Don Anderson

Managing a portfolio of projects with responsibility for overseeing the overall success of multiple projects to ensure they align with strategic goals.

Key responsibilities:

• Strategic oversight: Develop and implement the project portfolio management process to ensure that projects align with business strategy and goals.
• Portfolio monitoring: Track the progress, budgets, and schedules of all projects within the portfolio.
• Risk and dependency management: Identify and manage risks and dependencies that span across multiple projects, resolving conflicts, or escalating as needed.
• Performance reporting: Collect and analyze project performance data, and provide regular status reports and insights to senior leadership, and stakeholders.
• Resource allocation: Manage the prioritization, resourcing, and scheduling of projects across the portfolio to balance workloads, and meet business needs.
• Stakeholder communication: Communicate with and manage the expectations of stakeholders, executives, and project teams at a strategic level.

As the corporate Turnaround Manager had overall responsibility for leading and overseeing scheduled unit and plant turnarounds. This included overseeing the site turnaround managers, and providing guidance.

• Safety and compliance: Implementation of safety programs to ensure all work complies with company policies and industry regulations. Health, safety, and environmental (HSES) performance during the turnaround.
• Budget and cost control: Manage the turnaround budget to ensure it stays within financial constraints, including developing cost estimates, and tracking expenditures.
• Coordination and execution: Coordinate activities with internal teams and external contractors, ensuring all roles and responsibilities are clear and communicated.
• Contractor management: Assist in selecting contractors, and monitor their performance to ensure they meet safety, quality, and schedule requirements.
• Risk management: Develop and implement risk analysis specific to turnarounds to proactively identify and mitigate potential issues.
• Communication: Serve as a single point of contact, and provide regular updates to senior management and other stakeholders on the status of the turnaround.

As the O&M manager at a polyethylene plant, I had overall responsibility for both the day-to-day production process and the maintenance of all equipment. Ensuring safety and regulatory compliance, managing the maintenance team to minimize downtime through preventative and predictive maintenance strategies, and handling the budget and scheduling for all O&M activities.

Manage Plant Operations:

Manage plant operations: Ensure the plant's daily operations run smoothly and efficiently to meet production goals.

Monitor operational processes, and analyze performance data.
Develop and implement continuous improvement initiatives in coordination with the production team.

Manage Plant Maintenance:

• Direct all mechanical, electrical, instrument, analyzer and other maintenance activities for plant equipment.
• Develop and implement preventative and predictive maintenance programs to minimize downtime.
• Manage the maintenance budget, and forecast expenditures.
  

A maintenance manager in an ethylene plant has responsibility for all aspects of the maintenance department to ensure the facility's safe, reliable, and efficient operation.

Key Responsibilities.

• Planning and Scheduling: Ensure development and implementation of proactive maintenance with the goal of predictive maintenance, using data analysis and technologies like a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
• Safety and Compliance: Ensure strict adherence to all health, safety, and environmental (HSE) regulations, including OSHA and EPA requirements, given the hazardous nature of chemicals in an ethylene plant.
• Team Leadership & Development: Supervise, train, and mentor superintendents and supervisors, and foster a highly skilled, safe, and collaborative work environment.
• Minimize Downtime: Plan and schedule routine, preventive, and major shutdown maintenance activities in coordination with the operations to minimize production disruptions.
• Budget and Inventory Management: Develop and manage the maintenance budget, control costs, and oversee the inventory of spare parts and supplies to ensure timely repairs without stockouts.
• Failure analysis: Lead root cause failure analysis (RCFA) to understand why equipment fails, and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Condition Monitoring: Oversee predictive maintenance programs using tools like vibration analysis, infrared thermography, and ultrasound to identify potential issues before they cause a failure.
• Reporting: Maintain accurate records of all maintenance activities, equipment performance, and costs, preparing reports for upper management review.

As the maintenance superintendent for ethylene, NAO, 1-Hexene, and utilities, I was overall responsible for oversight of all maintenance activities to ensure the safe and reliable operation of the manufacturing units. Key responsibilities include developing and implementing strategic maintenance plans, managing budgets, leading and mentoring maintenance staff, and ensuring compliance with safety and environmental regulations.

Maintenance Manager for the polymers units at a large greenfield mega-project, and worked through the construction phase, startup, and plant stabilization. Responsible for building the entire maintenance foundation from scratch, hiring employees, creating maintenance procedures, training, and purchasing and inventorying spare parts. Overseeing the seamless transition from construction to operation, and ensuring the long-term reliability, safety, and efficiency of all plant assets.

As the Maintenance Superintendent for three polyethylene units, all crafts. Responsible for the maintenance and repair of the plant's mechanical, instrumentation, analyzer, and electrical systems to ensure optimal function, safety, and efficiency. Supervision responsibility for craft supervisors including planning and scheduling.

As the mechanical maintenance superintendent for a large greenfield mega project, I had overall mechanical maintenance responsibility for ethylene, polyethylene, utilities, 1-Hexene, product packaging, and ship-loading activities. Worked through construction, startup, and plant stabilization. Assisted with hiring maintenance staff and technicians, developing maintenance procedures, purchasing spare parts and warehouse setup in SAP, and training. Key responsibilities include managing staff and contractors, creating and managing maintenance budgets and schedules, and implementing preventative maintenance programs to ensure equipment reliability and operational efficiency.

Maintenance Superintendent, Polymers Unit (3 years): Responsible for all maintenance execution, planning, and scheduling.

Process Unit Supervisor, Mercaptan Unit (2 years): Responsible for operator qualification and training, and the safe and reliable operation of the unit. Coordinating with the maintenance department.

Process Engineer, Mercaptan Unit (1 year): process optimization, mass and material balance. Process optimization, analyzing data from the plant and laboratory to find ways to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve quality. Responsible for analyzing the process using the Aspen Technology model for the unit.

Field Support Engineer, Crude Unit (1.5 years) - provided mechanical engineering support for design modifications, interfacing with the projects department, and providing technical support such as minimum thickness calculations for pressure and sizing relief valves.

Plant Project Engineer (1.5 years) - Support the project department with projects, including equipment upgrades, piping revisions, and replacement.