Power Plant Maintenance Engineer/Team Leader
Resume:
Jeffrey Jernberg Resume/CV
Indianapolis, IN 46203
************@*****.***
OBJECTIVE:
Provide engineering and management services for the maximum benefit to my company, its customers
and my fellow employees. Apply industry knowledge and experience in engineering, maintenance,
planning and capital projects to achieve successful results. Serve as Engineer, Manager in an Industrial
setting. To be effective and accountable to my duties and responsibilities immediately.
ABILITY SUMMARY:
Project Management – Plan and execute major plant projects start to finish. Coordinate routinely with all
stakeholders. Track actual performance vs. plan for budget, schedule, safety, quality workmanship and
environmental compliance. Includes maintenance overhaul repair/replacements, upgrades, retrofits, system
modifications and new installations.
Maintenance – Schedule and coordinate equipment and system outages to ensure maximum equipment
availability and plant operating reliability. Administer successful CMMS maintenance plan. Employ use of
the Maintenance Management System for planning and scheduling corrective, preventative and predictive
maintenance and capital projects. Maximize efficient use of manpower resources.
Management – Incorporate employee involvement and continuous improvement in work processes, foster
teamwork and mutual trust, boost morale and ownership.
Expertise – Rotating equipment, boilers, tanks, vessels, piping, electrical, control systems, water and waste
treatment and associated auxiliary equipment including air and water quality emission control systems.
Develop work scopes, equipment specifications, contract packages and author and modify work practices and
procedures. Work with engineering firms as needed.
Incorporate safety and environmental responsibilities integral to the work culture.
EDUCATION:
Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
IPL, AES Company
Maintenance Team Leader (Jan.2013-current)
• Provide leadership and guidance for maintenance personnel, mechanics, millwrights, welders and
machinists to perform power plant maintenance work activities.
• Increased scheduled work orders from 60% to 80% to 100% of available scheduled man hours over
a ten month period. Continue to maximize percent of scheduled work completed each week in
addition to handling emergency and urgent work orders.
• Promote high equipment reliability through effective work identification, root-cause failure analysis,
reliability centered maintenance and doing the job right the first time.
• Maximize completion rate of preventative and predictive maintenance to reduce failures over time
and keep small equipment problems from becoming equipment failures.
• Daily coordination of maintenance work efforts with planning, plant operations and lock-out tag-out
to maximize safety, equipment availability and work productivity.
• Follow daily work assignments. Provide technical guidance to work efforts.
• Review maintenance repair frequency, upgrade parts and equipment to reduce failures.
• Develop work scope specifications and request for proposals for contracted work.
• Supervise supplemental and specialty contractors.
Peru Utilities, Peru, Indiana
Power Plant Superintendent (2003-2011)
• Station Manager and Plant Engineer. Responsible for the Power Plant at Peru Utilities including
operations and maintenance, capital projects, plant reliability, safety and environmental compliance,
permitting and reporting.
• Plan and schedule annual and major unit outages, budgets and work requirements.
• Develop long range work plans to maintain equipment and system reliability over time.
• Provide leadership to assigned personnel and their work performance and successfully complete the
maintenance training program.
• Control system modernization, controls upgrades and process control optimization.
• Upgrade water and wastewater treatment processes for improved quality demands and tighter
process control for required compliance with environmental permits. Optimize water treatment
chemical usage and costs.
• Re-engineer fuel processing, improve grinding mill performance, and rebuild burner assemblies,
brickwork, coal diffusers, secondary air registers and air vanes. Increase control of combustion air
to fuel mix to achieve sustainable improved heat rate efficiencies.
• Schedule major unit outages for off peak seasons. Plan and perform overhaul of main turbine
generator; high pressure stage blades replacement, resurface bearings, seals, oil system, vacuum
system, inlet valves, stop valve; generator inspect, re-wedge stator, new retaining rings for generator
rotor. Rebuild exciter. Install new governor control system and generator protection.
• Implement standard procedures for boiler tube repairs. Boiler code repair methods and tube failure
analysis were employed to eliminate repeat failures. Consult with boiler manufacturer and boiler
water chemical consultant.
• Submit needed modifications to air and water quality environmental operating permits to Indiana
Department of Environmental Management for review and approval. Submit required reporting
information routinely.
• Plant personnel had individual and work crew responsibilities for inspecting safety equipment and
maintaining plant cleanliness.
• Conduct actual live fire and confined space rescue drills with trained fire and rescue personnel.
• Implement newly updated Confined Space Permit procedures, Hot Work Permit procedures and
Lock-out/Tag-out Clearance Permit System.
Hoosier Energy REC, Inc., Sullivan, Indiana
FGD Department Superintendent, Engineer (1983-2002)
• Department Superintendent and Engineer for the 1,000MW Power Plant at Merom, IN.
• Provide engineering and management oversight of system operations and outage maintenance for air
quality control equipment, flue gas desulfurization scrubbers, material handling, combustion
byproducts, water and waste water treatment facilities, chemical lab and chemical materials
processing for two, 500-Megawatt generating units at the Merom Generating Station.
• Integral part of management team assigned to develop and implement newly formed planning and
scheduling department and new CMMS (computerized maintenance management system).
• Manage and direct department personnel and coordinate departmental work activities. Provide
essential input to other management staff.
• Develop and implement performance indicators to monitor work effectiveness and work
performance improvements.
• Prioritize projects and major unit outage work. Coordinate activities with corporate environmental
and safety departments.
• Develop the work scopes and specifications for requests for proposals and the contractor and
vendor/supplier contract packages.
• Perform cost/benefit analyses for water treatment plant upgrades. Change out ion exchange resins.
Conduct operator cross-training for water and waste treatment with plant operations and air and
water quality control systems personnel.
• Conduct training for employees in basic plant operations and air quality control equipment in
common, lay terms for easier understanding.
• Develop thorough working knowledge of the equipment operating in heavy duty service including
vessels, tanks, ductwork, expansion joints, dampers, pumps and pumping systems, piping, valves
and water treatment equipment.
• Stay abreast of new technologies. Apply new technologies into replacement parts and equipment by
OEM and competitive suppliers to improve reliability and reduce overall costs.
ADDITIONAL:
• Member of lead management team in a multi-year continuous improvement project. Project goals
were to employ best work practices and solicit employee involvement and improved
communications, all monitored by project consultants. The results were implementation of a new
CMMS, expanded planning and scheduling group, extensive training and measured improvements to
reliability and efficiency for a more effective, efficient and productive work culture.
• Co-author Work Practices and Procedures Manuals for the Merom Station.
• Power Engineers Certification in Steam Plant Operations and Engineering.
• Serve the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Utility Advisory Committees. Obtain substantial
funding for research projects for the Merom Plant, a tremendous value to the company.
• Training Course Facilitator certification in problem solving and problem prevention, root cause
failure analysis, planning and contingency planning, situation review and decision making.
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