Project Manager Power Plant

PHILIP W. DIXON

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EDUCATION BS – Mississippi State University - Major: Industrial Management

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY Forty overall years experience in Project Management - on both office

engineering and construction projects with major EPC companies (Fluor, Jacobs, Bechtel, et.al.) and

representing owner interests within their engineering or capital project groups. Projects have ranged

in size from 100 million to 2 billion dollars, within the USA as well as Canada, England and Ireland.

Twenty years of hands-on computer experience with Primavera software, currently using P6.2,

plus Word, Excel, MS Project and data base systems such as CMMS. Familiar with WinEst

estimating program

Recent projects include nuclear power plant capital upgrades, coal-fired power plant rebuilds major

wind farms, substations, and clean air / emission upgrades (precipitators, FGD’s, SCR’s. Nox, Sox

and Hg reduction.) Other projects: co-generation, pharmaceuticals, computer microchip, automobile

assembly, manufacturing, dams, bridges, Interstate highways, airports, petrochemical, textile mills,

steel mills, US Navy and civilian marine facilities.

WORK HISTORY

Apr. 2005 - Aug. 2009 - Contractor for Vilinc Solutions, Plano Texas at the following sites:

Assigned as Lead Estimator to assess and validate estimates for EPU upgrade of Nine Mile Point

reactor and associated steam systems. Previously, assigned to the Alliant Energy corporate offices,

Madison, WI., to assist in the training of new project controls, estimating, cost and scheduling

personnel and oversee and manage capital projects at power plant sites. Tasked to serve as the

Alliant Energy site rep during the rebuild of the 6th Street station and the “C” Street Station following

the disastrous Cedar Rapids flood of 2008, managing the EPC work at the sites. This involved repair

and rebuilding the boilers, turbines and generators and managing the repair of pumps, the

replacement of motors, rebuilding the stream distribution system and the coal handling systems of

conveyors, crushers, ball mills, pulverizers and such, all while also revamping the boiler for the

installation of FGD systems. Also assigned as the Alliant Energy project controls site rep at the

Whispering Willow Wind Farm (121 Vestas’ 1.65 Mw generators.)

Project Controls Specialist at the VC Summer Nuclear Station, Jenkensville, SC to develop new

capital project estimating methods and integrate SCE&G engineering budgets with Primavera P6.2

scheduling procedures and implement them prior to and during refuel outages.

Project Control Specialist at WPS in Green Bay, WI to plan and coordinate the environmental

upgrade of their coal fired power plants in Green Bay and Wausau, WI. This included modifying

boilers it install FGD, SOx, NOx and Hg emissions and to install new bag houses, precipitators and

scrubbers on their fleet or power houses. Project planning and cost control on the WPS transmission

line installation from MN to Wausau.

Jun. 2004 – Dec. 2004 employed as a Contractor for The Automation Group, Houston Texas at :

The Xcel Energy Nichols Station in Amarillo, TX to handle the planning, scheduling and project

management of power plant pre-outage and outage work, which involved replacing all pneumatic

plant controls and transmitters with new all-digital Foxboro controls systems and consoles.

mechanical maintenance, work involved tear-down/ reassembly of the HP/IP/ LP turbine, the

generator, the boiler internals, and the associated fans, pumps and new environmental hardware and

controls.

Nov. 1999 – Apr. 2004 employed by Jacobs Engineering, Greenville, as a Project Controls

Specialist VI. Assigned as BOP Project Manager at the construction of an Intel microchip

manufacturing plant in Leixlip, Ireland. Assigned to Foxboro Controls in London to develop their

engineering and implementation schedules for two pharmaceutical plants in Ireland. Assigned as the

project control engineer for the chemical and pharmaceutical plant retrofits and plant modular

fabrication for delivery and erection at the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical plant for their Puerto Rico site.

Scheduling the design of a DOD biochemical weapon deactivation plant. ProjectManager for major

retrofits at the GE Gas Turbine Plant and retrofit/plant expansion at the BMW automobile assembly

plant in Greer, SC.

Apr. 1997 – Oct. 1999 employed by Fluor, Greenville, as a Project Controls Specialist VI in their

offices for estimating engineering project SOW’s and planning/scheduling/cost and change-

management on two pharmaceutical plants. Member of proposal team to estimate, develop scopes

and schedules and develop project control programs for new steel mills in Memphis and Jharkhand,

India and the Alcoa aluminum plant near Charleston, SC.

Apr. 1991 – Mar. 1997 employed by Raytheon/Rust, Birmingham, AL and assigned to Monsanto’s

Chocolate Bayou site as Project Manager for engineering scope, design, estimating, procurement,

bid/award of contracts and managing the successful completion of new and upgrade projects at its

Alvin, TX chemical plants. Prior to that, scheduling the renovation of the sewage sludge-to-fertilizer

project for the City Of New York and scheduling the construction for a recycling/pulping paper mill in

Owensboro, KY.

Apr. 1988 – Mar. 1991 employed by Fluor, Greenville and assigned to the 750MM expansion at a

pulp and paper plant in Savannah, GA, as the manager of project controls group during the

engineering and construction of a new paper machine line, new lime kiln/white liquor/green liquor

facility, modifications to the recovery boilers and evaporator complex and emissions reduction.

Apr. 1985 – Apr-1988 employed by Tyger, Construction Company, Spartanburg, SC (a subsidiary

of G.F. Atkinson) at its Spartanburg headquarters as the Project Controls Manger. Responsible for

estimating and proposal schedules, then implementing and monitoring cost and scheduling systems

on projects that included highways, bridges, dams, co-generation plants, waste-to-energy and naval

facilities.

Apr. 1982 - Mar. 1985 employed by Bechtel Power, Houston, TX as the Project Scheduling

Manager for its engineering work in Houston and on-site at the South Texas Nuclear Station, near

Bay City, Tx.

Mar. 1981 – Mar. 1982 employed by Gulf Interstate Engineering, Houston, TX as the Project

Planning Manager for engineering and construction scheduling for the Alaskan Gas Pipeline project.

Jun. 1971 through Mar. 1981 employed by Fluor/ Daniel, Greenville as a Project Controls

Manager at its office and in the field for a range of projects that included the construction of the

Calloway Nuclear Station, Fermi II Nuclear Station, Wolf Creek Power Station – plus projects such as

textile, fiberglass, paper mills, in both the US and Canada.

Summation: For the last seven years I have been generally classified as a “Project Management

Specialist.” My forte has been assignments to a wide variety of engineering offices or project sites

that have fallen into various types of estimating deficiencies, scheduling and /or budgetary difficulty.

Many cases involve the retrofit of coal boiler power plants with capital and environmental

improvements – from the permitting stage, through engineering and into the implementation of work

and testing/turnover. This required the development of detailed scopes of work and resource

planning to develop an estimate and cash flow into a business case and proposal that would support

the budgetary framework of the corporate officers. Once approved the proposal package would be

implemented through negotiations with EPC contractors and the issue of RFQ’s. Each step would be

scheduled and resource loaded to assure that time lines and spending constraints would be met.

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