Chris Peal

-Maintain the unit within safe operating limits while meeting target specifications.

-Create work orders for equipment maintenance using SAP.

-Lead a team of two area technicians and one console 1 operator to safely and effectively control process units, including Crude/Vac, NHT, Sat Gas, and Platformer.

-Escalate concerns by communicating with the right people, including supervisors, engineers, maintenance crafts, and area specialists.

-Prepare equipment for maintenance by preparing equipment isolation logs, process prep plans, blind lists, and piping and instrument diagrams.

-Follow detailed procedures during equipment/unit startup and shutdown.

-Create and submit new procedures for approval so that new tasks can be performed safely and efficiently.

Train unit technicians as needed on procedures, permits, unit operations, and troubleshooting process operations.

- Prepare equipment for maintenance by cleaning, clearing, loto and permitting.

- safely start up or shutdown the unit during process upsets by following procedures, operating valves, pumps and compressors,

-trouble shoot and safely correct equipment or process issues through deductive reasoning and involving the right crafts and people.

-Controlled the process for cryogenic air separation to produce liquid nitrogen for medical and oilfield application

-Performed monthly preventative maintenance including cooling water back flushes, motor bearing greasing, alarm function checks, analyzer calibrations, etc.

-utilized SAP to keep track of inventory, request spare parts, or new motors and submit expense reports

-developed a self assessment training program for the Odessa ASU site to streamline technician training

-Head operator in training overseeing a team of five operators and several process units including two hydrotreating units, one reformer unit, one steam utilities unit, and one hydrogen booster compressor unit from

-Communicating with engineers, management team, maintenance team, and subject matter experts during unplanned shutdowns due to process, equipment, or control logic failures.

-Acting Head Operator during multiple maintenance turn arounds responsible for leading a team of six operators and the safe and efficient execution of critical path work scope involving a team of over one hundred contractors. The work scope included hot work, critical crane lifts, multiple confined space jobs (some inert entry confined space jobs), unit wide decontamination, installation of new control valves, compressor rebuilds, exchanger bundle pulling and cleaning, repairing distillation column trays and packing, pump replacements and pump seal rebuilds.

-Establish flow rates, pressures, temperatures, and levels according to procedures during unit start up  Monitor and control process variables to maintain optimal process conditions including temperatures, flow rates, pressures, and levels to ensure on spec product and safe operation of units

-Isolate, clean and lock out/tag out process equipment to prepare for maintenance work.

-Perform field walks of isolation points, vent points, blind points, review safe work practices and verify zero energy with maintenance crafts prior to work on process equipment.

-Safely shut down and start up refinery process units by following procedures, communicating with other operators, and ensuring understanding of tasks to be performed.

-Train new operators on assigned process units by reviewing procedures, walking process lines, practicing, and reviewing emergency scenarios as well as discussing the units process design limits and associated equipment and systems.

-Trouble shoot and correct process upsets and equipment issues by using deductive reasoning, trending data, and getting the right crafts and people involved. Safely and effectively respond to unit emergencies and process upsets to protect people the environment and plant equipment.