stephen meche

* Conducted root cause investigations for major failures * Lead operations shift in work process, budget, and reliability meetings * Managed maintenance projects for the EPDM plant * Developed and implemented Equipment Maintenance Strategies (i.e. recip compressors, gear pumps, gear boxes, and other large rotating equipment) * Revised and updated Facility Maintenance Strategies * Established top reliability opportunity lists and cost data * Analyze high cost equipment to develop cost saving strategies * Helped EPDM and Engage plants hit record production/prime rates for 2011 * Focal pointed critical jobs doing 4 different plant shut down (i.e. recip compressors, gear pumps, vibrating conveyors, heat exchangers, screw pumps, etc.)

* Wrote program to solve minimum thickness for circumferential patches on pressure vessels * Wrote program to solve minimum thickness for different types of legs holding pressure vessels * Calculated thickness minimum for process containment equipment

* Helped organize the mechanical seal program * Observed millwrights work on pumps to learn useful terminology on rotating equipment * Learned useful information on Mechanical Seals and different applications they are used on * Completed Safety Training

* Coordinated the replacement on main heat exchanger in Chlorine unit with new prefabricated exchanger * Designed a new piping system to save money on sewer system cost * Prepared scope of work to demolish out of service piping * Completed Safety Training

* Reliability Engineer for the Technical Expertise group where I support the Mid-West Region. * Implementing RBM at strategic sites * Building Criticality List at strategic sites * Developing Equipment Maintenance Strategies for strategic sites * Conducting Maintenance & Reliability Assessments * Facilitating 3 - 5 year Maintenance and Reliability Roadmaps at strategic sites. * Leading North American Wireless Vibration initiative * Leading North American Maintenance and Reliability Technical Community

* Waste Water, Docks, Utilities, EO and Surfactants * Developed repair plan river water pumps on dock * Managed maintenance overhaul of river water clarifier * Conducted root cause investigations on bad actor equipment * Oversaw equipment outage on thermal oxidizer area of plant * Troubleshoot and developed maintenance plan to get belt press and dryer line back to spec material. * Developed repair plan on offspec waste water line leak * Worked with GE engineers during Cogen outage * Developed and implemented preventative maintenance practices * Lead Overdue PM team to reduce overdue/unnecessary PMs on site * Lead Steam Trap team to reduce steam cost across the site * Lead Weekend Crew through a 3 month pilot and full implementation on site * Mechanical man representative for the Solitaire project * Mechanical start up support for project Solitaire * Maintenance representative on centrifugal compressor PM check * Managed Waste Water Clarifier overhaul * Helped develop maintenance plan for reciprocating compressors in EO plant

Asset Effectiveness Engineer Aniline/MDI at BASF

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