Rita Harris

I am a confident hard working individual. I hold a Masters degree in Chemical Process Engineering and have experience in Oil and Gas and Pharmaceuticals. I also have experience in compliance and performance management as well as KPI tracking and implementing RFT programmes.

• Develop and manage processes.
• Risk assessments, HAZOP and FMEA (including compressed gasses solvents and corrosive liquids).
• Leading RCAs as well as develop and provide training to scientists and senior staff.
• Trend and track KPIs and RFT dashboard
• Safety incidents, investigate higher priority and repeat incidents and provide solutions.
• Lead compliance related activities including business digitalization.
• Validate digitalization initiatives and programs.
• Develop and maintain SOPs.
• Develop and maintain database to identify and capture failure modes.
• Lead team to address excursions and drive First Time Right culture.
• Manage Training matrices.
• Organise and facilitate individual and group training.
• Organise and facilitate investigations and root cause analysis of excursions.
• Trend and track deviations and drive process change. 
• Identify and implement effective corrective and preventative actions to identified root causes.
• Lead updates to process documentation to capture new learnings and best practices.
• Identify and map process flows, streamline and align processes between teams.
• Lead and promote process improvement to increase efficiency.
• Coordinate and conduct change controls across departments.
• Complete impact assessments on process and other changes.
• Super User for resource scheduling.
• Research and Piloting Engineer on 2” Slurry Phase Reactor and CTR Pilot Plant. These reactors are used for the testing and evaluation of new catalyst.
• Commissioning of a newly developed catalyst regeneration pilot plant.
• Conduct Risk assessments, HAZOPs and FMEAs. 
• Setting and issuing Scope of work.
• Provide immediate technical support to site operations for process upsets and front-line trouble shooting to ensure continual safe and efficient delivery of production targets.
• Equipment design.
• Evaluate design safety of new processes and plants.
• Cause and effect analysis.
• Risk assessment and mitigation of projects.
• Supervise start-up and controlled shutdown of plants. 
• CFD simulation
• Design new top sections for reactor, trays were replaced with spray nozzles for low flow and condensate production. 
• Liaise with service providers.
• Punching newly constructed sections.
• Compile and verify material data sheets.
• Read and interpret P&IDs.
• Creating P&ID, PFD, MFD.
• Setting and verifying bill of materials.
• Supervise new procedures.
• Verify environmental compliance of purge gasses and all products.
• Perform mass and energy balances.
• Analyse data to ensure product produced meets specification.
• Analyse catalyst before loading to ensure correct amount of catalyst and wax is loaded prior to start-up.
• Develop new sampling methods to ensure representative product samples are taken.
• Ensure SOPs are followed when loading and unloading reactors.
• Filtration system testing.
• Oversee all operating personnel. 
• Training new employees.
• Analyze and resolve short term production/process issues.
• Liaise with other discipline support teams.
• Liaise with Scientists in developing new catalyst.
• Propose and justify modifications to improve safety, reliability, efficiency, and production.

MEng (Chemical)

PhD (Chemical Engineering) - current

Lean-Six Sigma (Yellow Belt)