Amanda Dawson
About Amanda Dawson
Amanda Dawson is a Process Contact Engineer at ExxonMobil with a background in Chemical Engineering from Auburn University.
Current Role at ExxonMobil
Amanda Dawson currently works at ExxonMobil as a Process Contact Engineer. She has been with the company in Baytown, Texas, since 2020. In her role, she is responsible for managing processes and performing engineering tasks that enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of refinery operations.
Previous Experience
Before her current role, Amanda Dawson worked at ExxonMobil as an Energy Process Engineer from 2019 to 2020. She has experience as a Chemical Engineering Co-op at Intramicron Inc., where she worked from 2016 to 2018 in Auburn, Alabama. Her previous roles have equipped her with extensive experience in chemical engineering and process management.
Education and Expertise
Amanda Dawson holds a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering (BChE) from Auburn University, where she studied from 2014 to 2019. Her academic background provided her with a solid foundation in chemical engineering principles and practices. She has leveraged this education in her professional roles to optimize processes and manage engineering projects effectively.
Major Projects and Initiatives
Amanda Dawson has managed various significant projects in her career. She led a project to install new temperature instrumentation on a heat exchanger bank, which was projected to reduce operational expenditure costs by $1.6 million annually. She also developed energy generation and usage models for refinery utilities, helping to reconcile planned versus actual energy costs and future usage projections. Additionally, she led a plant test to increase solvent pump circulation, which boosted unit output by about 10%. She also investigated a unit upset and communicated findings to prevent recurrence.