oxidizer

● Took readings on equipment

May 2005-November 2012INEOS

Operations Shift Supervisor/ Chemical Operator

● Lead and directed members of operations team, which are responsible for producing environmentally friendly products, at optimum efficiency.

● Accountable for unit, personnel, and contractor safety on shift.

● Communicate and ensure the shift Operators comply with all processes, procedures, and labor contracts.

● Deliver and ensure the company’s operations shift plan is presented and executed by all members of operations team.

● Ensure that equipment is properly prepared for maintenance, while working closely alongside them oversee that work is performed and completed within safety guidelines and proper work permits issued.

● Responsible for issuing and walking down all unit LO/TO.

● Leadership of all pre-shift operation meeting, including safety.

● Troubleshoots operating unit issues and works with team members to solve and correct said issues.

● Responsible and accountable for all proper shift logs and relief; ensuring maintenance issues are logged in SAP, incidents are reported and documented in Incident Reporting database, Traction.

● Lead monitoring and development training with Operators to qualify them on all areas of the unit.

● Administer first level disciplinary action.

● First level supervision for all union grievance issues.

● Responsible for posting weekly Operations and Lab schedule and track OT/call off hours per union contract.

● Lead and monitor unit procedure reviews to ensure all are properly updated.

● Assist in all ISO, customer, and safety audits.

● Responsible for communicating daily Operations updates and personnel issues with Operations Manager.

August 1993-May 2005 MASON CORPORATION

Operator/Supervisor

● Ran Stannous Chloride Unit

● Filled cylinders with tin tetrachloride and drums with stannous chloride

● Loaded and unloaded trucks

● Ran Stannic Chloride Reactors

● Mixed batches and packaged orders

● Ran two and three phase centrifuge, separator, and decant system Education

Hammond High School, 5926 Calumet Avenue, Hammond, Indiana 1990 Graduate

High School Diploma



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