During my almost 4 years at OPD (a KES company), I performed project management and engineering related activities related to primarily the natural gas and hydrocarbon industries.My role at OPD was complete responsibility for budget from bid phase to final invoicing, facility design, materials/equipment specifications and procurement, and construction through startup.

During my 4 month internship at Hol-Mac Corp. I: performed tolerance studies, created test procedures, troubleshooting procedures, operating procedures, and used test stands, learned several common engineering design practices, designed proprietary piece parts and assemblies to upgrade and retrofit current industrial products, created and edited BOMs and routings, and designed a new assembly for the Pac Mac product line.

• 1st work term: I shadowed several full-time project engineers and helped them manage their projects. For the second half of the term, I started managing my own projects with oversight from my supervisor (the project engineering leader).• 2nd work term: I continued to help my coworkers with their projects but moved towards managing several projects simultaneously from the initial P0 phase through to completion in Phase 7.• 3rd work term: I closed out most of my ongoing projects and gave detailed packets to the full-time Project Engineers so that they would be able to continue working on the projects after I left for college.• Throughout my co-op experience: I worked with our draftsman redlining drawings and integrating our old drawing management system into Autodesk Vault, wrote an SOP for rebuilding a steam head, and several SOP’s for various lab tests for analyzing paper quality and machine tolerances. • Projects I worked on include but are not limited to: House Crane rebuild, Rotograte upgrade for a Power Boiler, Compressed Air project for the entire mill, HVAC replacement unit for a Motor Control Room, De-superheater replacement, and Tall Oil Soap Tank unloading pump