Derrick Gil

At the Lotte plant in Sulfur La., I have worked with the Alliance Industrial maintenance team since the plant was being built. I have worked at the plant for over seven years and have been involved in every aspect of the day to day maintenance operations. From cleaning strainers, to cleaning filters, to pulling and replacing PSV's, to blanking pumps for repair. I have been involved in keeping the plant clean and orderly. I have swept and mopped, and even moved furniture from one office to another. There is no job that I feel is too big or too small for me to participate in. And in every job task I perform, safety comes first!

At the Indorama plant in Sulfur La., I worked as a boilermaker foreman to oversee the day to day activities of replacing rotten pipe, doing pipe-blows on existing piping systems, and replacing PSV's and the like. I made sure that every job task was performed in a timely manner and I kept safety at the top of everyone's mind.

At Valero Refinery in Port Arthur Tx, I assisted in blanking pumps for millwrights to repair, removing and installing PSV's for repair/certification, removing rotten leaking pipe and fabricating new pipe and installing said pipe. I moved my way up from boilermaker to foreman, and eventually supervisor over the entire job.