Rickey Vickers
Director of Process Engineering and CAPEX
- Role
- Director of Process Engineering and Capex at Synsus Private Label Partners
- Location
- Sylacauga, AL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Rickey Vickers
An experienced professional with extensive leadership background in revitalizing plants to achieve cost reduction and growth. I have a demonstrated ability to lead and manage change by implementing technological advances, new manufacturing strategies, quality improvement processes, health and safety systems, and maintenance systems.Specialties: Batch and continuous process experience. Union and non-union experience. Strategic planning and execution. Troubleshooting. Teambuilding.A few of my noteworthy accomplishments are:• Devised and guided multi-plant Continuous Improvement Team and reduced cost by $500K within 6 months.• Originated and implemented an initiative to convert supply of key raw material from liquid to solid and saved $400K annually in raw material transportation costs.• Increased production by 200% in less than three years in catalyst plant; enacted a continuous improvement team, reduced maintenance costs by 12% and improved equipment availability by 21% by implementing site maintenance planning and prioritization.
Experience
Director of Process Engineering and Capex
Jul 2025 — Present · US
Education
Auburn University, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering
BS, Chemical Engineering
1982 — 1987
Auburn University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemical Engineering
Skills
- Chemical Engineering
- Process Engineering
- Process Simulation
- Process Optimization
- Factory
- Engineering
- Supply Chain Management
- Petrochemical
- Project Engineering
- Procurement
- Supply Chain
- Energy
- Change Management
- Continuous Improvement
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