Engineer-Maintenance, Projects, Operations Support, Manufacturing, Nuc

CHRISTOPHER MARK ALLGOOD

*** **** ****** *** ● North Augusta, SC 29860 ● 803-***-**** ● *********@*****.***

QUALIFICATIONS

Accomplished mechanical engineer with a Masters Degree and extensive experience in the Nuclear Industry. Previously held

Department of Energy Q clearance and unescorted access to Plant Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant. Highly experienced in

working at operating Nuclear Facilities regulated by the DOE, NRC, and evaluated by the Defense Nuclear Facility Safety

Board (DNFSB) and the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO).

CORE STRENGTHS

Nuclear Safety Technical Guidance and Reviews Methodical, safe work execution

USQ and 50.59screenings DOE and Commercial SARs,TSRs, and Tech Specs

Human Performance and Conduct of Operations Project Management

Project Engineering Vendor Oversight

EXPERIENCE

June 2010 – December 2013 Southern Nuclear Company

Plant Vogtle Electric Generating Plant

Senior Engineer – Maintenance Engineering

Departmental assignments include: maintenance engineer for all pumps in Units 1 and 2, System Outage Execution Owner,

the tagout 50.59 coordinator, the B.5.b severe accident management engineer, mechanical team support engineer, and the

condenser air in leakage program owner.

Maintenance lead project engineer for implementation of projects owned by maintenance.

I am a qualified mentor and play a key role in mentoring our new engineers and assist them in completing their

qualifications.

Significant accomplishments include implementing the use of ROV video inspections rather than utilizing divers for under

water inspections of our pump intakes and pump wells, leading a first time cleaning effort of our river water intake canal that

significantly improved equipment reliability and prevented a plant shut down, functioning as the project engineer on a

circulating water pump refurbishment project during a plant refueling outage(2R15) that eliminated vibration problems

which had plagued the pump’s performance since 2006, and leading a condenser air in leakage trouble shooting effort with

assistance from American Efficiency Services that identified 15 sources of Unit 2 condenser air in leakage.

Miscellaneous departmental duties and accomplishments include: leading issue response teams, reviewing

Preventative Maintenance Change Requests and ensuring they aid in optimizing the PM program, are safe, and are not in

conflict with any requirements or good maintenance practices, analyzing INPO Event Reports for potential plant/fleet

impacts and determining the appropriate corrective actions if any are required, supporting the completion of refueling

outages and assisting the plant in meeting outage schedules, writing Fleet Event Alerts, and continuously reinforcing SNC’s

safety expectations and ensuring that I, my coworkers, and supplemental personnel utilize safe work practices and behaviors

by utilizing a questioning attitude, avoiding complacency, and challenging others when necessary.

Nov 2007 – June 2010 AREVA Federal Services

Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility MFFF

Technical Requirements Engineer

System engineer at the MFFF, which is a U. S. nonproliferation initiative that will convert surplus weapons grade

plutonium into fuel used in commercial nuclear reactors. The plant, located at the Savannah River Site, will be liscensed by

the Nuclear Regulatory Comission (NRC), and owned by the Department of Energy (DOE).

Responsible engineer for 5 process systems including the Homogenization and Pelletizing System and Scrap Processing

System. The Homogenization and Pelletizing system will homogenize the final blend of plutonium oxide and uranium oxide

powder and then form fuel pellets, which will be sintered and inserted into nuclear fuel rods. The scrap processing system is

used to recycle and prepare any scrap product so it is not wasted and can be delivered as useable nuclear fuel. Duties

included glovebox layout reviews, equipment design reviews, control room layout reviews, process room equipment

placement, nuclear facilty safety analysis reviews, supporting procurement of SSCs to build the systems, and acting as the

liaison between the design office in Bagnols, France and all other engineering and construction groups working on designing

and building my process units.

Visited MELOX MOX facility in Bagnols, France.

June 2000 – Oct 2007 Westinghouse Savannah River Co.

Defense Programs/Tritium Facility

Shift Technical Engineer; April 05 – Oct 07

Completed rigorous Shift Technical Engineer training program to become qualified as the design authority on all Tritium

Facility process systems. Position duties included residing in the control room and supporting plant operations, assuming the

role of the lead and only engineering representative on night shift, ensuring equipment is capable of performing its credited

safety function prior to exiting LCOs, assisting operations personnel in deciding when LCOs should be entered, ensuring all

production and maintenance operations are performed within the bounds of the Tritium Facility’s Documented Safety

Analysis, reviewing and approving all work packages for routine and corrective maintenance, assisting in trouble shooting

activities, and specifying post maintenance tests and acceptance criteria for any system, structure, or component in the

Tritium Facility, performing and reviewing any changes to operations or maintenance procedures and ensuring there is no

resulting adverse impacts to the facility or the Documented Safety Analysis, and acting as the engineering lead for all

Tritium Facility emergencies and regularly participating in facility emergency preparedness drills which entails

communicating the conditions to the SRS operations center, technical support room, and assisting the shift operations

manager in classifying events.

Facility Fixturing Engineer; Sept. 03 – April 05

Role responsibilities and accomplishments were designing fixturing and tooling for processing tritium

reservoirs, designing and implementing protective fixtures that aided in preserving tritium reservoir product

quality, and developing training material and training operations personnel on the use of new equipment.

Facility Materials Engineer; Sept. 03 – April 05

This position necessitated working with personnel from Tritium Operations, Savannah River National Lab,

Los Alamos National Lab, and Sandia National Lab to ensure materials contacting or used in processing

reservoirs in the Tritium Facility meets DOE Albuquerque Quality Criteria (QC 1) requirements and will not

adversely affect the quality of the reservoirs.

Reservoir Age Management Engineer; Sept. 03 – Oct. 04

Assignment requirements were to conduct operations performance and product inventory trending, use the

trending weekly to schedule production related activities, and ensure facility personnel follow the guidelines

for safe handling, storage, and processing tritium filled reservoirs.

Process/System Engineer; Feb 01 – Sept. 03

Obligations were performing activities as system design authority including system optimization,

troubleshooting, and scheduling preventative and routine maintenance, writing and improving system

operating and maintenance procedures, writing and implementing design change notices and maintaining

system configuration control, performing system capacity studies, participating on project design teams, and

ensuring the system remains within the bounds of the facility’s Documented Safety Analysis.

Savannah River National Lab

Remote Systems Engineer; June 00 – Feb. 01

Role functions included designing, supporting fabrication, writing operating procedures, performing mock up testing, and

supporting field implementation of nuclear waste sampling equipment.

EDUCATION

May, 2004 University of South Carolina Columbia, SC

Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering

May, 2000 University of South Carolina Columbia, SC

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

SKILLS

Microsoft Office, Microstation, ProE, MathCAD, FileMaker Pro, Adobe Pro, Documentum, MAXIMO

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