Project/Mechanical Engineer or other Maintenence Management Superintendant Manager, BSME OSU 1991
SUMMARY
• Mechanical Engineer, Engineering Consultant, Reliability Engineer, Project Engineer, and Shift Coordinator/Off Hours Plant Manager in chemical and other production facilities
• Presently own personal consulting business and but looking for technical engineering position involving utilities and facilities maintenance and reliability involving all fields of engineering
QUALIFICATIONS
• 22 years of engineering and management experience; 2 years of consulting, and 20 years of operations and project management experience (plus 8 years of hands on operations and maintenance work prior to college)
• Lead and participated in successful projects from design conception through operation implementation, drawing, and filing; under ASME, API, and Hazardous and Highly Hazardous codes for chemical processes
• Directed mechanical integrity programs using applicable PHA methods for reactors, steam supply, heat transfer, for distillation columns, and highly hazardous piping systems
• Successfully conceived, designed, and implemented project studies as directly employed in chemical production and pulp and paper plants
• Managed and improved facility operations and managed teams of contractors and employees as shift coordinator and off hours plant manager in chemical industry
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2 months to present Hilderbrand Improvements, Port Angeles Washington;
• Establishing personal business: Contract work as mechanical and structural engineering practices for home and small industry site work; determining size and spacing of replacement floor and roofing joists and personally owned and operated excavation equipment as fill in work with present
2005-2011 Reliability Engineer, Maintenance Supervisor, Nippon Paper Industries USA
• Helped restructure bridge, davit arm, monorail, overhung and under hung cranes for
• Supervised contractors and mechanic crews
• Worked on pulp mill and recycle plant mechanical integrity of tanks and piping
• Failure analysis studies and proposed material and design changes with reports and recommendations
• Designed PFA lined Sulfuric Acid tank, Kynar lined piping and pump transfer systems; designed and selected controls and safety systems
• Led PHA for Hazardous chemicals systems; existing and proposes designs
• Central Safety Committee member as maintenance representative for 5 years
• Worked directly with Environmental department to oversee sea wall improvements and contractor demo jobs involving army corps. and tribal archaeologist with all required local biological evaluation and local permitting
• On call after hours for solutions to break-in maintenance equipment failures
• Extensive capital work and writing requests and follow ups with corporate executive committee
2001-2005 Mechanical and Reliability Engineer, Maintenance, Boise Cascade, St Helens Oregon
• Structural design for safety zero energy state machine frame supports and lockouts for elevators
• Preventative maintenance program, continued to establish and optimize frequency of inspections and set up documentation and resulting work orders
• Performed failure analysis and wrote reports for causes and solutions such as with unexpected fatigue and corrosion to stainless steel tanks and transfer piping
• Structural design for adjustable knee braces supporting mezzanine to eliminate damaging resonance vibration, saved company over $100k by avoiding less efficient fix using mass rather
• Many designs implemented. Managed groups of 14 mechanics plus contractors
1993-2001 Mechanical Engineer, Kalama Chemical KCI Plant, BF Goodrich, Kalama, Washington
• Process system and control design of Technical grade Benzoic Acid, Sodium Benzoate, Cinnamic Aldehyde, Dowtherm heat transfer fluid and steam process and return systems
• Designed vent silencers and scrubbers, permanent and mobile secondary containments, waste water system optimizations using wasted flash steam as heat supply. Set up pad gas supply from N2 PSA units and condensate return using pressure powered pumps (steam driven)
• Analyzed and optimized Pump, piping, control valves and safeties to improve processes
• Worked with SWAPCA for installing new remote package boiler; designed and managed installation with all tie-in piping for fuel system and steam, condensate return, as well as designed exhaust stack for SOX and NOX monitors to pass air pollution control limits with flue gas recirculation as contr...
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