President,
Continuous Improvement Experts LLC (CIX) Jeremy was born in Tonbridge England in
1961 and emigrated to Canada in 1966.
Jeremy grew up in Ottawa, Canada and attended Queen’s University in
Kingston Canada earning a BSc in Chemical Engineering in 1983 followed by an
MSc in Chemical Engineering in 1985.
Jeremy Jones is currently a founding
partner and President of Continuous Improvement Experts (CIX). Previously he has held senior positions at
Transfield Services, Tenova, WorleyParsons, Nupro Corporation, Bechtel
Corporation, Florida Steel and Hatch Associates.
Jeremy is frequently
invited as a Keynote speaker/instructor for international steel
conferences. He is the primary author of
the EAF steelmaking chapter for the updated Steelmaking volume “The Making
Shaping and Treating of Steel”. A frequent
contributor to AIST conferences, frequent session chairman at annual convention
and author of over 100 technical papers and articles.
Jeremy is a distinguished Member of the
AIST and recipient of the John Bell Award for advancing EAF technologies. Jeremy is also a Fellow of the International
Iron Metallics Association (IIMA). Jeremy has carried out assignments for
clients in over 100 countries. He is the
past chairman of the AIST EAF Committee and the past chairman of the WorldSteel
EAF Technology Committee.
Jeremy also
chaired the Continuing Education Committee, the Energy and Environment
Committee and the Advanced Technology Committee at ISS, a predecessor of
AIST.
Jeremy is one of the original
instructors of the AIST EAF training seminar which recently completed its’ 26th
year.
Jeremy’s steelmaking experience spans
direct reduction, smelting reduction, EAF steelmaking, Blast furnace
operations, BOF operations, ladle metallurgy, vacuum treatment and casting
operations for all grades of steel. Previous
assignments have spanned the fields of project management, project
negotiations, process engineering, process control engineering, process
simulation and optimization, environmental engineering, industrial engineering
and management consulting.