Manufacturing Engineer Project Management

WARNER DUNDAS Cell: 312-***-****

Wheeling IL *********@*****.***

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Indeck Power Equipment

Director Project Management 2022 to Current

Manage Project Managers, Technical Engineers and Designers

Coordinate and assist with Plant Manufacturing and engineering

Responsible for Project Budgets

Resolve on site issues, work with clients and technicians

Staffing needs and evaluations

Assist in restructuring engineering and improved operations

American Gypsum

Corporate Manufacturing Engineer 2017 to 2021

Manufacturing Engineer for Managing CAPX Budget and Technical Assistance

Manage capital budget for all operating Plants

Review all capital requests for approval

Assisted in Startup of an idled plant

Responsible for reporting on Energy, Capital Expenditures and cost

Created procedures and trained plant Maintenance on Combustion safety and system checks

Achievements: Helped with the startup and trouble shooting of an idle plant – helped our sister companies with technical issues. Updated management reporting to a higher level of accuracy

Armstrong World Industries

Staff Engineer 2012 to 2017

Engineering CAPX & Maintenance for a Ceiling tile plant.

Project Development and Execution - Capital projects to maintain equipment and make improvements to operations

Maintenance – working day to day with operations, assisting, improving and troubleshooting - directing downday activities – hiring and leading contractors

Reliability Engineering – making and improving on PM’s, Root Cause analysis

Maintain all thermal equipment in the plant - Combustion Systems, Dryers / Boilers and Kiln

Responsible for energy reductions and innovation ideas.

Supervise & train Maintenance technicians on thermal systems

Achievements: Continuous improvement to safety of the equipment, made necessary upgrades to keep several older machines in safe continuous operation with minimal downtime. Successfully completed large capital projects including replacing a dryer Circulating fan, rebuilding Dryer Infrastructure, upgrading systems and energy reductions – safety Improvements.

Louisiana Pacific

Regional Engineer 2010 to 2012

Project Manager in corporate engineering for an assigned region - handle all capital and large maintenance projects for assigned plants.

Project development of scope, design, budgets for submittal for management approval.

Write specs, select equipment, vendors, external engineering and contractors

Develop schedule, coordinate with plant on shutdowns, project execution.

Assist plants with determining cost reductions and process improvements

Provide Technical assistance to plant working with Plant Managers and Maintenance personnel

Achievements – plant improvements to increase capacity, line speed

GEA - Barr-Rosin

Consulting Engineer 2010 / Hopewell, VA

Consultant - brown-field startup of new barley ethanol plant Ring Dryers used to dry grain to be used for feed stock in Ethanol Production.

Inspection of installation to code requirements.

Completed point to point wiring checkout

Checked operation of all safety equipment.

Dry functional test rotating equipment

Assisted with Commissioning and troubleshooting of equipment

Indeck Power

Project Manager 2006 to 2010

Boiler Manufacturer and Boiler Rental business for industrial applications. Applications utilities for Universities, Airports, Hospitals and steam for Refineries. Project values to $10 Million.

Managed equipment projects and for rental/lease applications

Develop P&ID's, bill of materials, wrote equipment specs, evaluate vendor bids, equipment selection, leading engineering and designers

Coordinate activities / liaison with customers & engineers for design review meetings - initiate change orders, mitigate technical and field issues to minimize back charges

Prepare schedules according to manufacturing and vendor needs, review and maintain or improve project budgets

Acquire external engineering services or ASME approved field construction assistance when needed

Pre-Contract sales applications, spec evaluation / engineering assistance, obtain pricing - provide estimates and develop schedules

USG Corp

Staff Engineer / Design Engineer / Engineer / 1995 to 2006

Manufacturer of drywall, ceiling tile and paper. Corporate Technical Engineer in Thermal Process Division. Company had over 40 various sized, high speed automated plants in North America and International.

Designed thermal systems, burner sizing, fuel handling systems, fuel metering, for multiple process heating applications

Designed electrical control panels for all new combustion systems - PLC interface applications with controls engineers, touched on PLC programming

Energy efficiency reducing plant fuel costs with new equipment technology/development

Safety improvements - troubleshooting systems, recommended equipment upgrades, accident investigation and report writing

Assisted with design, commission and startup seven brand new plants

SWAT Team - team of corporate technical engineers that preformed equipment & safety audits at various plants throughout the company report and present findings to plant engineers and corporate management

Achievements – Plant safety improvements. Designed and built a Prototype for a Fluidizing Bed Calciner that saved $10,000 a month in fuel costs - Patent:

US 7,175,426 B2 Feb 13, 2007 High Efficiency Refractoryless Kettle

Pillard Combustion

Project Engineer / Applications Engineer 1990 to 1994

Burner company with Head office in France, satellite offices in Europe and Canada. Specialized in high capacity combustion systems for various large boilers, cement kilns and liquid heating applications.

Managed combustion projects from design to start-up

Development of immersion tube fired burners used for liquid heating and innovative calcining technology for new customer product

Preformed startups on boiler burners, liquid heating applications, calcining applications

Application sales - proposal writing

Interface with Technical Engineers in France and England on design and equipment

Managed new product line from sister company in England, preparing sales brochures and assisted with promotions

Achievements – New product development and refinement. Assisted in implementation of a new division / product line for a sister company in the U. K., for the North American market – for small process combustion equipment.

Education

Concordia University Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering

Rockwell Automation PLC training

Machinist Training Lathe, Milling Machine

Skills

Computer Literacy Microsoft Office Applications, MS Project,

Fortran, some AutoCAD & PLC Programming

Machine Tools Lathes, Welding, Milling and Woodworking Machines

Abilities Mechanically and electrically inclined

Working knowledge of Factory Mutual, IRI, ASME Sec 1 & 8, NFPA

MIL STD, LEAN, SAP

Languages English; French

Able to reside and work in both US and Canada

Would consider relocation

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