Experience:
Completed over 200 projects in chemical industry, designing and installing equipment in labs, pilot plants, and factories.
Project Experience:
Managing engineering teams for designing, buying, and installing chemical processing equipment and managing other engineers doing structural, electrical, instrumentation, HVAC, civil, and environmental aspects of the projects. Matching process equipment capability to business needs.
Training: 4 classes in project management, 100+ related classes
Certification: Earned PMP in 2002, (since let it expire, could reinstate)
Past Project Management Tasks:
Engineering Design Team Leadership during entire project timeframe,
Manufacturing & Lab Engineering team leadership during project scope definition,
Interfacing with clients, project related sales calls to customer sites,
Working with manufacturing, pilot plants, labs, marketing, and sales to set project scopes,
Process Models in Excel or Aspen, or overseeing others creating those,
Creation of PFDs, P&IDs, Design Basis, equipment specifications,
Hiring of contract (consulting) engineers and overseeing design work, times, and costs,
Project cost estimates and updates, normally in Excel,
Project justification, operating cost estimates, effect on P&L, and ROI
Project schedules and schedule updates, earned value updates, (schedules normally in MS Project),
Writing construction contracts and purchase order contracts,
Overseeing construction, authorizing change orders, and startup,
Hazop or hazop leadership, following PSM, safety reviews, and code reviews,
Working with maintenance groups and maintenance conscious engineering reviews,
Creation of process information required for environmental permitting,
Project proposal documents for approval and project closing documents.
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