Paul Pigman, Pe Email & Phone Number

United States

Remote

Remote

Corvallis, Oregon Area

• Lead design engineer for various mechanical handling equipment including a 1000 ton ASME NOG-1 crane, fuel handling machine, and various supporting crane designs.

Eugene, Oregon

• Lead Mechanical Engineer for a phase 1 design of a Biogas facility in Sunray Texas. A greenfield project from concept to construction. Led a team of civil, structural, electrical and mechanical engineering and design team to provide the balance of plant design to support the process equipment. Project scope included hot water system, underground utilities, process equipment interface with balance of plant equipment and overall plant layout.• Lead Mechanical engineer for balance of plant design of a Biogas Facility in Junction City, OR. A brownfield project that expanded its food to gas facility to a thermophilic gas production facility. Led the project in equipment sizing, selection and analysis. Including a detailed pipe stress analysis of all process and balance of plant piping systems,.• Lead mechanical engineer and project manager for a resin kettle automation upgrade in Springfield Oregon. Led project included piping retrofit to install new valves with automated actuators for full remote control of the resin cooking process. Oversaw a group of mechanical designs, electrical engineers, and electrical designers for cost affective, quality product.• Lead mechanical engineer and project manager for various facility upgrade projects including but not limited to piping/valve upgrade and modifications, machine design for ergonomics. • Lead mechanical engineer for projects supporting the wood and paper product industries including paper mills, metal production mills, and chemical process facilities.

Corvallis, Or

• Design engineer for pool cooling systems. The design work including hydraulic calculations, piping, valves, pump, flow control devices (orifices). Utilized AFT FATHOM software to support the complex modeling and analysis of multiple pump and variable operating scenarios to optimize the system design.• Lead technical engineer on multiple projects ranging from $200K to $2.0M. Each contract required building relationships with suppliers as well as multiple disciplines to ensure a detailed and complete design that meets the design standards and design philosophy. Interfacing with multiple disciplines, including seismic, radiological, I&C, electrical, civil/structural, licensing to coordinate collection of inputs for complex design analysis and review. Project including spent fuel racks, 850 ton overhead bridge crane, fuel handling machine, spent fuel inspection station, module upender, fuel elevators, and jib cranes.

Lea• Lead engineer of multiple modifications and upgrade projects including feedwater heater level control system, feedwater lube oil pressure systems, ultimate heat sink filtration system, and diesel fuel emergency supply line to emergency portable generators.• Responsible in coordinating work activities with a team of engineers and designers to provide a complete, accurate and quality design change package to our client within schedule and budget.• Proven leadership of small to medium size projects (ranging from $150K-$500K).

• Assigned as Contractor at Southern Nuclear Company, Birmingham, Alabama.• Employed in the major projects group assigned responsible for modification and upgrades of systems and components of an operating nuclear generating facility.• Successful leadership of a team of engineers and designers to upgrade the safety related motor operated valves identified in NRC GL89-10 requiring replacement.• Interfaced with multiple vendors to procure new valve and actuator and ensure delivery of material to site on schedule.• The design work included work at three Southern Nuclear Company nuclear power plants: Vogtle, Hatch and Farley.

• Design engineer providing mechanical handling equipment designs (cranes, yokes, transporter, etc.) in nuclear high level radioactive waste processing facilities to support the licensing application submittal according to NUREG- 0800.• Developed design reports, calculations, design specifications, and drawings in accordance with ASME NOG-1, CMAA 70, ANSI N14.6, and NUREG-0612.

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (A.A.S.), Machine Tool Technology/Machinist