RATNESH RAJ
Big Spring,TX
Summary
Experienced senior manager proficient in managing reporting, budgeting and compliance areas. Adept at updating and working with executive leadership. Bringing superior skills in planning, negotiation and complex problem-solving gained several years experience.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Manager Process Engineering
Delek US
Big Spring, Texas
07.2024 - Current
- Managing a team of five engineers by providing guidance, setting goals and objectives, delegating tasks, and monitoring performance.
- Developed and implemented strategies to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and increase productivity.
- Managing refinery chemical and catalyst budget worth $17 million, including a third-party vendor.
Senior Process Engineer
Delek US
06.2022 - 07.2024
- Responsible for providing daily technical unit support, maintaining the FCC catalyst budget, process KPI, unit mass balance, startup and shutdown procedure write-up and review, and yield improvement for FCCU.
- Managed and commissioned a process yield improvement project utilizing air refrigeration chillers on the unit to increase throughput during the summer months by +540 BPD at FCCU, resulting in a net gain of $1.13 million.
- Reformulated FCC catalyst to achieve refinery goals in bottoms upgrading, increasing diesel production, and delivering a $2.19MM profit.
- Conducted root cause analyses for complex problems occurring in the production line.
Process Engineer II
Delek US
07.2019 - 06.2022
- Increased catalyst run length by 6 months on the diesel hydrotreater to yield a net benefit of $5 million in fixed costs.
- Led the debottlenecking effort on the sulfur recovery unit, thereby removing production limitations and ensuring environmental compliance refinery-wide.
Process Engineer
Tokai Carbon CB
Big Spring, Texas
10.2017 - 06.2019
- Reduced changeover time between different carbon black grades, saving $0.25MM/yr
- Increased production rate on company proprietary tread black grade by enhancing the spray configuration, optimizing the process parameters, and increasing MTBF during production
- Project lead in reducing the overall off-spec grade inventory by 82% in the span of 5 months, by reprocessing and maintaining the CpK >1.33 and overall unit M&R above 95%
- Designed and installed ratio control operated additive mixing process in production line, improving CpK to >1.67
Education
Master of Science - Mechanical Engineering
University of Texas
08.2017
Bachelor of Technology - Mechanical Engineering
Vellore Institute of Technology
India05.2014
Skills
- Process Modeling
- Aspen HYSYS
- BRE ProMax
- KBC Petrosim
- Process HAZOP
- Cross-functional team leadership
- Data-driven decision-making
- Business performance management
Affiliations
- Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
Publications
- Thermal Modeling of memory access operations in microprocessors., Proc. ASME IMECE, Phoenix, Arizona, 2016
- Single Phase Flow Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop measurements in Doubly Enhanced Tubes., International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 88, 02/01/15, 215-227
- Bird Strike Analysis of Jet Engine Fan Blade., 35th IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, 2014
Awards
- Merit scholarship, awarded to top 10 students in the batch., 07/01/11, 05/01/12
- USA President’s Education Awards program for Outstanding Academic Achievement, 05/01/10
Technicalskills
6+ years’ experience using Aspen HYSYS, BRE ProMax, PRO II, 2+ years’ experience in ANSYS 15 (ICEPACK, FLUENT, Structures), COMSOL 5.1, 2+ years in experience MATLAB, C++, Python, Mathematica, Simulink, 3+ years’ experience in SolidWorks 2016, CATIA V5, AutoCAD
Timeline
Senior Manager Process Engineering
Delek US
07.2024 - Current
Senior Process Engineer
Delek US
06.2022 - 07.2024
Process Engineer II
Delek US
07.2019 - 06.2022
Process Engineer
Tokai Carbon CB
10.2017 - 06.2019
Master of Science - Mechanical Engineering
University of Texas
Bachelor of Technology - Mechanical Engineering
Vellore Institute of Technology
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