Kyle P. Austin

About Kyle P. Austin

Leading People and Projects to achieve project execution above and beyond requirements• Influenced Engineering design teams on automation concepts and strategies• Troubleshooting resource for several multi-department teams• Patent Committee Board member for UOP\'s Equipment area• Liaison to drive product development for vendors on their product Steering Teams• Training instructor for both internal and external clients on Instrumentation and controls• Authored internal Functional specifications to maintain ISO Certification• Provided tech support to Engineering, Technical Service, Marketing, and HS & E• Member of HAZOP studies team with exposure to the PSM lifecycle• Preferred interface for initial customer contact• 1 of 9 University Lead Recruiters for UOP’s Career Development Program• Experienced webinar hostSpecialties: Eight years international work experience in the following countries: Italy, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, China, Korea, Australia, Malaysia, Bahrain, Mexico, Japan, Belgium, Russia, and India.Key words:APC - Advanced Process ControlProcess control specialistHAZOP, LOPA, SIL, SIFAutomation designInstrumentationSix Sigma trained – Green Belt certified 10/24/2008CCR, CycleMax, CRCS, LHCSLock Hopper Control SystemsMonirexRecruitingCustomer crisis management

Experience

1. Senior Director, Global Engineering & Projects

   Honeywell Technologies

   Dec 2024 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   I lead the Honeywell UOP Engineering organization of over 600 employees globally, which is a diverse team of engineering professionals accountable for the basic engineering (Schedule A documentation) of UOP’s process technologies, technical and manpower support of the UPT and STS Equipment product lines, as well as providing engineering support for new process development, sales support, and LST activities.

Education

• Michigan Technological University

  ECM, Chemical Engineering

  1986 — 1991

• Catholic Central

  college prep high school degree, STEM

  1982 — 1986

Skills

• Sil
• Process Optimization
• Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Petroleum
• Advanced Process Control
• Troubleshooting
• Gas Processing
• Refinery
• Recruiting
• Six Sigma
• Project Management
• Apc
• P&Id
• Hazop Study
• Project Engineering
• Process Automation
• Epc
• Feed
• Downstream Oil & Gas
• Instrumentation
• Refinery Operations
• Refining
• Process Control
• Gas
• Control Systems Design
• Manufacturing
• Process Simulation
• Commissioning
• Oil/Gas
• Aspen Hysys
• Lopa
• Management
• Dcs
• Process Design
• Petrochemical
• Oil & Gas
• Factory
• Process Engineering
• Programmable Logic Controller (Plc)