Tosin Akinwunmi

Site Reliability Engineer at BP

Experience
Site Reliability Engineer at BP
April 2014 - Present (2 years 6 months)
• Developed and maintained the process for reporting Reliability Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to the
site on routine basis.
• Developed and Implement Root Cause Investigation Analysis process for the site (in cooperation with
maintenance and operation engineering personnel).
• Developed and Implemented Failure Mode Effects Analysis process for the site.
• Developed and maintained the Site Implementation plan for the Petrochemicals Reliability Strategy.
• Developed and maintained Reliability Risk Register and Bad Actors List for the site.
• Serve as Site Lead in the Reliability Network and the Petrochemicals Reliability Conference.
• Serve as the Chairperson for Site Reliability Advisory Committee.
• Developed Site Reliability Maintenance Strategy.
• Led the development and implementation of Site Reliability Critical Equipment List.
• Led the development of Equipment Specific Maintenance Strategies for Reliability Critical Equipment.

Mechanical Engineer at BP
April 2013 - April 2014 (1 year 1 month)
• Successfully led the P5400 centrifuge gearbox and torque indicator upgrade. As the project engineer/
manager, I was responsible successful completion of every stage of the project.
• Developed Root Cause Failure and Analysis (RCFA) procedure that serves as guide for Reliability and
Maintenance Engineering personnel on trigger criteria, preparation and methodology for conducting RCFA,
implementation of changes, and reporting.
• Facilitated and led Root Cause Failure Analysis on equipment unplanned outages and used the global
reporting format to share the result with the Global REN.
• Collaborated with OEM, Sr. Rotating Equipment Specialist and Machinists on the successful development
and implementation of solutions to correct defects in centrifuge gearbox mounting plate.
• Led Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) for vertical turbine fire water pump.
• Led and participated in Reliability initiatives such as Equipment Criticality Ranking, Reliability Register
and Multi-year Reliability Plan.
• Provided technical support to turnaround by developing and implementing fin fan blade repair procedure,
cost and time savings.

Sr.Production Engineer / Associate Production Manager at The Dow Chemical Company

December 2011 - February 2013 (1 year 3 months)

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 • Responsible for daily facility operations including feedstock imports, storage and export to the Light
Hydrocarbon Plants.
• Responsible for organization and execution of Hydrocarbon Business storage and export facility operation
plan with Process Technicians and site staff.
• Develop operating discipline to facilitate sustainable OSHA free operation.
• Closed gaps in performance by effective resolution of problems with appropriate team.
• Focal point for technical reviews of the Hydrocarbon Storage and cavern assets; Cavern Mechanical
Integrity Test (MIT), Storage Pipeline Global Mechanical Integrity Standard and Specification Tests
(GMISS).
• Liaised with maintenance department to ensure that all guidelines and procedures are followed on all
rotating and other critical equipment to prevent failure re-occurrence.
• Serve as operational contact with supply chain, plant operations, partner plants, project
group, technical center personnel,
Regulatory Specialists and Mining Storage & Pipeline and Engineering personnel globally.

Sr. Maintenance/Reliability Engineer at Dow Chemical Company

July 2007 - December 2011 (4 years 6 months)
• Developed maintenance strategies, procedures, and specification
• Performed reliability analysis; Developed reliability opportunity list based on equipment down time, safety
and cost
• Led maintenance and reliability improvement projects; Liaised with approved supplier and internal
disciplines to optimize the design of equipment through the application of best practices.
• Optimized monitoring of all rotating equipment’s predictive and preventive maintenance activities to
reduced downtime and increase safety.
• Supervised technologists, machinist and support staffs on rotating and non-rotating equipment and API
tanks repairs and preventive maintenance during turnarounds;
• Champions defect elimination programs, including Preventive Maintenance, Predictive Maintenance
(PdM), Root Cause Investigation , Bad Actors, Reliability Reviews, Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA),
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), RAM Modeling and Design for Reliability and Maintainability
• Facilitated and Lead Root Cause Investigations; Used findings for corrective action that mitigated
reoccurrence
• Led and manage maintenance and reliability expense and capital projects
• Provided technical expertise to plant personnel on troubleshooting equipment failures and repairs
• Provided maintainability input to Global Project Methodology (GPM) activities
• Actively participated in the Global Reliability Engineer’s Network; Provided equipment reliability and
performance data
• Utilized activity base maintenance budget manager to set and input budget data
• Developed and implemented tubing most effective technology site wide. The implementation led to 80%
reduction in tubing related Loss of Primary Containment (LOPC) across Texas Operations

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 • Serve as Global Paint Focal Point; Led the global paint program for Environmental Organization asset site
wide
• Led Reliability team; Coach new reliability/maintenance and run plant engineers on critical rotating and
non-rotating equipment.

Sr. Manufacturing Engineer at Cummins Engine Inc.

June 2005 - July 2007 (2 years 2 months)
• Provided technical manufacturing support to the production facilities – Cylinder Block and Headlines.
• Responsible for the availability and capability of equipment at all times; monitoring of rotating equipment
key parameters.
• Conducted research and development on manufacturing and equipment options.
• Effectively interact with contractor/suppliers and customers to ensure that both incoming and outgoing
products are corrosion and defect free.
• Facilitated cost saving reduction to agreed levels through labor savings and improved efficiency.
• Supported and manage improvement projects for the manufacturing engineering manager.

Skills & Expertise

Design of Experiments
DMAIC
Six Sigma
FMEA
Root Cause Analysis
Continuous Improvement
Reliability Engineering
Value Stream Mapping
Process Engineering
Engineering
Industrial Engineering
HAZOP Study
Oil & Gas
Gas
Management
Mechanical Engineering
Manufacturing
Preventive Maintenance
Petroleum
Project Engineering
Project Management
Engineering Management
Factory
Petrochemical

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Education
Texas Southern University
Master's Degree, Industrial Technology
University of Lagos
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Hons, Mechanical Engineering

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Tosin Akinwunmi
Site Reliability Engineer at BP

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