Kenneth Birck
Chemical Engineer/Manager
Profile
Progressive team building, Six Sigma and root cause analysis. Sensible project management with timely feedback and controls.
Skills
Design
Clear consensus design with strict budgetary adherence during implementation
Management
Communication of mission-critical values across multifunctional disciplines. Detailed analysis and Preventive measures applied to deviations.
Project Direction
Proven ability to lead and manage a wide variety of design and development projects in team and independent situations.
Technical
- Six Sigma
- DOE
- Quality capability indexing
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- SAP
- Allen Bradley
- Foxboro
- Modicon
- Reaction
- Distillation
- Classification
- Extrusion
Experience
FMC
Senior Engineer/Planner Analyst
Engineering control and management systems implementation during plant startup. Progressive reconceptualization of plant operations, safety, maintenance, quality and cost.
Fortron Industries
Operations Manager
Lead manufacturing through significant capital infussion while achieving safety, productivity, and efficiency stretch goals. Transitioned feedstocks from all domestic to Japn and Europen supply via ocean going barges.
Ticona UK Ltd./ Celanese Americas Corp.
Operations Manager
Fundamentally transform flexible manufactured products without significant capital. Energistically redesigned operating architectures through bold dynamically applied action items. Assertively incentivize personnel through progressively demonstrating processing improvements.
Procter and Gamble
Research/Design Engineer
Cooperatively improved efficiency of Carbon adsorption in Food Grade glycerine, Improved cost through processing designs that allowed for the use of lower cost feed stock. Designed an extractive distallation system for separation of amines
Education
University of Cincinnati - Cincinnati, Ohio
Chemical Engineering
Xavier University - Cincinnati, Ohio
Master - Business Administration
Kenneth Birck — — (513) - 441-4003