Gary Usery

Gary is a servant leader with demonstrated experience in building leaders and collaborative teams that accomplish both organizational and personal objectives. He helps organizations create safe, effective, and efficient work environments and processes. Gary’s passion is ensuring that each team member acquires the knowledge, skills, and resources needed to work safely and efficiently, thereby improving organizational performance and profitability.

Gary’s professional experience spans the environmental services, biodiesel, specialty chemical, and catalyst manufacturing industries. He has served in management roles at Clean Harbors, ENSCO, Greenline Industries, Honeywell UOP, Teris, TETRA Technologies, and Veolia. He has also developed training materials and facilitated training for Allnex, Chevron, Clean Harbors, Corpus Christi Polymers, Electro Cycle, Enviva, Grain Processing, INEOS, Koppers, Lotte Chemical, Nutrien, OCI Methanol, PPG, Prairie Catalytic, Red Rocks Biofuels, Sabic, and Tate & Lyle. 

• Developing and facilitating safety, leadership development, and process plant operations training
• Leading process plant startups, operations, optimization, and turnarounds
• Developing key performance indicators for all organizational levels and functions
• Business process documentation and optimization
• ISO quality management systems
• Facilitating causal analysis and incident investigations
• Facilitating cross-functional teams
• Knowledge management
• Plant, manufacturing, operations, engineering, and maintenance management
• Capital program and project management
• Conflict resolution
• Contract negotiation

•  BS in Chemical Engineering, University of Arkansas
• Cause Mapping, Think Reliability
• Six Sigma Green Belt, Honeywell UOP
• Comprehensive training by employers