Rob Schutty Pe, Crl Email & Phone Number

Bastrop, TX, US

Bastrop & Caldwell Counties

Maxwell Peaker PlantProject Director of a 10 unit Wartsila 18V50SG Peaker Plant Project. Responsible for Site, OEM, Owners Engineer, GSU, GIF Equipment, EPC Selections including Engineering, Construction, EPC Contract Management and Check out & Startup Activities.Hilbig OperationsPlant Director of a 5 BCF Underground Natural Gas Storage Facility which.

Austin, Texas Area

• Responsible for the strategic direction of the SME Engineering, Predictive Maintenance and Power Plant Planning Departments. This group is responsible for identifying equipment reliability concerns, developing.
• Lead the development of eDNA dashboards for multiple power plant sites (3,500 MW’s) which allows for monitoring of ERCOT load, LCRA Fleet monitoring, Plant performance, System performance and Equipment monitoring.
• The eDNA dashboards consisted of over 160 displays that can be monitored system wide by multiple users
• Lead the development of the CEAT program at LCRA. The CEAT program follows the EPRI Program 69 equipment reliability program.
• The CEAT development focuses the RCM program on the most important assets

Austin, Texas Area

Responsible for the overall management of the Subject Matter Expert Engineers who are responsible for identifying power plant reliability deficiencies, developing mitigating solutions and their subsequent implementation.

Luminant: Southern Region

• Responsible for developing a new Engineering department to support the Southern Region Solid Fuel Generating plants. Principal member and key strategist overseeing department responsible for the asset health of 6 units.
• Managed the hiring of a new staff, developing roles and responsibilities and departmental budget
• Demonstrated teaming skills by interfacing with plant site directors to gain consensus for the future direction of the Southern Region System Engineering Department
• Lead the regional Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) departments at all 3 Southern Region sites, including 13 technicians, supervisors and superintendent
• Developed the asset health process to monitor system health and develop recommendations for improvements in plant reliability and performance
• Led a cross functional team to optimize the Maintenance and Operating Basis for critical plant equipment. This included optimizing operator rounds, engineering monitoring of key systems, optimizing preventative.

Rockdale, Texas

• Responsible for the overall management of the Sandow Plant Asset Management group, which is a group of seasoned Engineers and SMEs. This team was responsible for identifying plant reliability, performance, and.
• Managed the 6-year site plan of Capex and O&M projects consisting of approximately $250M of projects over 6 the years
• Managed the stage gate process of the Sandow projects to meet required unit outage dates. This process managed projects from conception to implementation
• Facilitated the long range PUP (Power Utilization Plan) inputs for Sandow site, directly influencing the long-term profitability of the site
• An active member of the Alcoa Operating Committee which meets monthly with Alcoa, these duties included reporting on Capex projects and reporting on various topics as needed
• Managed the long term overhaul schedule for Sandow which included communicating to our corporate office necessary changes to the schedule

Dallas, Texas

• Responsible for large project identification, development and justification.
• Managed all TXU Power business cases for large projects, which resulted in meeting all the necessary deadlines and requirements for the various businesses
• Acted as a Team Leader during the review/redesign of the capital allocation migration to the stage gate process
• Team member on the PRT (Project Review Team) and the PAT (Project Allocation Team)
• Conducted the monthly PRT & PAT team meetings
• Lead the development and automation of the Post Project Review process

Dallas, Texas

• Supervised 11 test engineers who performed boiler, turbine and heat rate testing.
• Responsible performance testing on steam turbines, combustion turbines, power boilers and net cycle heatrate for overall system performance.
• Responsible for the heat rate testing which supported a PPA agreement.
• Coordinated the conversion of the boiler test trailers from an outdated software platform to a new industry standard platform utilizing gSystems

Dallas, Texas

• Responsible for Asset Management responsibilities for fleet wide large projects.
• Provided asset management support for the selection and purchase of the turbine upgrade projects at the lignite plants.
• Provided life of plant proforma's to Portfolio Management which provided the plant O&M & sustaining capex for potential plant purchases.
• Lead due diligence teams for Power during the review of counter party plants. This resulted in the purchase of the Pedricktown and Sweetwater facilities

Fairfield, Texas

• Plant Senior Engineer responsible larger plant projects and complex plant issues
• Provided plant engineering services which included: the new truck unloading facility, development of the fuel blending program, cathodic protection upgrades, powdex system control upgrades, plant air study, PMO Pilot.
• Volunteered to be the Project Manager for the Handley 1 & 2 restart out of mothball status during the summer of 1998.

Fairfield, Texas

Supervised 13 craft employees which included operations & maintenance personnel on a rotating 12-hour shift schedule. Responsible for the safe, reliable and timely delivery of solid fuel to a 2-unit plant and the subsequent removal of byproducts.

Fairfield, Texas

Plant engineer responsible for project identification, resolution and implementation. Extensive project work in the fuel and ash handling systems. Implemented a fuel blending program to assure environmental compliance at the stack of a 2-unit solid fuel site

Colorado City, Texas

• Provided plant engineering services which included numerous plant improvement projects
• Assigned as the I&C Supervisor for 2 years during the boiler control system replacement for 2 steam units
• An integral member of the plant team during the construction, check-out and startup of 6 GE Frame 7EA simple cycle combustion turbines and associated equipment