About Me

About Dr. Legiec

Proven track record

Dr. Irene A. Legiec is a proven engineering and operations leader with expertise in manufacturing process improvements. She has a passion for professional development, servant leadership, and customer focus, and excels at working with diverse teams. With over 30 years of experience in the chemical manufacturing and renewable energy sectors, she has extensive experience in manufacturing technology management, operations leadership, capital project management, continuous improvement, and SHE leadership roles. This uniquely positions her to serve the needs of a range of industry clients.

Dr. Legiec is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and has conducted multiple large-scale projects, set the strategy for business organizations, and drove to improve business performance. She has a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers University, and holds U.S. Patent 5,282,938, for the “Process for Recovery of Trace Metals and Salts from Waste Combustion Residues”.

Experience:

• Founder, Improvement and Lean Services LLC, Delaware, Founder, 1/24 to present
• Senior Director, Renewable Natural Gas Production, Air Liquide, Newark DE
• Covanta (now ReWorld)
  – Vice President, Project Planning
  – Vice President, Design Engineering
  – Senior Director, Continuous Improvement
• DuPont, Global Leader for Process Safety Management and Fire Protection

• Developed business systems and strategy to meet rapid growth needs for a $50M renewable natural gas business; developed long range staffing planning, instituted KPIs and programs to improve internal plant reliability by 5%.
• Drove Continuous Improvement initiatives across 15 Energy from Waste facilities ($194M+ EBIDTA), as well as the metals recycling business, generating $7.5M in productivity.