Engineer Mechanical, PE

Michael G Youngblood PE

***** ********* ***** ***** *****, LA 70810

Telephone 225-***-**** (Cell)

Email adbyo1@r.postjobfree.com

Overview

Project (small to large), Construction, and Discipline/Resource Management experience; safety in design, safety in the workplace, quality assurance, cost and schedule, PFD and P&ID, MOC, PSM and HAZOP

Strong manager of projects and engineering disciplines with a broad and comprehensive understanding of the engineering design process and a passion for the discipline of Project Controls

Operations and Projects Manager of a small, start-up regional office, managing the projects, proposal preparation, on-boarding, and business development activities, maintaining utilization of 70-80% in a new office with intense training, orientation and business development responsibilities

Director of Engineering, providing executive leadership to over 65 design professionals in corporate and multiple satellite offices. Drove utilization to over 90%. Integral to the improvement and optimization of the proposal preparation process and to the development, implementation and enforcement of work sharing processes between HQ and multiple developing regional offices, and to generally making work processes more efficient

Key strengths include managing the culture, assessing talent, leadership development, resource utilization, mentoring, teambuilding, planning and forecasting, quality processes, work process optimization, brand promotion, client relationships, written and verbal communication, business model cash flow analysis of annual expenses and revenue

Recruiting to meet growing revenue forecast and strategic business objectives

More than thirty (30) years of diversified engineering and management experience in the chemical, petro-chemical (specialty and commodity), refining, natural gas (transportation and compression, treatment, CNG, LNG), electro-chemical, aluminum (mining, refining, secondary recovery, extrusion, fabrication and finishing), food, and plastics (polymerization, extrusion and molding). Primary roles include Project and Construction management, facility design, and equipment specification and procurement

Highly skilled and successful leader and manager of the myriad of resources required of engineering and construction enterprises, with strong written and verbal communication skills, outstanding resource planning, forecasting, recruiting and retention skills

Licensing

Registered Professional Engineer currently or previously licensed in Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Ohio, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, New Jersey, Kansas, Utah, North Dakota, West Virginia, New York, Wyoming, New Hampshire; “Model Law” Engineer

Education

BS Mechanical Engineering

Louisiana State University

oMember, Pi Tau Sigma Honorary Mechanical Engineering Fraternity

Undergraduate Accounting, Marketing and Finance

Mercer University

Professional Experience

October 2017 to August 2019

CF Industries

Donaldsonville, LA

Sr Project Engineer / Project Manager

On-site project manager

oProject scope definition, estimating, funding authorization, and execution of capital projects from several thousand to several million dollars

Managing engineering through on-site resources and consulting design firms

Managing construction through competitively awarded reimbursable and fixed price contracts

August 2014 to November 2016

CB&I Oil and Gas Division

Baton Rouge, LA

Manager, Mechanical Engineering

First mechanical engineer in this new CB&I engineering office which was opened to provide engineering in support of multi-billion dollar EPC work

Successfully recruited and onboarded 12 engineers of various experience levels

oCited by management as one of the “best and most effective discipline engineering teams in” their experience

oExperience ranged from 42 years to student intern, composite average of 17.25 years

oBlend of direct and contract employees offers staffing flexibility

oAnnual payroll of $1.7Million

oAverage utilization of 99%

October 2013 to August 2014

Plant Engineering Services, LLC (a Fluor company)

Baton Rouge, LA

Manager, Mechanical Engineering / Project Manager

Project Manager for major capital projects and proposals in a variety of industries.

Account Manager for the relationship with a regional Independent Power Producer.

Manager of the Mechanical Engineering Department charged with managing skillsets, resource utilization, and growth

Left due to office/business closure

November 2009 to October 2013

Hunt, Guillot & Associates, LLC

Ruston and Baton Rouge, LA

Project Manager, Interim Manager of Projects and Engineering, Baton Rouge

Director of Engineering

Manager-Process Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Design

Manager-Mechanical Engineering and Design

Operations / Project Manager of a small, start-up regional office, managing the projects, proposal preparation, on-boarding, and business development activities with a strong network in the local market

Managed the design engineering department (65 engineers and designers, domestic and international subcontractors) through four discipline department managers.

Integral to the improvement and optimization of the proposal preparation process

Prepared the Engineering Services staff for unprecedented growth in 2012 through aggressive but selective recruiting, pushing accountability to the staff engineer level, growing design supervisors into true managers, improving manpower and project financial reporting, increased outsourcing, maintaining and improving the quality of proposals, budgets and deliverables, and integrating and staffing multiple satellite offices into transparent extensions of the corporate office.

Successfully integrating a new “do what we sell” culture, driving down the cost of proposal preparation, improving the accuracy of internal reporting.

Identifying opportunities, supporting and accompanying Business Development to develop new and existing clients.

Reporting to the Executive Vice President initially, then to Director of Operations

oStepped down from the Director position in order to relocate to Baton Rouge, LA to fulfill family obligations, serving as Staff Mechanical Engineer in the Company’s Baton Rouge office, providing Business Development networking and recruiting to support the growth of that office into a satellite engineering center. Subsequently became Project Manager in that office, managing engineering projects across multiple offices, and Acting Manager of Projects and Engineering, managing the growth of the office.

August 2004 to May 2009

Wink Companies, LLC

Baton Rouge, LA

Mechanical Engineering Department Manager

Managing the mechanical engineering activities of this multi-discipline engineering consulting firm, primarily in support of capital projects for refining, chemical, and port facilities in the Gulf Coast region, as well as expert witness consultation.

Successfully managed the recruiting and staffing department to meet the business plan and strategic goals of the Company. Successfully motivated all staff members during very tempestuous times, by being pro-active in training and salary administration, generous with positive feedback, and sensitive to personal needs and situations.

Responsible for staffing of projects, professional services estimates for projects, managing schedules, improving efficiency and quality of the deliverables of the Mechanical Engineering Department, training of personnel as necessary, proposal preparation, support of business development, and personnel and salary administration.

Provided technical direction for the Mechanical Engineering Department and improve the work processes for the department and for project execution in general.

Code compliance expert witness consulting

Reporting to the Engineering Manager.

November 2003 to August 2004

Arkel Sugar

Baton Rouge, LA

Manager – Engineering Design

Manager of the design staff, able to combine the broad array of wet and dry material handling, chemical processing, and agricultural / food process experiences and to introduce technologies and experiences gained in other industries to this centuries old, very traditional business.

Supervising and in responsible charge of a mechanical project engineer and a design supervisor, who is in turn supervising two designers, and also directing the preparation of engineering deliverables using these resources and multiple independent consultants for the construction of sugar cane processing and associated cogeneration facilities throughout the world.

November 2000 to October 2003

Formosa Plastics Corporation

Baton Rouge, LA

Sr. Mechanical Project Engineer

Introduced and upgraded extensively the use of electronic information technologies, including the reduction of construction inquiry documents (“bid packages”) from countless pages to a single CD while assuring tamper resistance.

Introduced a weekly Project coordination meeting to greatly improve communication between the various engineering disciplines in the organization.

October 1996 to November 2000

Ford, Bacon & Davis, LLC

Baton Rouge, LA

Sr. Mechanical Engineer / Project Engineer

Accepted an opportunity to join this major EPC firm in order to gain direct EPC Project Management experience.

Project Engineer and Lead Mechanical Engineer for the development of a Definition Package to define the scope and estimated cost of new facilities for the Alumina Partners of Jamaica, to permit parallel processing of two differing bauxite streams instead of the present serial processing. The project, estimated to cost $40 million, involved the transfer and processing of dry bauxite ore, its slurrification, and downstream wet processing into Alumina. The definition package was completed in January 1999. Subsequent work involved scope reduction and scope deferment studies. The client elected not to go forward with the project.

Served as Project Engineer for the offsite and infrastructure portion of a major alpha-olefins expansion for Shell Chemical Company. This client was designing a $360million expansion for its Geismar, Louisiana facility, consisting of three (3) process units and a cogeneration facility, the infrastructure project for which was estimated at $125million total installed cost.

Managed the design of “early work packages” to support construction mobilization and the first unit to start up, as well as the design and procurement of approximately thirty (30) field erected tanks and their associated pumps and piping.

Responsible for all tie-ins and interfaces between the offsite project and the process and cogeneration facilities that were designed by two (2) other engineering contractors, as well as to the existing facility.

January 1990 to October 1996

BASF Corporation

Staff Engineer, Geismar Works Engineering, Baton Rouge, LA

Project Manager, Corporate Engineering, Houston, TX

Project Manager for the design and construction of an Aniline manufacturing plant.

oThis project represented the largest such project ever engineered by a Louisiana firm ($83 million TIC), and was engineered concurrently with another BASF project which was to be constructed adjacent to this facility.

Managed the architectural design effort for both facilities, utilizing an independent A/E firm, satisfying the requirements of two manufacturing facilities, a two-story office building, a common maintenance office and shop building, a conventional control room/office/rack room/MCC building, and a blast resistant control room/office/rack room with conventional MCC attached.

Played a key role in the successful arbitration of several sub-contract issues.

Project Manager for the design of a phosgene containment structure and a residue drying structure, both components of a major urethanes expansion conducted at the Geismar site. The phosgene containment structure houses all piping, vessels and pumps associated with supplying this lethal chemical to the balance of the process, whereas the residue drying structure introduced new rotary dryer technology for drying waste materials.

Construction/turnaround Manager responsible for safe execution of the work, quality assurance, overall coordination of the various crafts, transition between shifts, and schedule assurance.

Project Manager for the design and construction of a cogeneration unit, a “demin” water unit, and the conversion of existing field erected boilers from pneumatic to distributed control.

Concurrent with this program, chaired the “Center of Expertise” for Project Management and Project Control.

October 1987 to January 1990

Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation

Macon GA

Sr. Project Engineer

Developed systems for decontaminating and rehydrating dry tobacco, blending of various tobaccos to standard recipes, preparing and applying various food grade flavor enhancers, supplemental redrying for the removal of excess moisture and nicotine, delivery to bulk storage containers, and ultimately the delivery of the completed blend to high speed (8000 pieces/minute) assembly and packaging equipment.

Not only purchased commercially available components and installed them into systems, but also provided process design and proprietary machine design in the absence of commercially available components. Equipment included conveyors, weigh feeders, rotary sprayers and dryers, and live-bottom storage hoppers, as well as pumps, piping, and instrumentation requiring a high degree of accuracy in the preparation and application of flavorings.

Responsible for assuring product parity while incorporating new process technologies

March 1986 to October 1987

General Electric Company Battery Business Department

Acquired in early 1987 by Gates Energy Products

Gainesville, FL

Chemical Equipment Development Engineer

This company, a manufacturer of nickel-cadmium batteries for the portable appliance and hand tool industry, provided an opportunity to combine my experience in chemical manufacturing and automated machinery design, and to gain further experience in high speed automated manufacturing.

Functioning primarily as an equipment development engineer for continuous electrode manufacturing, developed machinery for continuous steel coil plating, for the application and drying of electrode slurries to these coils, and for cutting these coils into strips for installation into the battery “cans.”

Evaluated and selected extrusion equipment to convert the slurry mixing operation from batch to continuous so as to reduce variations in product quality.

Developed a product workflow model and designed the equipment arrangement and installation plan for the battery assembly facility.

December 1977 to February 1986

Ethyl Corporation,

Assistant Engineer, Baton Rouge Plant, Baton Rouge

Project Engineer, Corporate Engineering, Aluminum Division, Baton Rouge

Project Engineer, Corporate Engineering, Chemicals Division, Baton Rouge

Mechanical Development Engineer, Corporate Engineering, Plastics Division, Baton Rouge

Mechanical Design Engineer, Corporate Engineering, Chemicals Division, Baton Rouge

Mechanical Development Engineer, Corporate Engineering, Chemicals Division, Baton Rouge

Project Engineer, Orangeburg Plant, Orangeburg, SC

Mechanical Development Engineer, Corporate Engineering, Aluminum Division, Baton Rouge

Project Manager, Aluminum Division, Newnan, GA

Design and construction of projects for the aluminum extrusion and fabrication subsidiaries of the Corporation, including a window manufacturing facility expansion and insulated glass manufacturing facility (Capital Products Corporation, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania), an aluminum extrusion system installation and facility expansion (Capital Products Corporation, Kentland, Indiana), a direct chill “hot-top” log casting system and a furnace dross recovery system (William L. Bonnell Company, Newnan, Georgia) utilizing technology which the vendor had developed for selectively de-alloying scrap metals.

Project Engineer for the design and construction of a greenfield facility for the production of food grade antioxidants at Orangeburg, South Carolina, responsible for pump, pressure vessel and storage tank specification and procurement, piping design, and overall design coordination, preparation and administration of construction documents, and as a construction engineer during construction of this project.

Provided mechanical engineering expertise and support for the development of plastics extrusion, blow molding and injection molding equipment at the Ethyl Technical Center.

Mechanical design engineer responsible for piping design and stress analysis, equipment design, and the preparation and approval of construction deliverables.

Aluminum Division mechanical consultant. Developed and designed proprietary manufacturing machinery to automate a variety of labor intensive operations, conducted project feasibility studies for several extrusion scrap reduction and processing alternatives, resolved problems identified during the commissioning of a highly automated aluminum billet saw, and developed metallurgical and coating system specifications to address corrosion and stress corrosion cracking which was occurring in a major piece of environmental process equipment.

Project Manager for the installation of a fully automated aluminum extrusion system.

oThis system was the first of its kind to be installed in the United States, and was designed and manufactured in England.

oCoordination of design efforts between the extrusion system vendor and the domestic supplier of the 3000 ton capacity extrusion press, as well as for the foundation design, building expansion, MCC and controls system.

oDeveloped all schedules and control budgets, bid or negotiated and administered all construction contracts, and supported the training and commissioning requirements for this major step into automation technology.

References available on request. Do not contact my present employer

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