glovebox procurements

• Coordinate engineering effort (for building demolitions, Emergency Diesel Generators, HVAC equipment) with project manager, procurement, construction, startup, environment, safety, health, and project controls, when assigned. • Plan engineering assignments to include estimates for engineering staffing, quantities, scope reviews, schedules on a project. I have technical responsibility for interpreting, organizing, executing, and coordinating these assignments. • Develop statements of work, system requirements, Basis of Estimate; establish project assumptions and constraints, key milestones and deliverables, and summary schedule. Input to and own the engineering elements of a project capital estimate (proposals and execution) quantities and budgets.• Establish technical assumptions and risk assessments, safety practices and procedures are implemented, and engineering design and corresponding design documentation are in compliance with project quality assurance plan and procedures.• Plan, forecast, and identify the necessary engineering resources to support project workload requirements. Coordinate activities among the design and system groups on the project.• Resolve field-initiated questions on engineering, coordinate walkdowns. visit jobsite to resolve RFI’s and technical issues• Communicate complex technical issues and recommend solutions to client, and project management.

May 2015- Present Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NMSubcontract Technical Representative/Procurement Engineer. . My duties:• Technical Liaison for LANL in dealing with suppliers of safety significant equipment (Fire Pumps, Emergency Diesel Generator, Seismic Switches) for the TWF Project, to provide storage for Transuranic Waste generated at the LANL site• Primary point of interface between the subcontractor's organization and LANL for monitoring subcontractor performance, resolving technical issues, responding to technical information requests, coordinating status reviews, coordinating LANL hold and witness point activities, oversight of the review and acceptance of subcontractor submittals, oversight of the acceptance testing of subcontractor submittals and coordinating resolution of technical or quality problems identified during inspection of received deliverables.• Develop or coordinate preparation of the commercial grade dedication plans for equipment procured for use in safety applications and specification of equipment receipt acceptance criteria

Technical lead on projects to procure various types of equipment including elevators, valves, piping, pumps, fitting, suitable for use in a nuclear facility• Develop requisitions, Inspection Attribute Lists (IAL’s), Schedules of Required Vendor Documents (SORVD’s), Recommended Bidders Lists (RBL’s), etc. for design and manufacture of equipment by others.• Work through vendor equipment issues - the Non-Conformance Reports (NCR), Condition Reports (CRs) and assorted documentation that accompanies the resolution of those issues for incoming hardware.• Function after subcontract award as the primary point of interface between the subcontractor's organization and CB&I for monitoring subcontractor performance, resolving technical issues. • Responding to technical information requests, coordinating status reviews, coordinating hold and witness point activities, oversight of the review and acceptance of subcontractor submittals. • Function as the responsible individual within CB&I to coordinate the planning, estimating, procurement scope definition, technical support to the bid process, and technical evaluation of bids received. • Develop written procurement plans, sole source justifications (where needed), cost estimate summaries, recommended bidders lists, material requisitions and statements of work, responses to bidder questions, technical bid evaluation reports, correspondence to subcontractors, status reports, responses to subcontractor information requests and other documents as needed to facilitate completion of assigned work of procuring equipment for a nuclear facility.• Develop or coordinate preparation of the commercial grade dedication plans for equipment procured for use in safety applications and specification of equipment receipt acceptance criteria.

Planning and technical execution of engineered equipment procurements for Chemical and Mechanical equipment. •Technical lead on projects to design and procure various types of equipment including cranes, man lifts, valves, fire doors, specialty piping) and the units they are in.•Develop design-build specifications for design and manufacture of this equipment by others.•Function after subcontract award as the primary point of interface between the subcontractor's organization and MOX Services for monitoring subcontractor performance, resolving technical issues, responding to technical information requests, coordinating status reviews, coordinating MOX Services hold and witness point activities, coordinating visits to vendor facilities, coordinating the review and acceptance of subcontractor submittals, and coordinating resolution of technical or quality problems identified during inspection of received deliverables.•Function as the responsible individual within MOX Services to lead the planning, estimating, procurement scope definition, technical support to the bid process, and technical evaluation of bids received. •Develop written procurement plans, sole source justifications (where needed), cost estimate summaries, recommended bidders lists, material requisitions and statements of work, responses to bidder questions, technical bid evaluation reports, correspondence to subcontractors, status reports, responses to subcontractor information requests and other documents as needed to facilitate completion of assigned work of procuring equipment for a nuclear facility.•Develop or coordinate preparation of the commercial grade dedication plans for equipment procured for use in safety applications and specification of equipment receipt acceptance criteria.

Worked exclusively for Frito-Lay, managed food processing facility projects