We build the plant. We stay to run it. We instrument everything.
Kolassus LLC is led by Tyler Kolaczynski — a top-producing management
professional with nearly two decades of leadership across planning, logistics,
inventory, project management, and process development in retail, material
handling, transloading, oil & gas, and capital procurement.
The firm grew out of a single pattern that kept repeating. Target taught us
logistics at volume. Arrow taught us how to build a terminal from a drawing
and then run it safely. Chemours taught us how $200M of capital moves through
a chemical plant. United Rentals taught us P&L at the branch level. Timiron
taught us that an AI platform, built by the operator who runs the site, beats
anything a vendor can sell you.
The firm now packages that playbook as consulting, software, and hands-on
operational support. Cadiz is the reference implementation — every
surface on this site runs there, in production, today.
— HCL rail terminal, Belpre, OH · 2016
What we’ve built · where we’ve been
Five phases, five industries, one throughline.
Read top-to-bottom. Each phase is a chapter: what the role was, what we delivered,
and what it taught the firm about running an industrial site.
Phase 1
2008 — 2013
Lake Park, FL
Foundations — Target Corporation
Logistics Team Leader. 50+ employees. 12 trailers per day inbound and outbound.
USDA audits. Fourth-quarter planning captain. The operational discipline that
showed up in every job after this one was built on the Target dock.
Phase 2
2013 — 2018
Sewickley, PA · Belpre, OH · Philadelphia, PA
Build & Run — Arrow Material Services
Special Projects across the Arrow terminal network. Transloaded highly hazardous
chemicals. Stood up ethanol transloading. Interviewed, hired, and trained operators.
Time studies drove a 40% efficiency gain across terminals. Re-purposed a
Philadelphia rail facility into crude-oil unit-train unloading — 20 operators,
24/7, 50 unit trains at 70,000 bbl each, zero customer complaints for the quarter.
Built the Belpre, OH $14M crude-oil condensate stabilization plant: full design,
construction, PLC, cause-and-effect, value engineering, startup. Ran it as
Terminal Manager for three more years at 8,000 BBL/day with 30,000-barrel tank
barges. Permits with USCG, Army Corps, Ohio EPA, Federal EPA, Washington County
LEPC, Ohio Department of Commerce, and the Ohio State Fire Marshal. HAZOP, PSSR,
and PSM audits with zero findings. 67% fuel cost reduction via alternative sourcing.
— Belpre terminal at dusk · 2016— Crude-by-rail, Philadelphia · 2015— River barge transfer, Ohio River · 2014— Condensate transfer piping, commissioning
Phase 3
2018 — 2021
Washington, WV
Capital Procurement — Chemours, Washington Works
Capital Site Procurement Leader. $100M–$200M in annual capital spend. Led a
$15M competitive bid event. Delivered three consecutive shutdowns (2018, 2019,
2020) on time and on budget with a $5M/day exposure window. Coal-to-gas boiler
conversion over $10M with EPA/MACT permitting. Headed the SAP 2.0 transition for
the Capital Sourcing team and the GEP-to-Accenture migration. Zero TAR overruns
under 30-day shutdown windows.
Phase 4
2021 — 2025
Oakdale, PA
Fleet P&L — United Rentals
Branch Manager. $400K–$1M monthly P&L. $8M–$10M tool and equipment fleet.
Improved time utilization 24.8% → 34.7% year-over-year and dollar utilization
39.4% → 44.0%. $6.7M in tool revenue — fourth-highest in the Tools Division
nationally. Led branch safety, 5S audits, and the district transition.
Phase 5
2025 — now
Cadiz, OH
Now — Timiron Midstream + Kolassus LLC
Director of Operations at Timiron's Cadiz, OH crude truck-to-rail terminal.
$5.5M+/yr revenue. 30–31% net margin. February 2026 closed $102,950 net — the
best month in the terminal's history. Pump cycle compressed from 35.2 to 26.0
minutes, a 26% reduction. Team of 18. Zero incidents. Founded Kolassus LLC to
formalize the consulting side — the firm now builds custom AI and operational
systems for industrial operators, with Cadiz as the live reference.
— Tank car inspection, Cadiz · 2026
How we work
Build it. Run it. Instrument it.
Three pillars. Same firm. In that order. The handoff between them is where most
industrial projects fail — we don’t have one.
01
Build
We design, engineer, and commission the plant or the system. Drawings,
permits, PLC, startup. Not a deck — a working facility.
02
Run
We don't hand over the keys and walk. We stay on site to operate, train
the crew, and tune the numbers. Day-one through steady-state is one contract.
03
Instrument
We wire the operation up so the operator can see it. Live telemetry,
commercial intelligence, compliance agents — the things that make the plant
explain itself.
Integrated Contingency Planning covers Clean Water Act, Oil Pollution Act, RCRA,
EPCRA, and HAZWOPER. Marine Terminal Operating Permit, Army Corps of Engineers
permitting, Ohio EPA air permitting, and HAZOP facilitation of a 9-node marine
vapor control at Belpre. Chemours era adds MACT permitting for coal-to-gas
conversion, SAP 2.0 transition leadership, and $100–200M/yr capital sourcing
discipline.
What we built for Timiron
Ten agents. One terminal. Zero paper.
The platform at Cadiz runs twenty-four hours a day. A mobile assistant in the
operator’s pocket. A touchscreen on the terminal floor with live rail-car
tracking and load progress. A command center in the office. An agent that reads
invoices and rail movements for commercial signal. A safety agent that turns
field walkthroughs into regulated procedures. Voice control. Geofenced reminders.
All of it built in-house by the firm and running on the real operation today.
It’s the latest multiplier on top of eighteen years of terminals. The research
layer the platform’s commercial-intelligence agent produces lives separately —
available to anyone who wants to see how the firm reads the market.
This is what modern industrial operations can look like.
We built a reference implementation for small and mid-size industrial operators
— terminals, plants, rail, processing — who want the work done by a
firm that has been in the yard, not a vendor translating it. Our
commercial-intelligence agent uses this site itself as a machine-readable model
of what a modern operator looks like.
If that’s you — or if you run one of these and want a set of eyes on
it — the contact below is the right place to start.
Direct to the principal
The best inbound is the one that goes straight to Tyler.
Kolassus LLC is a small firm by design. No forms. No auto-responder. Email or
call — if Tyler is on the yard he’ll text back. If it’s after hours in
Eastern time, expect a reply in the morning.
