BRYAN WATKINS

Improved overall facility safety with regular inspections and hazard identification initiatives. Developed strong vendor relationships for cost-effective procurement of parts and services. Generated and completed work orders for repairs, maintenance, and component replacement. Completed necessary ISO documentation and records to show compliance. Coordinated and planned work with plant maintenance personell and contractors. Troubleshot and repaired conveyors, pneumatic systems and steam boilers. Conducted mechanical and electrical maintenance of factory equipment.

Operate two induced draft 80,000# water tube boilers for South plant area of Lanxess. Take care of all chemicals and sampling. Unloaded and loaded bromine trailers, and chlorine rail cars. Operation of H2S gas stripper, and direct drive H2S sour gas compressor. Operation of DCS for boilers. Helped Bromine operator with any of their area needs. Helped maintenance in every day PM's and work orders. Analyze all raw materials, in process and finished product for bromine operations. Follow all testing procedures, instrument calibrations, and records for all. Keep up with standardization of reagents and equipment. Keep up and record all SAP work for analysis along with LIMS data for quality inspection of all products. Make sure as a plant we are in compliance with all environmental procedures in every day operations. Experience with IC and FTIR machines

Operation of Monsanto style 350 TPD Sulfuric acid plant.

Ran process, water, and cooling tower samples. Operated sulfur fed furnace and 300# waste heat boiler within plant. Operated Mixed Acid plants and made mixed acid blends with oleum and CNA nitric acid and loaded trucks for customers. Made weak nitric acid blends for customers and loaded and unloaded trucks and railcars of nitric acid. Loaded and unloaded sulfuric trucks and railcars and kept up with production and sampling of sulfuric storage tanks. Operation of all outside areas on a 1150 TPD Kellogg style ammonia plant. Start up and shutdown of all areas. Front end operation of primary and secondary reformers, turbine driven BFW pumps, 1500# boilers and steam drum, induced draft, water tube auxiliary boiler. Start up of methanator, operation of MDEA system and turbine driven pumps. Compressor area operation of syn gas, refridge, and air compressor turbine driven trains 600# and 1500#. Operation of back end areas, hydrogen recovery unit, and ammonia converter. Operation of RO building area. Made changes and adjustments and handled all chemicals and samples for demineralized, process, BFW, and cooling tower water. Running of DCS on RO building, and taking care of regenning mixed beds and polisher and running the water building efficiently. Had some DCS experience on plant when I left.

Trained junior maintenance professionals on correct repair and cleaning procedures. Inspected and tested machinery and equipment to diagnose malfunctions. Assessed operating conditions and adjusted settings to maximize performance and equipment longevity. Completed daily, weekly and monthly checklists on building equipment to maintain records of scheduled maintenance procedures. Reviewed technical documentation to perform accurate repairs on diverse equipment. Worked with building managers to assess ongoing needs and plan preventive maintenance and cleaning schedules. Managed available parts, tools and materials inventory to maintain prompt response capability. Performed electrical and mechanical repairs of production equipment, and minimize downtime. Interpreted drawings, blueprints and schematics of building and systems layout as well as machinery construction. Rebuilt gear boxes, machined and fabricated parts, performed some programming, rebuilt pneumatic and hydraulic cylinders and valves, rebuilt pumps and small compressors, etc. Performed all mechanical maintenance on forklifts and clamp trucks in house. Replacing motors, replacing all hydraulic cylinders and bushings involved with mast, front and rear end repairs, etc. Wide variety of maintenance, electrical, and programming of bag machines and printing presses.