Steven Boone
Summary
Dynamic Manager with an enviable track record spanning 8 years in Military and 8 years in Manufacturing/Production sectors. Proficient in stakeholder management, risk assessment, and strategy formulation. Flexible approach to project methodology means that team performance and cohesiveness is optimized, while ensuring all goals are met within scope and budget.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Site Infrastructure, Road & Bridge Activity Leader
THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY
01.2022 - Current
- Leads maintenance and reliability program for 63 miles of roadway valued at $26.6M, and 55 bridges valued at $88.7M.
- Formulates annual maintenance spend of $1.8M and annual project budget of $2.5M.
- Leads team of 13 multi-discipline craftsman, providing strategic direction, mentoring, listening, and delegating.
- Flexible mindset, adapts to simple or complex situations, ensuring initiatives are met within cost, budget, and schedule constraints.
- Hosts weekly maintenance and project meetings comprised of multi-discipline teams, drive innovative thinking, instill collaboration, and drive group to success.
- Initiate audits to identify program shortcomings, interface with teams to understand their challenges. Implement program modifications that result in improved productivity or reduced costs.
- Develop capital schedules, project budgets, and specifications for materials, labor, and equipment cost.
- Negotiate, review, and approved 3 new contracts, ensuring competitive biding amongst approved vendors, efforts led to $1.2M savings in first year.
- Displays strong communication and interpersonal skills while visiting clients, jobsites and consultant offices to support project and business development needs, ensuring goals are met and exceeded.
Site Logistics, Activity Coordinator / Gatekeeper
THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY
08.2018 - 01.2022
- Managed daily facilities maintenance and work activities for Site Logistics assets, including 4 warehouses, 24 rail and 30 truck racks.
- Led weekly maintenance meetings to communicate scheduling with Shift Teams, Technical Advisors, Permit Writers, Maintenance Craftsman, and Environmental Health and Safety.
- Led daily safety meeting, championed EHS culture.
- Ensured all predictive and preventative maintenance and compliance items were executed per schedule and scope.
- Coordinated facility outages for upcoming repair and maintenance activity with Logistics Schedulers to align with customer demand.
- Conducted audits of maintenance and work processes to ensure utilization of operational discipline.
- Solicited contractor quotes for maintenance and project needs, generated Purchase Orders, acted as authorized asset representative, and verified work completion.
- Budgeted, forecasted, inventoried, and procured consumable tool and protection equipment, annual budget of $1.4M.
- Mentored 5 Operators, provided technical skill and systems expertise, leading to reduced downtime, maximizing productivity.
Chemical Process Operator
THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY
08.2015 - 08.2018
- Operated 10,000 gallon reactor in safe, efficient, and environmentally protective manner to ensure maximum productivity and asset capability were met.
- Modified controls to regulate temperature, pressure, feed, and flow of liquids and gases promoting successful processing.
- Shift Lead Operator, served as Safety Focal Point during plant shutdown activities, co-led daily safety presentations to contractors with EHS Technician.
- Appointed by Leadership to Shift Lead, introduced and fostered team building mindset, aligning focus on safety and productivity.
- Appointed by peers as Operations Spokesman, conducted audits, gathered facts, and presented findings to Leadership on monthly basis, enhancing communications and relations leading to increased trust, maximizing productivity while decreasing unplanned downtime and safety events.
- Initiated Operations TEAM Building training events, led presentations with focus on emergency situation management, communication and collaboration for shared goals, and innovative thinking.
- Used mechanical and technical aptitude to troubleshoot plant parameters from inside control systems, and outside manual control.
- Identified 19 training material failures, closed procedural gaps, worked with Training Coordinator to improve operational discipline.
Aerospace Medical Technician
United States Air Force, USAF
09.2005 - 09.2013
- Family Health Clinic, 149th FW, San Antonio Texas
- Office Of USAF Surgeon General, Ft. Meade Maryland
- Ambulance Services, 52nd FW, Spangdahlem Germany
- Post Anesthesia Care Unit, 59th MDW, San Antonio Texas
- Family Health Clinic, 59th MDW, San Antonio Texas
Education
Bachelor of Science - Management
University of Phoenix
Tempe, AZ02.2022
Associate of Science -
Brazosport College
Lake Jackson, TX12.2014
Skills
- Comprehensive leadership skills
- Strategic planner and time manager
- High level of attention to detail
- Innovative thinker
- Robust analytical skills
- Operations Management
- Project Management
- Driven by military core values and "Lead by Example" principles
- Eager to expand knowledge
Timeline
Site Infrastructure, Road & Bridge Activity Leader
THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY
01.2022 - Current
Site Logistics, Activity Coordinator / Gatekeeper
THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY
08.2018 - 01.2022
Chemical Process Operator
THE DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY
08.2015 - 08.2018
Aerospace Medical Technician
United States Air Force, USAF
09.2005 - 09.2013
Bachelor of Science - Management
University of Phoenix
Associate of Science -
Brazosport College
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