Daniel Jacobs
**** ****** *** *** ******** Texas 77422
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www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-jacobs-938162ba/
Experienced maintenance leader dedicated to fostering team collaboration and driving successful outcomes. Demonstrated expertise in preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, and adherence to safety protocols. Renowned for reliability and adaptability to evolving requirements. Adept at efficiently managing maintenance schedules, training personnel, and optimizing operational efficiency.
WORK HISTORY
October 2024 -
Maintenance Supervisor, Shintech, Freeport, Texas
My responsibilities were to oversee daily maintenance duties, including repair work requests, PMs, and predictive maintenance, to include finance and compliance reporting. Develop short- and long-range plans for facilities and staff development. Maintain a defined parts inventory and materials that are required for immediate repairs as needed. Helped plan, build budgets, and manage turnaround maintenance as well as projects that improve the reliability of the facilities and equipment. Develop JHA’s work plans and permit requirements to ensure safety and compliance of work and ensure that safety and environmental requirements are reviewed and maintained.
July 2024 - October 2024
Chief Operations Officer, Bay City ISD
Reviewed and implemented the yearly budget for all facilities in the district. This role required direct leadership and daily management of roads and grounds, electrical, HVAC, plumbing, janitorial services, transportation, supplies, and warehousing, including critical spares and materials. Attend all meetings required for the safe and orderly operations of the district. Review short and long-range projects, budgeting, and expansion of areas to develop new classrooms or as-needed facilities. Lead and direct meetings that covered all levels of staffing. Developed and implemented safety functions to prepare for emergencies such as weather events and worked with local officials to ensure good lines of communication were enforced. Developed staff and cross-trained staffing to cover all areas in case of the absence of employees.
October 2023 - April 2024
Maintenance Manager Vopak
Oversee daily maintenance PMs, predictive maintenance, and compliance work orders. Review daily, weekly, and monthly backlog of work orders, to ensure issues are completed on time and ensure the productivity of the plant. Implemented purchase requests, cost control, and ensured lean methods were used to control overhead and reduce excess materials. Directed the turnaround project group. Implemented cost control across all departmental budgets. In this role, my team covered all facilities, including electrical, HVAC, plumbing, I&E, etc. Coordinated with multiple vendors. Reviewed bids, contracts, and safety requirements to ensure all jobs cover the company's compliance with labor, materials, and environment. Work with other department managers and departments.
March 2015 - October 2023
Shutdown Manager Air Liquide Large Ind LLC
Responsible for planning, scheduling, cost control, and executing shutdowns. Collaborating with teams to plan, which includes developing all job plans for jobs and preventive maintenance, engineering changes, and new projects being introduced to the plant during the scheduled turnaround. Implemented procurement needs for the project and controlled costs both during pre-planning and after implementation and startup of the plant. Direct interaction with multiple vendors occurred. Conducted turnaround on air separation units, steam methane reformers, and high-pressure units on hydrogen applications, as well as various subsets of equipment to supply power and materials for production plants. Assisted with pipeline projects as needed. Conducted daily turnaround updates to include daily run rates and project information on
quality, schedule adherence, safety, budget utilization, and overall value delivery.
October 2001 -March 2015
Production Specialist, Ascend Performance Materials (Formerly Solutia Inc.), Alvin, TX
Primary responsibility for the day-to-day operations of Reactor, Recovery includes scheduling,planning, and coordinating small outages to long turnarounds. I provided technical expertise and troubleshooting skills for optimization, identifying maintenance and planning improvements that implemented cost reductions in production and projects. By working with several departments, we trained unit operations and staff personnel and developed unit operating procedures, lockout lists, blind-out lists, work practices, and documentation to ensure the safe operation of the plant and protect personnel. The primary responsibility is to develop training packages and provide operations training for new operators, as well as refresher training for current operations personnel. I developed standard operating procedures, work practices, and emergency response procedures, along with action plans.
January 2001 - January 2002
Operator Dow Chemical
Responsible for the day-to-day operations of epoxy Manufacturing, which consisted of rotating job assignments, field operations positions, and control board positions. Worked with teams to develop safe operational procedures and assisted maintenance groups as needed.
EDUCATION
Process Technology
Victoria College, Victoria, TX
Many safety council training modules
Leadership development with Air Liquide
Technical
SKILLS
Computer and software skills field: SAP, Maximo, Oracle, DCS HMI, Office Suites to include Microsoft Project, Google Doc, Payroll app etc.
Electrical, Transformer, MCC, power distribution. 110V to 13,700V substation upgrades and
maintenance
HVAS package units, chiller, water tower DX units as well as large plant distribution as needed.