Plant Engineer
CurrentContractor working with Bechtel to build and prepare the WTP for operation for the Department of Energy’s Office of River Protection.Procedural, design, and development responsibilities for construction, start-up, and commission of the following systems:• Flash evaporator requiring quiescent boil conditions.• Vessel headspace and evaporator non-condensable active ventilation with associated drying, filtering, and testing.• Chemical receiving, storing, and distribution throughout the plant of sodium hydroxide.Highlight of my WTP work experience:• Provided the experience and knowledge needed to write relevant, safe, and effective operating procedures and perform first-use validation for those evaporator procedures and for procedures for systems/components around the evaporator. Provided onsite technical experience and leadership to bring the WTP evaporator system throughout startup and commissioning and provided Operations with the key insights and troubleshooting knowledge necessary to bring up this complicated system for the first time and successfully for many times thereafter. Operations is now able to confidently bring up and maintain the WTP evaporator with a minimal level of support from Engineering.