Aaron W. Johnson

● Categories Managed

- Industrial Services including subcategories of vacuum trucks,

hydroblasting, chemical cleaning, degassing and vapor control

- In-Line Inspections; Smart-Pigging for Midstream Integrity

- Construction Field Representative (Inspections) supporting

midstream construciton group
● Oversight of contract compliance, supplier management and performance activities.
● Successfully developed and tracked standardized performance indicators for 11 refineries across 5 suppliers in conjunction with key stakeholders.
● Support key initiatives for improvement along with demand management activities.
● Support turnaround sourcing strategies for locations detailing supplier commitments, availability, and capabilities.
● Negotiate internally and externally to support overall best value for organization.
● Conduct sourcing activities as necessary to support managed categories.

● Leveraged chemical cleaning opportunity spend across enterprise in

line with established sourcing strategy.

• Manage daily operational procurement activities including contracts, transactional procurement, and warehouse functions.
• Directly supervise four (4) plant procurement specialists including warehouse and inventory supervision.
• Monitor day-to-day operations and maintenance activities to ensure procurement support is adequately focused.
• Responsible for monitoring key supplier metrics including order fulfillment timeliness and contract adherence.
• Manages supplier relations, including conflict management and non-conformances.
• Provides site leadership for center led procurement initiatives such as strategic sourcing and technology upgrades.
• Ensures operational procurement group is consistently focused on greatest overall value for the organization.
• Drives focus and culture of cost saving through negotiations, sourcing or other methods to lower operational expenses.
• Averaged over $1MM+ in annual in OPEX savings through procurement led negotiations and initiatives.

• Performed both a leadership and project management role with regard to implementations as necessary, ongoing testing and monitoring of the Track CMP system on an enterprise basis.
• Directly supervised five (5) individual site leads.
• Was responsible for overall project budget and timeline of four (4) separate refinery implementations in 2017.
• Developed realistic and measurable methods for capturing cost and reported return on all Track related investments to senior leadership team.
• Established necessary training programs, quarterly senior leadership updates and internal audit reviews for all sites.
• Established savings methodology to support Track operational expenses to report Return On Investment (ROI).
• Supported the overall relationship with the procurement team to ensure consistent interpretation of agreements.
• Established guidelines to ensure consistency in processing and resolution of all TRACK exceptions (e.g.
• Missing gate events, off-site work, etc.).
• Led strategic working relationships with key stakeholders, such as Accounting, Procurement, Information Technology, and Corporate/Plant Leadership to ensure success of the overall program.

• Tulsa & Cheyenne Refineries - Tulsa, OK & Cheyenne, WY Provided procurement activities for various engineering, construction with a primary focus on capital projects and maintenance.
• Led contactor/ supplier management and improvement meetings as needed.
• Guided team members to ensure company procurement guidelines are followed and adhered to accordingly.
• Actively administered and maintained 200+ service contracts continuously including OEM and support contracts.
• Facilitated Request for Quotes (RFQ's) for end users by soliciting qualified service providers, assisting with qualification requirements including safety reviews, insurance requirements and commercial terms.
• Analyzed proposals and presents bid tabulations to key management and team members.
• Assisted with identifying key business issues for counsel in order to efficiently assist with contract negotiations.
• Implemented contracting formats that reduce additional overhead expenses and offer shared risks.
• Supported specific initiatives through interest of understanding business needs with internal stakeholder allowing for effective negotiating with contractors and suppliers.
• Provided leadership through cross-functional team collaborations.

• Supervision of contract service providers for maintenance and capital construction on a day-to-day basis.
• Assisted with scope development and bid meetings during the contract development phase.
• Ensured contractors comply with all contract responsibilities and requirements.
• Ensures contractors are complying with facility policies/ procedures while developing project work plan to ultimately execute the project plan safely, effectively and productively.
• Kept open dialogue between management, engineers and operations during the planning and execution phases while communicating progress and problems in a timely manner.

• Performed various cost control functions and forecasting for 75+ Capital Projects within a $10 -14,000,000 budget
• Ensured timely and accurate cost reporting to project managers and management.
• Supported and assisted contracting group during bid package development and communication with contractors regarding cost and schedule expectations.
• Completed cost data by tracking daily manpower, analysis by forecasting and identifying trending during capital projects; provided change order guidance and corrective action strategies to going forward.
• Developed, analyzed and issued cost reports to monitor department budget projections.
• Responsible for working with project managers field service coordinators on forecasting activities for capital projects including manpower, engineering, material and rental expenditures.