Hugh ‘Harlan’ DuBois
Material Management / Expediting Manager
Warehouse / Materials Laydown Area Supervisor
Winnfield, LA 71483
318-***-**** (Cell)
Personal E Mail: ******@***.***
Executive Summary:
Material Management, Discipline Team Leader, Superintendent, General Foreman with over thirty
(30) years’ experience in material planning/material handling from cradle to grave on numerous construction projects. Interface closely with Engineering, Corp of Engineers, QA/QC Inspections, Job Representatives, Corporate Management, Client/ Fluor Construction Management, Safety Management daily.
Self starter who undertakes tasks with little or no direction, able to manage multiple tasks and work in process. Composed and focused, able to drive relevant objectives through various challenges due to my personal initiative and attention to detail. I have the mental and physical drive to plan and execute any task in a safe and timely manner. My main commitments and objectives are safety for my team as well as all others around me. Specific Experience:
Project Materials Manager Ville Platte, Louisiana
Wood Group/Amec Foster Wheeler Cabot AEP / EP Project Dec. 2022 to Current
My duties as the Project Material Manger included managing of all Warehouse and Laydown areas procedures and activities from monitoring of all prime SRNs with Home Office Expeditors/ Receiving/Issuing, OSD’s. Interfacing closely with all Wood Group disciplines.
(Engineering/QC/Construction/Document Control.)
Work hand-in-hand with other managers and unit heads within the company to determine the company’s supply needs.
Maintain existing relationship between the company and contractors.
Supervise available stock and/or inventory, and also prepare report for company top management or executives.
Oversee the shipping of materials to make sure that they are all in good shape.
Carry out survey and search for credible suppliers that are up to the task.
Negotiate with suppliers, place orders for materials on behalf of the company, and also make sure that orders are delivered as at when due.
Trained newly recruited staff within the purchasing and warehousing unit of the company.
Monitor the distribution of supplies within the company to ensure efficiency.
Maintain well-detailed records of any form of orders and purchases that are made by the company.
Materials Supervisor
Zachry Group
December 2021 to
December 2022
Managing all movements of materials coming in and out from site.
(Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, and Structural.)
Sabine Pass, Texas
Golden Pass LNG
Managing and tracking of materials and equipment being delivered to the Port of Beaumont by MV. Working close with Logistics to make sure that any equipment or crates leaving the Port of Beaumont is cleared through Customs.
Managing of Material Dispatch Slips (MDS), Material Shipping Orders (MSO’s), Transfers, OSD’s etc. Managing and tracking of project Staging area of over 400ea. loaded Material Trailers 48’, 53’ Drop Deck, and Double Drop Deck trailers is being staged until requested by construction. Will discuss a complete set of procedures and trackers that I manage during an interview. Expediting Manager United States
Wood Group/Amec Foster Wheeler Flat Ridge 3 Wind Project October 2020 – November 2021
Nashville, Ks.
Director for material, equipment, and tooling logistics for multiple multi million dollar project. Developed and managed employees for the site to manage all tool procurement, Toolrooms, shipping, and receiving of equipment. Worked with Quality Control for inspection and calibration on all company owned, and client equipment and products. Client liaison for all customer needs regarding the logistics and safe keeping of all materials, equipment, and tooling. Managed all testing / Skidmore of all bolting.
Material Director United States
C 2 Logistics Solutions LLC. Multiple States / locations April 2020 – November 2020
Weatherford, Texas
Director for material, equipment, and tooling logistics for multiple multi million dollar projects occurring simultaneously. Responsible for strategic planning at all locations for scheduled start up. Developed and managed employees for each site to manage all tool procurement, Toolrooms, shipping, and receiving of equipment. Worked with Quality Control for inspection and calibration on all company owned, and client equipment and products. Client liaison for all customer needs regarding the logistics and safe keeping of all materials, equipment, and tooling. Material Management Cameron LNG
McDermott CAMERON LNG LIQUEFACTION PROJECT
May 2018 – April 2020 Hackberry, Louisiana, USA
Material Manager responsible for mega project material requisition/ supply to all CBI/CCJV site trains, utilizing the CB&I Suite of Tools including SPM/ IDOC’s My duties as Material Manger included managing of all Warehouse and Laydown areas procedures and activities from monitoring of all prime WRN’s/MIR’s, Receiving, Inventory, Storage, Preservation, and Issuing Materials to construction in a timely manner. Material Management Cameron LNG
Chicago Bridge & Iron CAMERON LNG LIQUEFACTION PROJECT Sept. 2016 – May 2018 Hackberry, Louisiana, USA
Material Manager responsible for mega project material requisition/ supply to all CBI/CCJV site trains, utilizing the CB&I Suite of Tools including SPM/ IDOC’s My duties as Material Manager included managing of all Warehouse and Laydown areas procedures and activities from monitoring of all prime WRN’s/MIR’s, Receiving, Inventory, Storage, Preservation, and Issuing Materials to construction in a timely manner. Materials Management Dow Chemical Co.
Fluor International Inc. Dow Gulfstream Oyster Creek Complex Expansion July 2013 – Aug. 2016 Freeport, TX, United
Material Manager responsible for mega project material requisition/ supply to all Fluor site pillars, utilizing the Fluor Suite of Tools including MatMan/ Mile marker/ FPRs and monitoring/ Material Planning/Expediting Modules/ Maintaining inventory databases for a new refinery project.
My duties as Material Manger/Superintendent included managing of all Warehouse and Laydown areas procedures and activities from monitoring of all prime SRNs with Home Office Expeditors/ Receiving/Issuing. Interfacing closely with all Fluor disciplines
(Engineering/QC/Construction/Document Control.
Material Mgmt. / Back charge Coord. / Proj. Expeditor British Petroleum North America, Inc. Fluor International Inc. BP WRMP Whiting Major Expansion March 2011 – June 2013 Whiting, IN, United States
Material Manager responsible for mega project material requisition/ supply to all Fluor pillars, utilizing the Fluor Suite of Tools including MatMan/ Mile marker/ FPRs and monitoring/ maintaining inventory databases for a new refinery project. My duties as Back charge Coordinator include managing a BC Team interfacing with all Fluor disciplines (Contracts/ Engineering/ Document Control/ Estimating/ Construction) in pursuit and collection of back charge claims from Contractors and Vendors. Site back charge team has collected over $9.4MM to date.
Project Expeditor maintaining/ updating Fluor’s Materials “Inventory database. To date, my team has been able to downsize a material surplus of $27.0 million down to $8.0 million by reviewing all purchase req’s and utilizing the available surplus. Inventoried/consolidated heavy haul trailers reducing a 300 trailer fleet to less than 150 trailers. Supervisor /Buyer/Materials Field Coordinator British Petroleum North America, Inc Starcon International BP CFHU TAR Turnaround Project November 2010 – March 2011 Texas City, TX, United States Responsibilities included building purchase requisitions and bills of material(s) from ISO’s. All purchases and materials were expedited in a timely manner from suppliers to BP warehouses. Other duties included issuing BOM’s to the BP warehouses/ material coordinators to release materials to the field, directing material coordinators to bag and tag received materials per BOM/ISO for the field.
Expeditor/ Materials Coordinator Supervisor Lyondell Petroleum Corporation Fluor/P2S Lyondell Bay Port Refinery
August 2010 – October 2010 Bay Port, TX, United States Responsibilities included setting up the central receiving warehouse, supervising expeditors and material coordinators who performed the following:
Received/ verified vendor materials against packing lists and BOMs upon delivery to site.
Pulled materials/ palletized materials per BOM
Expedited materials to specified locations upon field construction request.
Coordinated material laydown yards (ex: pipe laydown organized by piping system)
Insured all tags and documentation was in order before issuing any instrument. Material and Expeditor Coordinator Foreman TOTAL Refining Fluor International Inc. TOTAL DCP PAR Project
August 2008 – August 2010 Port Arthur, TX, United States Supervised Material and Expeditors coordinating and managing all AMECO rental equipment utilizing Fluor’s MATMAN Program. My knowledge and experience with MATMAN resulted in considerable cost savings for the Client and Fluor due to effective equipment management. Other duties included printing and issuing all bills of materials to the Fluor warehouse, expedited all requested material and equipment to the field upon request, coordinated all heavy haul trailers and tracked all rental equipment.
Material Coordinators/ Expeditors Supervisor Lyondell Petroleum Corporation Fluor/P2S Lyondell Pasadena Refinery
June 2008 – August 2008 Pasadena, TX, United States Supervised all Material Coordinators and Material Expeditors assigned to the project. Material Coordinators/ Expeditors Supervisor British Petroleum North America, Inc Fluor/P2S BP Jay Hawk Plant Revamp
April 2008 June 2008 Ulysses, Kansas, United States Supervised all expeditors and material coordinators assigned to the project. Other duties included setting up the material warehouse and all laydown yards. Material Supervisor/ Slab Coordinator Exxon Mobil Corporation Fluor/P2S Exxon Mobil Baton Rouge Refinery
March 2008 April 2008 Baton Rouge, LA, United States Responsible for receiving and palletizing per system vendor materials for field issue. Responsible for receiving components and assure de contamination before re installation. General Foreman Material Control British Petroleum North America, Inc Fluor/P2S BP PS3B Revamp Project
October 2006 March 2008 Texas City, TX, United States Supervisor over three (3) in plant laydown yards, maintained inventory control, security, developed material take offs from BOMs from engineered drawings working closely with Engineering and the Material Management Group.
Other duties included maintaining components for exchangers where I developed a systematic database for tracking component removal, repair, and installation. Also delivered all requested material and equipment to the field.
Warehouse Foreman British Petroleum North America, Inc JV Piping Crane BP Refinery
May 2006 August 2006 Crane, TX, United States
Foreman overseeing all warehouse operations, equipment maintenance, material staging areas, supervising all company expeditors.
Project Coordinator/ Project Superintendent Corporate Accounts Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel Various Client Locations
1986 – 2006 Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Responsibilities included setting up and managing projects, performing all material planning/ purchases, planned and surveyed layouts from start to finish, supervised over fifty (50) employees (including surveyors, operators, carpenters, concrete finishers, laborers) reporting to me direct on various construction projects throughout Texas and Oklahoma. Most projects considered medium size civil/ concrete installations for the Army Corp of Engineers. All work was performed in accordance with stringent Army Corp Engineers specifications and procedures.
Certifications/ Training:
Heavy Equipment Operator Certification – NCCER
Fluor Procurement Material Management ‘MatMan’ Database Fluor
Fluor CMSI Contracts Database Fluor
HSE Health, Safety and Environmental Leadership Training Fluor
OSHA Extended Leadership Training, 30 Hour Program OSHA
Warehouse Forklift and Extended Boom Forklift Training – NCCER Certification
Warehousing, Material, and Forklift Practices/ Procedures – JV Industries
Field Surveyor
Welding Certification
100T Crane/ Forklift/ Dozer/ Track hoe/ Motor Patrol
Productivity Money Flow – Entrepreneur Certified
100T Master and Unlimited Tonnage Captain License US Coast Guard
Maritime/ Hazmat/ Oil Clean Up Certification US Coast Guard
Adult/ Child CPR US Coast Guard
Professional Associations/Awards:
Fluor Silver Dollar Award Program
Fluor Spotlight Award
Fluor 5yr Pin
History of Education and/ or References from past employers will be provided upon request.