Engineer Chemical Engineering

United Engineering and Contracting Company, Inc.

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Gilbertsville, PA 19525

Office 267-***-****

E-mail jrheitman2@gmail,com

CAREER RESUME OF JAMES R. HEITMAN AS OF 2014

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a challenging and rewarding environment that will allow

me to apply my diverse and extensive experience

EXPERIENCE

1987- Present Founder and President - UECCI

* Refurbished Lake Nockamixon Dam for PADER - repaired leaking

sluice gates and "bunger" outlet valve for 90,000 GPM flow rate,

concrete work

* Replaced campus steam system at West Chester University

formed/placed 12 manholes for steam and condensate piping

. Installed boiler and warehouse heat and ventilation system as

well as roof drain system at 160,000 SF factory for Carpenter

Company

. Constructed North Plant Road at J.T. Baker Chemical Company

using soil-cement per PADER remediation permit

* Demolition, refurbishment, and site work at Saylor Cement Museum

. Constructed Perkasie bike path -1mile/65' arched steel bridge

across creek

. Constructed many storm sewer projects, retention basins,

subdivisions, etc

. Installed/removed numerous UST's, disposed contaminated soils,

. Overhauled numerous service stations for Mobil Oil (NH), Exxon

(NJ)

. Managed crew of 22 OSHA CFR 1910.120 trained employees

. Performed numerous confined space jobs and aerial projects

. Constructed mile sound barrier on I-78 at Delaware river

eastbound

. Completed many other public works jobs including SEPTA, PENDOT

1986-1987 Project Engineer - Haines and Kibblehouse, Inc. - Skippack, PA

. Designed and constructed Rahns precast plant expansion

. Designed and constructed many quarry modifications

1986. Mgr. of Production Engineering - C & D Battery division of Allied-

Signal

Corporation - Blue Bell, PA

. Managed design team for robotic assembly of lead-acid batteries

. Managed consolidation of several production lines and

manufacturing facilities

1983-1985 Sr. Project Engineer - R.R. Donnelly and Sons, Inc -

Crawfordsville, IN

. Designed IBM PC software assembly and packaging system

. Designed World Book Encyclopedia set packaging system

. Supervised book assembly line - improved rate from 67-117 books

per minute

. Installed Reader's Digest U.S. Postal shipment system

1977-1983 Founder and President - Sun Mining Company Inc./Wabash

Valley

Energy, Inc. - Terre Haute, IN

. Conducted exploration and leasing and drilling leading to

permitting and opening low sulfur coal mining operations

. Designed, permitted, constructed, operated 1000 ton/day low

sulfur coal recovery plant from old Peabody Coal tailings pond

1978. Technical Services Engineer/Area Supervisor Polyethylene - U.S.

Industrial Chemicals Company - Tuscola, IL

. Constructed and started-up Microthene F powder polyethylene unit

. Solved costly vinyl acetate copolymer quality problem involving

superheated steam

. Operated liquid nitrogen cryogenic production unit/supervised

production

SKILLS

. as founder and president of UECCI, I executed 100's of contracts

which involved job cost estimates, bid proposals to clients,

contract negotiations, subcontractor management, purchasing and

procurement, field operations, and supervision of daily

operations as laborer, tradesman, heavy equipment operator, and

jobsite superintendent

. all site work, including excavation, utility trenching and

installation, environmental remediation, asbestos removal, and

road and bridge construction

. skilled in operation of backhoes, bulldozers, bucket trucks,

track hoes, cranes, coal mining, blast hole drilling,

exploratory drilling, explosives, dragline operations, metal

fabrication, cutting and welding

. practical and theoretical chemical engineering

. control systems, low and high voltage switchgear

installation/operation

EDUCATION

. BS Chemical Engineering - Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology -

1971-1975 - Terre Haute, IN

. MBA program - Syracuse University 1983-1986 - Syracuse, NY

CERTIFICATIONS

. FAA - Private Pilot, instrument rating - 1973/1981

. National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying -

EIT - 1975

. Mensa member - 1983

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