• Reviewed preventative maintenance routines for accuracy and streamlined for efficiencies.• Managed major mechanical projects, overhauls and upgrades for drilling rigs. • Collaborated with the Chief Engineer and Maintenance Supervisor to identify and solve mechanical problems. • Provided onsite support for equipment failures that significantly reduced nonproductive time.• Shopped for quotes and performed bid evaluations for products and services.• Worked with ABS to reclassify the auxiliary drilling equipment IBOP valves as class II valves which reduced the need for rebuilding and pressure testing.• Rewrote the maintenance plans for auxiliary drilling equipment based on conditional assessment as opposed to removing and rebuilding at the five-year intervals which saved time and 1 million plus for each rig.

• Oversaw the mechanic upgrades and installation of equipment on various projects for multiple drilling rigs in the fleet.• Worked with the Preventative Maintenance Department to write preventative maintenance routines and had them set up in the Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS).

• Supervised employees in the manufacturing of new drilling equipment.• Set and achieved deadlines for building and shipment of new drilling equipment.• Interviewed job applicants, promoted employees, and hired and fired employees.

• Scheduled shop production to meet customers’ demands.• Provided technical support, interfaced with customers, and dispatched technicians to rig locations.• Interviewed job applicants, promoted employees, and hired and fired employees.

Travel to rig locations, diagnose and repair drilling equipment locally and internationally Refurbishment of drilling equipment to OEM specifications in Houston based facility Build new equipment to customer specifications

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