Sam Thurber Email & Phone Number

Toledo, Ohio Area

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Memphis, TN

• Technical service provider to three Business Units. Primary responsibility is solving problems. Complete oversight of three cost centers in the plant: Engineering, Utilities and Asset Management. Directly responsible.
• Completed another series of utility/infrastructure projects in 2015, in partnership with corporate engineering and outside consultants, to prepare the facility’s infrastructure for the next 20 years of operation.
• Developed a Master Site Improvement Plan in 2015 and helped shepherded from conception to funding. The project will provide a new office building, substantial renovations, a continued investment in the plant.
• Served most of 2016 as a combination Plant Manager, CI manager and Tech Assurance Manager as the first two positions were unfilled for the majority of the year. Was the designated point of contact for all corporate.
• Led/Supervised a series of five projects in 2014 that substantially improved the infrastructure of the building: A Medium Voltage Distribution (23.5 kv) upgrade; Installation of a new Base-load Air Compressor; The.
• Successfully partnered with corporate engineering staff to install and startup a new, $21.5 million continuous extrusion processing line with kitchen and a packaging line.

Providing engineering project management services with a focus on electrical power distribution, controls and automation systems. Providing management services ranging from project feasibility evaluations and preliminary engineering, to scope development, securing competitive bids and selecting contractors, through implementation and startup. Providing.

Responsible for coordinating multi-discipline teams to design and implement electrical power distribution and process control systems. Typical projects involved two to ten team members with budgetary ranges of $50M to $2MM. Management duties include project management, project feasibility evaluation, conceptual design engineering, project estimating, scope.

Responsible for conceptual and final design engineering. Preparing design and construction packages for control systems and low-voltage power distribution. Construction supervision and contractor management. Coordination of contractor and production activities. Ensure code, specification, and scope compliance of installations. Check-out and Start-up of.

• Preparation of design/construction packages for control systems
• Check-out and Start-up of control systems
• PLC and Human Machine Interface (HMI) programming