Engineer Manager Engineering Power Plant Sales resume in Burnaby, BC, V5H 3M1, Canada

Professional Profile of Norm Grabham, P.Eng.

SUMMARY

I am a Chemical engineer with several years experience as an efficiency/commissioning engineer with OPG (formerly Ontario Hydro) and as an engineering instructor with OPG and Haward Technologies ME. I am currently seeking an engineering position locally in the Lower Mainland area of BC with my current skills, abilities and industrial experience.

Skills

Proficient as a efficiency/commissioning engineer in the start-up of large power & desalination plants. Valued employee to both Canadian & US engineering companies.
Excellent technical instructor experience backed by an Instructional Techniques training course with OPG and a workshop locally with BCWWA for instructor training (2012), as well as a year of engineering instructor experience in the Middle East.
Significant work experience in the engineering discipline at 4 coal-fired thermal generating plants and a US Government desalination plant.
Employed for several years as a Water Treatment Manager for a large Canadian specialty chemical company (Dubois Chemicals Ltd.).
Familiar with office computer equipment & procedures, OH&S/WHIMIS training, AUTOCAD, etc.
Equally adept in working as a plant engineer/manager or engineering instructor in a classroom environment.

PROFESSIONAL Experience

Supervisory Process Engineer February 2007-November 2007
USBR Desalination Facility, Yuma.AZ
Parsons Brinckerhoff Company, Herndon, Va

Assisted with start-up & commissioning activities of a USBR 73MGPD desalination plant.
Provided technical expertise in sulphuric acid storage & handling, design of new anhydrous ammonia storage, handling & tank farm areas.
Attended weekly production meetings & submitted monthly reports to BRSC staff & PB Senior V.P. , Director, Facilities, Consulting & O&M Services.
Commissioned on-site ozone generating system, recommended process design modifications to lime-handling areas, new polymeric feed system to clarifiers, bird-alarm system (pigeons infestation) and new procedures for safe unloading of sulphuric acid & anhydrous ammonia used at this plant.

Projects completed with PB Company:

Start-up & commissioning activities completed after 4-months plant operation.
Initiated new equipment and storage/handling facilities of plant raw materials.
Submitted monthly reports to BRSC & PB staff.

Engineering Instructor 2006 January 2006-December 2006
Haward Technologies ME

Developed and taught university-level courses in power engineering, water treatment.
Developed and taught university-level courses in desalination plant operation & maintenance and chemical engineering for Non-chemical engineers.
Created PDF slide-show presentations on various chemical engineering topics.
Used current multimedia presentation equipment necessary to instruct/teach students.
Facilitated a safe learning environment for a wide variety of engineering students, engineers & managers living and working in oil & gas plants in the Middle East.

Projects completed at Haward Technologies ME:
Projects completed with Haward Technologies ME

Developed and taught a variety of chemical engineering courses.
Developed new training techniques to facilitate positive learning environment.
Developed good training rapport & friendships with students living and working in the Middle East.

Senior Water Treatment engineer January 1997-February 2006
American Water Chemicals & Mustang Tampa Inc., Tampa, Florida

Plant inspections of boiler, cooling towers and plant water systems (reverse-osmosis)utilized in numerous institutional facilities (hotels, pop & beer plants, secondary industries) in the Caribbean islands.
Wrote many tender documentations for chemical injection equipment & polymeric feed systems for each major institutional/industrial accounts.
Recommended new operating and maintenance procedures for proper chemical control of boilers, cooling towers & R.O. systems.
Recommended major operational & maintenance procedures enacted at numerous power generation facilities located on the Caribbean islands.
Designed, commissioned and developed equipment modifications for a new R.O. water treatment system to replace a zeolite-softening system in a 400,000 BPD oil refinery located in Sugar Ray, Texas.

Projects completed at AWC/Mustang Tampa Inc.:

Completed plant inspections at numerous facilities in the Caribbean, making recommendations for chemical dosing, equipment and modifications according to best practices available.
Tenders submitted to all clients regarding chemical products required.
New R.O. water treatment system commissioned for a large oil refinery in Texas.

Water Treatment Manager June 1986-January 1997
Dubois Chemicals of Canada Ltd., Weston, Ontario

Performed numerous inspections across Canada in the institutional & industrial sectors.
Provided recommendations for maintenance staff regarding proper chemical equipment & product usage.
Lead engineer & manager of Canadian national multi-disciplinary chemical sales team.
Wrote tender documents & contracts for the supply & installation of chemical products & equipment in industrial, institutional & automotive clients.
Gave technical presentations across Canada to various hotels, automotive manufacturer's, large industrial & institutional accounts owned by this company.

Projects completed at Dubois Chemicals of Canada Ltd.

Increased sales volume of company over many years.
Developed training manuals on water treatment products, equipment, sales presentation techniques for distribution across Canada to sales force.
Gave technical presentations across Canada to various hotels, automotive manufacturer's, large industrial & institutional accounts owned by this company.

Efficiency/Commissioning engineer June 1974-June 1986
Ontario Power Generation (OPG) - formerly Ontario Hydro

Employed at 4 coal-fired thermal generating plants - improved plant efficiencies on boiler, condenser, and auxiliary power plant equipment.
Performed regular monthly boiler, turbine/condenser, heat-rate and associated power plant tests.
Operating budget of $500,000 at each plant for plant modifications, equipment replacement and process modifications.
Installed opacity monitors on flue-gas stacks and commissioned a FGD desulphurization unit.
Conducted plant tours for up to 40 people in the utility/chemical sectors for engineering students, new employees and the general public.

Project completed at OPG generating plants;

Improved operating efficiencies of power plant equipment.
Reduced operating and maintenance costs of associated power plant equipment.
Updated various plant manuals and completed monthly reports.

Education

B.Sc. Chemical Engineering 1974
McMaster University

ASSOCIATIONS

Professional Engineers of Ontario (P.E.O.)
American Institute of Chemical Engineers (A.I.Ch. E.)

Certifications:
St. John's First Aid(CPR/AED),H2S Alive & Confined Space Entry
US Burec DOI Learning Management Portal Certificate of Completion
Instructional Techniques Training Course(s) with OPG.

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