MICHAEL C. JAMES

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Lake Station, IN 46405

Phone: 702-***-****

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

Industries

Aluminum Industry

Food Processing Industry

Iron & Steel Industry

Petrochemical/Refinery Industry

Pharmaceutical Industry

Power/Utility Industry

Pulp & Paper Industry

Certifications

Refinery Safety Trained to

Work on Marine Dock

(Loading & Unloading)

TWIC Certified (Exp. 2016)

Design

Senior Piping Designer/Checker

Piping Process/Utilities/CIP (SYS)

P&IDs and Flow Diagrams

P&ID Walk down & Field Inspection

HAZOP P&ID Walk down/Checker

Pipe Support & Hangar Design

Plant Layout & Equipment Layout

Knowledge Industry Codes/Specifications

Mechanical/Machine Design

Auto Cad

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Middough Engineers; Ashland, KY 11/2018 – Present

Senior Piping Designer/Field Specialist

Assignment: Marathon Oil Refinery, Catlettsburg, KY

Worked on 2020 Spring Shut Down / (TA)

Field Iso's/sketches, piping rerouting/design for spring 2020 Turn Around

Bill of Material Take-offs

Communicate with vendors, suppliers, and client

Proficio Consultancy, Inc; Lisle, IL 02/2018 – 09/2018

Construction Manager/Field Specialist, Piping

Assignment: Koppers Chemicals Co., Chicago, IL

Grass-roots liquid gas plant, supervised Mechanical contractors on night shift

Communicated with vendors, suppliers, construction trades, and client

Safety permit writer for entire job-site

Walked job-site and observed for safety violations

Kept safety permit files

Jacobs Engineering; Baton Rouge, LA 06/2015 – 01/2018

Senior Piping Designer

Assignment: Marathon Oil Refinery, Robinson, IL

Worked on 2015 Fall Shut Down / (TA)

Turn Around

FCO (Functional Close Out)

RFI’s (Request for Information)

Upgraded and modified existing P&ID’s to reflect current field conditions.

Field sketches as needed

Maverick Engineering; Corpus Christi, TX 02/2015 – 05/2015

Senior Piping Designer

Assignment: Flint Hills Refining, Corpus Christi, TX

Hazop, QA/QC 20% P&ID Field Walk down in #2 SRU, Unit 48, & Cumene Unit.

Walk down was to determine accuracy of piping installation in relation to existing P&ID’s and identify all flanged connections, components, valves, and equipment for possible leak points. EPA Driven.

Veolia Waste Water Treatment-Environmental; Plainfield, IL 10/2014 – 12/2014

Senior Checker, Piping Design

Final check on piping drawings before issuance to client for construction on grass-roots waste water treatment plant in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Ambitech; St. Louis, MO 03/2014 – 08/2014

Senior Piping Designer/Checker

Assignment: Henkle-Corp., (Dial Soap/Detergent Division), St. Louis, MO

Provide field sketches for new soap product line, design & equipment layout.

Office: Back checked & corrected completed ACAD drawings.

Field Assignment: Phillips 66 Refining, (P-66), Woodriver, IL

Field route process piping in pipe rack

P&ID walk downs

Retro-fit maintenance contracts & design

Middough Engineers; Chicago, IL 09/2013 – 08/2014

Senior Piping Designer

Field Assignment: Valero Refining, Memphis, TN

Worked on 2014 (TA), Turn Around

Dow Chemical SCO; Hahnville, LA 01/2013 – 09/2013 Senior Piping Designer

Worked in the field at the plant site on various capital engineering. "maintenance update", projects in the Olefins I & II units.

Middough Engineers; Ashland, KY/Toledo, OH 10/2008 – 12/2012

Senior Piping Designer

Field Assignment: BP-Huskey, Toledo, OH

Provide field sketches/verification for plant-wide PSV validation project.

Replace and/or exchange all PSV’s to meet latest EPA & OHSA requirements including updating P&SID’s.

Field Assignment: Marathon/Ashland Oil and Sunoco Chemical Refineries; Catlettsburg, KY/Haverhill, OH

Provide sketches of new and retrofit piping systems on various projects at crude area, marine loading & unloading docks, and chemical plants.

Generate field sketches of piping & equipment layouts in place and develop piping

isometrics for fabrication and demolition.

Burns & McDonnell; Kansas City, MO 04/2008 – 10/2008

Senior Piping Designer

Assignment: Tate & Lyle, Loudon, TN

Plant expansion of Wet Mill and Refinery

Installation of new equipment used to produce various sugar and malto products.

Design and layout of Piping Systems to new SSMB units, leaf filters, pumps, pre-coolers, heat exchangers and tank tie-in’s.

Generating piping fabrication ISO’s for fabrication and construction.

Amoco/BP; Whiting, IN 08/2006 – 12/2006

Senior Piping Designer

OSBL & ISBL P&ID/PFD walk down verification.

Upgraded and modified existing P&ID’s/PFDs to reflect current field conditions.

Generated new P&IDs as required.

EDUCATION

Gary Vocational Career Center, Certificate of Industrial Drafting

Ball State University, Architecture: Undergraduate

Purdue University, Mechanical Engineering: Undergraduate

Indiana Ivy Tech College, AutoCAD Rel. 12

References and Additional Employment History Available Upon Request

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