Daniel W. Jacobs
Brazoria,TX
Summary
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.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Maintenance Supervisor
Shintech
10.2024 - Current
- Oversee day to maintenance
- Great involvement in Turnaround execution
- Oversee a crew of maintenance techs as well as I&E techs
- Oversee pumps and compressor overhauls recip centrifugal and screw
- Hydraulic overhaul of systems
- Developed planning tools
- Build detail job plans
- Cost control
- Interact with vendors
- Procure parts for jobs
- Help plan jobs with planners as well as job walks
- Coordinated preventative maintenance schedules, verifying equipment safety and function.
- Streamlined work order processes for increased efficiency in addressing maintenance requests and tracking progress.
- Supervised a team of technicians, providing guidance on complex repair tasks and fostering professional development opportunities.
- Managed inventories of spare parts and tools to ensure the availability of necessary resources for timely repairs.
- Increased productivity by reducing downtime, budgeting effectively, allocating tasks, and maintaining high standards of safety and work quality.
- Improved equipment reliability by implementing a preventive maintenance program and scheduling routine inspections.
Chief operations officer
Bay City Isd
07.2024 - 10.2024
- Oversaw yearly budget
- Oversaw all facilities in district
- Over the grounds for all facilities
- Build job plans for works to follow
- Over Hvac for facilities
- Over the transportation of school
- Over inventory of warehouse supplies
- Order parts materials for jobs
Maintenance Manager
Vopak
01.2023 - 04.2024
- Oversee day to maintenance PM and compliance work orders etc
- Write Purchase requests and approve
- Oversaw the turnaround project group
- Cost control to stay within a budget
- Expediting of materials etc
- Oversee pumps and compressor overhauls recip centrifugal and screw
- Interact with multiple vendors
- Liquide nitrogen storage and work on equipment
- Work with supply chain group to schedule and bid jobs
- Work with all plants on unexpected breakdowns and equipment failure
- Hr responsibilities for reports
- Plan jobs make detailed job plans
- Procurement responsibilities
- Optimized spare parts inventory management by identifying critical items and setting appropriate stock levels based on usage patterns.
- Supervised employee performance, preventive maintenance, and safety.
- Improved equipment reliability by implementing a preventive maintenance program and managing repair schedules.
- Collaborated with other department managers to coordinate maintenance activities around production schedules, minimizing operational interruptions.
Shutdown Manager
Air Liquide Large Ind LLC
01.2015 - 01.2023
- Responsible for planning scheduling cost control and executing shutdowns
- Plan make all job plans for jobs and PM’s also schedule turnarounds
- Was lead on process of turnaround procedure and improvement
- Write Purchase requests
- Cost control to stay within a budget
- Expediting of materials
- Interact with multiple vendors
- Oversee pumps and compressor overhauls recip centrifugal and screw
- Liquid N2 system knowledge and work on equipment
- Overhaul of hydraulic system parts etc
- Work with supply chain group to schedule and bid jobs
- Work with all plants on unexpected breakdowns and equipment failure
- Have great understanding of the Turnaround process
- Help with turbine and compressor maintenance
- Procurement materials management of all goods for outage from ordering to stocking in warehouse for upcoming jobs
- Lead meetings for the planning of the shutdown
- Held safety meetings
- Held daily update meetings to go over status of the TAR daily run rate percentages of execution status of things sent out critical path etc
- Send out Daily updates to Leadership team
- Used the FCO process for all discovery work and communicated cost
- Managed budgets effectively while maintaining high-quality standards in all aspects of the work performed during planned outages.
- Streamlined communication channels for more efficient information sharing among team members and departments.
- Implemented best practices in asset management to maximize equipment reliability throughout the plant''s lifecycle.
- Conducted risk assessments prior to every shutdown event to proactively address potential challenges that may arise during execution.
- Reduced downtime during plant shutdowns by developing and executing comprehensive work plans with precise scheduling.
- Collaborated closely with engineering teams to identify potential design improvements that could enhance plant performance during future shutdown events.
- Ensured timely completion of projects by coordinating with multiple contractors, suppliers, and management teams.
- Mentored junior team members in best practices for managing complex shutdown projects while ensuring safety and efficiency at all times.
- Coordinated joint efforts between operations and maintenance teams to achieve seamless transitions during plant shutdowns and startups.
- Evaluated contractor performance post-shutdown events to ensure alignment with expectations on quality, schedule adherence, budget utilization, and overall value delivery.
Production Specialist
Ascend Performance Materials (Formerly Solutia Inc.)
01.2002 - 01.2015
- Primary responsibility for day-to-day operations of Reactor, Recovery
- Lead in scheduling planning and coordinating small outages to long turnarounds
- Role in providing technical expertise and troubleshooting skills for optimizing and identifying maintenance, planning improvements and cost reduction projects
- Responsible for developing, planning, coordinating and executing checkout, Acrylonitrile plant
- Work with Unit Training Coordinator to train unit operations and staff personnel and develop unit operating procedures, Lock-out list, blind out list, work practices and documentation
- Lead role in planning, scheduling, cost control and execution of many turnarounds outages
- Role in planning, scheduling, cost control and execution of a New column project
- Role on new Column project Developed standard operating procedures checkout, commissioning and startup of the new column
- Primary responsibility to develop training packages and provide operations training for new operators and refresher training for current operations personnel
- Developed the standard operating procedures, work practices and emergency response procedures and action plans
- Conduct weekly safety meetings for operations personnel and staff, group training presentations for support groups and coordinate and conduct emergency response drills
- Delivered quality products with effective use of control procedures and good inspection skills.
- Kept production schedules on track by consistently meeting deadlines and prioritizing urgent orders when necessary.
- Collaborated with engineers to refine product designs, resulting in smoother manufacturing processes and higher-quality end products.
- Maintained equipment in good working order by checking settings and operation, troubleshooting problems, and completing basic repairs.
- Increased production capacity by training new employees on machinery operation and safety protocols, strengthening the overall workforce.
- Streamlined documentation practices to facilitate easy tracking of work orders, change requests, and quality control records.
- Fabricated and assembled products based on customers' specifications.
- Maintained compliance with industry regulations concerning environmental impact, workplace safety standards, and product quality requirements.
- Provided technical assistance to other departments as needed to troubleshoot issues or support new product development initiatives.
- Implemented process improvements that reduced lead times for custom orders, improving customer satisfaction levels.
Operator
Dow Chemical
01.2001 - 01.2002
- Responsible for day-to-day operations of epoxy Manufacturing, which comprised of rotating job assignments, field operations positions and control board positions
- Assisted maintenance groups as needed
Education
No Degree - Process Technolgy
Victoria College
Victoria, TXSkills
- Preventive Maintenance
- Team supervision
- Facilities maintenance
- Maintenance recordkeeping SAP MAXIMO Oracle
- Troubleshooting
- Work order management with use of SAP MAXIMO
- Lockout and tagout procedures
- Safety protocols
- Equipment troubleshooting
- Inventory monitoring
- Vendor relationship management
- Quality control
- Staff management
Timeline
Maintenance Supervisor
Shintech
10.2024 - Current
Chief operations officer
Bay City Isd
07.2024 - 10.2024
Maintenance Manager
Vopak
01.2023 - 04.2024
Shutdown Manager
Air Liquide Large Ind LLC
01.2015 - 01.2023
Production Specialist
Ascend Performance Materials (Formerly Solutia Inc.)
01.2002 - 01.2015
Operator
Dow Chemical
01.2001 - 01.2002
No Degree - Process Technolgy
Victoria College
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