Jason Leonard
Starkville,MS
Summary
Versatile Process Engineer with 4 years of experience in the Chemical Manufacturing Industry. Significant field experience with process and equipment troubleshooting and optimization. Experience with radiant heaters, shell and tube exchangers, plugged flow and fluidized bed reactors, slurry treatment and separation systems, and bulk solids conveying.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate Process Engineer
Tronox, LLC
07.2020 - Current
- Conduct daily system health assessments of assigned op-units through alarm monitoring, trend analyses, and physical workstation walkthroughs. Identify and correct safety, quality, and uptime detractors.
- Design and implement non-capitalized process and software changes to improve uptime, quality, and process chemical efficiency.
- Provide Technical Support to Operations and Maintenance on instrumentation and process design specifications.
- Maintain and update plant technical documentation such as SOP's, P&ID's, Plant Design Standard, and Job safety forms.
- Participate in Safety led PHA’s, LOPA’s and perform follow up actions to implement corrections
- Resolve safety and process incidents using failure analysis techniques to determine root cause.
- Implemented "recipe" software on Oxidizer operation resulting in 19% in specification improvement of raw pigment during grade change.
- Designed and installed Reactor stability detectors providing operators with early indication of process upsets.
- Upgraded Sand filtration system to fulfill company emission agreement with EPA.
- Utilized process data to adjust Control strategy of Chlorinator Honeywell MPC software and retrain operation and maintenance personnel. YTD automation OST% has improved 11% and resulted in savings of $800,000 in chemical usage.
Process Engineering Co-op
Tronox, LLC
01.2019 - 05.2020
- Complete design and software changes under oversight of Engineering Leader.
- Retrieve and organize process data for reports, system health charts, and process upsets.
- Created mass balance of sump export tank system and determined source of iron contamination through sampling.
- Completed energy balance of water piping system to justify transition from 6" to 4" piping.
- Designed and created scope for automation of ore recovery system.
- Prepared and delivered presentation to highlight project details at conclusion of internship.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering
Mississippi State University
07.2020
Skills
- Proficient in Excel, Visual KPI, SAP, Seeq, Schneider System Auditor, Outlook, Microsoft Teams, and Access Database
- Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Kaizen, HAZOPER, “What If” analysis
- Experience with Honeywell MPC, ChemCAD, AutoCAD and Pipe-Flo
Certification
Visible Emissions Certified November 2018 – Present
SACHE Certified April 2018 - Present
HAZWOPER Certified November 2018 – Present
PHA Leader Certified August 2022 - Present
Timeline
Associate Process Engineer
Tronox, LLC
07.2020 - Current
Process Engineering Co-op
Tronox, LLC
01.2019 - 05.2020
Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering
Mississippi State University
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