Richard T Morrison
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General Field Superintendent / Heavy Rigging / Structural Steel Superintendent
Summary: Over 30 years of supervisory experience in a heavy industrial construction environment. Responsible for key management assignments on multiple complex projects including oil and gas refinery, power boiler erection and demolition, cement plants, scrubber projects, mining, extensive structural steel and heavy rigging responsibly. Set exemplary standards for corporate safety, quality and productivity by implementing and monitoring project control systems and providing on the job training.
Professional Registration:
Central Louisiana Technical College
Fluor University
ASNT-SNT-TC-1A Qualified Welding Inspector
Non-DOT Supervisor Reasonable Suspicion Signs
Advanced Rigging
Certified Plus Structural
Field Safety Training
TWIC
Nuclear Security Clearance
Specific Experience:
Crane and Rigging SME
Hoffman Corp
2023 – Current Kiryat Gat, Israel Intel
Coordination and scheduling of daily lifting and rigging activities performed by multiple contractors. The $33B expansion utilized mobile cranes up to 750T, crawler cranes to 800T, (10) Tower cranes. Sarens SGC Big Benny XL with heavy lifts reaching 200m radius. Responsible for review and approval of all critical lift plans, daily coordination and safety meetings with contractors and client.
General Superintendent
Wood Group
2022 – 2023 Ville Platte, Louisiana Cabot Corp
Air Pollution Control and Energy Center EPC - Oversee daily construction activities of direct craft and subcontractors. Updating and maintain project schedule, approval of manpower and equipment. Project included installation of piling, civil works, erection of a Thermal Oxidizer, Rentech HRSG, Absorber, STG, Modularized PDC units Structural Steel and 60,000 LF of large and small-bore piping.
Site Superintendent St. Landry, Louisiana Cleco Power
Total Wrecking and Environmental
2022 – 2022
Project scope consisted of the controlled demolition of a 230MW B&W Power Boiler. Boiler will be demolished utilizing a 440 ton crawler crane with 350’-0” main boom and luffer, multiple 20T air operated hoist and hand operated chain hoist. Operations will occur within an operating plant adjacent to a live unit, turbine, switchyard, high voltage cable trays and main steam piping. Boiler pressure parts and structural steel with weights to 200,000 will be removed during the demolition process. Project was completed without incident and on schedule.
Construction Superintendent Kazakhstan, Tengiz Oil Fields 3GI
Fluor
2021 – 2022
Review and approve daily lifting and rigging activities, review and approval of critical lifting plans, load testing of overhead cranes and site inspections. Oversee installation of compressor piping and interconnecting piping between modules. Review method statements and attend contractor safety meetings.
Sr Superintendent Mobile, Alabama
Alabama Power
2020 – 2021
Provide field direction for the erection of a VOGT HRSG. Duties included scheduling of material, manpower and equipment to install a new (3) wide (18) bundle heat recovery steam generator. Daily schedule reviews with client and equipment supplier, safety reviews and productivity monitoring.
Construction Superintendent Kazakhstan, Tengiz Oil Fields Controls & Power
Fluor
2019 – 2020
Tengiz Chevron Oil EPC Tengiz Kazakhstan Responsible for construction activities performed by off plot substation contractor. Duties included daily site inspection of works, 35Kv high voltage cable installation, HVAC, Structural steel, piping and civil works. Review and approval of method statements and daily work permits. Daily schedule reviews with contractor and assist with planning of (5) new substations.
Lifting and Rigging SME Kazakhstan, Tengiz Oil Fields 3GP
Fluor
01/2018 – 02/2019
Tengiz Chevron Oil EPC Tengiz Kazakhstan The project will increase the Tengiz fields oil production capacity by an additional 12 million tons a year, the gas production capacity by an additional 960 million standard cubic feet a day, and the fields overall production capacity to approximately 39 million tons of oil a year.
Duties included: Oversee all Lifting and Rigging activities performed by (7) contractors erecting (6) new off – plot Substations, review and approval of Heavy Lifting Plans, approval of daily work permits, method statements and led daily field inspection walkdowns.
Approval of Heavy Load movement permits, rigging hardware and crane inspections, all so performed Crane Operator and Rigger competence assessments.
Rigging Superintendent Exxon Neftegas Limited
Fluor Sakhalin Island, Russian Federation
2014 – 2017
Onshore Grass EPC – roots Oil and Gas processing facility. Facility included frame 6 Gas Turbine Generators, Frame 5 Gas Turbine Injection Compressors, Crude Oil Separation and Stabilization, Vapor Recovery Compressors and Scrubbers as well as utility and support systems. Remote Island, Arctic frontier location required large scale modular design execution along with significant stick – built portion. Responsible for all Crane and Rigging activities including Critical lift Plan preparation, Rigger training, and daily site inspections. Over 500 Brown Field critical lifts were planned and executed without incident.
Rigging and Equipment Superintendent Barrick Gold
Fluor Pascua-Lama gold/silver/copper mine project
2013 - 2013 Chile/Argentina, Chile
EPC services for a $5 billion, 45,000 TPD gold/silver/copper mine and process facilities involved high-altitude work building transport for gold-, silver- and copper-laden ore from Chile to Argentina, mostly underground. This project is considered one of the harshest working environments ever attempted for a construction project, temperatures in the winter reach -40C and wind speeds of 309k have been recorded at the top of the mountain. Responsible for all onsite crane activities, lift plan preparation and approval, scheduling of cranes and riggers and heavy equipment inspections.
Structural Steel Superintendent
Black & Veatch Eskom Kusile Power Station
2011 - 2013 Witbank, South Africa
Duties included Field Supervision Inspections’ planning and coordination of all contract employees. Supervised all approved heavy lift plans and method statements of boiler erector. Responsible for training and knowledge transfer to client employees and ensuring quality and scheduling of (6) 800 MW coal fired generating units.
Indirects Superintendent
Jacobs Group Motiva Refinery Expansion
2009 - 2011 Port Arthur, Texas, United States
Duties included: Oversee 154 indirect riggers receiving and loading plant material to the erection sites, 1800 pieces of equipment, 24000 linear feet of pipe, and over 25,000 ton of structural steel received onsite. Managed the crane operator/rigger training and qualifications, also provided fundamental oversight to (50) crane operators. Planned materials, cranes, manpower, and equipment to support the 600,000 barrel per day expansion; making it potential the largest refinery in the United States and one of the top 10 in the world.
General Superintendent
Zachry Entergy Plum Point Power
2007 – 2009 Osceola, Arkansas, United States
Oversee the erection of 14,000 ton of structural steel in the boiler and turbine areas; also responsible for the planning and execution of all critical lifts in the above areas, including steam drum, water walls, headers, reheat modules, back pass, air preheaters, and heat exchangers.
Site Superintendent
Shaw Group Cleco Power RPS-3
2004 - 2007 Lena, Louisiana, United States
Oversee craft and heavy lift subcontractors for the erection of 11,000 ton of support steel; also responsible for lift plans and erection of Foster Wheeler supplied steam drums, water walls, cyclones, loop seals, and hot reheat modules for 2 x 330MW CFB.
Site Manager
Zachry EI DuPont
2000 - 2004 Starke, Florida, United States
Responsibilities included: site management of two DuPont sites, provided services for supplemental maintenance, lab, and geologist services, heavy equipment operations, and warehousing. Several capital projects and outages with durations to three months were completed.
Rigging Superintendent
BE&K Southdown Cement
1999 - 1999 Kosmosdale, Kentucky, United States
(Outage) Responsible for structural and equipment demolition of an existing preheater tower, cement kiln, burner building, clinker cooler, heat exchanger and baghouse. After completion of the demolition phase, all areas above were reconstructed with multiple tie-ins to the existing plant. The expansion of the plant to 1.6 million tons created one of the largest and most efficient plants in the Midwest.
General Superintendent
TIC Rinker Cement
1997 - 1999 Miami, Florida, United States
Major systems in project scope included quarry/crushing area through material storage, including a new preheater tower and kiln area. Coal Mill Cement grinding/storage and truck and rail unloading facilities were also added.
Boiler Superintendent
TIC South Carolina Electric
1995 - 1997 Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Responsible for erection of an ABB-CE 40 Boiler to supply steam for a 100MW turbine; also erected the flue gas cleaning system and baghouse.
Project Superintendent
TIC Mapco Petroleum
1994 - 1995 Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Responsible for the construction of a complete modularized saturated gas plant located in a petroleum refining facility; work included the erection and installation of (4) towers including an de-ethanizer absorber / stripper, de-butanizer, de-propanizer, and a de-isobutanizer in (2) sections each; (25) equipment modules consisting of exchangers, pumps, piping, instruments and electrical devices; (1) modularized 2000 HP compressor and (4) off modules vessels; concrete foundations, 10,000 lf of process piping, code vessel alterations and structural steel erection.
Area Superintendent
TIC Florida Power Teco
1992 -1994 Mulberry, Florida, United States
250 MW Integrated Gasification Combine Cycle Plant. Responsible for installation of mechanical and piping associated with the gasification and hot gas clean up areas. Provided start up and commissioning assistance as well as plant maintenance services for what is considered one of the nation’s cleanest, most efficient and economical power generation units.
Boiler Superintendent
TIC South Carolina Electric
1990 - 1992 Cope, South Carolina, United States
Responsible for lift plans and erection of all pressure parts in the furnace and back pass areas, including steam drum, economizer, super heater, reheater and air preheater.
Structural/Rigging General Foreman, Craft Superintendent
TIC/BE&K/BROWN&ROOT
Southeastern U.S, United States
Structural steel erection, heavy crane and rigging. Supervising the demolition of boilers, paper machines and cement plants. Erection of coal fired power plants, recovery boilers, scrubbers and bag houses.