James Halliday

Experience

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  Carbase

  Oct 1996 - Jun 1998

  Motor Mechanic Apprentice
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  UK Ministry of Defence

  Jun 1998 - Mar 2003
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  ExxonMobil

  Mar 2003 - now

  Managed operations team on Polymerisation unit. Providing extensive operations experience in process control, unit and organisational knowledge.Supervised career progression and mentoring my team to achieve organisational and personal goals.Managed day to day operation, process and personnel safety, productivity, optimisation, maintenance preparation and failure reporting whilst supporting equipment strategy adherence.Managed unit initial risk, incident investigations and longer term risk assessment.Assisted technical team with procedure development, updates and identification of safety critical job steps. Reviewed process preparation job packs, ensuring fit for use and safety considerations in line with company and environmental policies. Unit contact for technical design queries and operational feasibility for project development. Show less Process expert for control system upgrade project, utilising vast experience of console operation skills to ensure safe transition of all priority 1 and 2 alarms and DCS interface upgrade.Developing plans for safe transfer of all SIS equipment to modern control systems to eliminate equipment obsolescence.Detailed risk assessments developed for safety critical equipment outages.Process Planner for new final product process unit. Writing procedures for transition from existing operation to updated unit. Writing procedures for start-up of new unit.Process expert for model reviews, safety HAZOP, drawing reviews etc.Start-up panel operation supervision. Show less