1. Jose Ramos
3530 Brookwood Dr.
La Porte, Texas 77571
832-707-0846
Jramos59@yahoo.com
Summary
Seasoned operations professional with more than 15 years in the chemical plant industry and 9 years in leading teams.
Assumed progressively responsible positions, leading and managing all aspects of chemical plant operations including rail
and truck loading and unloading, chemical operations including continuous and batch reactions, downstream processing,
distillation, filtration and drying operations. P roficient in all Microsoft Office products and daily create well written
documents such as Operating Instructions, Standard Operating Procedures, Check Lists, Lock Out and Tag Out Lists,
Shutdown Plans, etc. I exhibit strong leadership skills and motivate teams to excel through coaching, guidance and leading
by example. I take great pride in leading my team to excel meeting all short and long term goals established for the team.
The team performs in a professional manner, maintains safe work practices an d safe work areas as a paramount objective,
and accomplishes the tasks at hand correctly the first time.
Employment History
Sun Products Corp., Pasadena Texas 5/2012-Current
Day Operations Supervisor - Surfactants
Experienced leader in all aspects of producing Sulfur based Sulfonic Acids Surfactants. Also experienced in processing and
handling of hazardous materials consumed in or produced during this process including Sulfuric Acid, Hydrogen Peroxide,
Methanol, Ethanol and Caustic. Experienced in the production of amides and a variety of other specialty surfactants for
consumer goods and the oil industries.
Have extensive knowledge in falling film reactors , distillation columns, batch reactors, turbo tube dryers, air handling
systems, air drying and conversion of sulfur to SO2 and SO3 gas. Have extensive experience in dry material handling
systems, bucket elevators, rotary valves, vibrating screens and screw conveyors.
Day to day responsibilities include planning and scheduling product changeovers, raw material deliveries, coordinating
outbound shipments, managing of operations schedule, overtime, vacation absence coverage, etc. and planning day to day
activities for the Surfactants operating unit.
Instrumental in the design and implementation of the high performance work team concept at Sun Products in 2012 to 2015
time period.
In charge of Console/Board operation as well as training new operators on console.
Programmer/writer of all PLC logic and updates for the process control computers used throughout the facility.
Proficient in the writing or revisions to a ll SOP’S for our facility.
Proficient in the leading of Root Cause Analysis Investigations in all aspects of the process areas in the facility.
Typically plan and coordinate all major shutdowns with Maintenance team.
Worked with team to implement PSM at our facility.
Key player on getting our facility air permit together with EHS Dept.
Sun Products Corp., Pasadena Texas 5/2007-5/2012
Unit Lead – Surfactants
Led approximately 8 team members in all operations for the Surfactants production unit, including unit startup, continuous
operations and shutdown. Responsible for producing in -specification product at optimum production rates and achieving
the plant designed OEE rates.
Completed the current versions of the SOP’s for the Surfactants unit starting with the original OEM documentation and
applying the operating learning from 10 years of continuous production. Led efforts to review and signoff all SOP’s with a
cross functional team formed from engineering and production.
Increased OEE by taking part of a team to increase production rates by 20% from 2009-2010.
Implemented team to assist in increasing CPM from 52% to 59%in 2010-2011.

2. Tessenderlo Kerley Inc. Pasadena, Texas 10/2000-5/2007
Operations/Assistant Plant Manager
In charge of daily operations and reported directly to the plant manager.
Maintained daily inventory and oversaw any Ship or Barge Transfers that were done at our docking terminal.
Diagnosed and corrected problems accurately and promptly; interacted with the plant manager, maintenance manager,
equipment vendors, and maintenance contractors.
 Processes that I was involved with were H2S, NH3, Bi-Sulfites, Polysulfide’s, and Thiosulfates to name a few.
 Maintained training of all new operators entering o ur facilities.
Tessenderlo Kerley Inc Artesia, New Mexico 2/1999-10/2000
Maintaining chemical processes from refinery tail gas unit which supplied our facility with H2S.
Proficient in Sodium Hydrosulfide, Ammonium Sulfide, And Ammonium Polysulfide Solutions.
Involved in PSM’S and writing SOP’S
EDUCATION
Allen Bradley SLC -500 Training
Emergency Response Team with annual training in College Station
Rope Rescue Training
Hazmat Certified
PSM
KMS
Operational Discipline
HAZWOPER Certified
1st
Aid CPR Trained
AED Trained
SAP Training
Excel AND Word Proficient
QI Macros
SPC Charting
Six Sigma
KMS Training
Continued Education with San Jac College for Leadership and Management training
Lake Arthur High School, Lake Arthur, New Mexico Graduated 1997