The Becht Team

Frank Engli
Maintenance & Turnaround Specialist
Frank Engli has over 40 years of experience in project, maintenance, health, safety, security, environmental (HSSE), and turnaround management in the petroleum refining industry. His experience includes:
- Reorganized the Project, Maintenance, and Turnaround department to meet budget and safely execute work
- Implemented a major maintenance management and improve project management which was able to successfully execute pitstops, infrastructure upgrades, capital projects and tank maintenance budgets of 100 M$ plus per year.
- Led the reorganization of the execution departments. resulting in reduced safety incidents
- Significantly improved the cost and duration of turnarounds and day to day maintenance by extending unit run lengths and reducing duration
- Have reduced over all execution annual cost
- Built a caring and collaborative safety culture by working with contractors and building trades using a tripartite approach.
- Improved safety performance from a TRFC of >1 to >0.17.
- Planned and executed turnarounds in 2013, 2015, and 2016 of 130M$, 230M$ and 230M$ using over 2500 contract employees.
- Reduced budget for 2016 Turnaround from 250 M$ to 167 M$ through work scope reduction and further unit decoupling.
- Improved the cost and duration of the site’s turnarounds by extending unit run lengths and reducing duration
- Most units are in Q1 Solomon.
- Instituted flange management/leak control program which resulted in a leak free start up in 2016.
- Managed overall budget, safety, planning, scheduling, and execution of turnaround and cat cracker cyclone replacement project work utilizing company and contract personnel of up to 2000 individuals on site.
- Led, audited, and implemented maintenance and turnaround management system and contractor safety management programs
- Directly supervised a staff of five to fifteen supervisors, planners, technicians, engineers, and contractors in the preparation and safe execution of maintenance and turnaround
- Managed the overall budget, safety planning, scheduling and execution of all Turnaround work related to refinery special projects.
Mr. Engli holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, a Master of Engineering from the Institute for Aerospace Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, and a Master of Business Administration degree from Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. He holds Six Sigma Black Belt certification.
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