Project Manager Engineer

J RICK ROSS

**** ********* **** ********, ***. **7, Raleigh, NC 27612

614-***-**** ****@***************.***

ENGINEERING PROJECT, CONSTRUCTION and VALIDATION MANAGEMENT

Facilities Utilities HVAC Processes

Versatile, efficiency-driven Project Manager/Owner’s Rep with over 25 years of experience in an FDA cGMP regulated industrial manufacturing environment ranging from initial concept scoping through project closeout.

Experience with all aspects of Project Management including scoping, estimating, budgets, scheduling, procurement, design, construction, validation and close out.

Over 25 years of piping/utilities experience including design, installation, validation and project management.

Managed over 15 utility upgrade projects including generation and distribution (see details below).

Brings unique perspective to projects because of experience as an owner and owner’s rep.

Repeatedly achieves significant savings by using proactive Front End Planning (FEP) multidisciplinary integrated team approach to consistently maintain change orders for bid packages at 50% below industry average.

Focusing on customer service, quality of design, installation and operation have received multiple awards and recognition for personal and project management performance excellence including Fast Track installations and Value Engineering.

Skills/Experience Summary

Extensive Owner’s Representative experience with responsibilities for safety, quality, scope, schedule, validation and cost including operational support after project closeout.

Experienced with Design/Bid/Build, Design/Build and Design/Bid/CM Contracts.

Began career as the design engineer for HVAC, piping and plumbing projects followed by lead engineer for facilities and utilities on multiple discipline projects then project manager of the same. Lastly was the exclusive internal representative and Project Manager hiring all services from outside resources to accomplish all phases of assigned projects.

Experienced in the following roles: mechanical design, discipline lead, facility, utility, process coordination and inspection (site engineering), contract administration, plant engineering, project management and project management process improvement.

Experience managing multiple disciplined teams over 25 people and construction crews over 100 people including stakeholder updates to translate project objectives into deliverables within schedule and budget.

Superior proven capability to develop and manage bid packages for A/E, equipment, construction and validation service providers with change orders averaging 5-7% over 5 years.

FDA cGMP regulated experience with Facilities, Utilities (generation and distribution), Processes, HVAC, HVAC/Utility controls and validation for every phase of the entire project lifecycle.

о Types of Facilities

Pharmaceutical ISO class 6, CNC, Medical Devices ISO 8

Labs – bioag, biohazard and general

Aseptic Filling, liquid and powder infant formula processing, filling, packaging and warehousing, Energy Centers, Offices, Warehouses, Computer Rooms and Walk in Refrigerator/Incubators

о Types of Utilities (Generation/Distribution and Validation)

Steam – Regular and High Quality

Compressed Gases – Oil Free, High Quality, Breathable, Nitrogen (liquid/generated) and Carbon

Dioxide

Waters - City, Well, Chilled, Softened, WFI, RO, Ingredient, Carbon/Green Filtered, Deionized/Distilled, Process HW

Heating and Cooling – Steam, U-Tube, Plate and Frame, Refrigerant, Ammonia

Notable Systems on Projects – Aseptic fillers, liquid and powder fillers, Fluid Bed Dryers, Powder Dryers, Agglomerators, Continuous/Retort Sterilizers

Generation Equipment (10 yr full cost analysis) – Chillers, Evaporators, Boilers, Air Compressors, Desiccant Air Filtration, Cooling Towers, RO/Carbon/Green/Soft Water Filtration, Stills

Sewers – Sanitary, Process, Storm

Exhausts – General Industrial, Lab – general and biohazard, Dust – Wet/Dry Process Powders, Steam and Nitrogen Capture.

Utilities Master Planning and Long Range Capital Planning

3rd Party Manufacturing QA Audits

LSS Green Belt training

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ROSSERS SERVICES LLC – President May 2014 to Present

Pfizer McPherson Kansas – Project Engineering Services thru PharmaMatrix

Provided Project Engineering services to coordinate internal and external resources including engineering, construction and equipment suppliers, to install new pharmaceutical grade production parts washing equipment in an ISO 6 class room.

Developed bid packages for cleaning and equipment validation services.

Proprietary Client Clayton NC – Consulting Services thru Hipp Engineering & Consulting

Prepared the Bid Package RFP to purchase Construction Management services for a 2 year Portfolio of 5 projects.

Proprietary Client RTP – Consulting Services thru Hipp Engineering & Consulting

Provided Owners Rep services to coordinate internal and external resources including engineering, construction and equipment suppliers, to retrofit an existing building in Research Triangle Park into Bio-Agricultural R&D labs.

Monitored critical operational utility equipment on a daily basis as a fill-in for facility maintenance. This included determining actions needed if repair was required or failure occurred.

Matalco US Inc – Raleigh NC – New Aluminum Recycling Facility – Project Controls Engineer

Provided Primavera scheduling support at Foster Wheeler Corporation for a green field aluminum recycling facility.

Value Place Motels – Columbus, OH – Electrical Construction Support

Provided coordination and general electrical construction labor for LT Electric for the construction of a 225 room hotel.

ABBOTT NUTRITION (AN), Columbus, OH – SENIOR ENGINEER (Sep 2010 – Oct 2012)

Responsible for Project Management process improvements of all phases of the project lifecycle. Led the following programs:

Develop and maintain permanent engineering specifications with change control for Process, Filling and Packaging disciplines.

Develop a new Bid Package Process, Scope of Work in template format, and a template driven Bid Package for Validation Service Providers.

Green Belt Project – Develop and maintain metrics to measure bid spreads and percent change orders for all contracts and PO’s for capital projects.

ABBOTT NUTRITION (AN), Columbus, OH – SENIOR MECHANICAL ENGINEER (1990 – 2010)

Served as Project Manager/Lead Facility/Process Utility Engineer for the following capital improvement projects:

Lead Facility/Process Utility Engineer – New 1700 SF Aseptic Processing Room – Columbus, OH

Managed superfast track project to install a sloped finished floor with drainage for critical processing equipment installation in the middle of existing production area. Goal was met with equipment set 15 weeks after management approval.

The above schedule included engineering with formal client reviews, competitive bidding, building permit approvals, demolition and construction.

Designed and managed installation and commissioning of the process piping for the Aseptic Surge Tank.

Managed completion of all Facility/Utility and Process Utility validation for the above.

Clean Room Class Modification – Project Manager – Device Manufacturing Columbus OH

Managed the design, installation and validation of modifications to upgrade a 10,000 sf medical device assemble facility from ISO 9 to ISO 8 room classification.

Project Manager – Water Quality Improvements – Sturgis MI

Managed $9 million project to create a new ingredient water system utilizing RO technology.

Achieved startup of all seven water systems in the plant without interruptions to manufacturing by employing a phased approach.

Reduced storm water discharge by 2 million gallons/day by creating a new rinse water system utilizing greens and carbon filtration and a closed-loop cooling water system to eliminate use of once-through cooling.

Earned a corporate EH&S award for the resulting reduction in environmental impact.

Achieved formal recognition for providing excellent project support.

Project Manager/Sole engineering support – Utility Upgrades Multiple Locations

Managed over 15 utility upgrade projects to install/replace generation equipment and distribution systems for multiple locations at FDA cGMP industrial manufacturing facilities over 500,000sf.

Types of Utilities

Steam – Regular and High Quality

Compressed Gases – Oil Free, High Quality, Breathable, Nitrogen (liquid/generated) and Carbon Dioxide

Waters – City, Well, Chilled, Softened, RO, Ingredient, Carbon/Green Filtered, Deionized/Distilled, Process HW

Heating and Cooling – Steam, U-Tube, Plate and Frame, Refrigerant, Ammonia

Generation Equipment (10 yr full cost analysis) – Chillers, Evaporators, Boilers, Air Compressors, Desiccant Air Filtration, Cooling Towers, RO/Carbon/Green/Soft Water Filtration, Stills.

Project Engineer – Industrial Pre-Treatment Plant – Abbott Laboratories, Sturgis MI

Managed a 4-year (beginning to end), $18 million installation of a 750,000 gallon/day Greenfield Sequenced Batch Reactor Industrial Pretreatment System achieving Abbott’s first LEED gold certified building. Successfully delivered the project 2 months ahead of schedule as well as $500,000 (3%) under budget on capital and $500,000 (16%) under budget on expense.

Realized significant cost savings by utilizing design-build bidding to effectively source and manage all external engineering, construction, construction management, commissioning, and training services, which required the use of only two internal staff for implementation. Contract was $11.6 million with 4% change orders.

Effectively incorporated the needs of internal and external stakeholders from engineering, manufacturing, EH&S, regulatory agencies, and the City of Sturgis by utilizing Front End Planning (FEP), and an Integrated Team approach prior to Abbott’s adopting this practice. This allows the team members to excel and the whole team benefits.

Project’s success was featured in the “Abbott Engineer,” a corporate-wide monthly engineering magazine.

Responding to a Land Application permit violation a Remedial Action Plan (RAP) was developed that identified the system above. Analyzed for the RAP were the permit requirements, available technologies, costs and risks to:

1.Fully treat and send to the river

2.Fully pretreat and send to the City

3.pH pretreat and send to the City – Note: the pilot study for this original option failed. The project was quickly re-scoped for option 2 above with funding modifications while continuing project progress.

Saved over $260,000 in sales and property taxes by securing a pollution-control tax exemption from the state of Michigan.

Supported negotiation of legal agreements between Abbott and the City of Sturgis.

Supported the City of Sturgis in obtaining low-interest state funding for their portion of the project.

Project Engineer/Sole Engineering Support – Twin Shell Blender Relocation – Waukegan, IL

Relocated 3 existing Twin Shell pharmaceutical tablet manufacturing blenders (Largest was 20’ tall) to newly constructed manufacturing facility including design, installation, construction management and startup of rigging, installation and hookup of utilities and processing feeds.

Completed Value Engineering Analysis of rigging alternatives for helicopter lift vs over existing roofs and roads.

EDUCATION / TRAINING

BSME, University of Cincinnati

Professional Development Courses

Project Management Courses – Skillpath, Battelle

Safe Methods of Asbestos Removal – Univ of Cincinnati

Green Belt LSS Basics and Statistics – Abbott Laboratories

PMP Certification – currently studying and expected to complete in 2017

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS – PMI, BioOhio

SOFTWARE – Microsoft Office/Project, Primavera, SharePoint

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