Hans Boerstra

Background

About Hans Boerstra

Dedicated and reliable Leader with over 30 years multi-cultural experience in Manufacturing, Petrochemicals, LNG, Upstream, LEAN, Operational Safety and Deep Water Oil/gas. Consistently delivers business targets on time and on budget. Collaborative, credible and structured professional with skill in all levels of plant operations and projects. Advocates for people and balances being people focused with performance excellence. Highlights • Experience within Shell: 19 years Downstream Manufacturing, 5 years Upstream, 3 years LNG / Other Experience: 13 years at a Refinery/ Petrochemical site, 12 years Technology/Projects/Plant design, 4 years Operational safety • Several leadership roles at plants, production sites and central organisations • Production Unit Manager for Ethylene Oxide/Mono-Ethylene Glycol plant • Prepare and lead several successful Commissioning and Start-ups (Korea, China, Canada and the Netherlands) • Timely delivery of all Operations deliverables to enable Final Investment Decisions. • Primary central safety team lead for Shell Heavy Oil (60% reduction of incidents in 2010-13). Fully trained in Emergency Response and Crisis Management and 10 years on site experience, Shell Incident Commander for 2013 Calgary Floods • Business improvement program leader, including Lean and 6Sigma implementation at a Petrochemical site, resulting in 45 mln € hard benefits from improvement projects and deployment seen as pathfinder for Shell • Develops and coaches numerous staff to successful next positions • Received two CEO Safety awards for delivering outstanding HSSE results.