Manager Construction

Mitchell Stice

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Montgomery, Texas 77356

936-***-**** / **************@*****.***

SUMMARY

Project management professional with 40+ years of experience managing industrial construction teams and projects in traditional and renewables Power generation, distribution, transmission and related civil projects and facilities. Renewables experience in wind and geothermal projects. Additional experience in natural resources, process industry construction projects. Union and non-union personnel management. Exceptional skills and experience analyzing facts, events, trends and concepts to develop realistic schedules and long-range plans. Successful in balancing cost, quality, and safety with project development and delivery timelines. Ability to develop, train and maintain an excellent staff. Prepare proposals for equipment or construction bids. Negotiate procurement and construction contracts. Manage contracts after execution. Strong focus on performance metrics such as IFR and achieving zero lost time accidents.

REPRESENTATIVE ACHIEVEMENTS

While building a wind farm for Alliant Energy, improved delivery and kept foundation construction on schedule by installing crane mats to foundation sites that had been inaccessible due to mud and snow.

Kept wind farm project schedule on time by overcoming issues with the sub-station construction. The layout was interfering with existing underground high voltage cables. In addition, the site was very wet and getting the soil dry enough to compact was costing time and schedule. Relocated site ~50 feet to avoid underground high voltage cables and stabilized soil with cement to improve compaction and keep the schedule intact.

Cut $12 million in costs and improved project schedule by 6 months by recommending design changes to facilitate construction of all steel structures including warehouse and truck shop on project with Hill International in Canada.

Overcame language and cultural differences, and serious risk of civil unrest challenges as Manager of Projects for Eldorado Gold in Turkey. Built entire construction department from scratch. Hired a staff of 26 engineers, safety personal, project controls personnel. Established work procedures, processes and Safety Department where none existed. Developed and wrote contracts, RFQ’S bid evaluation process and construction procedures. The executive staff in Vancouver Canada was very pleased with the transition and accomplishment.

Faced with -40 degree weather and scheduling challenges to avoid liquidated damages while building a transmission line through wetlands in Canada. The pilings were steel H beams that had to be driven. At negative 40 degrees this was not possible. I made the decision to build and heat tents over each pile site to bring temperature above freezing in order to drive H beams. Completed project on time without suffering financial penalties.

Successfully completed construction projects in Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan and Bahrain, often in very remote and dangerous areas requiring protection by armed guards and personal firearms.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

Colorado Technical University, 2006, M.S Business Management, Project Management Emphasis 3.87 GPA

Colorado Technical University, 2005 B.S. Business Administration with Honors 3.75

Professional certifications include OSHA 500 training. ASME code classes.

University Of Arizona: Tucson Arizona Public Relations

Orange Coast Community College: Costa Mesa, California. Liberal Arts: 3.0 GPA

Central Arizona College: Welding Engineering

EMPLOYMENT RECORD

Mas Tec, Conroe, TX Oct 2019 – Feb 2020

Project Manager

Responsible for all field activities including contracting for crane service, equipment management, staffing, safety, schedule, quality management and budget on rebuild of transmission lines, poles, steel structures and foundations for Entergy.

Worked with the landowners on easement issues.

Daily interface meetings with Entergy to keep them updated on issues and progress.

Replacing H frame structures with monopole steel structures.

Managed the foundation contractor to place new foundations where required. Directed the embedding of other monopole structures.

Project included highway and rail crossings in a heavily residential and industrial setting.

Excel Energy, Amarillo, TX Dec 2018 – June 2019

Project Manager

Responsible for several construction projects for ranging from 34 KV to 165 KV and 3 grass roots transmission substations.

Coordinated engineering, procurement and construction activities.

Monitored budget, schedule and quality of the engineering firms and execution by the contractors.

Provided weekly budget updates and schedule reviews with Excel management.

Enel Green Power, Springfield, IL June 2019 – Oct 2019

Owners Engineer/Construction Manager

Responsible for inspecting civil work on a 23-unit wind farm for Enel Green construction project to include foundation concrete for the wind towers and road construction for the farm. Managed construction of the substation.

Eldorado Gold Corp, Usak Turkey June 2013 – May 2018

Manager of Capital Projects

Responsible for capital projects in actively operating gold mine with annual budget of $45M USD

Managed staff of 36 employees to provide well-executed projects safely, on time and budget.

Staff included Project Controls, Safety, a mechanical engineering and supervision department, Electrical engineering and supervision and civil engineering.

Managed document control and coordinated with engineering.

Ensuring all RFQ’s, contracts, change orders and extra work orders complied with the corporate requirements and acceptable international ethical standards.

Developed and managed all budgets ensuring that each department performed within respective budgets.

Reduced the IFR by 85% in two years.

Achieved zero LTI’S in 1.75 million-man hours.

Achieved large $ savings by successful negotiations with all contracts and change orders with contractors and vendors.

Projects included road and highway construction, bridge construction, single span over 75 meters long two-lane. MSE wall construction to support bridge and slope protection on roads. Water supply line from dam to site. 6 miles long with an 8% grade on average. Several mechanical process projects to improve operations and production as well as new facilities for offices and truck maintenance shop.

Developed options for each project requested and work with the client to provide the best possible outcome.

Provided weekly and monthly reports covering progress on projects and budgets.

Hill International, Toronto Canada July 2012 – Mar 2013

Manager of Construction

Responsible for all construction activity in coordination with engineering and construction firms to achieve the most value for the dollar of proposed project in remote area of western Ontario.

Assisted engineering firms in design and constructability, vendor selection, environmental constraints, logistics and safety.

Managed construction on assignment to Rainy River Resource.

Selected construction Management Company to undertake overseeing of construction activities in the field.

Monitored cost and schedule to ensure compliance with the targets set by the client. Value over $700M

Kenny Industries, Southern California Edison July 2011 – July 2012

Project Manager

Responsibilities included coordination of line crews, environmental clearance and compliance, safety and coordination with several governmental agencies to allow for construction of pf 165 miles of 500 kVA transmission line including switch yard substation.

Barrick Gold Corporation: La Serena, Chile Apr 2010 – July 2011

Construction/Project Manager

Responsible for the construction of a gold mine and gold processing plant in a bi-national project between Argentina and Chile. Scope included procurement supervision, construction management, logistics management, staffing, scheduling, camp construction and management, engineering oversight, QA oversight, environmental and safety management. Provided monthly progress reports to senior and executive management for construction 160 km of 37 Kv power transmission lines 10 wind turbines, a 4 km long ore transport tunnel through the mountain. Total project value of $3.1B USD with 15+ million proposed construction man hours.

Alliant Energy, Madison, WI Dec 2007 – Jan 2010

Manager of Construction

Responsible for construction for a 300 MW clean coal CFB plant. Coordinated all pre-engineering, procurement and contracts with the EPC contractor in their home office. The projected cost for this Greenfield project was $1.24B and 5 to 5.5year duration. Approved estimates for man hours and costs. New system planned to 2 existing coal plants on this very congested site. Project was canceled by Wisconsin PUC. Union Project

Construction Manager

Responsible for construction component for 600MW super critical power station proposal. This project was canceled due to the Iowa PUC not allowing adequate ROI.

Construction Project Manager

Responsible for construction of 121-unit wind farm in Iowa Falls Iowa for Vestas 2.5MW turbines. The project included installing over 50 miles of roads and the 121 foundations. A substation was built and over 100 miles of HV cable buried. There were numerous roads and rail road crossings with the cable. A control and maintenance facility was constructed as well; FAA permits were obtained because of an airport close to the facility. The farm was built in circuits consisting of 10 to 12 machines in each circuit. As a circuit was completed it was commissioned. The facility was completed on time. Union Project. I was responsible for contractor oversight and contract compliance.

Lauren E&C, Fort McMurry, Canada June 2006 – Dec 2007

Construction Project Manager

Responsible for $225M Cogen facility at a large oil sands project in the Alberta Tar Sands region to build a facility to produce demin water, steam and power for the entire 250,000bbd facility.

Managed 47 direct reports.

Improved performance of various vendors and subcontractors.

Performed daily, weekly and monthly progress and financial reports to the client and employer.

Performed exceptionally numerous change orders.

Relocated to the Frothing unit as Project Manager in March of 2007 to take over a project that was 2 months behind schedule and $3M over budget. Completed project on time and under budgets that generated an additional $4 million in profits for Lauren.

Jacobs Engineering, Delaware City, DL May 2005 – May 2006

Construction Manager

Responsible for a $300M refinery expansion and upgrade overseeing 6 different contractors to performing mechanical, civil, electrical, heavy haul, boiler and vessels.

Managed staff of 18 direct reports.

Provided support for the rebuild of a B&W boiler in the Coker unit during the construction of the scrubbers.

Prepared estimates for extra work and change orders, approved scheduling changes and WBS changes.

Daily coordination meeting with the client for schedule and procurement status. Prepared weekly summaries for Jacobs and kept the schedule and costs updated.

Atlantic Plant Maintenance, Mt. Vernon, IN Sep 2004 – March 2005

Construction Project Manager - Fast track Reverse Osmosis Plant for G.E. Water Technology

Washington Group International, Baiji, Iraq June 2004 – Sep 2004

Construction Project Manager

Responsible to WGI for 8 General Electric 2500 rubber trailer mounted portable turbines at $130 million project cost

PSEG, Lawrenceburg, IN Mar 2002 – June 2004

Owners Engineer

Mechanical systems engineer responsible for the inspection and evaluation of all mechanical systems to insure compliance with all codes, specifications, estimates for contractor overtime and change orders 1160MW combined cycle merchant plant and related facilities

American National Power, Bellingham, MA Sep 2000 – Mar 2002

Owners Engineer

Owner’s representative mechanical systems engineer; performed inspections of all mechanical, civil and architectural aspects of a 550MW combine cycle power project..

Black and Veatch 1996 – 2000

Construction Manager/Project Manager – Reliant (02/2000 – 09/2000)

Project Site Manager - ABB Sadlemie, Bahrain UAE (07/1998 – 02/2000)

Mechanical Superintendent - Genelba Project, Canuelas, Argentina (1996 – 1997)

Foster Wheeler Constructors, Houston, TX 1995 – 1996

Q.A. Manager

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT HISTORY PROVIDED UPON REQUEST

LANGUAGES

Basic understanding of written and oral Spanish

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