Engineer Project
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William Lisiak
Email: *********@********.***
Address: **** *.**** **
City: Bridgeview
State: IL
Zip: 60455
Country: USA
Phone: 708-***-****
Skill Level: Management
Salary Range: $75,000
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WILLIAM LISIAK
7746 West 79th Place
Bridgeview, IL 60455
*********@********.***
SUMMARY EXPERIENCE
Over 30 years of mechanical engineering experience serving food, pharmaceutical, chemical and general industries. Specializing in plant equipment layouts, material-handling systems for process, packaging and warehousing operations, engineering, construction management, start-up and commissioning of various facilities.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Cooper and Associates, LLC
Chicago, IL
Project Engineer (2011 to 2012)
Project engineer for process, mechanical and pneumatic material handling systems. Responsible for the design, equipment specifications preparation and bid evaluation.
Reference Projects:
Malarkey Roofing Products. - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Project engineer managing designs for handling raw materials from trucks unloading stations, conveying to storage silos and to the process tower. Design included tripper and other belt and screw bulk handling conveyors. Also, part of the project was designing conveyor transfer and discharge chutes, and dust collection systems. Prepared documentation for emission control permit
Firestone Building Product Company - Various Locations: Study to verify safety codes and regulation for pentane unloading, storage and transfer equipment and piping. Project included pressure and vacuum relief valve calculations and selection.
Firestone Building Product Company - Berlin, New Hampshire: Project engineer providing design and field installation support for the prototype pre-tape line.
John Manville Company - Milan, Ohio: Project engineer providing design and field inspection support for super sack unloading stations. Project involved proper discharge of the clay and magnesium-hydroxide, flex screw transfer conveyors, weighing system and feeding mixer system.
Middough Inc.
Oak Brook, IL
Senior Project Engineer (2010 to 2010)
Served as a senior project engineer involved in process equipment and piping layouts and material handling systems.
Reference Projects:
Cargill Co. - Blair, Nebraska: The project focus was to expand existing corn process grinding capacity. Involved in process and material handling equipment layouts. Project required preparation of P&ID's and equipment specifications for budgetary pricing. All design layouts were created in 3D.
Sargent & Lundy, LLC
Chicago, IL
Project Design III (2007 to 2010)
Project designer for turbine and auxiliary equipment layout as well as boiler process piping support. Activities included heavy involvement in field equipment inspections.
Reference Projects:
Basin Electric Power Co. - Gillette, Wyoming: Dry Fork Station is a coal-based electric generation plant with rated capacity of 422 megawatts. Project designer of the 3D turbine and auxiliary equipment layout and responsible for the pulverized coal handling system. This project also required the 3D design of all piping supports connected to the boiler.
American Electric Power Co. - Dresden, Ohio: This is a natural gas-fired combined cycle plant producing 491 megawatts. Involved in the field inspection and verification of all equipment skids delivered to the job site. This included checking major equipment, piping, and instrumentation components using P&ID's.
RW Cooper and Associates, Inc.
Chicago, IL
Project Engineer (2005 to 2007)
Project engineer for mechanical and pneumatic material handling systems. Provided construction management and field inspection services.
Reference Projects:
Firestone Building Product Company - Las Vegas, Nevada: Project engineer providing design and field installation support for product regrind process system. Project included dilute phase pneumatic truck unloading system, storage silos, vacuum pneumatic conveying system to the process towers, dense phase pneumatic conveying system for some ingredients, dust collection system, central vacuum system and all equipment utility installation supervision.
21st Century Grain Processing. - South Sioux City, Nebraska: Project engineer involved in development of dry and wet process for grain snack products. Project included raw ingredients storage (super sacks and bulk silos) mechanical conveying, transfer chutes to and from enrobes and ovens.
A. Epstein and Sons International, Inc., Operations Engineering Group
Chicago, IL
Project Engineer (1977 to 2005)
Design engineer and project engineer for both the process and material handling departments of this international architecture, engineering and construction company. The project ranged from developing layouts through installation of equipment for small family companies to designing the "facility of the future" for large, international conglomerates.
Project References:
Allen-Bradley - Champaign, Illinois: Conducted a post-installation audit of the conveying and sortation system.
AT&T - Aurora, Illinois: Project engineer responsible for design of working stations, conveying circuit boards between them and automated guided vehicle providing transport between departments.
Campbell Soup Company - Various locations: Project engineer responsible for the design of receiving, storage, and conveying systems for various ingredients.
Carnation Company - Bakersfield, California: Project engineer for a 225,000 square foot, high-tech ice cream manufacturing plant. Responsible for the development of new conveying and packaging lines in a Los Angeles milk load-out facility.
ComEd - Melrose Park, Illinois: Project engineer for rearrangement of production departments and production lines. Involved in field analyzes and design layouts.
Continental Baking Company - St. Louis, Missouri: Project engineer responsible for receiving, storage and conveying systems for various ingredients.
General Electric - Evendale, Ohio: Evaluated existing material handling equipment in the receiving, storage, dispatch, and packaging areas for improvement opportunities. These included high-rise stacker cranes, mini load cranes, automated guided vehicles (AGV's) and conveying system.
Harley-Davidson - Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Conducted post-installation audit and design modifications of the conveying and sortation system.
Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc. - Richmond, Indiana: Project engineer for the design and construction of a 205,000 square foot wet (meat base) and dry prescription pet food processing plant utilizing state-of-the-art technology and team-based work systems.
Kellogg Company - London, Ontario, Canada: Project engineer responsible for design of automated material handling systems for a 250,000 square foot highly automated dry cereal processing plant.
Nautica Enterprises, Inc. - Rockland, Maine: Responsible for design and implementation of the conveying and storage system in their existing and new facility. Provided site supervision of a three-mile long conveyor, transfer chutes, sortation equipment and discharge chutes.
Nabisco Brands, Inc. - Chicago, Illinois: Project engineer responsible for process equipment layouts and storage and transfer of bulk ingredients in the Chicago bakery.
Quaker Oats Company - Kankakee, Illinois: Project engineer for a pet food processing plant and automated storage retrieval system. Storage system consisted of the concrete racks (six pallets deep) and two Otis stacker cranes
Rykoff-Sexton/U.S. Foodservice, Inc. - Los Angeles, California: Project engineer responsible for design process (bottles, pails) for filling and packaging operations.
Roche Vitamins & Fine Chemicals, Inc. - Belvidere, New Jersey: Project engineer responsible for design of storage, conveying filling and packaging systems for bulk liquid premixes.
Thomas J. Lipton, Inc. - Various locations: Responsible for preliminary engineering for four major plants in Flemington, New Jersey, Independence, Michigan, Santa Cruz, California, and Suffolk, Virginia. The projects totaled 1,750,000 square feet.
United Airlines - Chicago O'Hare International Airport: Project engineer responsible for design and acceptance testing of maintenance parts storage system (mini load) and carrier (smart rail) delivery system.
Formal Education
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Specialization: Automation in Material Handling Systems
Academy of Engineering - AGH
Cracow, Poland
Continuing Education and Training
Project Management, 2001
Hydraulics, 2002
Robotics - SME, 2003
Affiliation
Food & Drug Packaging Institute
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
Computer Experience
Word, Access, Excel, Power Point, Microsoft Schedule, Word Perfect, ACAD, Bentley MicroStation, Navigator
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