Project Manager, Mechanical (for LinkedIN profile)Manage sustaining capital projects that are mechanical in nature, overseeing facility and equipment design, construction, and installation by contractors. Write RFP to tender out project work to prospective consultants, review and grade bidders to award winning bid.Coordinate multi-disciplinary contract work with operations group to ensure targets will be met without disrupting customer service at a major bulk handling facility that loads and offloads products from railcars and marine vessels. Conduct economic and environmental studies to determine scope of work to prepare budgets with detailed expenditure line items. Manage project costs to stay on target, reviewing monthly expense reports and reporting job scope changes to meet department-wide budget goals.Investigate operational and maintenance issues to convert asset upgrading ideas into projects to improve efficiency. Review engineering drawings for accuracy prior to receiving issued-for-construction copies. Support in-house contract specialist and legal department on service agreements with third parties.Clean up and upkeep asset registry to ensure equipment list is properly maintained to track work orders and purchase orders correctly. Facilitate tie-in between equipment list with engineering drawing records to improve records archiving and speed up database queries.

Manage sustaining capital projects that are mechanical in nature, overseeing facility and equipment design, construction, and installation by contractors. Write RFP to tender out project work to prospective consultants, review and grade bidders to award winning bid.Coordinate multi-disciplinary contract work with operations group to ensure targets will be met without disrupting customer service at a major bulk handling facility that loads and offloads products from railcars and marine vessels. Conduct economic and environmental studies to determine scope of work to prepare budgets with detailed expenditure line items. Manage project costs to stay on target, reviewing monthly expense reports and reporting job scope changes to meet department-wide budget goals.Investigate operational and maintenance issues to convert asset upgrading ideas into projects to improve efficiency. Review engineering drawings for accuracy prior to receiving issued-for-construction copies. Support in-house contract specialist and legal department on service agreements with third parties.Clean up and upkeep asset registry to ensure equipment list is properly maintained to track work orders and purchase orders correctly. Facilitate tie-in between equipment list with engineering drawing records to improve records archiving and speed up database queries.

Manage terminal assets in both short term and long term views on facility budget plans out to 10 years as part of the Terminals Asset Group, and provide supporting data on maintenance expenditures for senior executives to drive informed maintenance and asset acquisition decisions.Coordinate and manage asset repair in alignment with regulatory and corporate requirements, using approved standards of care and capturing all maintenance events in CMMS. Disseminate internal best practices, technical memos, OEM recommendations to teammates across 5 terminals in Western Canada and Pacific Northwest.Support company initiatives in maintaining assets by following standardize maintenance practices to maximize asset utilization and driving for lowest total cost of ownership.Assist with overseeing maintenance activities with the objective of meeting corporate values in Safety, Quality, and Environmental initiatives. Adhere to the Company's 6 Core Principles.

Led a crew of mechanical and electrical foremen in carrying out daily equipment maintenance, plan repairs during scheduled outages of bulk cargo conveying systems in a dynamic, customer driven environment.Assess and assign labour resources from longshore union required to carry out maintenance based on job complexity and scheduling demands; ensure compliance to corporate safety and environmental standards.Increase equipment uptime and improve system reliability by implementing proven maintenance strategies and working with team members within the organization, as well as coordinating support from external service providers.

Responsible for planning and scheduling repair activities by expanding preventative and predictive maintenance techniques on a fleet of rolling equipment, which includes transport trailers, wheel loaders, track loaders, and other stationary rotating equipment used in the operation of solid waste transfer stations and a landfill.Managed a crew of unionized trades staff of millwrights, mechanics, welders and a team of technical support staff. Routinely met with union representatives to discuss labour issues. Partook in labour negotiations with the union to renew the collective agreement.Headed a committee to select a new computerized maintenance management system to ensure buy-in from maintenance, operations, and finance. Trained personnel in 2 geographical divisions and enforced the mandatory use of the new software to initiate all maintenance work to accurately capture repair costs and historical data, and maintained a complex schedule of nested tasks to ensure that the right sequence of repairs are carried out and performed on time.Executed capital work on projects such as revitalizing highway trailers, reinforcing trailer tipper deck, and acquiring shaker screen with custom modifications to suit production needs. Coordinated efforts internally to mitigate disruptions to operations and worked with design engineers and contractors to ensure targets are met.Developed KPIs to track performance: cost per hour, equipment availability, fuel consumption rate, work order execution, mean repair times, etc., on a daily to quarterly basis to enable senior management to response quickly to business pressures.Oversaw a declining budget for equipment repairs and contract services. Future expenditures were determined based on equipment age, production levels, and the expected hours of operation in the following year. Solicited quotes and consulted with contractors and service providers to plan major equipment outages and the expected costs.

Provided, planned and implemented predictive maintenance services on rotating equipment in a variety of industrial settings such as marine transportation, mining, oil and gas, grain terminals, aluminum smeltering plants, paper recycling facilities, etc.