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Javier Granda

Chemical Engineer
Houston,TX

Summary

Experienced Chemical Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the refinery and chemical industry. Diverse experience with wide variety of roles in fully integrated chemical plant/refinery. Significant experience with plant shutdown/start-up/transient operation and interfacing with operations and maintenance personnel.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Area Rail Management Planner

ExxonMobil
Beaumont/Baytown, TX
07.2021 - Current
  • Devised and implemented processes and procedures to streamline operations; leveraged Tableau, Power Query, SAP Business Warehouse, SQL, VBA, Snowflake.
  • Led cross-functional team to build SAP Business Warehouse queries to optimize coordinators work capacity $0.2M and mitigate Wrong Product Shipped/Customer Feedback/other losses to customers.
  • Designed Tableau dashboards to manage and forecast railcars for all fleets on Gulf Coast to mitigate risk of production outage due to railcar availability. Leveraged Tableau dashboards to enable visibility to Terminal customers.
  • Designed Tableau dashboards to steward safety and reliability metrics to site leadership.
  • Developed quarterly regional stewardship for Gulf Coast to focus on actionable metrics to provide clear view of rail operations performance.

Reliability Lead

ExxonMobil
Beaumont, TX
07.2019 - 06.2021
  • Led site's development of Annual Maintenance Plan to meet business objectives - $41M; direct ownership - $6.3M.
  • Led development of Long Range Plan to ratably mitigate reliability risks over 5+ years.
  • Developed process unit's turnaround scope by applying risk-based work selection process to mitigate highest level safety/reliability risks.
  • Managed for above-base maintenance work to mitigate back-logged reliability risks; budget - $0.5M.
  • Prioritized various discipline engineer's work lists ensuring that Business Team priorities were reflected. Provided mentoring and coaching to team members.
  • Developed standards to steward budget on monthly basis and to build financial projections to site leadership using data visualization tools. Determined offsets to meet budget targets.
  • Monitored and analyzed maintenance work processes and reliability performance on ongoing basis (Annual Plan compliance, PM compliance, Repeat Repairs, Repair Backlog, etc.) to recommend any corrective actions or improvements needed.
  • Represented site maintenance in stewardship to regional executives.

Application Engineer (Propylene)

ExxonMobil
Beaumont, TX
01.2018 - 06.2019
  • Developed control strategies to address process safety risks (overfill, fired heater flooding/explosion, etc).
  • Led team to improve advanced process control utilization to optimize production.
  • Led team's loss-prevention/safety program and coordinated team-building events.
  • Enabled business continuity as backfill for Olefin's Economist and site reliability engineer. Delivered accurate business signals focused on benefiting general interest and developing equipment strategies.

Process Automation Engineer - Group Lead

THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY
Freeport, TX
07.2014 - 12.2017
  • Assumed group lead responsibilities in managing and implementing improvement projects.
  • Developed control strategies to integrate process streams from new units and mitigate process safety/reliability risks.
  • Developed program to measure end-of-run criteria for Ethylene furnaces to optimize decoking/downtime - $2.3M/year savings.
  • Reduced ethylene in off-gas stream and propylene in recycle stream - $0.11M/year savings.
  • Mentored new engineers successfully through on-boarding process.
  • Contributed off-hours support efforts to team in multiple plant shutdowns/startups/transient conditions.
  • Led cross-functional team to improve flare performance in compliance with state/federal regulations, mitigating potential for regulatory fines.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering

University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
06.2010 - 2014.05

Skills

    Multi-plant experience

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Affiliations

Dow Chemical New Professional Network Steering Team Lead

  • Coordinated social events and designed website to provide resources to new engineers.
  • Managed organization's budget of $65k.

Timeline

Area Rail Management Planner

ExxonMobil
07.2021 - Current

Reliability Lead

ExxonMobil
07.2019 - 06.2021

Application Engineer (Propylene)

ExxonMobil
01.2018 - 06.2019

Process Automation Engineer - Group Lead

THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY
07.2014 - 12.2017

Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering

University of Florida
06.2010 - 2014.05

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