Ken Babcock

Plant Manager at Seatex
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(386) 825-5501
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League City, Texas, United States, US
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Credentials

  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (ICGB)
    Honeywell
    Apr, 2009
    - Nov, 2024
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification – Level II
    Honeywell
    Apr, 2009
    - Nov, 2024
  • Professional Engineer (PE)
    Commonwealth of Kentucky; State Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
    Jun, 1992
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

  • Seatex
    • United States
    • Chemical Manufacturing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Plant Manager
      • Oct 2022 - Present

      Plant Manager of a custom blending facility serving industrial, oil and gas, agricultural and other markets. Plant Manager of a custom blending facility serving industrial, oil and gas, agricultural and other markets.

  • Monument Chemical
    • United States
    • Chemical Manufacturing
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Site Leader
      • Apr 2020 - Jul 2022

      Site Leader of a PSM chemical manufacturing site of 240 employees involving multiple specialty plants producing polyols, glycols, glycol ethers, graft polyols, specialty lubricants, Pilot Plant operation, Microelectronic tolling operations and Logistics serving various markets. Site Leader of a PSM chemical manufacturing site of 240 employees involving multiple specialty plants producing polyols, glycols, glycol ethers, graft polyols, specialty lubricants, Pilot Plant operation, Microelectronic tolling operations and Logistics serving various markets.

  • Firestone Polymers
    • Research Services
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Plant Manager
      • Aug 2015 - 2020

      Responsible for synthetic polymer manufacturing facility of 300 employees with 50 nested contractors. Provide leadership for safety, environmental, quality, manufacturing, cost and people development in a union represented facility. Responsible for synthetic polymer manufacturing facility of 300 employees with 50 nested contractors. Provide leadership for safety, environmental, quality, manufacturing, cost and people development in a union represented facility.

  • Cabot Corporation
    • United States
    • Chemical Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Operations Manager
      • Aug 2014 - Jul 2015

      Responsible for all manufacturing operations supporting specialty carbon markets. Provide leadership in SH&E, Quality, Productivity, People Development, and Cost management. Accountable for stabilizing and turning around a strategic asset not realizing potential. This manufacturing asset solely serves the specialty blacks markets.

    • Operations Manager
      • Oct 2012 - Aug 2014

      Responsible for all manufacturing and warehouse, packing and shipping operations supporting both specialty carbon blacks and reinforcing black markets. This is Cabot's largest manufacturing operation servicing both special blacks and rubber black markets

  • Honeywell
    • United States
    • Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Operations Technical Manager
      • Jun 2010 - Oct 2012

      Accountable for a technical team providing daily operations support, promoting safety and regulatory compliance, driving process improvement and capital support across site-wide Uranium Hexa-fluoride manufacturing processes.

    • Fluorine Products Manager
      • Jan 2006 - Jun 2010

      Directed all activities involved with safe, efficient, and cost effective production of fluorine-based specialty production units plus site utilities, site waste water treatment and uranium reclamation. This included the largest gaseous fluorine generation plant capacity in the world. Accountable for Safety (OSHA, NRC), environmental compliance, production volumes, product quality (ISO-9001), delivery, maintenance, capital, operating budgets, and people development. Managed 70 employees including 10 direct reports and a unionized hourly workforce. Show less

  • Arkema
    • France
    • Chemical Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Forane Superintendent
      • 1993 - 2005

      Managed multiple high volume fluorinated chemical manufacturing operations, thermal oxidizer, and supporting utilities. Led aspects of production planning and execution, inventory control, maintenance, product quality & delivery, and cost control. Managed multiple high volume fluorinated chemical manufacturing operations, thermal oxidizer, and supporting utilities. Led aspects of production planning and execution, inventory control, maintenance, product quality & delivery, and cost control.

  • Phillips Petroleum Refinery
    • Borger, Texas
    • Process Engineer
      • 1991 - 1993

      Provided technical support to several oil refining operations; residual desulfurization, hydrogen generation, sulfur recovery, and HF alkylation Provided technical support to several oil refining operations; residual desulfurization, hydrogen generation, sulfur recovery, and HF alkylation

  • Cabot Corporation
    • United States
    • Chemical Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Plant Engineer
      • 1987 - 1991

      Provided technical support and oversight to specialty fine particle manufacturing operations serving inks, coatings, toners, and rubber markets. Provided technical support and oversight to specialty fine particle manufacturing operations serving inks, coatings, toners, and rubber markets.

Education

  • Colorado State University
    Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration and Management, General
  • Georgia Tech
    Master of Science (M.S.), Chemical Engineering
  • University of Mississippi
    Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering

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