Vince Ferraiuolo
Summary
Experienced Professional engineer with a proven track record in hands-on technical leadership, strategic planning, and operational management. Utilizes comprehensive business acumen and lean six sigma principles to drive efficiency, innovative ideas, and continuous improvement initiatives. Recognized for fostering collaborative environments that yield high-impact results.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Manager - Maintenance Projects
McMaster University
04.2020 - Current
- Provide change leadership and technical expertise to a team of 35 trade supervisors and trades people
- Engage clients throughout the University to initiate project scoping and estimating, regularly communicating with them to understand their needs, brainstorm solutions, and develop lasting relationships
- Reduced time to complete estimates by over 20% through standardization of materials and time studies to complete the most common tasks
- Successfully develop and manage project budgets, schedule, and quality with a 95% customer satisfaction rate
- Developed an Asset Management & Reliability standard for the entire department and continue to lead its adoption
- Manage the tendering and negotiating of all technical service contracts on campus worth upwards of $2million per year
Reliability Engineer
Petro-Canada Lubricants
02.2017 - 04.2020
- Provided daily troubleshooting and equipment operability support for multiple refinery units, while also working with operations to improve equipment run time and create operations based reliability plans
- Increased Mean Time Between Failure 'MTBF' over 20% by continuing to improve and implement the refinery's asset management program and confirming maintenance and construction work was done to a high quality and in compliance with current standards
- Reduced overall equipment Mean Time To Repair 'MTTR' by over 30% through generating equipment bill of materials and identifying critical spare parts to have inventoried
- Performed root cause analysis on multiple failures using techniques such as '5 whys' and 'Taproot' which also resulted in increased Mean Time Between Failures of equipment and reduced safety incidents
- Shutdown supervisor for multi-million-dollar plant shutdowns responsible for leading various contractors and staff in safety, schedule, quality work, and budget
Maintenance Engineer
Suncor Energy / Petro-Canada Lubricants
06.2014 - 02.2017
- Provided construction, operations, and maintenance support for distribution terminals throughout Canada – Mississauga, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Winnipeg
- Completed economic evaluations of multi-million dollar projects as well as implemented a stage gate process to execute them
- Reviewed technical designs to ensure compliance with our construction, maintenance, and reliability standards
- Direct supervisor of various co-op students - including assigning priorities, evaluating technical engineering work, and performance management
- Launched a reliability program that provided asset improvement initiatives, preventative maintenance plans, and developed asset strategies
Plant Engineer
Suncor Energy / Petro-Canada Lubricants
08.2012 - 06.2014
- Produced 100 engineering packages per year for repair, replacements, upgrades, and new construction of piping and various pressure retaining equipment involved in production
- Modified drawings and provided Bill of Materials according to ASME, API, TSSA, and other industrial codes
- Project management - concept selection, front end engineering, detailed engineering, vendor selection, execution, and close out
- Performed engineering calculations such as Tmin, corrosion rates, heat transfer, etc
Education
Master of Business Administration -
McMaster University
Burlington, On05.2015
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering & Management -
McMaster University
Hamilton, On05.2012
Skills
- Communication
- Change Management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Operations management
- Budget oversight
- Strategic planning
- Data-driven decision making
- Troubleshooting and problem resolution
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Team leadership
Accomplishments
- Top Performance Award: Recognized for implementing a $125k per year cost savings by implementing lean techniques.
- Streamlining of Estimates: Successfully reduced time spent on project estimates by over 20%.
- Safety 1st Mindset: Elected co-chair of JHSC and Campus Wide Confined Space Coordinator.
- Pioneer of an Asset Management Program: Wrote and implemented the first Asset Management program in the department.
Certification
P.Eng
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Timeline
Senior Manager - Maintenance Projects
McMaster University
04.2020 - Current
Reliability Engineer
Petro-Canada Lubricants
02.2017 - 04.2020
Maintenance Engineer
Suncor Energy / Petro-Canada Lubricants
06.2014 - 02.2017
Plant Engineer
Suncor Energy / Petro-Canada Lubricants
08.2012 - 06.2014
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering & Management -
McMaster University
P.Eng
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Master of Business Administration -
McMaster University
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