Promoted to Industrial Foreman for Sprinkmann Insulation overseeing all company industrial operations, including ongoing projects at natural gas storage facilities, power plants, and factories for a 72 county territory reporting directly to company President. Maintain consistent record of being in the top tier of company ROI project rankings by beating deadlines and returning unused budget funds for reallocation.Work with site, contractor and engineering leadership to accomplish deliverables and remain compliant with industry standards. Coordinate with appropriate stakeholders to determine the safest and most cost-effective project plan / work order and oversee trade-wide implementation. Inspect all elements of projects to create project safety plans and upgrade safety measures as needed in line with company and site requirements and OSHA guidelines. Create crews and delegate projects on a daily, weekly and hourly basis. Oversee crews ranging from 2-50 construction professionals and other union tradespeople including insulators, sheet metal workers, boilermakers, pipefitters, and laborers. Maintain consistent communication with office and plant personnel giving status updates, material orders, cost estimates, and safety, budgetary and production assessments. Holds daily safety meetings to ensure all safety protocols are being met and address jobsite hazards. Make recommendations to company safety officers and jobsite staff.Tack of personnel’s time and report allotted hours for bookkeeping, contract updates and payrolls. Coordinate with multiple parties to determine completion percentage and make time and focus adjustments when needed to achieve time and budget goals. Determine and ensure jobsite safety at all times and stop work to rectify any potential threats. Assist with construction work when needed

Worked-full time as a construction professional skilled in the installation of mechanical insulation, fire stopping, asbestos and lead mitigation or abatement, sound attention and specialty fabrications required in custom mechanical insulation installations, reporting directly to foreman other company or plant staff dependent on project. Measure mechanical systems including tanks, vessels, boilers, piping, duct work, project spacing, and order materials. Measured projects, ordered material, coordinated with other trades, applied more than 15 kinds of insulation and prefabrication including fiberglass, calcium silicate, polyurethane, etc. to a variety of mechanical systems. Created and installed removable insulated blankets and used a variety of glues to install foam insulation on chill water vessels and tanks and applied metal jacking. Managed and taught apprentices and ensured their safety at all times. Worked on commercial, medical, bio-technical, governmental and educational facilities and other customer types in addition to industrial projects. Completed other construction and leadership duties as assigned.

Admitted to Heat and Frost Insulators Local 1 and worked full-time as a mechanical insulation apprentice reporting to journeymen on assigned jobs, including a year-long outage at Duck Creek Station that required months of seven-day-a-week, ten-hour shifts, while attending apprenticeship school. Became proficient in construction and maintenance of different mechanical systems including gas pipes, plumbing pipes, chill water pipes, steam pipes, boilers and tanksTrained on job preparation including blueprint reading, layout work, geometry, measurement of metal layouts, and project safety. Trained on fabrication of metal and became proficient in multiple layouts for pipe fittings, end caps and tank heads.Trained on insulation materials and installation and became proficient with pipe covering hand tools including wrenches, tin snips, dividers, band saws, measuring tools, pin welders, hammers, impact drills, circular saws, banders, channellocks and over ten specialty insulation knives. Trained on insulation abatement and asbestos safety. Performed all assigned insulation installation and removal duties. Performed other apprentice duties including material delivery and distribution, maintenance, tool organization, job cleaning, and other support duties as assigned.

Hired on full-time as a permit improver supporting construction employees as a ‘lugger’. Staged, organized and moved material, cleaned job sites, acquired requested tools and supplies and performed other tasks as assigned.