Engineer Plant

Joe Sollowin III, “Joe III”

ac06od@r.postjobfree.com

Work Summary:

I am a Mechanical and Electrical engineer with ~20+ years of equipment experience. I have a wide range of experience with turbines, compressors, pumps, mechanical seals, bearings, packaging equipment, electrical power distribution, VFD / PLC systems, instrumentation, maintenance and equipment upgrades.

Work Experience

Contract Engineer, -April 2016 to current

C&S Engineering co – Friendswood, TX

Revised instrument drawings and control narratives for large compressor systems. Installed and commissioned compressor field instrumentation. Designed control systems and control narratives for Aquarium complexes including control panel fabrication.

I & E department manager -2014 to April 2016

Burckhardt Compression Houston, TX

Designed custom control systems for large compressors. Manager of the I&E department, providing Block, Wiring and schematic diagrams. Wrote Cause & Effects, Control Narratives & I/O lists. Performed FAT testing and field commissioning. Provided troubleshooting for new and existing control systems. Worked with clients to determine and set control system strategies in USA, Mexico and Canada. The engineering department staff was cut in size by 80% and the work was out-sourced to India in 2016.

Lead Maintenance engineer – 2013 to 2014

Oneok, Mount Belvieu TX plant

Maintenance leader -directed the repairs and upgrades to the SOLAR Gas Turbines, large pumps for the processing of propane and upgraded compression and cooling systems to increase life and reduce downtime on the 30-year old plant. Directed commissioning for 2-new propane plant large oil heating systems.

Controls Product Manager & Engineer – 2011-2013

Hoerbiger-Revak, Laporte, TX

Managed the controls department. I provided technical support and field service for Woodward digital governors. Provided technical support for rotating equipment solving instrumentation & mechanical problems and provided modifications to improve reliability and performance. Designed conversion kits to upgrade turbine and compressor speed control systems. Provided sales, support and training classes for turbine controls including plant visits thru out the US, Canada and Mexico. Work continued until the controls department was closed by the German headquarters in 2013.

Maintenance & Reliability lead engineer, 2006-2011

Huntsman -performance chemicals, Conroe and Dayton, Texas

Reliability and small project engineering duties including varied widely tasks of troubleshooting of all plant rotating, stationary & piping systems. Provided modifications for the new model Bran Luebbe high pressure pumps. upgraded and redesigned Beach Russ sliding vane obsolete vacuum pumps, upgraded boiler feed-water pumps. Duties included upgrades to tank agitators, rotary filters, heat exchangers, re-boilers, truck and rail care loading systems. Developed and implemented an Ultrasonic Bolt tensioning and torque procedures and coined "UBI" as the plant-wide system to eliminate high pressure reactor and re-boiler leaks that shut down the plant. Followed and monitored all phases of shop and Vendor equipment repairs. Instructed and repaired maintenance for plant golf car transmissions, large gearboxes, low and high pressure kettles, HVAC systems, incinerator fans, Viking pumps, hot oil units and scrubber systems. Provided RCA and equipment reliability records for equipment.

New project work included:

Complete new HVAC system for the large plant's chemical lab while the lab was in full operation,

Replacement of large south cooling tower while the plant was in operation,

Restoration of a deep water well abandoned for 10 years,

Reworked and commissioned 2- old IR hydrogen compressors.

Contract Engineer, -2001-2006

Wynn Corp and C&S Engineering co – Friendswood TX

Performed detailed problem analysis at different Dupont sites and several Landry’s properties including Aquariums and several hotels. Dupont work included trips to Taiwan to solve problems on their plastics casting and curing facility. Success with problem solving allowed me to return many times evolving into new designs. I designed and installed a hot oven chain oiling system, pneumatic SS belt tension system, relocated Beta thickness machine, analyzed their Clean Room and completed an immediate waste boiler repair. Working with Landry’s I was called in to help them solve their constant unplanned shutdowns of their Aquarium PLC pump & filter systems, later installing a new PLC system in July 2016. I designed and installed a controls backup system that would allow for manual operation without a new PLC. The later work was converting their first PLC system to a PC based system including new VFD pump controls. Continued Landry’s work included a new design to solve a nagging problem with their huge chiller and heat system at the “Inn at the Ballpark” and “Vic & Anthony’s restaurant”. I reviewed all drawings building drawings, worked with several vendors to recalculate air-balances, exchanger chiller loads, piping flows, roof piping insulation, air handler mounts, gas reheat controllers, and a slow control system. Work continued until contract work was completed.

Senior lead project engineer, 1995-2001

Noltex LLC – Soaranol plastics plant, - Laporte, Tx.

Began Noltex duties as one of only 3-American engineers working closely with the 5- Japanese engineers for the task of refitting of the entire old Dupont EVOH plant to the Japanese technology. Our design work used a skeleton staff with an extremely limited budget, reusing and modifying old equipment in 1995 with successful start-up in 1996. Design duties included nearly all mechanical and electrical systems. Plant-wide work included the Allen Bradley 480V and Westinghouse 2400V & 12KV switch-gear, Fischer Provox DCS connections, reworkingl Durco, Bingham & Lewa pumps & motors and overhaul of 300# steam turbines. Other commissioning work included rebuilding plant utilities by reparing 2-York refrigeration units and a Glegg demin water system. I reworked large 200hp blowers using my spindle design. Instrumentation re-work included modification of the Fugi robot and Modicon packaging lines to use paper bags. Final commissioning work included round-the-clock startup assistance, hands-on maintenance and Chiyoda Engineering management review meetings. Later duties involved plant operations, robot training and assisting new maintenance dept. My work saved nearly 2 million dollars of product with a pellet rewash system and received a large reward in 1997.

New project work:

Designed, built and installed a new 350GPM Glegg Demin system,

Added 2-600 York brine chillers, Designed and installed 2-1600 SCFM Joy air compressors,

Tested 1-500KW Kohler generator,

Added 1- new 480V A/B Motor control center,

Added a 4800KVAR capacitor bank

Installed 2 new on-line Fluid Data GC’s.

NEW 1200GPM process water plant, providing civil, piping and E & I design using NEW foundation field buss Delta-V automated controls.

Designed a complete building for a new product development Lab building, (ON TIME and on budget),

I designed a new Admin parking lot with a new plant security system with automatic turnstile, cameras.

and a large operator change house with full utilities.

Work continued until the engineering department was closed by the Japanese headquarters in 2001.

Project design engineer, 1990-1992

DUPONT-Selar - plastics plant, -Laporte, TX

Managed the plant-wide “change-of-design” new program for the Selar plant. I received 3-Dupont engineering awards: one for Busch vacuum pump redesign for a Buss pellet extruder, one for fire damage repairs to the FBD pellet dryer and one for pellet packaging line improvements. My work continued 3 months past the time when the plant actually closed down. The Selar plant was CLOSED in 1992 and later sold to the Japanese, renaming it Noltex LLC.

Utilities and casting oven Engineer, 1987-1990

DUPONT-Bayport - Kapton Plant, -Bayport, TX.

Assignment began with the refit the old Exxon plant to operate as a NEW Dupont Kapton film plant. Responsibilities included but not limited to a heated N2 cast film oven with 300’ X 6’ polished SS casting belt, high precision Cloeren film dies and high-speed wind up machinery. I maintained and modified plant utilities and was responsible for maintenance scheduling. Shift duties included operations shift supervisor on quarterly production runs. Achievements: Modified a production clean room, designed and installed a waste polymer drum still system with saving $100,000 per year in disposal costs. Project work included a belt casting test jig for thin film polymer evaluation, designed and built a microwave lab test room control limiting 90 degree angles and full sound coned walls for “STEALTH” black film process analysis. Work continued until I was transferred to the new Dupont Noltex plant.

Design & installation engineer, 1986-1987

Ciba-Geigy- Probimar electronics division, -New York, NY

Began duties as the US engineer assisting the German equipment technicians assembling CIBA-made photo-image able epoxy circuit board equipment. Commissioned the first new fully automated circuit board coating line for CIBA at the IBM site in Austin, Texas BEFORE the end of the year deadline! Later duties consisted of modification, installation and conversion of CIBA conveyor lines, high speed coating dies, heat treatment ovens and developer units. Work changed to become responsible for the instrument, electrical and mechanical systems for the German machinery installed throughout the USA. Work continued until the Austin, Tx site was complete.

Marine business owner-operator, 1985-1986

Seaside Marine Service, -Seabrook, TX. (Later changed to J.S. Marine & operated part-time to date)

Responsible the repairs to marine engine systems on large and small yachts. Repaired marine transmissions, gearboxes, electronic ignition systems and engine overhauls. Daily tasks included failure troubleshooting and yacht commissioning. Managed 3 employees while performing the accounting, payroll and parts inventory duties.

Project Engineer, 1980-1984

Phillips 66 - Adams Terminal plastics plant, -Pasadena, TX.

Began engineering career as rotating equipment engineer for large Polyethylene plant. My duties included new inspections and commissioning of 4160V Farrell extruders, loop reactors, Cooper reciprocating compressors and polymer transfer equipment. Later assignments as area engineer for the polypropylene and K-resin plant equipment. Provided analysis of pump failures, de-bottlenecking process equipment and developed a preventative maintenance program. I was the first engineer to complete the FULL Phillips operator-training course. Work continued until safety concerns required a change in career. (The plant did suffer a severe explosion several years after I departed and many people were killed).

Education:

BSME/EE University of Nebraska, 1980 with minor in Electrical Engineering

University of Southern Illinois, 1-year aviation engineering study, 1971, Commercial pilot graduate 1972

Training Classes:

>Allen Bradley PLC training, - IRD & PMC Beta vibration training, Solar gas turbine training 2013

> Hazmat training 2013, - Woodward governor training - 2011. Hot oil furnace training 2013

> Phillips 66 plant operator training school 1981, -Laboratory hood and ventilation design school 1988,

> Ultrasonic bolt tensioning 2006, - Reliant VFD school 1999, - HL&P power distribution class 1997,

>General Motors transmission, HVAC and ignition schools.

>Mercruiser, Mercury, Evinrude and Volvo marine engine and drive schools.1972, 1981, 2014

Prior to college graduation WORK Included: Orsi Italian Bakery- machine repair, Tomasek Machine shop machinist & Dewey Smith Chev-truck mechanic, Bahnsen’s Boats- Boat mechanic

Personal data: > Home: Crosby, Tx Cell: 281-***-****

US citizen born in Omaha, Nebraska, High school grad 1971, EIT/PE passed 1980,

4-years German language study, 1 year Japanese study, current Spanish language study

Private pilot with 300+ hours logged, Certified Scuba diver

Awarded Nebraska Navy certificate in 1970 for river rescue

Languages:

English & Spanish, German language study in college, some Chinese, Japanese & Sicilian speaking

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