Managing Director (Process Safety Consultant)

Keith Jackson is the Managing Director and founder of the ETEC Consulting Group. He brings expertise in process safety & risk management, having consulted clients in compliance with OSHA PSM and EPA RMP. Other experience includes project management, optimization of manufacturing processes via reliability-centered maintenance, total quality management, and business process reengineering.

Keith has worked with large multinational firms on implementing process safety and risk management programs, developing business growth strategies, and the redesign of core processes to improve operational reliability. Keith consulted on multiple projects in the USA, as well as in England, Canada, China, Japan, Indonesia, Italy, Uruguay, & Venezuela for the chemicals, petroleum and environmental industries.

Keith consulted on projects such as the development of a growth strategy for an environmental subsidiary of a multi-billion dollar chemical firm. He participated in the identification of $30 million of new business opportunities, which are presently being successfully developed.

Keith has twenty-two years experience in the petroleum and chemical industries. He has served as process safety coordinator, quality director for a business unit of Amoco Chemicals, profit improvement coordinator, internal consultant, and project manager. As a member of a team, Keith developed and implemented a corporate wide profit improvement system which demonstrated savings of over $100 million within 12 months. Keith also facilitated the implementation of a profit improvement strategy for a manufacturing plant which reduced fixed and variable costs by over 30%.

Keith conducted operational reviews of worldwide facilities for a petroleum company to ensure efficient operations and minimize yield losses, and has managed the $50 million optimization and automation of one of the largest lube-oil facilities in the country.

He is a Senior Examiner for the Georgia Oglethorpe Quality Award process, the State of Maryland Quality Award, and the Senate Productivity Award.

Keith earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Engineering from the University of Illinois, and a master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Chicago.