Engineer Construction
Resume:
FRANKLIN (ROSS) WESTFALL
Surveyor
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
More than 30 years of field construction engineering experience. Extensive working knowledge of field surveying for Refinery construction, heavy industrial and commercial building facilities as well as oil fields and pipe lines. Layout experience includes but not limited to Refinery's, heavy equipment and building foundations, temporary construction sites including housing, oilfields, pipelines and associated facilities.
PROJECT TYPES
Oil Field and pipe line
L.N.G. Refineries
G.T.L. Refineries
Oil Refineries
Chemical Plants
Paper Mills
Commercial Buildings
Residential Subdivision
Road work and design
International EXPERIENCE
Sonaref refinery Site prep in Lobito, Angola
MMIE’s Mbini Refinery, Equatorial Guinea
Chevron GTL; Escravos, Nigeria
LOG-CAP II (Iraq)
Chad/Cameroon Development Project; Chad Africa
TANGGUH L.N.G. F.E.E.D. Iran Jaya Indonesia
ACTIVITIES
Heavy Industrial Construction
Oil field layout and pipe line
Boundary Surveying
Building Surveying
Utilities Surveying
Sanitation Facilities Surveying
Construction Surveying
Forestry Surveying
Subcontract coordinator
Survey consultant
PERSONAL DATA/EDUCATION
High School Graduate, 1 year of College
U.S. ARMY Special Forces (GREEN BERET) Survival Training,
Land Navigation Training
Contact information
***************@***.***
Cell phone 1-985-***-****
Home Phone 1-985-***-****
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Bechtel November 2016-Present
KBR- January 2009- November 2016
James Construction Group July 2008 - January 2009
Survey consultant January 2006- July 2008
KBR - 1998 - 2006
Standard Construction (Sub of KBR) 1999 - 1999
Roxco - 1996 - 1998
Stanley Construction - 1994 - 1996
Baker Concrete - 1994 - 1994
U.C.C. - 1993 - 1994
Stanley Construction - 1992 - 1993
Centex Rooney - 1992 - 1992
H.E.L.S. - 1991 - 1992
Ogden - 1989 - 1991
Stanley Construction - 1987 - 1989
Shelby Construction - 1985 - 1987
U.S. ARMY - 1983 - 1985
DETAILED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Bechtel
November 2016-Present
Survey Party chief
Layout for construction, check for proper placement of Anchor bolts, imbeds, and foundations for construction. Set control, set centerlines for equipment, check other surveyors as a back up. perform all survey duties as needed, look at the schedule and make sure there are no delays.
KBR
February 2016-November 2016
Field Engineer
Write RFI's FCO's and NCR's for all crafts and departments, follow them thru the process and ensure follow up are done and the field personal are kept up to date with the process
KBR
February 2013- February 2016
Lead Surveyor /
Survey Quality Control
Quantities Volume-metric Surveyor
Project photographer
Sonaref refinery Site prep in Lobito, Angola
This is a $600 million dollar site prep project covering 150 Hectares with a Marine facility, Public By-pass road and a 24KM water pipe line, 5.5 million Cubic meter of rock excavation and 4.5 million cubic meters of fill placement
Lead surveyor for KBR doing the Quality control for the (4) subcontractor's surveyors, overseeing the construction of the 13.4 Km Bypass road around the project for public access. overseeing the surveyors doing the layout and quantity survey topographic surveys for monthly billing. Checking the layout and volumes of the marine facilities.
KBR
June 2012 – February 2013
Heavy Lift / Rigging Planer
Chevron PBOP Pascagoula, Ms
Heavy lift planner for lattice and telescopic (hydraulic) boom cranes including the critical lifts plans involving 2 or more cranes or lifts over active pipe racks or “Live” units. I did the rigging design & setup, Rigging Details and drawing the Elevation and Plan Views for Engineering and Client approval. I reviewed the field generated lift plans for acceptance or rejection/correction.
KBR
March 9th 2012 to April 20th 2012
Field Engineer / Subcontract Coordinator / Safety Coordinator
MMIE’s Mbini Refinery F.E.E.D. Equatorial Guinea, Africa
Supervised a geotechnical subcontractor to investigate the geotechnical suitability for proposed oil refinery in Equatorial Guinea, Africa. Work included overseeing geophysical (seismic) and geotechnical (Boreholes and soil sampling) scopes of work. Also maintained daily communications with the client-(Ministry of Mining, Manufacturing and Energy). Responsible for the various scopes of work within the contract limits. And approving daily timesheets and any potential cost overruns.
KBR
January 2009- January 2012
Surveyor
Chevron Escravos GTL; Escravos, Nigeria
A 8.6 Billion joint venture team of KBR, the engineering and construction, Snamprogetti, the engineering and main contracting company of Italy's Eni, and JGC of Japan has been awarded the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL)/Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) gas to liquids (GTL) facility in Escravos, Nigeria. The Escravos GTL facility will provide significant environmental benefits by converting natural gas to produce ultra clean GTL diesel. The plant will have an output of 34,000 barrels per day of GTL diesel, naphtha and liquefied petroleum gas for export. The completion of the Escravos plant will add Nigeria to the list of countries leading the industry in implementation of GTL production facilities
Civil surveyor checking Civil works, vessel placement, underground pipe, Volumetric surveys, Tank construction, Settlement Monitoring, Topographical surveys, as-builts on modules coming into the project
As the Surveyor I am in charge of 4 local Nigerian survey crews running settlement monitoring or 2800 point on a 14 day schedule. Also I am in charge of projects where sub millimeter accuracy is required and out of scope work as needed. I check and verify subcontractor’s surveys and evaluate their survey crews and competency levels. And teaching local Nigerian surveyors the latest methods as well as traditional methods of surveying they have not had the opportunity to learn.
James Construction Group
July 2008 January 2009
QC Manager
Quality Control Manager at the Marathon Expansion Project covering; civil works, pipe, site prep, underground piping, Oily water, sanitary sewer and storm water. Generating R.F.I.s and N.C.R.s when necessary. Reviewing reports of conditions found during the inspection activities. Training inspectors and Overseeing the turn over packages and punch list sign offs and determining degree of conformance to our Clients specifications.
Survey consultant
January 2006- July 2008
Survey consultant in the field on various projects including; land acquisitions, pipe line layout, construction layout techniques, proper data collection, Rail Road construction and easement, curve corrections for improving wear on the rails and increased speed. Also improve the performance of the crew’s quality of the survey. Generate reports for my clients on technique and standards with points for improvement.
KBR
January 2004 to January 2006
Log Cap III/ Iraq
QA/QC Supervisor/ Inspector
I applied my skills and knowledge to determine degree of conformance to KBR or Client specifications. I performed inspection of various project and activities including construction projects, food services, housing units, shipping and receiving compliance, facilities, work orders and subcontract compliance. Generated reports of conditions found during inspection activities; notified management of significant problems and non-conformances; Completed documentation to attest to satisfactory completion of inspection or test activities to ensure conformance to specifications and profitability to operations.
Attended a 3 day class in proper QA/QC inspecting and affective reporting, after the first session I was appointed class lead and assisted the instructor on the construction inspection part of the course and teaching the other students the importance of quality control.
I have also taken the QA/QC courses offered on the KBR web site
KBR
April 1998 to January 2004
Chad/Cameroon Development Project; Chad Africa
Survey Superintendent / Party Chief
Survey superintendent- Over 15 crews 3 G.P.S. and 12 conventional, Oil field layout, pipe line layout and asbuilts, Control for processing units, tank farms and living area.
Chad/Cameroon Development Project; Chad and Cameroon, Africa
A $3.5 billion project to produce crude oil from 300 wells in three oil fields in the south western part of Chad, Africa, and transport the crude oil through a 1070 km, 30" pipeline to an offshore loading facility on the west coast of Cameroon, Africa. The client is a consortium consisting of ExxonMobil, Chevron and Petronas. The contractor (KBC) is a joint venture between KBR, Bouygues Batimant, Bouygues Offshore and Cegelec. KBC scope of work is EPC for all Camp Facilities, Infrastructure (Access Roads, Permanent and Temporary Buildings, Control Rooms, etc.), Airports and Airstrips, Field Erected Storage Tanks, Gathering Systems, Well Pads, Central Oil Treating Facility, Pump Stations 1, 2, and 3, Pressure Reduction Station and Power Generation/Transmission. The pipeline construction is performed by WillBros and Schlumberger and Pride perform the drilling.
Arco – Tangguh L.N.G; Iran Jaya F.E.E.D.
Surveyor / Subcontract Coordinator / Safety Coordinator
Overseeing contractors for safety, quality, survey and schedule. I was involved with the preliminary site investigations including, topo and bathometry surveys, Fresh water investigation, tree identification, preliminary road access survey Shore to site and site to airstrip, geotechnical borings on shore and off shore, mine sweep (none found) of abandoned World War 2 airstrip.
I also maintained daily communications with the client (ARCO) to keep them updated on the work progress.
Journeyman Carpenter
Georgia Pacific; Port Hudson, Louisiana
Responsible for form layout, plat layout, and teaching safety classes on power tools.
Installation of a new cantilevered press, crescent former, Yankee dryer, condensate system, cantilevered press, crescent former, Yankee dryer, condensate system, calendar, and reel at existing mill. Includes rework modification of shipping/receiving warehouse, utility piping, HVAC systems, electrical power distribution, and control.
STANDARD CONSTRUCTION – 1999 (Subcontractor to KBR)
Party Chief - Site Engineer
Responsible for layout for 2.5 miles of railroad, including 11 curves, 9 intersections, and 1 mile of road, as well as 1 mile of French drain.
KBR - 1998
Exxon; Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Offsite Party Chief /Instrument Man
Responsible for layout rail connections, equipment layout and alignment, pipe rack tie-ins, weigh scales
Monsanto Oxy Chem; Luling, Louisiana
Subcontract Coordinator and Instrument Man
Shell; Geismar, Louisiana
Instrument Man
ROXCO - 1996-1998
Field Engineer/ Surveyor
Lafayette, LA Baton Rouge, LA Nashville, TN
Field Engineer for Sanitary Sewer Plant construction for 3 years at various locations listed at the same time, on these projects I had to tie in new systems to existing systems some as old as 60 years with no as-built information (by I, I mean me and 1 helper had to generate our own as-built drawings and tie them together so the hydraulics would work).
STANLEY CONSTRUCTION - 1994-1996
Chief Field Engineer/ Projects Surveyor
Chief Field Engineer for multiple projects (8 to16 depending on season) over 4 counties and 3 survey crews, jobs ranging from fast food restrants to the Patriot and stinger missile test site on redstone arsenal in Huntsville Al. and the Alabama A&M football stadium
Baker Concrete - 1994-1994
Party Chief
Trico Steel Mill; Decatur, Alabama
Party Chief for the layout of the electrical substation and exhaust fan mounts for the Trico steel mill .
And a warehouse 1750’ x 750’ in savanna GA. for Home Depot.
UNIVERSAL CONSTRUCTION - 1993-1994
Chief Field Engineer and Party Chief
Responsible for layouts for a two story 400 space parking deck, warehouse, and a five-story building with a bridge to an existing five-story building on the forth and fifth floors.
STANLEY CONSTRUCTION COMPANY- 1992-1993
Chief Field Engineer
Responsible for layout for building, roads, subdivisions, military housing units and light industry.
CENTEX ROONEY - 1992-1992
Party Chief
Responsible for layout at Sparkmen Center (Strategic Defense Command Center), an eight-building complex. Also Field Engineer over five of these multi story buildings at the same time.
Huntsville Engineering & Land Surveying - 1991-1992
Party Chief
Responsible for land surveying, mortgage boundary, topographical surveying, and construction layout. And fiber optic line along interstate I-65
OGDEN - 1989-1991
Party Chief
Responsible for land surveying, mortgage boundary, topographical surveying, and construction layout. Also did a layout for Dunlop tire testing track for proto-type tires. On this project I was the on-site surveyor (we used machine specs. and procedure for road work due to the nature of work i.e. a lot of 3 wire level work and all horizontal control had to be within .001”).
STANLEY CONSTRUCTION - 1988-1989
Party Chief
Duties included pipe layout (storm and sewage), road and subdivision layout, and light industry
SHELBY CONSTRUCTION - 1985-1987
Instrument Man and Junior Party Chief
Responsible for pipe layout (storm and sewage), road and subdivision layout, and light industry
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