Todd Smith Email & Phone Number

Geismar, Louisiana, United States

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Reorganizing the service center for a Visual Management Flow System by facilitating kaizen events, creating shadow boards, re-positioning machines and organizing point of use tooling to improve efficiency up to 30%.
• Engineer, draft, and oversee the fabrication of setup reduction fixtures and specialized shop tooling.
• Structured and implemented a quality program, as well as, perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and maintain metrics for rework & warranty accounts.
• Manage the development, justification, sourcing, & implementation of facility capital improvement projects.
• Train new Client Service Managers and develop the tools for them to quote and manage a repair project.
• Review and approve all vendor material certification and certificates of conformance for contracted work to ensure compliance to D-R specifications.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Primary liaison between internal/external clients and the shop to determine client requirements, resolved technical requests, and discussed on-going work, up-coming turnarounds, scope changes, hold points, etc.
• Obtained client Purchase Orders and perform contract review to approve Terms & Conditions.
• Prepared a concise, yet descriptive set of work instructions for the shop covering necessary client requirements, while still complying with OEM technical specifications, standards, and approved shop practices.
• Reviewed shop inspection documentation in order to develop a list of OEM recommended repair activities and parts necessary for final reassembly.
• Coordinated input from multiple disciplines to provide ideas and solutions to optimize the repair of equipment for improvements in quality, efficiency, cost, safety, and delivery.
• Quoted the price and delivery for the inspection and repair activities associated with internal/external services and parts for client’s rotating equipment ranging in size from a few hundred dollars to $2.7M.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Prepared proposals for clients to alter compressor capabilities to meet new operating conditions.
• Visited client sites to assess steam turbine wear and recommended required repairs to regain efficiency and reliability.
• Evaluated client steam turbine and reciprocating equipment for the purpose of advising repair cost and time frame for service center repairs.
• Overhauled and aligned reciprocating compressors, steam turbines and electric motors at client sites.

Wellsville, New York

• Designed and upgraded a steam turbine governor trip and throttle valve.
• Evaluated and revised material heat treat process for improving governor valve cage longevity.
• Reviewed the design, wrote a repair standard, and created an advertisement for an upgraded steam turbine governor valve exerciser.
• Advised Service Centers of approved repair procedures for Dresser-Rand Steam Turbine product line.

Painted Post, New York

• Managed a development project for increasing the valve life of a lean burn reciprocating engine.
• Updated clients and account managers concerning the progress of development projects and potential for mutually beneficial on-site testing.
• Designed an exhaust manifold particle catcher to prevent particles from damaging the turbocharger of a reciprocating engine.
• Coordinated personnel involved in finite element analysis, materials engineering, materials testing, and drafting to improve the factor of safety for reciprocating engine pistons experiencing failure.

Olean, New York

• Assessed client centrifugal compressor needs and recommended product upgrades.
• Quoted two year recommended spares that clients should have on hand for their centrifugal compressors to minimize down time.
• Operated centrifugal compressors at varying parameters on the test stand to obtain data for performance calculations to ensure that the compressor meets design expectations.