Jeff

10/22/2014
Peru, IN

Position Desired

Project Engineering
Anywhere in the U.S.
Yes

Resume

Project Engineer, Manager Resume/CV


OBJECTIVE:

Provide engineering and management services and best practices for the maximum benefit to my company and fellow employees. Apply extensive industry knowledge and experience in engineering, planning, capital projects, operations and maintenance to achieve successful results. Serve as Engineer, Manager in Energy, Power or Chemical Industries.

ABILITY SUMMARY:

Project Engineer – Plan and execute major projects start to finish, ensure work is performed per contract packages, drawings and specifications and applicable codes and regulations.
Project Management – Coordinate routinely with all stakeholders. Track actual performance vs. plan for budget, schedule, safety and quality workmanship.
Operations and Maintenance – Meet or exceed goals to improve reliability, reduce operation or maintenance expense and/or improve safety or environmental compliance. Administer and execute operations and maintenance work plan.
Process – Advanced technical understanding of process operations and process control.
Procurement – Services and materials.
Expertise – Rotating equipment, boilers, tanks, vessels, piping, electrical, control systems, water and waste treatment and all associated auxiliary equipment including air and water quality pollution control equipment, includes buildings and all infrastructure requirements.
Analytical – Formal training in analytical problem solving and root cause failure analysis.
Develop work scopes, equipment specifications, contract packages, and author and modify operating procedures. Work with engineering firms as needed.
Incorporate safety and environmental responsibilities integral to the work culture.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN


EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Peru Utilities, Peru, Indiana
Power Plant Superintendent

• Station Mgr and Engineer. Responsible for the Power Plant at Peru Utilities including operations and maintenance, capital projects, five-year work plan, plant reliability, safety and environmental permitting and reporting.
• Plan and schedule one year and five year unit and plant outage schedules, budgets and work requirements.
• Mentor assigned personnel and their work performance and successfully complete the training program. Compliance with all safety and environmental regulations and company policies.
• Perform all plant, project and process engineering services for the plant.
• Power Plant had significant equipment problems from deferred maintenance. Develop and implement immediate and long range work plans to successfully restore equipment and system reliability.
• Controls upgrades, control scheme modernization and control procedures standardization.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
• Achieve consistent high operating reliability to eliminate financial penalties from previously poor availabilities and load restrictions.
• Increase generation production capacity by 15% resulting in significant revenue gains for capacity payments and actual generation margins.
• Reduce fuel costs short term and long term through fuel contract negotiations and contract extensions. Fuel is the single largest expense and decreased costs add to major improvements to bottom line financial benefits.
• Keep plant operations within annual operations and maintenance budgets and capital improvement projects’ budgets.
• A 10% reduction in heat rate from fuel processing project improvements yielded a corresponding decrease in fuel costs.
• Develop work scopes and specifications for work packages. Manage the outage work and outage contractors, including work progress and work performance inspections and evaluations.
• Systematic approach to problem identification, engineering principles first, root cause failure analysis and problem resolution. Evaluate based on cost effectiveness.
• Supplement with specialty contract personnel as needed. Perform balance of plant work in house with station personnel.
• Implement work involvement and continuous improvement program where employees’ input is solicited. This includes all aspects of operations and maintenance, plant safety and environmental compliance. This was conducted at scheduled meetings to become integral to the work culture.
• Achieve significant improvements to plant reliability and efficiencies compared to original design specs.
• Modify air and water environmental operating permits based on needed changes and submit to IDEM for approvals. Meet with IDEM (government agencies) for evolving regulatory requirements.
• Plant personnel had individual and work crew assignments and responsibilities for safety equipment, policies, procedures and plant cleanliness. Conduct actual live fire and confined space rescue drills with trained fire and rescue personnel.
• Implement newly updated Confined Space Permit procedures, Hot Work Permit procedures and Lock-out/Tag-out Clearance Permit System.

Hoosier Energy REC, Inc., Sullivan, Indiana
FGD Department Superintendent, Engineer

• Serve as FGD Supt. and Engineer for the 1,000MW Electric Power Generating Station at Merom, IN.
• Provide engineering and management oversight of operations and outage maintenance for air quality control equipment, flue gas desulfurization scrubbers, material handling, coal combustion byproducts, water and waste water treatment facilities and chemical materials processing for the Merom Generating Station. Provide information routinely for performance reporting and regulatory compliance. Consistently exceed operational requirements, efficiencies and environmental compliance.
• Supervise department personnel and contractors and coordinate all departmental work activities. Provide essential input to management staff and plant coordination meetings to plan and schedule equipment and unit outages and to perform preventative, predictive and corrective maintenance.
• Keep forced outages to an absolute minimum, high reliability of air quality control equipment and water and waste processes were necessary for compliance with op...

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