Paul Menzel

Experience

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  Nova Chemicals

  Jan 1990 - Feb 2012

  • Responsible for the Day-to-Day operational performance including safety, quality and production. • Developed process isolation, confined space safe work packages for operations.• Developed operating procedures for the safe and reliable operation of the plant.• Establish maintenance priorities and work flow, in alignment with operations.• Ensure resources are available to complete planned activities.• Coordinate operational activities for plant shutdown and start up.• Review projects for alignment to operation requirements.• Monitor fix costs and implements improvements to reduce controllable costs.• Provide leadership in the areas of responsible care compliance, technical direction and emergency preparedness to meet operating priorities. Show less • Participated in the commissioning and start-up of Ethylene 3 Chemical Plant.• Issued Safe Work, Red Hot, Confined Space and Safety Systems Impairment permits.• Equipment responsible for includes DCS control, large steam driven centrifugal gas compressors, gas dryers, various fractionation towers, exothermic reactors, hydrogen off gas unit, large reciprocating compressors, cracking furnaces with waste heat steam generation, oil / water separation unit, emergency power generation and wastewater facilities including biological treatment. • Other duties include procedure development and review, Shift Steam Engineer, Shift Technical Leader, Team Unit Operations Leader during plant upset, Incident Commander during plant emergencies, Plant Start-up Coordinator and Maintenance Coordinator during plant turnaround.Demonstrated Competencies• Provide technical expertise and leadership during day to day operation and emergencies.• Interface with maintenance to maintain reliable plant operations.• Reviews Team strengths and develops improvement plans to identified gaps. Dealt with a Performance improvement plan for a team member.• Able to deal effectively with process upsets and crisis situations.• Ensures that boilers and pressure vessels are operated in accordance ASME code.• Ensures appropriate data is collected in a timely manner for reporting purposes for Alberta Environment Protection and Occupational Health and Safety.• Provides training and maintains training records for team members.• Initiates Incident review process and insures follow-up is complete. • Other duties included Admin Leader and Emergency Response Team member. Show less

  • Operations Coordinator, E2 Finishing

    Jan 2011 - Feb 2012

  • E3 Operations

    Jan 2000 - Jan 2011

  • E2 Operations

    Jan 1990 - Jan 2000
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  Blacksand Contracting inc. - Cenovus Energy

  Jan 2012 - Mar 2015

  Lead Technical Writer / Training Developer

  Develop and maintain training manuals and qualification packages to support timely and consistent qualified operations and maintenance staff for large oil and gas companies.

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  Keyera

  Mar 2015 - Mar 2016

  Lead Commissioning Operator

  Commission and start-up of the new LNG plant. Developed procedures and trained operations on the safe, reliable operation of the plant

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  Red Deer College

  Dec 2015 - Jan 2017

  Continuing Education Instructor

  Instruct fourth class power engineering to mature students

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  Connacher Oil and Gas Ltd

  Mar 2016 - Aug 2016

  Process Operator

  My responsibilities include the safe and reliable operation of Algar Site SAGD facility

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  Suncor Energy

  Aug 2016 - Oct 2018

  Successful commissioning and start-up of secondary extraction oil assets

  • Shift Supervisor, Fixed Plant, Secondary Extraction

    May 2017 - Oct 2018

  • Lead Operator, Secondary Extraction

    Aug 2016 - Apr 2017
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  Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL)

  Oct 2018 - now

  • Operations Trainer

    Feb 2021 - now

  • Process Operator

    Oct 2018 - Feb 2021