Robert Howatson Email & Phone Number

Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada

Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada

Grande Prairie, Alberta

Created and maintained a company wide inventory of all small items, such as flanges, suction hoses, safety equipment, HDPE Inventory etc. Gave each piece an estimated cost comparing new and historical pricing and associated welding/manufacturing costs.Created and maintained a forecasting sheet for known and possible upcoming jobs to help our R&M department with prioritizing equipment maintenance and new builds and purchases to minimize rental equipment. Helped onboarding of Tenna tracking software, helped build a company wide data base, attached blue tooth beacons to all wheeled and/or motorized equipment and QR tags to higher valued inventory items. Created and managed all geofenced areas for each job and worked closely with our superintendents to make sure equipment was being scanned in and out of each job site for tracking purposes.Worked closely with all superintendents, project managers and suppliers to maintain and trouble shoot our fleet of Telemetry based flow meters and C Ring level readers.Managed relationships with several vendors, to optimize our purchasing power to get the best price possible on items and equipment as the company continued to expand.Managed, tracked and invoiced all rental equipment within the company. Worked continuously with rental company's to get the lowest price possible and correct amount of days used.Through tracking rentals and maintaining an inventory of all purchases, I managed to receive over $400,000 in credits.Helped with on boarding of Aimsio, an equipment tracking and billing software. Helped build initial database of company wide inventory. Managed and maintained all changes, additions and rentals within the software. Notified superintendents and project managers when items were missing from tickets to help optimize job margins.Managed the location of all equipment and worked closely with project managers and depot mangers to minimize rentals and trucking costs for upcoming jobs.

Grande Prairie, Alberta

Scouting routes for water transfer lines. Designing equipment requirements and pump placement for water transfer lines. Tracking water usage for company, client and government regulatory boards. Locating viable water sources and applying for required licenses.

Grande Prairie, Alberta

Driving and maintaining hydraulic fracking equipment such as pumps, mountain movers, reefers and t-belts. Rigging in frack equipment. Doing required maintenance on frack pumps. Setting up chem units and transferring chemicals during fracturing operations. Maintaining inventory and ordering additional chemicals when required. Managing sand operations from coordinating sand hauling trucks, keeping an accurate inventory and ordering additional material when required.

Grande Prairie, Alberta

Memory Logging Engineer, Open Hole Wire Line Division

Edmonton, Canada Area

Memory Logging Engineer, Open Hole Specialty Division

Grande Prairie Alberta, Canada

Open Hole Wire Line Engineer and Compact Memory logging Engineer

Bachelor'S Degree, Mining Engineering

Diploma In Engineering