Sarah Danner

Experience

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  Merrion Oil & Gas

  May 2009 - Aug 2009

  Summer Intern

  Projects included : evaluating opportunity costs of Oil & Gas wells, plotting and analyzing well locations.

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  Arizona Public Service (APS)

  May 2010 - Aug 2010

  Summer Intern

  Summer Intern at a peaking production power plant south of Phoenix, AZ. Major projects were designing a pipeline to transport water to evaporative coolers and learning how to run the plant. Project was presented to the Fossil Generation Vice President at the end of the summer.

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  Dow Chemical

  May 2011 - Aug 2011

  Summer Intern

  Run Plant/Improvement Engineer Intern for Dow's Adhesive Polymers Plant. Projects included safety compliance, exchanging a Vacuum Pump Flow Meter, replacing Regulators/Control Valves, Pressure Release Valve Installation, and Orifice Calculations.

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  The Dow Chemical Company

  Jul 2012 - Oct 2015

  • Managed operation of 70 MW co-generation power plant unit, ten air compressor skids servicing two Dow sites, and over 180 miles of industrial gas pipeline servicing more than 20 internal and external customers.• Coordinated and safely executed seven pipeline inspection outages including ammonia, fuel gas, steam, hydrogen, and oxygen to install critical instrumentation, mitigating the future risk of catastrophic failure, while ensuring customers were not impacted.• Planned and executed six hot line and equipment openings on fuel gas pipelines and developed a standardized critical event review document for guidance during future high risk activities. Show less • Identified technology gaps and improvement opportunities while establishing and managing capital project budgets worth $2MM annually.• Initiated small scale maintenance and repair projects that improved environmental health and safety of plant personnel and saved the company an estimated $225M in lost man-hours and OSHA related expenses.• Served as the primary engineer on a major project to ensure the growing steam and electrical demands of the site could be met. This included managing the life extension of a 35+ year old power block. Total budgeted cost of the project was $4MM with an annual savings of $22MM in site-wide production losses.• Creatively reduced spending on purchased fuel gas and optimized production by 50% by using six sigma methodologies – savings of $500M/month in offset fuel gas costs. Show less

  • Production Engineer

    Sept 2014 - Oct 2015

  • Improvement Engineer

    Jul 2012 - Jan 2015
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  Olin

  Oct 2015 - May 2021

  • Prepare front end loading and detailed scope of large capital projects in conjunction with process engineering, process technology, and manufacturing. • Coordinate field construction efforts through interpretation of plans, specifications, and schedules. Work with construction personnel to ensure a safe, timely, cost effective, and quality project installation.• Provide overall coordination of various project disciplines to assure a coordinated and efficient use of design, engineering, and construction manpower. • Control various stages of engineering and construction costs to ensure that each project is completed within the budget appropriation.• Control the flow of information between Olin and representatives of engineering firms, equipment vendors, and contractors in the formulation, design and execution of projects.• Work with technical resources to prepare detailed specifications for materials and equipment to enable purchasing to obtain competitive bids. Responsible for evaluating bids and making recommendations to purchasing. Show less • Managed capital and operation expenditure projects to close technology gaps and increase reliability across 500 MW cogeneration power plants within a budget of $4MM annually.• Front line responsibility for the operation of 70 MW cogeneration power plant including optimization of highly integrated electrical and steam systems.• Led operations portion of turnarounds, including multiple major rebuilds of a gas turbine and HRSG (heat recovery steam generator) and a full control system upgrade and relocation, totaling $10MM in capital investment and resulting in increased efficiency, output, and $2.5MM in productivity savings.• Coordinated hydrogen system upgrade including scheduling of hydrogen truck delivery, increasing plant reliability and removing the concern of a potential ORC related event.• Reduced utility usage by 25%, eliminated a Process Safety hazard, increased reliability, and delivered $150M in productivity savings annually through a series of small utility optimization projects.• Installed a multi-chemical seawater treatment system for a seawater cooled steam turbine condenser, resulting in a $2MM productivity savings due to increased efficiency and increased runtime between planned turnarounds. (ACC Energy Efficiency Awarded Project)• Operations Representative for FEL of $50MM project to install electrical infrastructure, allowing a competitive advantage for power costs and securing a reliable foundation for the future growth of the site. Show less

  • Improvement Manager

    Mar 2019 - May 2021

  • Lead Improvement Engineer/Production Engineer

    Oct 2015 - Mar 2019
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  Molson Coors Beverage Company

  Jun 2021 - now

  • Manages a multi-discipline team and ensures team is well-trained for delivering expected business results.• Responsible for direct management and utilization of the brewery microbiological, analytical, and sensory laboratories.• Accountable for brewery compliance to process quality policies, standards, procedures and test methods through auditing, health checks, consultation, and customer service to brewery process quality labs, brewing department, and packaging teams.• Provides subject mater expertise for quality management best practices on Process Quality to include microbiology, chemistry, sensory and brewing sciences. Show less

  • Quality Process Lab Manager

    Aug 2023 - now

  • Sr Process Leader - Brewing

    Jun 2021 - Aug 2023