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Kyle McGinley

Mechanical Engineer
Houston,TX

Summary

Detail-oriented, organized, and driven mechanical engineer specialized in plant manufacturing environments with versatile background experience in project/maintenance/operational roles. Continuously recognized by management for performance and achievements.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications

Work History

Polyethylene Maintenance Engineer

Chevron Phillips Chemical
07.2022 - Current
  • Organized 14 maintenance outages by working with operations to determine and freeze scope, creating high level maintenance schedules used to communicate to leadership, controlling and managing costs, and leading outage debriefs to celebrate successes and determine opportunities during future outages.
  • Proactively analyzed trends through SAP on routine failures to determine root causes and create and execute mitigations for future occurrence.
  • Led incident investigations to troubleshoot and correct mechanical problems with machinery and prevent future downtime.
  • Led operations clean sweep effort to revitalize pellet collecting pumps by conducting NPSH calculations to determine correct impeller and motor for new pumps, leading management of change as the project engineer, and presenting to leadership to provide a recurring value capture of $200,000 per year.
  • Led Rotating PM Optimization effort to analyze and optimize preventative maintenance strategies for 610 pieces of high criticality rotating equipment plant wide including creation of PMs on hypercompressor equipment that did not previously exist.
  • Demonstrated commitment to safety by leading Job Safety Assessments, hazard evaluations and pre-startup safety reviews through management of change efforts, hot bolt risk assessment forms, in service welding risk assessment forms, permit audit reviews, as well as other small safety projects.
  • Led as STAR (Safety Together Achieves Results) team leader to direct group to execute safety projects and influence safety culture among maintenance engineering STAR team.
  • Managed base maintenance costs by tracking and following medium and high dollar items and routing approvals for expenditure to leadership.
  • Developed technical documentation for maintenance procedures, ensuring consistent knowledge transfer among team members.
  • Assisted contractors with daily/emergency needs including pipe spec questions, torque calculations, gasket and bolt recommendations, and planning support.
  • Trained junior engineers on best practices in maintenance engineering, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Clemens Terminal Engineer

Chevron Phillips Chemical
06.2021 - 07.2022
  • Organized and directed operational outages by assigning and tracking action items through core team meetings, communicating to leadership on scope/cost/timeline, tracking cavern inventories in preparation for outages, completing preparatory mitigations (PSV, tower spill, sand blasting), introducing and executing operational improvements through the management of change system, as well on presenting and hosting trainings to all employees involved in outages on safety/scope/logistics
  • Oversaw Clemens 2023-2025 budget by projecting and presenting fixed and variable costs and expense budgeted costs to leadership and finance
  • Supported various multi million dollar large capital projects by acting as the operations representative and providing cavern inventory logistical support
  • Demonstrated commitment to safety by leading safety tailgates to contractors and operations staff, completing permit audits, and hazard evaluations/pre-startup safety reviews for changes to equipment
  • Analyzed and completed mitigation packages for PRD and sandblasting maintenance activities
  • Led and investigated operational incidents to determine system level root causes and created recommendations
  • Created and modified critical operational procedures

Polyethylene Field Support Engineer

Chevron Phillips Chemical
06.2020 - 06.2021
  • Worked major LDPE unit 1792 turnaround on nights as torque calc SME and project support engineer
  • Implemented nitrogen purge lines on ethylene hypercompressors to mitigate overpressure scenarios
  • Demoed various out of service piping and equipment that posing safety hazards to employees/contractors
  • Implemented poison trap skid to sample and detect components poisoning the polyethylene reaction process
  • Troubleshooted and replaced reducing orifices around the LDPE hourly silos to optimize pellet transfer to railcars and mitigate pressure drop issues
  • Replaced depropanizer bottoms cooler heat exchanger nearing end of life
  • Evaluated and improved sanitary digester systems plant wide by coordinating groups together using 3rd party subject matter experts
  • Developed tie in plan for air compressors during LDPE turnaround to maintain air supply to various equipment

Field Support and Project Engineering Intern

Chevron Phillips Chemical
05.2019 - 08.2019
  • Executed four polyethylene projects following the Chevron Phillips Project procedure to improve operability of the units including a PSV implementation, bag burst detector installations, a davit arm upgrade, and a sight glass upgrade

Fibers Process Development Engineering Intern

Eastman Chemical Company
05.2018 - 08.2018
  • Worked with SMEs in Eastman's R&D department to develop mathematical trends and conduct tests on attributes for fiber tow products

Systems Engineering Intern in Product Technology

Cummins Inc.
05.2017 - 08.2017
  • Consolidated data and created website database on diesel engines from competitor companies
  • Collected data on Six Sigma project to improve rewards and recognition for patent holders

Education

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
08.2016 - 05.2020

Skills

    SAP

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Accomplishments

  • Received "Distinguished" performance review for year 2021
  • Received "Leading" performance review in all categories for year 2023
  • Received financial award/recognition from Cedar Bayou plant management on execution of 1594 MICE PM Leveling effort in preparation of the 1594 turnaround in 2023
  • Received financial award/recognition from Sweeny Plant management on completion of Propylene and Propane Treater Outage at Clemens terminal in 2022

Certification

Flowserve Pump and Mechanical Seal Principles

Timeline

Flowserve Pump and Mechanical Seal Principles

03-2024

TEAM Leak Repair

02-2023

PowerBI Boot Camp

10-2022

Polyethylene Maintenance Engineer

Chevron Phillips Chemical
07.2022 - Current

Chevron Root Cause Analysis Why Tree

07-2022

Clemens Terminal Operator

12-2021

CPChem Process Troubleshooting

11-2021

Clemens Terminal Engineer

Chevron Phillips Chemical
06.2021 - 07.2022

Polyethylene Field Support Engineer

Chevron Phillips Chemical
06.2020 - 06.2021

Field Support and Project Engineering Intern

Chevron Phillips Chemical
05.2019 - 08.2019

Fibers Process Development Engineering Intern

Eastman Chemical Company
05.2018 - 08.2018

Systems Engineering Intern in Product Technology

Cummins Inc.
05.2017 - 08.2017

Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering

Purdue University
08.2016 - 05.2020

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