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Episode 16: Scott Brown

Doug Plucknette | Contributing Host, RELIABILITY CONNECT

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Welcome to Episode 16 of The Leadership Connection! On today’s episode…

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Scott Brown in Episode 16 of this series. Scott joined Shell in 2006 following eight years as an Aeromedical Evacuation Officer and Blackhawk Maintenance Test Pilot in the U.S. Army. Scott started as a Reliability Engineer on Shell’s Auger Tension Leg Platform (TLP) in the Gulf of Mexico, analyzing unscheduled production deferment and equipment failure history to determine overall risk and economic potential of improvement scenarios. He facilitated numerous root cause analysis investigations, utilizing various RCA methods such as 5-Why, Apollo Reality Charting, and Causal Learning.

More about Scott…

Scott joined Shell in 2006 following eight years as an Aeromedical Evacuation Officer and Blackhawk Maintenance Test Pilot in the U.S. Army. Scott started as a Reliability Engineer on Shell’s Auger Tension Leg Platform (TLP) in the Gulf of Mexico, analyzing unscheduled production deferment and equipment failure history to determine overall risk and economic potential of improvement scenarios. He facilitated numerous root cause analysis investigations, utilizing various RCA methods such as 5-Why, Apollo Reality Charting, and Causal Learning.

In March 2013, Scott moved onshore to optimize maintenance strategies for Shell’s assets in the GoM.  He led or participated in initiatives to deliver improved reliability and availability, optimized SAP asset hierarchies and technical object types, strengthened hardware barrier safety-critical elements, and enhanced maintenance strategies for nine offshore production platforms.

In October 2016, Scott joined the Appomattox Floating Production System (FPS) team (the project and construction phases of Shell’s newest production platform in the GoM) initially working in New Orleans, then the fabrication yard in Ingleside, Texas. During this time, he managed the Appomattox equipment hierarchies and criticality classifications in SAP, maintenance and operator work instructions, and the setup of SAP task lists and maintenance plans. After Appomattox arrived at its final GoM location in 2018, Scott managed many aspects of Shell’s Asset Management System (AMS): Ensure Safe Production, Manage Equipment Care, and Perform Maintenance Execution.

In November 2020, Scott became the Operations and Maintenance Coordinator on Shell’s Olympus Tension Leg Platform, where he coordinates operations, maintenance, construction resources, and serves as the relief Offshore Installation Manager.

Scott and his wife, Xiomara, live with their two children (Dean and Eric) and dog (Luna) in Cape Coral, Florida. When not at work, Scott enjoys watching his sons play their respective sports, soccer and ice hockey, and spending time with his family at home and the beach

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About the Author

Doug Plucknette Contributing Host, RELIABILITY CONNECT

Doug Plucknette has been in the Field of Asset Management, Maintenance and Reliability for 38 years. In 1999 he founded Reliability Solutions Inc. As the founder of RCM Blitz™ and author of the book Reliability Centered Maintenance using RCM Blitz™, he has provided reliability training and consulting services to numerous companies around the world, large and small, including such Fortune 500 companies as Cargill, Whirlpool, Honda, Kraft-Heinz, Schlumberger, Corning, Invista, and Newmont Mining.
Doug has made key contributions to standard reliability measures for manufacturing, and reliability training programs worldwide. He has trained numerous client RCM Facilitators and performed RCM analyses on hundreds of pieces of manufacturing equipment.
Prior to his work as a consultant, Doug worked 19 years at Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, NY in positions as a skilled tradesperson, lead person, Maintenance Supervisor, and Reliability Engineer.
Recognized as an Industry Expert, Doug has published over 50 articles, written two books, has been a featured speaker at dozens of conferences and Key Note Speaker for two Global Reliability Conferences.