Engineer Engineering

J. Robert Sakovich

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PROCESS/FACILITIES/PROJECT ENGINEER

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Completed process and facilities engineering for numerous projects throughout career, including the following:

Received Silver Bullet Award at AMEC for assistance with data analysis for facility shutdown.

Anadarko Mako State FEED and Detail Design (West Texas)

BHP Billiton Blackhawk Southwest Phase 3 & 4 Expansion (South Texas)

Sonangol Produced Water Treatment Upgrade FEED (Offshore Angola)

Sea Water System for BP Mad Dog Phase 2 Define Phase (GoM)

Cabinda Gas Plant Enhancement (CGPe) Project Pre-FEED, FEED, and Detail Design (Angola Terminal - Onshore)

Chevron SMAD Pre-FEED (Offshore Angola)

Marathon Oil Company, Alba PSC Compression Project Cold Eyes Review (Offshore Equatorial Guinea)

Sonatrach Anadarko Association - Block 404 NGL Recovery (HBNS3) (Onshore Algeria).

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Process/Facilities Engineer offering 15 years of experience supporting major oil and gas projects for clients including BP, Chevron, Anadarko, and BHP Billiton in billion dollar process and project engineering. Serve as a mentor for engineers, designers, and estimators for preparation of bid packages. Known as a self-starter, team player, good communicator, and a hard worker with a strong technical background, good interpersonal skills, and broad base of experience.

SKILLS

Process/Facilities Engineering

Product design

HAZOP, PHA, RAM, HAZID, and What If analysis

P&ID, PFD development

Expertise in troubleshooting for commissioning and startup

Reports and studies for FEED

Computer/Software

GIS, SAP (40+ hours training), Peachtree, Microsoft Office, HYSYS.

Package Engineering

Specification review, bid analysis, and preparation of clarifications

Design in accordance with NACE, ASME, API, and OSHA standards.

Interpersonal Communications

Lead team of engineers in site survey.

Direct meetings between various disciplines.

Interface with clients and vendors to ensure timely delivery and optimize design.

PROFESSIONAL WORK HISTORY

AMEC Oil & Gas Americas / Amec Foster Wheeler, Houston, Texas 2007-Present

Process/Facilities/Package Engineer

Achieve on-time delivery of engineering deliverables, proposals, engineering estimates, and technical bid evaluations for projects up to $10 billion.

Supervise process engineering teams to optimize design and provide design input to client and other disciplines.

Lead, direct, and provide key input for HAZOP, PHA, Design Review, Model Review, What If Analysis, HAZID, RAM Analysis, Kickoff and weekly meetings with clients and equipment suppliers.

Design systems for treatment, processing, handling, and storage of natural gas, unconventional gas, oil, NGL, LNG, seawater, produced water, and utilities for upstream and midstream facilities for offshore and onshore applications.

Provide Hysys models for clients to file for permits with regulating authorities.

Perform management of change for design changes after HAZOP, issued for design and issued for construction deliverables.

Troubleshoot issues leading to facility shutdown after startup of new equipment.

Interface with instrumentation and controls engineers to deliver control system and narrative for handling NGL vapor recovery from oil tank farm at Cabinda Oil Terminal for processing at Cabinda Gas Plant.

Conduct site surveys and walkdown P&IDs to provide as-built documentation and reduce piping and valves for incorporating new equipment into existing facilities.

Travel to field to present options to client operational teams for troubleshooting, debottlenecking, and expansion for brownfield design.

Present studies to clients for identification of design improvements and all available design options.

Prepare, review, and update PFDs, Heat & Material Balance, Material Selection Diagrams, P&IDs.

Perform engineering calculations for line sizing/hydraulics, flare radiation, equipment sizing, and control valve sizing.

Interact with clients to determine needs for custom design of equipment package.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support design of electrical, structural, piping, and instrumentation packages.

Identify process improvement areas, implement change and achieve effective results with minimum supervision as an individual contributor and in a team environment.

Prepare job books and vendor data for handover to client.

Facilitate vendor presentations for new technology to meet the needs of clients.

Participate in company organizations to promote growth and interaction between employees.

Natco, Houston, TX 2006 - 2007

PROJECT/PROCESS ENGINEER

Designed packages for company manufacturing oil, water and gas separation equipment for oilfield, offshore platform and CO2 recovery applications.

Performed specification review and prepare clarifications/exceptions to specification packages.

Prepared specification packages for vendors to meet company or client standards.

Utilized safety in design standards for design. Developed P&IDs and material selection documents based upon process design.

Created standard format for bid proposals, written procedures, and specification packages.

Participated in start-up/commissioning phase of SRM package offshore in West Africa.

Reviewed drawings, bills of material, work orders, calculations, and data sheets before submittal.

Generate engineering change orders (ECO’s), requests for information (RFI’s), and deliverables for projects. Includes interface with clients and manufacturing in order to solve problems.

Manage schedule for engineering, design, and fabrication of projects.

Played key role supporting bid requests from clients, mentoring team of engineers, designers, and estimators in order to prepare bid proposals ranging from $5-$15 million.

Beaird Industries/Maxim Silencers, Inc., Shreveport, LA/Stafford, TX 2002 - 2006

PROJECT/PROCESS ENGINEER

Managed all phases of high-dollar projects from sales to fabrication and installation for company specializing in a complete range of noise control, waste heat recovery, emission control equipment, and pressure vessels for domestic and international clients in a wide range of industries.

Reviewed bid packages and interface with clients to determine customized needs based on location, time constraints, regulatory issues and budget.

Reviewed specifications and prepare/submit exceptions and clarifications.

Designed equipment to meet client specifications and government regulations.

Prepared detailed proposals with customized specifications. Serve as primary point of contact to all internal/external teams

Reviewed drawings, bills of material, work orders, calculations, and data sheets before submittal

Managed client base includes oil and gas industry, entertainment sector, public entities, hospitals and international ventures primarily in South and Central America.

Developed and implemented processes to improve integrity of documentation.

Optimized production for one product line, increasing efficiency by 30% with sales increasing by 50%.

Reliant Energy (Shreveport, LA) 2000 - 2002

GIS Engineer / Regional Structure Associate

Conducted feasibility studies, utilizing GIS technology, to determine the cost effectiveness of extending natural gas service to new areas.

Analyzed error reports to make certain pipelines were coded properly and cost centers were billed accurately.

Evaluated the integrity of pipeline consistently meeting safety and regulatory policies.

EDUCATION

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1998

B.S., Chemical Engineering

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