Shane G. Ury
Process Engineer
Baton Rouge, LA · (225) 555 0137 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/shanegury
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Nine years in continuous polymer and olefins production across two Gulf Coast plants
INDUSTRIES
Polyethylene, olefins and industrial gases
SPECIALTIES
Distillation troubleshooting, heat integration, yield improvement, process hazard analysis facilitation
SYSTEMS
Aspen Plus, Aspen Energy Analyzer, AutoCAD, MATLAB
CREDENTIALS
Professional Engineer licensed in Louisiana, American Institute of Chemical Engineers
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering, Louisiana State University
Executive Summary
Chemical engineer with nine years on continuous polymer and olefins units, working where yield, energy cost and safe operation meet. Licensed in Louisiana, comfortable facilitating process hazard analysis studies, rebuilding heat integration in Aspen Plus, and standing in the control room explaining to operators why a change is worth making.
Signature Achievements
- Rebuilt heat integration on a polyethylene line and cut steam demand by fourteen percent, worth about one point nine million dollars a year.
- Facilitated eleven process hazard analysis revalidations under the Occupational Safety and Health Administration process safety management standard with every action item closed inside the agreed window.
- Lifted first pass quality on a difficult copolymer grade from ninety one to ninety seven percent by retuning feed ratio control and tightening catalyst handling.
- Modeled a debottlenecking case in Aspen Plus that supported a six percent throughput increase with no new column internals.
- Halved flare events on the cracker over two years by rewriting startup sequences alongside the operating shift teams.
Professional Experience
Process Engineer
Atchafalaya Polymer Works, Geismar, LA 2021 to present
Two reactor trains and the associated extrusion and pelletizing area on a site running around the clock.
- Own the process side of both reactor trains, from daily yield accounting to grade transition planning.
- Lead process hazard analysis sessions and carry the recommendations through the plant management of change record.
- Build and maintain the Aspen Plus models used to test operating cases before they reach the control room.
- Coach four operations technicians a year through the plant process qualification path.
Process Engineer
Bayou Teche Chemical Company, Plaquemine, LA 2017 to 2021
Olefins unit supplying three downstream customers under long term contracts.
- Ran the yield and energy balance for the cracking furnaces and reported variances every week.
- Specified and commissioned a replacement quench water exchanger that removed a summer rate limit.
- Wrote operating procedures for a new hydrogen recovery skid and trained all four shift teams on them.
Licensure and Certification
Professional Engineer, Louisiana Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, license number 42187
Member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Process hazard analysis facilitator training, thirty two hours
Education
Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering, Louisiana State University, 2016
Core Skills
Aspen Plus modeling · Distillation troubleshooting · Heat integration · Process hazard analysis · Management of change · Yield accounting · Grade transitions · Operator training · Root cause analysis · MATLAB