MITCHELL POWELL
Naperville
Summary
Dynamic leader with extensive experience in operations management, risk mitigation, and maintenance planning. Proven track record in executing complex projects on time, ensuring safety and environmental compliance, and managing multimillion-dollar budgets. Skilled in optimizing processes and enhancing team performance across diverse operations.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work History
Maintenance Supervisor & Maintenance Planner
CITGO Petroleum Corporation
Lemont
12.2013 - Current
- Program Manager for numerous capital construction projects and outages; executing over 2000+ scopes of work on schedule.
- Program Manager for all personnel and maintenance scope of over 130 oil and gas holding tanks, worth multi-million dollars.
- Capital Construction Manager; efficiently repaired, in one year, 20+ oil/gas holding tanks, over $100 million in capital repairs.
- Capital Construction Manager; completed a 32 day project safely in 18 days, saving over $350,000.
- Program Manager for critical safety equipment requiring planning, inspection, servicing in accordance with statutory requirements; accomplished 100% compliance.
- Program Manager for all maintenance LDAR requirements; ensured 100% environmental compliance.
- Manage routine maintenance and project activities of over 50+ employees with a department monthly budget of $4 Million.
- Planner for all maintenance notifications; generated work orders’ scopes of work, procured all material, budgeted required work, coordinated work tasks with assigned crafts.
- Member of the refinery’s safe practice standards committee; assigned by executives; tasked to review all safety standards.
Senior Officer / Battalion Commander / CEO
U.S. Army
04.2000 - 07.2023
- Led an organization rated #1 out of 45, more than 5000 people; evaluated on the team’s personnel and equipment readiness.
- Battalion Commander / CEO of Logistical & Maintenance team; led all logistical/maintenance planning, coordination, support.
- Brigade Operations Officer / Executive responsible for over 3500 employees and 1000s of brigade missions.
- Company Commander / CEO responsible for over 150 employees; accomplished 70,000+ transportation movements.
- Managed logistics for 2,200 employees and 350 equipment containers during operations between Afghanistan and U.S.
- Led a team of 1,500 employees in developing and executing a comprehensive training program for 2,200 personnel.
- Managed the maintenance program for 8 MH-47G Chinooks with a value exceeding $500 million.
- Managed daily team’s personnel flight schedule for 5 years.
- Managed the teams’ deployment schedule for 3 years, developed a tracking system, which improved efficiency and ensured equal deployments for all officers; tracking system became a model throughout the organization.
- Planned and executed a six-day, three-aircraft cross-country mission, ensuring security and maintenance for $21 million in sensitive equipment with zero loss.
- Led the movement of 51 personnel and 350 items of support equipment returning from Afghanistan.
- Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) Fully Mission Qualified (FMQ) Pilot-in-Command (PIC); over 1800+ hours; qualified in all modes of flight- Night Vision Goggles (NVG), Helicopter air-to-air refuel (HAAR), Naval ship deck landing qualified (DLQ), Terrain Following, and Dust landing.
- Served as Pilot-in-Command for commercial helicopter flights in instrument conditions.
- Served as Pilot-in-Command for single-engine airplane flights in visual conditions.
- Rated in the top 5% on annual performance reports.
Education
Graduate - Organizational Leadership
United States Army Command and General Staff College
Fort Dix, NJ06-2016
Bachelor of Arts - Self-Designed Major: Criminal Justice
Ripon College
Ripon, WI05-2003
Skills
- Organizational leadership
- Operations management
- Maintenance and logistics management
- Aviation project management
- Training and development
- Oil and gas expertise
- SAP proficiency
- P6 software skills
- Microsoft Office experience
- Preventive maintenance
Timeline
Maintenance Supervisor & Maintenance Planner
CITGO Petroleum Corporation
12.2013 - Current
Senior Officer / Battalion Commander / CEO
U.S. Army
04.2000 - 07.2023
Graduate - Organizational Leadership
United States Army Command and General Staff College
Bachelor of Arts - Self-Designed Major: Criminal Justice
Ripon College