Power Plant Manager
Resume:
C. Randall Davis
Sylacauga, AL 35150
***********@*****.***
Education:
B.S. Chemical Engineering, 1986, University of Idaho
M.S. Forest Resources (Pulp & Paper Science), 1989, University of
Washington
Thesis: Treatment and Surface Characterization of Carbon Fibers.
Work Experience:
Abitibi-Bowater Inc., Coosa Pines, AL
Pulp and Utilities Shift Team Leader (Aug '07 - Nov '09)
Shift supervisor over the Powerhouse, Recovery and Pulping departments.
The Powerhouse consists of influent and effluent water treatment, 4
coal fired power boilers, 6 turbine generators. The Recovery area
consists of a 1.5 MM#/d recovery boiler, lime kiln, and associated
recaustisizing equipment. The Pulping area consists of wood yard, 11
batch digesters, brown stock screening and washing, and two bleach
plants. The Pulp Mill supplies pulp for an 850 ton/day Ross fluff pulp
dryer. I supervised 19 hourly employees.
Samoa Pacific Cellulose/Stockton Pacific Enterprises/Evergreen Pulp
Inc., Samoa, CA
Maintenance Coordinator. (Oct '06 - Jan '07)
Managed the mill's work order system. Coordinated with the department
superintendents and the maintenance supervisors to set priorities for daily
maintenance work and area and annual shutdowns. Worked with Engineering to
plan specified annual shutdown jobs. Supervised the Carpenter and Machine
Shops.
Shift Superintendent. (Oct '04 - Sept '06)
Shift manager over the entire Samoa Pulp Mill. Supervised 18 hourly
employees in the Wood Yard, Pulping, Recovery and Recaust, and Pulp
Machine departments. Supervised all aspects of the mill on shift,
including safety, environmental, maintenance, production, and training. I
took this position when the company chose to no longer staff the Bleach
Plant Superintendent position.
Bleach Plant Superintendent (May '04 - Oct '04)
Served as acting manager of 650 ADMT/day Kamyr Digester and TCF bleach
plant, making Total Chlorine Free (TCF) bleach pulp and Oxygen
Delignified (ODL) pulp.
Asst. Superintendent - Recausticizing (Mar '04 - May '04)
Manager of Recaust department. Supervised production and maintenance.
Pulp Mill - Technical Assistant (Oct '03 - Mar'04)
Worked on pulp mill improvement projects. Optimized chip screening.
Improved ODL pulp quality in brown stock screen room and pulp machine
cleaner system. Evaluated different operating parameters and techniques
for lime kiln TRS reduction.
PulpMill - Shift Superintendent (June '03 - Oct '03)
Production Foreman in 650 ADMT/day TCF pulp mill producing TCF bleached
Kraft and ODL Kraft pulps for export customers. Responsible for Recovery,
bleach plant and the pulp dryer.
Senior Process Engr. (Nov. '02 - June '03)
Technical project work included optimization of TCF bleaching, Evaluation
of Kiln operation, monitoring and evaluation of screen and cleaning
systems. Trials were run with peracetic acid on TCF pulp, pulping and
bleaching of Arondo donax cane and optical brightners in TCF pulp.
Gaylord Container/Inland Container, Antioch, CA
Process Mgr. - #4 Paper Machine (Dec. '00 - Sept '02)
Production Foreman on 260" Beloit paper machine producing liner (26# -73#),
medium (26#-40#) and grocery bag (65#-75#) from 100% OCC furnish. #4 PM is
a 3 ply Fourdrinier with 2 Belbonds, a Beloit ENP press, and a Black-
Clawson Hydranip. It averaged 1100 tpd, with a maximum speed of 2550 fpm.
Process Mgr. - Secondary Fiber & Steam and Power Plant (June '97 - Dec.
'00)
Production Foreman in 1200 tpd OCC recycled fiber plant and steam & power
plant. The OCC plant consisted of 3 Black-Clawson pulpers, 3 Voith Turbo
Separators, 5 Stages of BC screens, 2 sets of 2-stage BC X-clones, 2 Voith
Gyro cleaners, 2 Deckers, 3 Rietz presses and Pandia wax dispersion system.
The power plant consisted of a 38 MW gas fired GE co-generator, a gas fired
power boiler, 20 MW steam turbine and influent and effluent water
treatment. The power house provided power and steam for the mill and sold
24 MWs of power to the local power utility.
Longview Fibre Company, Longview, WA
Stock Prep Foreman (Feb '96 - June '97)
Production foreman over 18 crew members. Responsibility included bleach
market pulper, 800 tpd OCC plant, and stock prep dept. for 6 paper
machines. Coordinated stock requirements for 12 paper machines with the
pulp mill.
Asst. Stock Foreman (July '95 - Feb '96)
Production Foreman in charge of stock and additives for 6 paper machines.
Made grade changes and adjustments to meet paper quality specs. Ran a mix
of NSSC medium, bleached and natural converting, bag, colored grades and
liner.
Pulp Mill Production Foreman (Feb. '94 - July '95)
Production Foreman in each of the three pulp mill departments, woodroom,
pulping and recovery. Supervised a crew of 6 to 8 employees in each
department. Ran the production of each department to meet paper mill stock
requirements. The pulp mill consisted of chip unloading, storage and
screening for two 1000 tpd Kamyr digesters, 21 batch digesters, 3 M&D
sawdust cookers and 2 NSSC semi-chem cookers. The recaust and recovery
side consisted of 5 recovery furnaces, 5 line kilns, 8 evaporators, green
and white liquor clarifiers, and white liquor pressure filters.
Process Engr. - Paper Mill Group (Dec.'90 - Feb.'94)
Worked on paper machine technical projects to improve existing paper grades
and develop new ones. Developed a number of new filled converting and bag
grades. Used different clay, titanium dioxide and sodium silicate fillers.
Ran trials to improve bleached and white top liner using fillers.
Modified the size press starch addition to reduce top ply peeling.
Evaluated printing and peeling in the box plant. Worked on improving wet
strength repulping of both bleach and natural paper grades. Studied the
use of soft nip calendars to improve smoothness, printability, and gloss at
a minimum of strength loss for paper and liner grades. Ran wet strength
efficiency trials. Developed paper grades with high OCC/ONP contents. Ran
acid and neutral sizing trials for natural paper grades.
Shift Chemist - Quality Control Supervisor (Feb. - Dec. '90) Supervised 7
quality control test labs in the pulp and paper mills.
Process Engineer - Pulp Mill Group (Feb. '89 - Feb. '90)
Worked on pulp mill technical projects. Ran material balances around a
washer line and rejects system, to determine the amount of infiltration
water getting into the system. A GEMS simulation of an MCC Kamyr digester
was used to evaluate operational changes. Worked with engineering to
install and make modifications to a steam stripper for reduction of TRS
emissions. Evaluated an on-line Kappa number analyzer. Provided support
for Woodroom data acquisition system used to provide chip quality data for
pulping liquor calculations.
Weyerhaeuser Technology Center - Federal Way, WA
Research Engineer - Fiber Science Dept. (Mar. '88-Feb. '89)
Made structural determination of Kraft residual and chlorinated lignin.
The project involved the use of analytical chemistry (C-13 solid state NMR)
and pulping and bleaching chemistry to understand structural changes of
lignin, resulting from chemical processing. A portion of this work was
presented at the1989 PacifiChem meeting in Honolulu.
Activities:
Enjoy fly fishing, scuba diving, mountain biking, hiking, and amateur
radio.
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