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Bridgewater, New Jersey, United States

Bridgewater, New Jersey, United States

Detail oriented experienced engineer with experience in designing and managing capital process equipment projects, focusing on continuous improvement and safety.

Bridgewater, New Jersey, United States

Murray Hill, Nj

Summit, Nj

Maintenance Supervisor for the Facilities Engineering- Summit NJ group.• Responsible for the support of all research and administrative aspects of the physical plant operations and utilities.• Manage various smaller capital projects.• Support all research (GLP), office, and site requirements within the trade.• Supervise crew of 10 skilled pipefitters, mechanics, and welders.• Obtaining crew training and certifications for fire suppression systems, NICET Certifications, backflow prevention testing, boiler licenses (black seal), etc.

responsible for major capital projects for 31 aluminum sulfate and 3 ferric sulfate plants in North America and Canada. Prepare fixed capital projects, including proposal, financial justification, specifications, engineering, and project schedule. Coordinate with engineering firms, equipment manufacturers, suppliers, contractors, plant supervisors, regional managers, corporate directors, and consultants. Oversee all phases of each project, including laboratory and equipment testing, equipment fabrication, building erection, installation, and startup. Conceptualize and scrutinize alternative processes and equipment to achieve cost savings. Sample of major projects include: Installation of 100 ft^3 filter press and ancillary systems at three plants, including the design and erection of buildings to house the system. Responsibilities include equipment specifications, building layouts, piping layouts, tank installations, and safety and environmental review. Installation of pressure leaf filter to reduce turbidity of final product. This installation increased the plant capacity by 128% by additional process changes. Project Manager for proposed project to implement process and equipment changes to ferric sulfate process that would increase the plant capacity by 87%, reduce unit costs by 16%, increase profitability by 300%, with a payback of 0.5 years. Project goal was a 25% increase in capacity. Coordinated electrical safety inspections and upgrades for 34 chemical plants within the Water Treatment Chemicals Group.

Manage million dollar projects in ozone generator process equipment and ancillary equipment for municipal, pharmaceutical, and industrial applications. Coordinate with customer, AE Firms, contractors, vendors, internal sales, and shop. Develop and maintain project schedules and financial reports for project analysis. Design process equipment incorporating pumps, control valves, heat exchangers, process instrumentation and analyzers. Create P&ID's, B0M's, O&M's, submittals, etc.

Design skid mounted cryogenic condensation equipment for pharmaceutical and chemical applications. Develop, test, and implement programmable logic controller and operator interface terminal (PLC and OIT) code to operate and monitor process equipment. Design process electrical system including both power and control schematics. Generate specifications for various equipment, including instruments, control valves, heaters, pumps, etc. Develop and maintain project schedules and financial reports for project analysis. Utilize process simulation software for process design and optimization of skid mounted cryogenic condensation plants. Commission start-up of process equipment, including electrical, mechanical, and PLC equipment.

Design process vacuum systems for various industrial processes including vacuum dryers, soil-vapor extraction, pharmaceutical applications, etc. Develop project schedules and track progress for all manufacturing projects. Evaluate work in progress to adjust allocation of resources. Develop and maintain piping and material specifications for 3-D piping software. Design 3-D system layout including vessels, piping, and instrumentation.

Design water treatment equipment for the utility, refinery, and industrial industries.Design pressure vessels per ASME Sec VIII Div I. Design piping systems including valve and pump selection. Design skid assemblies and platforms for process equipment. Design detailed shop drawings for fabrication and equipment layout drawings for customer approval.

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Emphasis on Computer Aided Design and Analysis

Bsme, Mechanical Engineering

Education record

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering