Benjamin Kaplan, Mba Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Area Manager for Campos EPC's Chicago Office

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Secondant Project Manager for Black Hills Energy; Anaerobic Digester RNG project in State Center, IA. Responsible for overall scope, schedule, procurement, budget and all associated activities to run RNG from producer.
• Project Manager for multiple station projects with NiSource (NIPSCO, Columbia Gas of Ohio), including engineering drafting and design
• Resource Management and Utilization at Chicago Office
• Business Development and Client Management

AGA Field Operations Committee Member

Waukegan, IL

• Manage and coordinate engineering and construction activities for all North Shore Gas territories, including a $40M annual budget for capital construction
• Develop annual construction baseline plans and KPI dashboards, including but not limited to budgets, design timelines, construction schedules, work package expectations and related requirements
• Member of Resilience Team, focusing on additional options to handle current and future load requirements of 250 MAOP high pressure gas system
• Meet and exceed CAPEX/O&M splits for work groups, including Distribution Design and union workforce
• Lead team responsible for all vast majority of permit services within North Shore Gas
• Communicate as North Shore Gas liaison with 54 municipalities, including Lake County DOT and Illinois DOT

Chicago, Illinois

• Developed Field Hazard Form, a reusable tool for field and supervisory employees to use with a focus on jobsite safety
• Participated in the ERGO Team and Leadership Advisory Team for Peoples Gas & North Shore Gas
• Managed team responsible for permit processing, underground pipe construction projects and as-builting for O&M
• Reconciled Customer Complaints, including Over/Below Grade issues with Restoration Group
• Developed and managed construction projects, including project plans, budgeting and workforce management
• Led Process Improvement for multiple items, including PTO, Time Accounting, Data Entry and Near Miss Reporting

Chicago, Illinois

• Strategically analyzed and investigated Conflicts of Interest, enterprise-wide (IL, WI, MN, MI)
• Beget and managed data & summarization requests by external parties such as ICC, Illinois Attorney General and CUB
• Worked hand-in-hand with Chicago Gas Worker’s Union on a myriad of short and long term issues
• Assisted in recruitment of intern and full-time engineering candidates as part of Campus Ambassador Team
• Worked with Internal Audit, Legal, Corporate Communications and others on various projects and investigations

Chicago, Illinois

• Led team of engineers in year-long internal audit project of both represented and supervisory personnel
• Facilitate and initiate permits, with tracking mechanisms for timely field performance and work completion
• Assisted in recruitment of intern and full-time engineering candidates as part of Campus Ambassador Team
• Work with Internal Audit & Human Resources departments on various projects and investigations
• Data analysis of workforce planning data and workload for daily and weekly forecasts.
• Work with local union leadership towards a multitude of resolutions

Greater Chicago Area

• Technical lead in the establishment of a Performance Management System for union wage earners
• Business lead in transition to a new meter reading system for over 1.5 million gas endpoints
• Manage transition of wage earners for better resource allocation to Accelerated Main Replacement Project (AMRP)
• Head transition and conditioning of Panasonic U1 devices for field and supervisory personnel
• Beta testing various Remote Gas Shutoff meters for possible implementation in field
• Leader of meter reading department, including direct reporting responsibilities

Chicago, IL

• Performed audits and project analyses of schematics, design and cost
• Planned and estimated multi-million dollar boiler service repair projects
• Created take-offs and pricing for multidisciplinary systems in petrochemical, utility, and other plants
• Handled multiple, simultaneous projects while maintaining productive job sites
• Acquired multiple high profile donations for the Down Syndrome Research and Treatment Foundation

• Assisted in the instillation of new service water strainers
• Effectively designed and updated P&ID diagrams for the auxiliary heating system
• Tutored others in proper AutoCAD usage, including design and revision techniques
• Safety Committee member, dealing with vendors and union employees

• Assisted in the design and creation of custom machinery
• Effectively designed and built a scheme for organizing tooling components
• Created functional drawings and designs for replication and reuse
• Learned machine tooling operations and gained extensive knowledge of shop practices

Master Of Business Administration (Hr Concentration), Business Administration, Management And Human Resources, 4.00 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma High Dean's Honors

Bsme, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: SAE BAJA Mobile Chassis Dynamometer Design, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Habitat for.