Dave Cook

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Senior Project Manager at Fastco Corporation @ Fastco Corporation
675 West Broadway Route 2, Lincoln,Maine 04457,United States
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About Dave Cook

Over thirty-five years of engineering, maintenance, construction and operational troubleshooting experience mostly within the pulp and paper industry. Significant experience also in hydro, nuclear, consulting and construction engineering as well as project management.Proven track record of successful project engineering/ management, team building, department/ plant management and accomplishing goals, quickly, even with very limited resources.Able to develop strong independent teams and provide strong leadership example throughout an organization - including support required for cultural enhancement in the areas of safety and environmental improvement initiatives.Exceptionally innovative, very detailed with keen troubleshooting abilities.

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Fastco Corporation

Fastco Corporation

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Senior Project Manager at Fastco Corporation
675 West Broadway Route 2, Lincoln,Maine 04457,United States
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fastco-corp.com
Employees:
16
Dave Cook Work Experience Details
  • Fastco Corporation
    Senior Project Manager
    Fastco Corporation Apr 2016 - Present
    Lincoln, Maine
    Hired on to the Fastco's construction, maintenance and fabrication team to help the owners continue to grow our diverse and capable service offerings and expand the business into new project based areas that will position the company for ongoing prosperity.Immediately began managing a new $4.5MM Anaerobic Digester and Food Waste Hydrolyzer Project in Western MA. As of October of 2016, we are nearing substantial completion of this project and are poised to be the GC of choice for multiple upcoming similar projects in the North East region of the U.S. for our current client and the engineering/ technology firm we are both partnered with. Duties include AIA documentation generation and control, sub-contractor management, major purchases/ agreements, primary client and engineering communications, overseeing site supervision, scheduling/ coordination with internal fabrication shop, estimating/ bids and misc. engineering. Also initiating several company wide improvements for efficiency and competitiveness improvements. Reporting directly to both owners.
  • Gordon Brothers Consortium
    Senior Consultant And Site Supervisor
    Gordon Brothers Consortium Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
    Lincoln, Maine
    Was employed as a full-time, temporary consultant and site supervisor to oversee the transition of and preservation of all assets of the former Lincoln Paper & Tissue Co. mill in Lincoln, ME to the four companies that formed the joint venture partnership known as the Gordon Brothers Consortium.Duties included overall site coordinator and supervisor. Assigned to develop scenarios and hire appropriate resources and purchase necessary materials to preserve the assets - including all paper and tissue machines. For several of the 2015/ 2016 winter months ran the bark boiler for heating the majority of the facilty while owners were trying to negotiate sale of ongoing concern of operations. When negotiations failed we quickly switched to an alternative and cheaper means of heat protection - targeting key mill assets using large rental heaters until we were able to properly drain critical fluid lines - including fire protection and take other means necessary to preserve mill equipment and materials.Also responsible for supervising other temporary maintenance, operational and electrical engineering support, as well as, providing tours, technical information to prospective customers interested in purchasing equipment and materials.
  • Lincoln Paper & Tissue, Llc.
    Director Of Engineering And Major Maintenance
    Lincoln Paper & Tissue, Llc. May 2014 - Nov 2015
    Lincoln Maine
    Responsible for mill-wide capital program, plant engineering and major maintenance activities in reorganized mill after shutting down our pulping operations. Completed $3.2 MM extensive & expedited stock prep/ new 250 TPD pulper project in under nine months. Administered $2MM in project grants with Efficiency Maine. Maintenance duties include major maintenance projects, Yankee grinds, machine roll overhauls, infrastructure repairs, shutdown planning as well as pressure vessel and crane inspection program management. Rotational on call duties, mill-wide operational and maintenance troubleshooting and occasionally filling in for the mill manager. Supervise fire system program and act as company liaison with our property and equipment insurance carrier. In this position until the mill closed down at the end of 2015.
  • Lincoln Paper & Tissue, Llc.
    Senior Project Manager
    Lincoln Paper & Tissue, Llc. Jan 2012 - May 2014
    Lincoln, Maine
    Mill-wide project engineer/ problem solver - temporarily assigned to manage the Pulp Maintenance until position could be filled. Later filled in for Tissue Maintenance Superintendent position due to vacancy there. Also Plant Manager and maintenance on-call responsibilities as needed and on regular weekend rotational basis. Consultant for operational team, solving various problems and bottlenecks throughout the integrated facility and initiated/ implemented solutions/ projects as deemed necessary to facilitate improvements. In this position was also acting as assistant/ consultant to our new Director or Maintenance and Reliability – also filled in for that position as well as the Director of Engineering as needed.
  • Lincoln Paper & Tissue, Llc.
    Maintenance Manager
    Lincoln Paper & Tissue, Llc. May 2004 - Jan 2012
    Lincoln, Maine
    Responsible for mill-wide maintenance at the Lincoln Maine mill. The plant has roughly 400 people employed and has a pulp mill, pulp dryer, two paper machines, three tissue machines with multiple boilers, two turbine generators, a waste treatment plant and a Recaust/ kiln operation. Accomplished the successful start up of the "cold" mill from previous companies bankruptcy. We completed our internal hiring, vendor/ contractor negotiations, insurance inspections, restocking stores, locating critical spares scattered throughout the country, finished the equivalent of an annual outage and started up the entire plant (all but one machine due to orders) - all within three weeks time.Assisted with the successful startup of our new No. 8 Tissue Machine in 2006. Responsible for removing several bottlenecks and redesigned several aspects of the machine and process to eliminate initial design flaws or construction/ installation misses.Led the setup, implementation and training of a new CMMS for all departments (mill-wide) to use electronic work orders that is now tied into our financial systems. Successfully managed several mill-wide annual maintenance outages (budgeting thru execution) – meeting tight schedules, budgets as well as environmental and safety goals.
  • Eastern Pulp And Paper Co.
    Engineering And Maintenance Manager
    Eastern Pulp And Paper Co. Sep 2001 - Mar 2004
    Responsible for all engineering and maintenance activities at our Brewer Maine facility; which included two operating paper machines, two coaters along with various finishing lines (i.e. folio and cut size sheeters, embossers, wrapper lines, etc.). Plant also had two boilers and two turbines.Redesigned and repaired several aspects of the paper and coater machines that increased productivity in two of the machines by more than 20% and 35% respectively.Instituted new strategic planned maintenance schedule and predicitve services that more efficiently utilized all maintenance resources, cut contractor costs and improved operational availabity and quality acrsoss several production lines.
  • Eastern Paper
    Maintenance And Engineering Mananger, Paper And Tissue Divisions
    Eastern Paper Jun 1997 - Sep 2001
    Lincoln, Maine
    Promoted to also cover the overall engineering and maintenance responsibilities in the Paper Division as well as the Tissue Division at the Lincoln mill for Eastern Paper (aka Lincoln Pulp and Paper). Directed both capital and expense engineering and maintenance activities.Responsible for duplicating the tissue cost reduction/ uptime improvements that we achieved in the tissue department in the paper mill as well. Overall maintenance costs in paper reduced by more than 20% while the availability of both machines improved by more than 40% within three years.
  • Lincoln Pulp And Paper Co.
    Maintenance And Engineering Manager, Tissue Divsion
    Lincoln Pulp And Paper Co. Jul 1993 - Jun 1997
    Lincoln, Maine
    Responsible for all Tissue department equipment and infrastructrure repairs and capital improvement work. Implemented several additional maintenance and engineering strategies that improved the tissue machine uptime by additional 20% that was successfully maintained for several years. Also reduced maintenance costs by more than 15% and redesigned several machine components that improved quality and productivity.
  • Lincoln Pulp And Paper Co.
    Tissue Mill Maintenance Superintendent
    Lincoln Pulp And Paper Co. Aug 1992 - Sep 1993
    Lincoln, Maine
    Chosen as part of a new team to improve the overall operations of the then faltering Tissue Division with primary responsibility for developing and managing the maintenance strategy for the two tissue machines along with the corresponding infrastructure. Initiated the first ongoing vibration monitoring program in the plant and begain several other successful maintenance strategies. Reduced the combined unplanned and planned downtime by more than 45% annually. Also eliminated several operational bottlenecks that helped operations achieve record prodution off both tissue machines.
  • Lincoln Pulp And Paper Co.
    Project Engineer
    Lincoln Pulp And Paper Co. Jul 1988 - Aug 1992
    Lincoln, Maine
    Hired on by the Engineering Manager for the Plant after having a brief working relationship with him on the prior years annual outage for the mill. Responsible for more than half of the mechanical and civil engineering capital and major expense projects completed during this period - mostly in the pulp and tissue departments with some work in the paper mill and Recovery/ Utilities area. The projects that I directly managed had a combined annual spending that ranged from $3.5 to $7.0 million and typically included dozens of projects both under $100k as well a few over $500k - inlcuding one infrastructure project that was $2.0 million spanning two years.
  • Cianbro Corporation
    Office Engineer
    Cianbro Corporation Jul 1987 - Jul 1988
    Pittsfield, Maine
    Promoted from Field Engineer to accept mulitple site responsiblities. Duties included estimating/ bids, scope development, material takeoffs, project engineering, sub-contractor management and overall project managment for several manufacturing, hydropower, boiler and bridge construction jobs. At the peak of activity I was running four civil/ mechanical/ electrical projects at three different sites in Maine and New Hampshire.
  • Cianbro Corporation
    Field Engineer
    Cianbro Corporation Mar 1987 - Jul 1987
    Pittsfield, Maine
    Hired on as the new welding QA/ QC engineer but was transferred prior to starting as the lead engineer working directly for Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant for the critical path steam generator chemical cleaning/ sludge lancing project. Completed the single largest and fastest NRC approved plan and sign off documents for the outage work. This was only the second time in the world that this unique method of steam generator cleaning had been employed at the time. Was also one of three Cianbro field engineers overseeing the project during the outage over a two week period.After that job was successfully completed I was asked to assist in the planning and execution of a multi-million dollar annual outage at the Lincoln Pulp and Paper mill in Maine.After completing the Lincoln Mill shutdown, went to the Old Town Maine Mill to rebuild the structural steel from their recovery boiler explosion. Was responsible engineering support, contractor coordination and clerk of the works.
  • University Of Maine
    Engineer (Temporary Posting)
    University Of Maine May 1986 - Mar 1987
    Orono Maine
    Worked in the Industrial Cooperation Department under Dick Hill (noted energy consultant/ professor) completing various ASTM testing, R&D and legal research/ consultations tasks - primarily on HVAC systems.
  • Service Merchandise
    Sales Associate
    Service Merchandise 1984 - 1985
    Bangor Maine
    Ran cash register, customer returns desk, completed inventories, sales floor arrangements, cleaning, assembled equipment.
  • Service Merchandise
    Warehouse Clerk
    Service Merchandise 1980 - 1984
    Bangor, Maine
    Maintained warehouse inventories, assembled sales floor displays, misc. cleaning, assembled equipment, received and put away sales merchandise from truck, carry outs, pulled/ organized orders, yard care, etc.

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