Todd Hammond Email & Phone Number

As a Principal Engineer, I utilize my food processing experience as a consultant to assist our client partners achieve their goals. This may begin early in the capital project lifecycle with Front End Engineering Design for capital planning purposes. I am often brought in to supplement the client partners existing resources to perform as a project manager.

Fond Du Lac, WI, US

• As the Engineering Project Manager, I directed project teams, consultants and contractors in the execution of capital projects ranging in size from $10MM to $80MM. My responsibilities included scope development, cost.
• partnered with senior leadership on the annual development and issuance of the Strategic Long-Range (4-year) Plan. Capital was forecasted for new product development, capacity increases, line extensions, major repairs.
• mentored and coached new engineers and managers on energy, Project Management Office, documentation requirements, financial reporting, and engineering standards.
• served on a leadership team focused on 20-year master planning for the entire organization. As a technical resource, I provided facility capacity models, conceptual expansion plans and capital requirements to support.
• As the Subject Matter Expert for energy and wastewater, I directed the energy efficiency effort of the corporate sustainability initiative (energy, water, air, solid/liquid waste reduction). This included collaboration.
• Cheese Plant Expansion/Anaerobic Digester with Green Energy - Juda, WI

Fond Du Lac, WI, US

• As the Senior Project Engineer, I directed project consultants and contractors in the execution of capital projects ranging in size from $0.5MM to $10MM. My responsibilities included scope development, cost estimating.
• authored and presented a business proposition to produce fuel ethanol from cheese whey permeate (lactose). Directed pilot plant experiments to validate fermentation technology yields.
• took the initiative to become a Certified Energy Manager. I then led the engineering effort for the company Energy Conservation Initiative. I identified and executed many energy-saving projects. Thenfacilitating energy.
• Anaerobic Digester with Green Energy - Brownsville, WI
• Whey Protein Isolate Project - Friendship, WI
• Wastewater Treatment Plant - Juda, WI

Chicago, Illinois, US

• As Director of Project Engineering, I managed the annual capital budget for 85 grain elevators for the company. These grain elevators ranged in size from simple country elevators to large ship loading export.
• Export Elevator Expansion - Kalama, WADirected the design and expansion of an ADM-Conagra joint venture shuttle train-to-ship loading facility primarily for wheat. The project included a new slip-form concrete grain.
• Shuttle Train Loading Project - ND and MNCrafted the business proposition for the simultaneous construction of six, shuttle train wheat loading elevators in North Dakota and Minnesota. The land acquisition, design.

I was a member of the Japanese/American joint project team charged with taking Mitsubishi pilot plant experience, scaling it up and constructing a commercial sized plant in the United States to produce the non-nutritive sweetener, erythritol. I directed the site preparation, infrastructure, fermentation design, utility design and a portion of the major.

Wayzata, Minnesota, US

• I held many positions over the years with Cargill. These positions included operations, operations management and project engineering. The experience of these positions gave me valuable insight into what is important.
• Plant Expansion - Blair, NEExpanded the corn wet milling, corn sweetener and wastewater treatment plants.
• Greenfield Corn Wet Milling Facility - Blair, NEConstructed greenfield corn wet mill/corn sweetener/fuel ethanol/wastewater treatment plants.
• Corn Oil Solvent Extraction Plant - Memphis, TNConstructed corn oil pre-press/solvent (hexane) extraction plant.
• Plant Expansion - Memphis, TNExpanded the corn wet milling, corn starch, corn sweetener plants.