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Pineville, La, Us

Pineville, Louisiana, United States

Pineville,La

• Providing clients with detailed planning and scheduling by leading weekly meetings of electrical construction work for efficient execution.• Constructing projects safely in accordance with design, budget, and project schedule requirements.• Executing electrical plant work orders.• Finalizing and communicating weekly project schedules with clients. • Utilizing LCI (Lean Construction Institute) process for pull planning on various capital projects with a construction forecast total of over 23 million dollars. • Providing leadership support to improve milestones set, reliability, and trust during construction phases. • Review and approval of engineering drawings to ensure scope of work can be properly executed. • Expedite material deliveries for project schedule requirements.• Submitting RFI’s and other design change orders. • Manage project punchlist documentation and procedures.• Providing construction cost predictions and SAP cost reports for multiple site projects. • Organizing training sessions for electrical and mechanical planners on use of budget estimates, work order estimates, and all cost system documents.

Pineland, Tx

Investigates and evaluates current processes to advance productivity in the mill.Maintains working relationships with vendors and raw material suppliers to improve mill technologies and create value.Tracks and updates project production logs, schedules, monthly forecasting reports, schematic drawing readings and quality control logs. Records reports on quality and grade yield to meet SPIB inspections. Accomplishes strategic and critical thinking eliminating downtime to increase production.Analyzes shift reports, inventory, and develops quality SOP’s and training material. Relief Production Supervisor for more than 15 employees, ensuring safety while meeting production goals. Implemented a specific design that created long-term value at the stud planer mill. This design reduced downtime by 15% and increased production by roughly 4,000 board feet a shift. Assists systems engineer with Rslogix 5000 and PLC-5 programming.Conducts crew safety meetings and fosters safety as the number one priority.

Oakdale,Louisiana

Responsible for evaluating and improving plant performance in the areas of safety, quality, production output and operating cost.Managed the plant diagnostic process with plant superintendent to identify performance gaps, prioritize opportunities, and establish action items.Evaluated alternatives and prepared cost estimates for capital projects, and revisions to plant.Served as project manager on projects to account for progress and costs.Analyzed, proposed and implemented new methods and processes for improving existing production systems. Production Supervisor consisting of over 150 employees and 4 shifts. Improved process reliability using CFA to solve process control issues.Participated in daily planning and production meetings with staff.

Alexandria, Louisiana Area

Inspects heavy plant machineryProvides general maintenance and repair to heavy plant machineryTroubleshooting I/O issues and converting ladder diagrams into programsCapturing raw data to resolve issues on operator consoles. Test electrical performance on various machine centers. Constructed and tested electronic circuits and installed point-to-point wire harnesses and connectors.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electronics Engineering Technology

High School, Engineering

Activities and Societies: Magnet ClassesEngineering Studies, Animation Design