Timothy Gronek Email & Phone Number

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

• Plan, schedule, estimate, budget, staff and execute for Husky Refinery in Superior, Wisconsin, 348 pieces of equipment, 54,000 man-hours, 28-day turnaround. For BP Whiting 11A, execute turnaround of 62,000 man-hours.
• Assisted in building premier project reporting tool for P6, speeding up the reporting process for the P6 scheduler to a live time schedule.
• Assisted to 1.4mil zero TRIR (total recordable incident rate), resulting in numerous safety awards and certificates across the U.S., including TUAC.

Graduated apprentice. Have since worked in many facets of the trade, including power generating stations, steel mills, and oil refineries.

Hammond, Indiana

• Supervise, plan, weld, and execute Critical Lifts over 200T.
• Completed NLMK Duct work Modernization 240T Critical Lift project ahead of schedule and under budget.
• Finished ArcelorMittal East Down comer replacement 2 Lifts over 200T and ArcelorMittal #3 Pot Repair 60’ of 6” thick inlays.
• Coordinated with many other contractors on simultaneous work, avoiding overhead work, performing daily safety audits, and bringing jobs in safely with zero injuries, on-time and under budget.

Munster, Indiana

• Supervising boiler outages, estimating, welding, complex rigging.
• Achieved world records on BP Whiting modernization project for largest, safest modernization inside of a running refinery.
• Worked on several high-pressure header installs for Nipsco Power Generation “Demo-Rig and Install-Weld”, resulting in end weld reject rates that were less than 2% with leak free hydrostatic pressure test.

Lima, Ohio Area

Field Change Order Manager: Assess unscheduled events (wrong material, wrong fabrication, evacuations, an event that is not in the planned turnaround and added work), redirect manpower, allocate man hours and funding, document all lost time due to change orders.

Whiting, IN

General Foreman: CRU turnaround, planning, issue plan permits, material inventory, staffing.

East Chicago, IN

QC/QA: Boiler re-tube projects at Coke Energy. Duties performed: Construction of the R1 Boiler Package for the AI and client, weld inspection, tube and socket dimensioning, data recording, and mapping production.

Burns Harbor, IN

Foreman. Duties performed: Re-tubing boiler which included replacing air to air heater, 50% water walls, super heater bank, and generation bank.

East Chicago, IN

QC/QA boiler re-tube projects at Coke Energy. Duties performed: Construction of the R1 Boiler Package for the AI and client, weld inspection, tube and socket dimensioning, data recording, and mapping production.

Portaage, IN

• ArcelorMittal #7 furnace reline supervised all crane work, including replacing stack at 410’ elevation, supervisor over crane work for down comer replacement at USS Steel, welding. Set up rigging plans, and reading and.
• Achieved zero down time due to injuries through daily safety talks, walking through daily job scope, involving tradesmen in the job, and bringing awareness to the team.
• Planned slag pot repairs for USS Steal, repairing 18 of the 24 slag pots between 2 contractors.

Certified Associate Welding Inspector (Cawi)

Apprenticeship