James Cambridge

Responsibilities

• Oversight of the conditioning of 700,000 bushels of seed representing, 200,000 seeded acres
• Delivery of training, recruitment, and coordination for 4 staff members
• Execution of in house maintenance projects and coordination of contractors
• Ensuring legislative compliance in labor, safety, and the seed act
• Customer relations and sales. Working to expand and grow pedigree and commercial processing.
• Management of accounts receivable, presenting KPI's and fiscal performance to the board and membership

Projects

• Introduced lubricant sales to diversify income while offering added value for clients
• Developed a 500,000 dollar budget a first in the coop history
• Authored the majority of company safety, operational, and human resources documentation
• Working closely with the board in development of bylaws and board policies
• Moving to bring maintenance in house, realizing significant savings while reducing down time
• Completed a scale repair with a cost of 70,000$ lower then the initial quote through diligently prosing quotes from mutable contractors, and working with the selected contractor on procurement of material.

Responsibilities

• Execution and planning of all maintenance on site.
• Worked with mutable contractors to receive quote in excess of 100,000$ addresses construction deficiencies.
• Collaboration with general manager to manage a 150,000$ general maintenance budget.
• Regular fabrication, rebuilding of precision components with tolerances of 0.7 mm.
• Training of operations staff in maintenance procedures, and leadership in developing operational programs.
• Maintained detailed maintenance logs, parts inventory, and supply chain contacts to help provide information to other sites and provide reference for future operations.

Projects

• Laid the foundation for a companywide procedure program.
• Lead an initiative to bring track inspections in house saving over 30,000$ per year.
• Designed a new drag paddle with a life span of double the OEM, and had it custom manufactured. this delivered a savings of 13,000$ on the retrofit, and stands to save over 100,000$ when implemented across the remaining drag conveyers.
• Executed a rail offload project for 7,000$ that had superior performance, to a sister sites execution at over 35,000$ by bringing the project in house and cutting extraneous elements.

Responsibilities

• Filled a leadership role while the supervisor was on extended leave.
• Extensive equipment, and facility maintenance.
• Transload of Ammonia and dry fertilizer.

Projects

• Worked with shop foreman to implement use of an excavator and grinder to process off grade fertilizer.
• Implemented 5s style organization for filters and parts.

• Transload of coated proppant on rail and truck, while working with logistic to mange inventory in the rail yard to insure surfactant raw and finished material was available.
• Ensuring quality control through laboratory analysis of raw and finished material.
• Assisting in the operation of coated proppant manufacturing, working with volatile chemicals, and trade secrets.
• Implemented lean methodology to operation consumables and PPE program.

• Trans-loading of Anhydrous Ammonia and Dry Fertilizer on rail and truck.
• Coordination with metals department to insure adequate supply of ammonia and feedstock for production.

• Transitioned to new contract operator on the sale of the Canexus asset to Cenovus
• Supervision and operation of Unit Train and Manifest control rooms, working with shift supervisor to manage a team of 13 and assuming the leadership role during unit train operations.
• Reporting of facility status, metrics, and coordination of facility traffic with logistics
• Working in conjunction with the rail crew, to manage, and log, rail movement within the yard.

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• Responsibilities
• Oversight of daily operations, permitting, with 12 direct reports
• Training new employees in rail / truck safety and trans-load
• Development, and implementation of training programs, progression system and standard operation procedures
• Creation of Car-seal program to ensure compliance with ABSA regulations
• Collaboration with offsite resources in conjunction with Canutec to achieve a waver from there regulations under Transport of Dangerous Goods
• Played an integral part of the commissioning team through participation in Hazard and opportunity studies, Process and instrumentation drawing red lines, and emergency response development.

• Responsible for federally mandated inspections and reports, with full compliance to Canadian Rail Operating Regulations
• Assumed a Interim Front line manager role, providing vacation coverage with 3 crews of 2-4 track maintainers directly reporting.
• Coordination of maintenance and repair of the right of way. With detailed recording of defects and preformed maintenance subject to review from transport Canada.
• Worked to implement strategies used on high tonnage tracks, to lighter volume routes in order to improve operating efficiencies.