WARNER DUNDAS Cell: 312-***-****
Pensacola, FL 32505 act1uv@r.postjobfree.com
LinkedIn URL: www.linkedin.com/in/wdundas
Staff Engineer / Armstrong World Industries / 2012 to Present
Engineering CAPX & Maintenance for a Ceiling tile plant.
Project Development and Execution - Capital projects to maintain equipment and make improvements to operations
Maintenance – working day to day with operations, assisting, improving and troubleshooting - directing downday activities – hiring and leading contractors
Reliability Engineering – making and improving on PM’s, Root Cause analysis
Maintain all thermal equipment in the plant - Combustion Systems, Dryers / Boilers and Kiln
Responsible for energy reductions and innovation ideas.
Supervise & train Maintenance technicians on thermal systems
Achievements: Continuous improvement to safety of the equipment, made necessary upgrades to keep several older machines in safe continuous operation with minimal downtime. Successfully completed large capital projects including replacing a dryer Circulating fan, rebuilding Dryer Infrastructure, upgrading systems and energy reductions – safety Improvements.
Regional Engineer / Louisiana Pacific / 2010 to 2012
Project Manager in corporate engineering for an assigned region - handle all capital and large maintenance projects for assigned plants.
Capital work - develop scope, design, budget prepare project submittal documents for management approval.
Write specs, select equipment, vendors, external engineering and contractors
Develop schedule, coordinate with plant on shutdowns, safety activities.
Assist plants with determining cost reductions and process improvements
Provide Technical assistance to plant working with Plant Managers and Maintenance personnel
Achievements – plant improvements to increase capacity, line speed
Consulting Engineer / GEA - Barr-Rosin / 2010 / Hopewell, VA
Consultant - brown-field startup of new barley ethanol plant Ring Dryers used to dry grain to be used for feed stock in Ethanol Production.
Inspection of installation to code requirements.
Completed point to point wiring checkout
Checked operation of all safety equipment.
Dry functional test rotating equipment
Assisted with Commissioning and troubleshooting of equipment
Project Manager / Indeck Power / 2006 to 2010
Boiler Manufacturer and Boiler Rental business for industrial applications. Applications utilities for Universities, Airports, Hospitals and steam for Refineries. Project values to $10 Million.
Managed equipment projects and for rental/lease applications
Develop P&ID's, bill of materials, wrote equipment specs, evaluate vendor bids, equipment selection, leading engineering and designers
Coordinate activities / liaison with customers & engineers for design review meetings - initiate change orders, mitigate technical and field issues to minimize back charges
Prepare schedules according to manufacturing and vendor needs, review and maintain or improve project budgets
Acquire external engineering services or ASME approved field construction assistance when needed
Pre-Contract sales applications, spec evaluation / engineering assistance, obtain pricing - provide estimates and develop schedules
Supervised 2 project engineers, provided training, scheduling and monitoring specific project tasks
Achievements - Worked to help streamline operations and improve communications, generated standard specs and drawings
Staff Engineer / Design Engineer / Engineer / USG Corp / 1995 to 2006
Manufacturer of drywall, ceiling tile and paper. Corporate Technical Engineer in Thermal Process Division. Company had over 40 various sized, high speed automated plants in North America and International.
Designed thermal systems, burner sizing, fuel handling systems, fuel metering, for multiple process heating applications
Designed electrical control panels for all new combustion systems - PLC interface applications with controls engineers, touched on PLC programming
Energy efficiency reducing plant fuel costs with new equipment technology/development
Safety improvements - troubleshooting systems, recommended equipment upgrades, accident investigation and report writing
Assisted with design, commission and startup seven brand new plants
SWAT Team - team of corporate technical engineers that preformed equipment & safety audits at various plants throughout the company report and present findings to plant engineers and corporate management
Achievements – Plant safety improvements. Designed and built a Prototype for a Fluidizing Bed Calciner that saved $10,000 a month in fuel costs - Patent:
US 7,175,426 B2 Feb 13, 2007 High Efficiency Refractoryless Kettle
Project Engineer / Applications Engineer / Pillard Combustion / 1990 to 1994
Burner company with Head office in France, satellite offices in Europe and Canada. Specialized in high capacity combustion systems for various large boilers, cement kilns and liquid heating applications.
Managed combustion projects from design to start-up
Development of immersion tube fired burners used for liquid heating and innovative calcining technology for new customer product
Preformed startups on boiler burners, liquid heating applications, calcining applications
Application sales - proposal writing
Interface with Technical Engineers in France and England on design and equipment
Managed new product line from sister company in England, preparing sales brochures and assisted with promotions
Achievements – New product development and refinement. Assisted in implementation of a new division / product line for a sister company in the U. K., for the North American market – for small process combustion equipment.
Education
Concordia University Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering
Rockwell Automation PLC training
Machinist Training Lathe, Milling Machine
Skills
Computer Literacy Microsoft Office Applications, MS Project,
Fortran, some AutoCAD & PLC Programming
Machine Tools Lathes, Welding, Milling and Woodworking Machines
Abilities Mechanically and electrically inclined
Working knowledge of Factory Mutual, IRI, ASME Sec 1 & 8, NFPA
MIL STD, LEAN, SAP
Languages English; French
Hobbies
Woodworking Several courses in cabinet making
Able to reside and work in both US and Canada
Would consider relocation