Electrical Engineer Project Manager

MILE KOSOVAC. M.Sc. P.E.

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PROFILE

Senior engineering project manager with extensive experience in project management and support in

design and operation of the steel processing plants, chemical plants, manufacturing plants, fabrication

plants and commercial buildings. High technical expertise in power and control engineering with old and

the new technologies. Proven ability to manage very complex technical assignments and new

construction projects involving electrical, mechanical, chemical engineering and civil engineering

disciplines. Innovative approach to every project resulted in capital savings, increased reliability, system

flexibility and system maintainability with 7% below the authorized budget.

A registered professional electrical engineer in the US and Canada whose strengths are in system

design, system architectures and process optimization. A team builder with emphases on technical

leadership, accountability, responsibility, cost control and dedication to minimize environmental impact,

improved safety and mentoring.

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

Project Management

• Extensive experience with management and design of small and large projects up to two

hundred millions, including conceptual design, feasibility studies, budget estimating, preparation

of authorization requests, detail design, preparation of tender documents, construction and

commissioning

• Successful cost tracking, cost control and executive reporting

• Achieve or better benchmarks of zero incident, 4% of budget and within 15% of planned

startup

• Proven ability to successfully lead multi-disciplinary projects in the steel, chemical,

mining, power and control and automotive industries.

• The project management was always success with choosing right ratio of technical,

leadership and monitoring skills.

• Strong negotiation, planning and monitoring ability was always rewarded by keeping

project below authorized budget.

Electrical Power Distribution

• Power supply and distribution design, sizing and protection for large industrial and

processing plants, utilities and commercial institutions with primary voltages from 15kv to 230kv.

The capital cost either one hundred or five million dollars must yield zero plant outage per year,

one hundred percent flexibility and two hundred percent maintainability.

• 161kv, 140mw iron ore processing plant

• 220kv, 70mw chemical processing plant

• 220kv, 160mw steel and car manufacturing complex with relay protection. Very recently

integrated 300 million new Blast Furnace power system into the existing one and developed

new 150mw, 32kv, 13.8kv and 480v plant distribution system for new TCM-PL steel plant and

new Galvanizing plant.

• Focused on the plant power distribution flexibility, reliability, capacity, system protection,

energy efficiency and short circuit levels in the hardware selection.

Initial project/plant capital cost and the first five years operating cost is the

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optimal bench mark for selection of the hardware and installation contracts.

Motor Control

Hardware selection must be based on thorough evaluation of the equipment reliability,

controllability, safety, maintainability and energy efficiency.

• Selection and installation of small, medium and large squirrel cage, synchronous, VF

drives, reactor start, wound rotor and dc drives for large chemical processing plants, iron ore

processing plants and steel plant. Recently the most challenging was installation of 28,000hp

synchronous motor for blast furnace compressors. The challenges were motor inrush current,

the plant voltage stability and voltage harmonics.

• 15mw automated pumping stations.

• 10mw pumping station with 2mw seamless transfer to and from of backup power

generator.

• 70mw power plant with VF drives and pumps.

• Motor traction control for automated railroad and iron ore trucks.

• Motor short circuit, starting characteristics and protection were modeled mostly by using

ETAP one of the engineering software’s.

• Motor control and associated process control, level 1, were predominantly done with Allen

Bradley PLC in RSLogix and level 2 in Wonderware software.

Instrumentation

Hardware selection must be based on thorough evaluation of the hardware and components

overall cost, reliability and maintainability.

• Developed design of analog and digital loops for processing plants, chemical plants and

power plant boiler control

• System architecture and integration of the main process loops and support utilities with

strong emphasis on system throughput, reliability, flexibility, support, future upgrades and

minimizing operating costs

• Chemical plants conversion from analog to digital control

• Power plant boiler control conversion from analog to digital system

Energy Management

Is the most neglected but hidden cost saving opportunity?

• Controlled overall plant demand and plant power factor by using 22mva peaking station

and by automated load shedding. Capital investment of $125,000 saved $350,000 per year.

• Managed and negotiated Power contracts and led Heat/Energy recovery programs with

one million dollar savings.

Plant Auditing

Safety is the plant preventative process and proactive activities.

• Lead member of safety audit team for the plants audits covering electrical, mechanical and

process equipment with emphasis on grounding and bonding, hazardous area classifications,

safety valves and chemical spills

• Extensive safety review experience with both new and existing process flows

• Power plant gas turbines and gas boilers auditing.

• Design of the Plants power and control distribution in hazardous area, class 1 div-1 and class

1 div 2 areas.

Indoor and Outdoor Lighting

• Design for offices, industrial buildings, manufacturing plants, parking lots and city streets.

Lighting calculations were done by hand cavity and point-by-point method or using LitPro

software. Energy savings in selection of lighting fixtures, on/off control and foot-candles

were one of the prime concerns. The savings can range on initial capital investment in

order of $200,000 per year.

Education Training and Hobby

• Graduated Electrical Engineer form University of Belgrade and with Master Science

degree from University of Edmonton, Electrical Engineering, Alberta, Canada.

• Professional engineer with license in Michigan and Ontario

• Extensive PC training with solid knowledge of large corporation manufacturing systems

and system architecture.

• Tennis and soccer coaching

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Senior Project Engineer

SEVERSTAL N.A. (formerly ROUGE STEEL) Detroit, Michigan (2000-2009)

– Responsible for power conversion from the old Power House (explosion damaged) to a new

500mw gas powered plant. Design, protection and development of 80mw power overhead and

underground electrical distribution system. In 2008 integrated new three hundred millions BF”C”

into the existing power distribution system and in 2009 finalized design of the new power

distribution system for the new 350 million inline CM-PL and Galvanizing plants. The new

investment helped to eliminate an old and fragile part of the existing power distribution system

with overall savings of $500,000.

Project Manager

GENERAL ELECTRIC Detroit, Michigan (1999-2000)

Installation of new Presses and upgrade of the existing unit substation with new ties and new

bus duct distribution at Chrysler plants. The plant reliability was targeted to reduce outages

from twenty four outages per year to one outage per year in the first year. The first year

there was only one outage caused by arrestor failure on DECO’s 230kv line

Special Projects Engineer

PETER BASSO ASSOCIATES Troy, Michigan (1998-1999)

Conversion of 15kv o/h power distribution system to u/g distribution system for Selfridges

Military base. By installation of front loading above ground switches versus u/g type the

overall cost was reduced by $700,000.

Planning & Development Manager / Distribution Engineer

SARNIA HYDRO Sarnia, Ontario, Canada (1994-1998)

Designed new o/h and u/g lines for the new subdivision, s/s protection upgrade, interface with

the 230kv main power on the source side and the main plants s/s on the load sides.

Project Engineer / Instrument Leader / Senior Electrical Engineer

DOW CHEMICAL Sarnia, Ontario, Canada (1979-1994)

Senior electrical engineer, instrument lead and project manager for the existing, new chemical

plants and 80mw power plant.

Engineering Supervisor / Electrical Engineer

HANNA MINING (I.O.C.)

Sept-Iles, Quebec, Canada (1973-1979)

Electrical engineer, supervising engineer and supervisor of engineering for grinding, separation,

indurating plan and shipping facilities.

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