Neal A. Keeton

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Telephone: 770-***-**** * Email: ad4x26@r.postjobfree.com NCCER Certified Electrician with 20+ Years of Professional Experience Specializing in Industrial, Commercial, Residential, & Electrical Controls, New Construction, and Facilities Management

Summary of Skills

A dedicated, self-motivated, team player with a safety first mind set, dedicated to providing a quality product in an efficient manner to the customer, while maintaining the integrity and honesty of what and who I represent, valuing the ideas of others working together for the common purpose of giving the customer a more than expected quality product. My leadership goals are promoting unity amongst one another, an excellent safety record, the growth and development of a team like atmosphere, promoting personnel growth, and maintaining morale within for team building and customer appreciation. My leadership qualities also include equipment and building engineering, experienced craftsmanship quality control; any and all projects being completed according to latest code and regulatory compliances, help when possible by providing ideas to the customer for possible costs savings, and always finishing projects either before and or by schedule. Core Strengths

*Safety First*Leadership Oriented*Project Management*Employee Supervision*Commercial

/ Industrial Electrical Construction & Maintenance*4160volt / 13.8 volt Switchgear installation*Meggering & Hipot Testing*PLC/DCS Wiring and Instillation *Troubleshooting Electrical Systems*Power Generation Distribution*Manufacturing Electrical Maintenance*OSHA Standards*National Electrical Code and Compliance*Balancing, Maintaining, and Proposing Budgets*Job Estimation*Material Take offs for Projects

*Computer Skills(Microsoft Office)*Personnel Skills*Clean MVR*Homeland Security Clearance

Education/Training/Certifications

Heard County High School: Franklin, Ga – Graduated, West Georgia Technical College: Carrollton, Ga – Electrical Construction & Maintenance 1.5 years NCCER Industrial Electrical, OSHA 30, (2)OSHA 10, Current NFPA 70e, Siemens Insight BMS Operations, Siemens Insight BMS Read and Write Programming, Structural Welding, CPR & Blood Borne Pathogens Training, Raychem Stress Cone Assembly, Heavy & Light Equipment, AWP and Scissor Lift, Forklift, Hyster Forklift up to 25,000lbs, 0200 Switchyard Training PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Kalera, Inc

05/31-Present

Maintenance Lead

Ellenwood, Ga

● Lead a team of five or more individuals in the daily efforts of maintaining an indoor hydroponic farm.

● Utilized daily Microsoft Office emails, daily logs/daily reports, project proposals etc.

● Utilized Bluebeam creating drawings and material takeoffs.

● Involved with the hiring, release, and disciplinary actions of all employees involved with the maintenance staffing.

● Worked hands on with daily issues involving electrical, electrical controls, plumbing, and HVAC.

● Prepared scheduling for the staff on a weekly basis.

● Responsible for any and all work completed by outside vendors, scheduling, and maintaining logs for scheduled PM’s to be completed on all equipment throughout the facility.

● Utilized daily a digital work order program which included creating work orders, assigning work orders to each individual, along with approving work orders.

● Attended daily and weekly meetings providing intel per project progress, daily attendance, daily plan for the team etc.

● Critical decision making based on issues within the facility as far as what equipment can be shut down and the equipment that could not be shutdown and or have a negative effect on the growth process and harvest process for the facility when making repairs to equipment, adding equipment, and the removal of equipment throughout the facility.

● Purchase equipment, tools, and materials while maintaining an allotted monthly expense account.

● Provided safety training for all maintenance staff members included but not limited to safety in the workplace, LOTO, fall protection, scissor and platform lift training, electrical safety, etc.

● Resolved engineering issues throughout the facility stemming from construction issues and or poor upkeep to making existing equipment better adding to production rate.

Faith Technologies 02/19-04/20

VDC Electrical Superintendent

Atlanta, Ga

● My duties were consistent with the pre-construction portion of high rise office facilities along with parking decks and hotels in the Atlanta, Ga and Savannah, Ga areas. The goal was to eliminate any and all discrepancies during the preconstruction phase of the projects to enable any onsite issues that could potentially hinder the completion date during the construction phase.

● Job tasks included studying the pre-construction drawings either adding or deleting devices and or circuitry based on the latest NFPA 70 NEC making adjustments for equipment arrangement based off of actual room size as well as actual equipment size attending weekly meetings with engineering from all crafts discussing the findings then making the proper corrections to be implemented on the for construction drawings.

● Once approved, using Blubeam I would then create a drawing reflecting the changes made which would be handed off to a team of modelers and detailers utilizing Revu 20 to create a for construction drawing to be used on site as well as a set of as built drawings for the customer once the job was complete.

● Conduct and attend weekly meetings in person when possible and using Skype along with Microsoft teams with the staff and other trades as needed throughout the project to insure transparency and underastanding.

● Also travel to job sites and meet with the on-site supervision to ensure the suffiency of the drawings that would be produced making changes if necessary in a preventive manner to insure job quality along with job completion.

Zachry Industrial 04/14-01-18

Electrical General Foreman

Plant Wansley Coal Fired Power Generating Facility

● Consistently maintains an accident free workplace with no recordable accidents.

● Supervise no less than 10 employees up to 30+ employees annually as needed.

● Supervise new construction projects, plant maintenance, along with outage projects, while providing electrical support for other crafts and contractors when needed daily.

● Work with the planning/scheduling department determining the longevity, workforce needed, and total hours for bided new construction projects as well as maintenance projects outside their normal scope.

● Scheduling for other craft assistance per said projects if needed and assist with breaking down the projects into several job tasks allotting hours for the completion of each task.

● Working closely with the customer’s project managers and engineering department before, during, and after the completion of new projects, maintenance projects, as well as upgrades to existing systems to maximize cost savings, efficiency, safety performance, and production.

● Conduct material take offs for the customer to purchase material needed for the jobs duration.

● Working closely with the clients engineering department prior to the start of all projects, I closely review the provided set of drawings elementary, one line drawings, and blue prints red lining mistakes making corrections as needed, once completed then reviewed by engineering a signature is then provided from the clients project manager at which time the changes become official and will be implemented during the project.

● Changes made out in the field are generally made by me depending on severity at which time red line changes are made to the drawings to be signed at a later date by the client.

● Upon projects completion I return a copy of the drawings including all red line changes to the engineering department for an accurate set of as-built drawings to be made and kept for future use.

● Conduct all tests needed to newly pulled cables including meggering and hipot testing maintaining filed copies of the results returning the originals to the clients engineering department.

● Completed projects before or by the set finish date under budget during my supervision.

● Projects included but not limited to during my supervision: o Nine cell cooling tower renovations which included a complete demolition of all motors, devices, cable, heat trace components, along with the electrical room equipment, which consisted of power distribution panels, MCC’s, PLC cabinets, lighting, receptacles etc. All out dated equipment was replaced, and I supervised the demo and instillation of new equipment, motors, panels, cabinets for DCS controls, vibration monitoring, conduit, cable tray, earth and equipment grounding, lighting protection, lights and receptacles, we finished by conducting the startup process with the client monitoring and the project manager signing off verifying completion. Total project cost was $7.1 million. o Other projects included a Coal Crusher House renovation, involving a complete electrical and I&C demo replacing with new power source cable, devices such as level, pressure, and flow transmitters, installed new stress cones to 4160 volt cable, lighting, receptacles etc. Total cost being $3.5 million dollars. o All electrical for a Gypsum Transport project no demo involved, new instillation consisted of VFD’s, transmitters, cable tray, lighting, receptacles, conduit, lighting protection, all grounding etc. Total project cost $15 million. o Electrical power and controls for an Ammonia Tank addition to an existing system, total cost $3 million. I also supervised the electrical and controls for an Elevator instillation totaling $1 million, new 4160 volt Switchgear install $1 million, a Main Transformer install $500,000 etc. Involved also were office upgrades, ARC Flash doors to existing 4160 volt switchgear, industrial Kitchens, complete replacement of plant lighting installing LED lighting throughout the facility and out buildings etc. These smaller projects include price ranges from

$10,000 up to $500,000 involving commercial and industrial electrical work.

● Conduct daily safety meetings with employees, and production meetings with my direct supervision

● Promoting a team atmosphere and positive morale, keeping time for the electrical staff, also assisting employees through personal issues while on site sometimes giving them another job assignment and or other options in hopes of preventing possible incidents of any kind.

● Involved in the hiring process along with any disciplinary action to be assessed involving but not limited to the termination of employees in the electrical department. Shaw Construction 9/11 – 01/14

Journeyman Electrician

Duke Energy, Cliffside, N.C. Steam Station Coal Fired Power Generating Facility Power Plant New Construction

● I&C Commissioning & Startup involved working closely with the engineering department and control room

● During this time we would conduct wire checks from source to field using electrical testing equipment, verifying proper termination points and equipment addresses.

● Using different devices and mechanisms

● Assisted with setting parameters, set points, alarming set point’s, and level indication, for transmitters, valves, devices, etc. for the proper operation of a Mitsubishi Turbine.

● Operating a Hart 475 Communicator

● The use of thermal testing equipment was also utilized in the startup process, using the equipment made it possible to create the temperature parameters and set points for equipment and or systems that must maintain certain temperatures for operation.

● Participate in weekly job wide safety meeting with all crafts attending, morning safety meetings daily involving just the electrical crew, the meetings would also include the prior days production from each journeyman, based on job task completion during this time you would get a new task at which time an STA (Safety Task Analysis) form was completed reflecting safe work practices to be utilized throughout the day. This was a daily activity regardless of job task status, signing off at the end of shift insuring your foreman you were not injured before leaving for the day.

● My Journeyman duties would include working safely following all safety rules daily, as a condition of my employment leaving me responsible for myself along with others in my work area whether they were working within the same craft or not.

● I would work on energized equipment and around energized parts when given the task by my supervisor, I was responsible for retrieving the proper arc flash ppe and insulated tools per the voltage rating

● My duties included bending and installing conduit ranging from 3/4” rigid to 5” rigid using various benders such as Chicago, side winders, and one shot type conduit benders, also utilizing a 1224 or 535 threading machine depending on the conduit size as needed.

● Assisted in the instillation of fiber glass cable tray crossing the cooling tower along with the instillation of Rob Roy (pvc coated conduit) due to the chemical environment both would be exposed to during operation. I would also construct the support system for both along with supports for junction boxes I would install for the control and signal cables which I would later terminate.

● Terminating all cables

● Terminating power distribution panels 120/240 volt ac, 277/480 volt ac, 125 volt dc, terminating control and signal cables in DCS (distributed control system) cabinets as well as building several stress cones for 13.8 & 4160 volt high voltage cables using 3M cold shrink stress cone kits.

Fluor Corporation, Carrolton, GA 02/09 –08/11

Electrical Foreman – Journeyman Electrician

Georgia Power Plant Wansley Coal Fired Power Generating Facility

● Perform Journeyman Electrical duties consistent with electrical maintenance, outage/shut down projects, as well as providing electrical support to other crafts and contractors daily and or as needed.

● Work performed throughout the year included plant lighting upgrades and repairs, additional upgrades involved panel instillations, additional power sources throughout the facility, adding service disconnects, and receptacles where needed. Specific projects generally on a larger scale would be completed during Outages/Shutdowns annually.

● Each outage included setting electrical equipment, providing the power source by pulling in high voltage cable from the switchgear location utilizing existing cable tray while adding new cable tray where needed. Doing the same for signal and control wiring, we added conduit where needed to complete wire ways to control cabinets, devices, transmitters etc.

● Experience with bending conduit, all sizes and types using various benders, cable terminating, cable tray instillation, setting and mounting equipment and panels, the operation and function of wire pulling equipment along with pulling cable of all sizes, long distances going through various transitions was a condition of employment.

● Promoted to the Electrical Foreman position a week into the outage, my responsibilities included supervising a crew of 15 employees, the electrical needs for a newly installed Boiler Water Circulating Pump, plant maintenance, and electrical support as needed. I would attend daily progress meetings with my direct supervision as well as the client’s project management team. I would be directed by the electrical general foreman with work orders and projects, given deadlines for these projects.

● During this time I supervised two years of accident free safe work without incident as well as completed every project on or before schedule. Amec-Foster Wheeler, Carrolton, GA 01/07-02/09

Journeyman Electrician

Georgia Power Plant Wansley Coal Fired Power Generating Facility Scrubber Project New Construction

● My electrical duties would include the mechanical instillation of electrical components and equipment along with the terminating instillation of all cables including power, control, and signal cables. Being able to read drawings and blue prints were a must throughout the project.

● I would assist in the instillation of the entire grounding grid system, grounding electrical distribution buildings as well as the structural steel used in the construction of the project, bonding the grid system was completed by driving grounding rods, cad welding, the use of compression fittings, and crimp type fittings creating a solid connection which was tested for verification that the system was intact and functioning.

● Help install several conduits ranging in size in duct banks, constructing a support system in which the conduits would be self-contained, finishing by in casing the structure in concrete, back filling the area with dirt using heavy equipment.

● Installed several thousand feet of cable tray generally ran in a multiple teared fashion, building its support system as well, installed conduit for lighting, receptacles, equipment, distribution panels, transformers, devices, etc., mounting enclosures such as distribution panels, lighting contactors, control panels etc.

● The multiple switchgears and DCS cabinets were set by first transporting them using heavy equipment, once complete rigging was then applied connecting to overhead air hoists to maneuver the electrical enclosures to their destination, hydraulic jacks were then included for accurate positioning of the equipment being set. I was made lead over the process until completion which no damage was made to the equipment nor did any injuries occur.

● Constructed large switch yard type switches.

● Terminated several cables for power, control, and signal capabilities at both locations which include the distribution location to the field locations.

● Built several stress cones at this site for high voltage cables supporting 13.8 volt ac and 4160 volt ac power distribution.

● Awarded a certificate for safety excellence

West Georgia Technical College, Carrolton, GA 3/04 – 1/07 Maintenance Superintendent

● Maintained a college campus from the mechanical operation and make up of four separate structures totaling 145,000 sq ft. to the health, safety, and welfare of the children, students and staff that occupy the grounds on a daily basis.

● Staying in compliance with both state and federal regulations

● Audits from state and federal officials throughout the year were mandatory

● Maintenance and upkeep on a regular basis.

● Met with vendors in order to purchase and maintain top of the line hygiene products, cleaning solvents, consumable items, etc. as well as things like paper, school supplies, and materials for the students and staff at the lowest cost possible.

● Worked closely with the local police department, which provided security for the campus during business hours.

● Maintain a balanced and below balance budget throughout the year while proposing the upcoming year’s budget including projects and upgrades to the campus for efficiency, safety and beautification.

West Georgia Electric, Carrolton, GA 08/00 – 07/04 Journeyman Electrician

● Made the transition from an electrical helper to a Journeyman Electrician

● New construction of a middle school

● Assist on the lay out and the instillation work involved when preparing a concrete slab with underground conduit.

● PVC Conduit

● laid out the lighting in the parking lot and surrounding the school, operated the heavy equipment necessary for digging the duct banks required, with other electricians installing the conduit, once completed I helped pull in the necessary cable making the final terminations.

● Continue this type of work during the construction of justice buildings, correction facilities, schools, government facilities, hospitals, etc. Sutton Electric, Newnan, GA 07/98 – 07/00

Electricians Helper

● New Construction and Demolition

● Assist on a long project that included the complete demolition of the interior portion of a functioning hospital wing, renovating the site with up to date technology and engineering requested by the client.

● Demolition of all electrical

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