Dwight Aaron Nash
El Dorado
Summary
Senior Refinery Leader with 23 years of progressive leadership experience driving operational excellence, profitability, reliability, and organizational performance across complex refining operations. Proven track record leading large scale operations, strategic planning, economics, and business transformation initiatives while serving on refinery leadership teams. Recognized for developing high-performing organizations, improving operational discipline, optimizing asset utilization and delivering sustainable business results through a strong commitment to safety, reliability, and workforce development.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr Director, Refinery Operations
Delek US
06.2024 - Current
- Oversees all Refinery Operations at 80,000 barrel per day complex to ensure the highest level of safety, environmental, productivity, and reliability compliance.
- Participates in developing and establishing operating objectives, policies and procedures to improve efficiency, minimize operating costs, protect asset, and ensure quality control.
- Prepare budget for the Operations department including complex maintenance and control expenses to ensure that costs are within budget.
- Maintain effective organization to meet both short and long term goals
- Set safety goals and objectives for the Operations department and manage a Safety program to meet or exceed those objectives
- Lead a team of 15 salary supervisors and managers; along with 125 operators
Deputy Manager, Refinery Operations
TotalEnergies
06.2022 - 06.2024
- Directly manage 5 Shift Supervisors and indirectly manage 270 employees working on shift
- Ensure proper coordination between the 4 refinery areas including business team leads and shift teams
- Support Senior Operations manager for the day to day operation of a 10.5Mt/yr refinery
- Incident commander
- Ensures workforce safety both personal & process
- Ensures environmentally compliant operations
Interim Senior Manager, Refinery Operations
TotalEnergies
04.2023 - 02.2024
- Interim Refinery Operations Manager of 240mbpd refinery.
- Directly supervise team of 4 Business Team Leaders.
- Indirectly supervise over 300 operation’s personnel and front line supervisors
- Led facility operations through >1million employee hour Turnaround
Area Superintendent
TotalEnergies
05.2022 - 04.2023
- Directly supervise 2 Operations Supervisors and an operations/maintenance coordinator.
- Indirectly supervise 40 operators
- Lead multi discipline area team of operations, maintenance, engineering, environmental, etc to support operations of delayed coking unit, distillate & naphtha hydro treaters, sulfur recovery units, amine regeneration unit, and flare processing.
Gasoline Blender
Phillips 66
11.2021 - 05.2022
- Generate weekly operating plans for units that produce gasoline–range components
- Monitor unit operations vs plan; provide guidance to unit engineers to manage deviations
- Adjust unit targets and stream routings to optimize rates and quality in response to changes in market demand and margins
- Manage product movement forecasts that take into account storage capacity, inventory, unit constraints/turnarounds, environmental regulations, and product quality specifications
- Develop and implement contingency plans to mitigate risks due to internal unit upsets, loss of external suppliers, and interruption to product movements
- Utilize Honeywell Blend software to create gasoline recipes that maximize profit against blend component rates, quality, and storage limitations
- Coordinate movements of Finished Gasoline, Reformate, Naphtha, and Alkylate via truck, pipeline, barge, and ship
- In-depth understanding of Gasoline regulations and specifications set by EPA, Colonial Pipeline, Central Florida Pipeline, and Exports to non–US customers
Backfill
Phillips 66
01.2013 - 05.2022
- Over the years of my employment with Phillips 66 I have backfilled several roles at the organization on a temporary basis including:
- Operations Scheduling:
- Build operations schedules for ~300 operators following a union contract to fulfill vacancies in schedules and staff special assignments and Turnarounds
- Business Team Lead in multiple areas
- Fill in on a temporary basis supervising engineers, supervisors, operations personnel. Executing production plans and optimizing unit rates to maximize profits
- Director of Optimization, Planning & Economics
- Lead a team of analysts to develop optimum barrel plans for the operations team to execute
- Production planning
- Coordinate with multiple discipline throughout the organization to execute operating plans
Ops Supervisor
Phillips 66
07.2020 - 11.2021
- Direct and coordinate unit operations activities to accomplish run plans at optimum cost while meeting or exceeding safety and environmental regulations and performance goals. Ensure that the human resources, equipment and work processes are in place to enable this performance.
- Supervises 24 union employees operating an Alkylation unit, LPG Distillation unit, Heavy Oil Cracking unit, & utility supply for entire refinery.
Gasoline Blender
Phillips 66
07.2018 - 07.2020
- Generate weekly operating plans for units that produce gasoline–range components
- Monitor unit operations vs plan; provide guidance to unit engineers to manage deviations
- Adjust unit targets and stream routings to optimize rates and quality in response to changes in market demand and margins
- Manage product movement forecasts that take into account storage capacity, inventory, unit constraints/turnarounds, environmental regulations, and product quality specifications
- Develop and implement contingency plans to mitigate risks due to internal unit upsets, loss of external suppliers, and interruption to product movements
- Utilize Honeywell Blend software to create gasoline recipes that maximize profit against blend component rates, quality, and storage limitations
- Coordinate movements of Finished Gasoline, Reformate, Naphtha, and Alkylate via truck, pipeline, barge, and ship
- In-depth understanding of Gasoline regulations and specifications set by EPA, Colonial Pipeline, Central Florida Pipeline, and Exports to non–US customers
Ops Supervisor
Phillips 66
05.2015 - 07.2018
- Direct and coordinate unit operations activities to accomplish run plans at optimum cost while meeting or exceeding safety and environmental regulations and performance goals. Ensure that the human resources, equipment and work processes are in place to enable this performance
- Supervised 20 union employees moving over 55 million barrels of finished and intermediate products
Shift Team Lead
Phillips 66
09.2013 - 05.2015
- Provides leadership and coordination to assigned shift operators in the day-to-day operation of units to achieve the daily plan or needed variations while meeting or exceeding safety and environmental regulations and performance goals.
- Ensure execution of effective on-shift operator rounds and monitoring.
- Monitor, enforce and report compliance with Operator Work Calendar.
- Coordinate the preparation of equipment for maintenance.
- Act as resource and mentor for Top Operators in operation of the units.
- Work with Operations Supervisor to help define and communicate expectations for Operators.
- Ensure the on-shift handling of administrative duties; payroll, vacation, incident reporting and investigation, etc.
- Administer the labor contract and on-shift discipline for shift team operators.
- Provide ongoing coaching to Operators and provide input to Operations Supervisor in assessing Operator performance.
- Run Plan Execution and Coordination
- Responsible for achieving daily run plan, product quality specifications and optimization
- Serve as focal point for coordination of planned operating activities with other areas, and maintains open and effective communications with other shift team leads.
- Coordinate shift activities with engineering, optimization, and mechanical.
- Responsible for assessing and executing mechanical call-outs, supervise maintenance work after office hours as required.
- Emergency Response
- Supervise on-shift response to operating or environmental emergency response.
Unit Operator
Phillips 66
02.2003 - 09.2013
- Provides leadership and coordination to assigned shift operators in the day-to-day operation of units to achieve the daily plan or needed variations while meeting or exceeding safety and environmental regulations and performance goals.
- Ensure execution of effective on-shift operator rounds and monitoring.
- Monitor, enforce and report compliance with Operator Work Calendar.
- Coordinate the preparation of equipment for maintenance.
- Act as resource and mentor for Top Operators in operation of the units.
- Work with Operations Supervisor to help define and communicate expectations for Operators.
- Ensure the on-shift handling of administrative duties; payroll, vacation, incident reporting and investigation, etc.
- Administer the labor contract and on-shift discipline for shift team operators.
- Provide ongoing coaching to Operators and provide input to Operations Supervisor in assessing Operator performance.
- Run Plan Execution and Coordination
- Responsible for achieving daily run plan, product quality specifications and optimization
- Serve as focal point for coordination of planned operating activities with other areas, and maintains open and effective communications with other shift team leads.
- Coordinate shift activities with engineering, optimization, and mechanical.
- Responsible for assessing and executing mechanical call-outs, supervise maintenance work after office hours as required.
- Emergency Response
- Supervise on-shift response to operating or environmental emergency response.
Education
MBA - MBA
McNeese State
Lake Charles, Louisiana08.2024
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
McNeese State
Lake Charles, Louisiana12.2018
Associate of Applied Science - Process Technology
Sowela Tech
Lake Charles, Louisiana08.2002
Skills
- Leadership - Experienced
- Organizer - Experienced
- Coach - Experienced
- Operational Excellence - Experienced
- Talent Developer - Experienced
Timeline
Sr Director, Refinery Operations
Delek US
06.2024 - Current
Interim Senior Manager, Refinery Operations
TotalEnergies
04.2023 - 02.2024
Deputy Manager, Refinery Operations
TotalEnergies
06.2022 - 06.2024
Area Superintendent
TotalEnergies
05.2022 - 04.2023
Gasoline Blender
Phillips 66
11.2021 - 05.2022
Ops Supervisor
Phillips 66
07.2020 - 11.2021
Gasoline Blender
Phillips 66
07.2018 - 07.2020
Ops Supervisor
Phillips 66
05.2015 - 07.2018
Shift Team Lead
Phillips 66
09.2013 - 05.2015
Backfill
Phillips 66
01.2013 - 05.2022
Unit Operator
Phillips 66
02.2003 - 09.2013
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
McNeese State
Associate of Applied Science - Process Technology
Sowela Tech
MBA - MBA
McNeese State