Richard W. Copeland, Jr.

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Mobile: 985-***-**** ad22o3@r.postjobfree.com

https://linkedin.com/in/richardwcopeland

Planning * Outage/TAR Planning* Project Management * Campaign Coordination* Cost Estimating * SAP * CMMS * ERP Software

*Engineering * Management * Process & Rotating Equipment * Scheduling * Procurement * Equipment Repair Coordination Qualifications:

Experienced, industrial professional with a strong background in safety, maintenance, environmental awareness, process equipment, quality, and production in fast paced industrial and manufacturing environments while completing projects safely, within specifications, on time and on budget. I have over 25 years’ experience working in the Oil & Gas, Pulp & Paper, Heavy Industrial, Construction and Manufacturing industries. I have vast experience in Computerized Maintenance Management Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning systems, Process Safety Management, Work Management Processes, Construction and Maintenance best practices, multi-tasking, Time and Cost Management and KPI goals. Organized, highly motivated and detail directed problem solver. Proven planning, organizational and critical thinking skills developed through work experience, education, and involvement in organizations. Computer skills include SAP, TREND, PRMS, Indus Passport, Sage 50 (Peachtree), AutoCAD, AutoPlant, Inventor, DraftSight, Skype, Visual Fox Pro, Kronos, Power BI, Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Word, Teams, Outlook) and others. Professional Experience:

Maintenance Planner, June 2022 to November 2023

Shell Exploration and Production (Allied Reliability) Deepwater Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Responsible for the Perdido SPAR offshore asset. Manage asset integrated construction and equipment maintenance plan and preventive maintenance in alignment with asset strategies. Ensure correct cost element is aligned with SAP work orders for appropriate cost management. Worked closely with schedulers, general planners, short term planners and Asset Field Leadership in the planning and management of preventative, regular maintenance, and construction orders. Worked with various colleagues, contractors, and vendors to develop and incorporate specific details, plans, job steps, specifications, material needs and timing into work plans. Rough cut scheduling on an ongoing basis to identify potential and actual issues and challenges and make corrections. Redline required corrections to PM orders and maintenance plans as an ongoing mission for an ironclad maintenance execution system. Periodically backfilled as Scheduler, General Planner and Work Prep Tech. These tasks and duties required several trips to the offshore installation yearly. Work Preparation Technician, July 2021 - June 2022 Shell Exploration and Production (Allied Reliability) Deepwater Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Worked offshore at Perdido - SPAR AC857. Developed quality work packages/plans that address safety/health/environmental factors, reliability, and cost. Performed job scoping activities for all work orders and performed complete planning activities for Priority 1 and 2 work orders. Created corrective work orders from approved notifications. Visited job sites to diagnose and scope problems to determine true failure mode and/or cause of defect. Determined work scope and gather job site details via work prep checklist. Received new materials from warehouseman and QA/QC all new materials for correct maintenance execution. Complied with and adhered to all eME process requirements and coordinated work prep activities with team members. Coordinated daily FSR, History and Notification meetings as well as Material Status Meetings. Planned simple jobs and express lane work to ready execution. Periodically backfilled as Scheduler and Planner. Preventive Maintenance Planner, June 2020 - July 2021 Shell Exploration and Production (Allied Reliability) Deepwater Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Responsible for the Perdido SPAR offshore asset. Managed asset integrated construction and equipment for preventive maintenance in alignment with asset strategies. Ensure correct cost element is aligned with SAP work orders for appropriate cost management. Continued to work closely with schedulers, general planners, short term planners and Asset Field Leadership in the planning and management of preventative, regular maintenance, and construction orders. Worked with various colleagues, contractors, and vendors to develop and incorporate specific details, plans, job steps, specifications, material needs and timing into work plans. Rough cut scheduling on an ongoing basis to identify potential and actual issues and challenges and make corrections. Redline required corrections to PM orders and maintenance plans as an ongoing mission for an ironclad maintenance execution system. Periodically backfilled as General Planner. These tasks and duties required several trips to the offshore installation yearly. Maintenance Campaign Coordinator / PEI Planner, March 2019 - June 2020 Shell Exploration and Production (Allied Reliability) Deepwater Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico working the Perdido SPAR asset. Developed and managed asset integrated construction and equipment maintenance plan in alignment with asset strategies. Ensured correct cost element is aligned with SAP work orders for appropriate cost management. Continued to work closely with Corridor Planning Team Lead and Asset Field Leadership in the development and management of the asset integrated construction and equipment campaign maintenance plan. Developed and incorporated specific details, plans, job steps, specifications, material needs and timing into the campaign plan. Facilitated Campaign meetings and updates weekly. Always analyzed campaign schedule on an ongoing basis to identify potential and actual issues and challenges to meeting the plan and make recommendations. Worked with Corridor Planning Team Lead to provide required reporting to Steering Team on plan status, amount of work in backlog, completed work, forecasted work, and forecasted completion dates. Campaign 1 in August 2019 and Campaign 2 in January 2020 both had safe and successful execution of many exceptional well-planned work orders with goal zero results. Both campaigns proved to be considerably more efficient than normal OTR construction, reducing thousands of hours out of the backlog with our team working in uncharted territory regarding maintenance campaigns and this new way of working. Helped supervise offshore execution of campaign activities and utilizing contractor time sheets and planned versus actual hours, progression reports and charts were published daily. Filed all approved exception events and discoveries. Hands on tool time data was collected and analyzed to prove a substantial increase in efficiency. Responsible for PSV overhaul/replacement planning working closely with PEI group, offshore and supply vendors. These tasks and duties required several trips to the offshore installation yearly. Mechanical Maintenance Outage Planner; June 2018 – March 2019 Georgia-Pacific, Port Hudson Paper Mill – Worked the Paper Machine #3PM and Paper Machine #4PM in Fine Paper. Responsible for generating accurate general to complex job plans with complete task sequences with estimated labor, parts, materials, equipment, and internal and external services, such as, lifting equipment, scaffolding, insulation, abatement, welding, and other specialized services required to execute jobs safely and efficiently. This included daily routine maintenance, routine outages, and annual outages. This was a leadership and supervisor role engaged in safety, leadership, and excellence. Other tasks included building/editing BOMs, building preventive maintenance plans, requisitioning of parts and services, work order processing, complete work order closing, precision maintenance review, special projects, and other department/company tasks. Mechanical Maintenance Planner; January 2016– April 2018 International Paper, Bogalusa Paper Mill – Utilities; Power & Recovery Area. This consisted of two Recovery Boilers, two Power Boilers, eight Effect Evaporators, three Turbine Generators, five Cooling Towers, four Air Compressors, a Cinder System, Bark System, Influent Plant, Effluent Plant, Tall Oil Plant, and a Tank Farm. Responsible for generating accurate general to complex job plans with complete task sequences with estimated labor, parts, materials, equipment, and internal and external services, such as, lifting equipment, scaffolding, insulation, abatement, welding, and other specialized services required to execute jobs safely and efficiently. This included daily routine maintenance, routine outages, and annual outages as a team project. This was a leadership role engaged in safety, supervision and excellence and often required to supervise a maintenance crew of 6-10 tradesmen. Other tasks included advanced knowledge of SAP, bill of materials updates, creating and editing preventive maintenance work orders, outage critiques, reviewing and converting notifications, requisitioning parts and services, work order processing, complete work order closing, precision maintenance review, scheduling, and RI reviews. Worked closely with operations, engineering, and predictive maintenance teams.

Repair/Fabrication Planner/Manager, October 2014 – January 2016 Process Pumps and Equipment – Manager and Coordinator of the Repair and Fabrication division of a rotating equipment facility and a complete machine shop that consisted of Machinist, Millwrights and Welders. Repair of various types and brands of pumps, agitators, process equipment and rotating equipment for numerous companies in the gulf coast area. Calculated labor cost and profit margins, developed repair proposals, repair inspections and reports, issued purchase orders, procurement of all required parts, materials and sub-contractor services for repairs, order entries, complete order processing, development of repair binders/folders, coordination of deliveries and pick up of all services via company truck or hot shot services and the organization of job files. Certified with Niton X-Met and conducted numerous positive material identifications on various types of metals on a weekly basis. Shop Coordinator / Engineering Support, January 2011 – October 2014 Ford-Gelatt, (SunSource) – Rotating equipment facility and a complete machine shop. Included the safety, training, and supervision of 10-12 machinists, millwrights, and a delivery truck driver. Repair of various types and brands of pumps, agitators, process equipment and rotating equipment for numerous companies in the chemical, petroleum, and paper mill industries for customers such as: Exxon/Mobil, Valero Refining, Georgia-Pacific, etc. Developed daily work schedules for shop personnel, calculated labor cost and profit margins, developed repair proposals, repair inspections and reports, issued purchase orders, procurement of all required parts, materials and sub-contractor services for repairs, order entries, complete order processing, development of repair binders/folders, coordination of deliveries and pick up of all services via company truck or hot shot services, ordered shop supplies, organized job files and MSDS sheets, and AutoCAD drawings and hand sketches. Industrial Engineer/Product Structure Engineer, April 2006 –-January 2011, Waterbury Companies, Inc., Aerosol Packager - Engineering, Problem solving, AutoCAD Design, PRMS Database Management, Time & Motion Studies and Observations, Product Development, Capital Expense Projects, Project Management, Expense Analysis Reports, UPC Barcodes, Carton Coders and Codes, Machinery Parts Ordering and Order Patterns, Representative for outside Professional Services vendors. Boilermaker / Rigger / Welder, December 1999 - June 2004, Boilermakers Union Local 582, Heavy Industrial Industry – Boilermaker, Rigging, Welding, Construction, Repair, Maintenance and New Installations. Worked for numerous contractors, such as: Turner Industries, ABB and GE, and in several work environments, such as: Chemical Plants, Petroleum Plants, Refineries, Paper Mills, Power Plants, Vessels, Tray Towers and Tanks for Shell, BASF, Georgia-Pacific, Weyerhaeuser, Williams Olefins and NRG Energy.

Education:

• Bachelor of Science; Industrial Technology

Southeastern Louisiana University; Hammond, La.

Major Course Work: Industrial Technology, Drafting Design, Facilities Planning & Design, Work Methods & Measurements, Advanced Computer-Aided Drafting, as well as Architectural, Engineering and Piping Drafting.

• Associate of Applied Science; Industrial Supervision Southeastern Louisiana University; Hammond, La.

Major Course Work: Industrial Technology, Materials & Processes, Fluid Power, Advanced Electronics and Project Management.

• Associate of Applied Science; Construction Technology Southeastern Louisiana University; Hammond, La.

Major Course Work: Construction Technology, Construction Estimating, Construction Graphics and Building Materials. Special Course Projects: FEMA Mitigation House Demonstration Model. The purpose of this project was to demonstrate the proper techniques for framing structures to withstand high-wind conditions. Our class received the cover of Southeastern' s Technically Speaking magazine June 2007.

• Boilermaker/Rigger Apprenticeship Program

The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers

Heavy Industrial – Boilermaker, Rigging, Welding, Repair, Maintenance and New Construction. Training, Certifications, Memberships and Accomplishments:

• Shell eME Planner Training - 2019, 2020 & 2023

• Shell eME Scheduler Training - 2019 & 2023

• Shell eME Work Preparation Technician Training -2019

• Shell HSE Super Safety Training - 2023

• Shell Waste Management Training - 2023

• Shell eME Maintenance Training - 2023

• Helicopter Underwater Escape Training (HUET) 2019 - 2027

• Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) 2019 - 2028

• Basic Orientation Plus – ARSC, GBRIA, Alliance Safety Counsel - 2018

• White Belt certified in Manufacturing Excellence, ISO, Lean Six Sigma, Process Improvements - 2017

• SAP MRP Training - 2017

• Certified with Niton X-Met PMI 2015 - 2020

• Certified Powered Industrial Truck Operator Permit 2011 - 2016

• American Design Drafting Association - Certified Architectural Drafter 2008 - 2013

• American Red Cross – Certified CPR, First Aid and Blood Borne Pathogen 2007 - 2012

• The National Scholars Honors Society - Member Since 2007

• Made the cover of Southeastern' s Technically Speaking magazine June 2007

• National Society of Collegiate Scholars - Lifetime Member Since 2006

• National Association of Industrial Technology - Member Since 2006

• American Design Drafting Association - Member Since 2006

• Industrial Internship; Waterbury Companies, Inc. - 2006

• Louisiana Life Insurance License - 2006

• Welding School - 2002

• Boilermakers National Apprenticeship Program 1999-2004

• U.S. Merchant Mariner 1994 - 1999

• Louisiana Building and Construction Trades Council Safety Training

• Mobilization Optimization Stabilization and Training (MOST)

• GSHO Safety & Health Training

• OSHA 10 Hour Construction Safety & Health Training

• TAPPISAFW Process Safety Management

• TAPPISAFE Safety Courses

• Life Changing Injury & Fatality Elimination (LIFE)

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