Jairo Tibabuzo ‘JT’
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Skills Highlights
• Project Manager, Project Engineer, Field Service Engineer, Proposal Engineer, Maintenance Manager, Maintenance Engineer, Mechanical Engineer. More than 25 years experience in the Oil, Gas, Cement, Mining Industries, HVAC and Plumbing.
• As Project Manager I manage and lead plant solution delivery projects so that project targets regarding quality, scope, schedule, budget and customer satisfaction are achieved.
• Lead the project team consisting of various disciplines and specialists.
• Maintain good relationship with customer and other stakeholders.
• Manage Purchase Orders, risks and change orders.
• To help vendors following the technical specs, invoicing, until the project was closed.
• Manage invoices to Customers, until the project was closed.
• Manage Scheduling to follows the project from design, manufacturing, installation, commissioning, manage last invoice and close the project.
• Report projects status to stakeholders.
• Apply effectively Company business processes and tools.
• Identify ‘add-on’ sales opportunities during project execution.
• Support solution sales and services in tender preparations and participate in contract negotiation phase.
• I have been working with Vendors from USA, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Europe (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain.)
• Knowledge in Windows, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel), MS Project, AutoCAD, Plan Swift and SAP.
• I speak English and Spanish.
Education and Training
Bachelor Science Mechanical Engineering, National University of Colombia Bogota, Colombia South America.
• Process Plant Layout. Society Piping Engineers and Designers. Houston, Texas USA
• Knowledge in Windows, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel), MS Project, AutoCAD and SAP.
• Design, construction, installation and commissioning of cement plants in Copenhagen, Denmark. FLSMIDTH.
• Design, construction, installation and commissioning of cement packing equipment, Haver & Boecker-Hamburg Germany.
• Design, construction, installation and commissioning limestone crusher machine, Hazemag-Madrid, Spain.
• Design, construction, installation and commissioning Stacker and Reclaimer machine, Buhler Miag-Madrid, Spain.
• HVAC Design: Level I-Essentials. ASHRAE, Atlanta, GA.
• HVAC Design: Level II-Applications. ASHRAE, Atlanta, GA. Professional Experience
Lafarge Holcim April 2019-February 2020
Project Manager, Project Engineer, Alpena, MI
• Planning management and coordination of all activities in a project (design, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning associated with job site.)
• Create Project Planning Schedule with MS Project.
• Prepare information such as specs and drawings then send them to Vendors
(Sub Contractors).
• Select vendors, discuss deals with Operation Manager and send the information to generate the purchase orders.
• Send the Purchase Orders to Vendors in USA.
• Keeping track of each vendor, helping them answer questions.
• Prepare Monthly report and Management Change Orders. SAXUM Engineered Solutions January 2018-May 2018
Project Manager, Project Engineer, Lafarge Holcim, Ravena, NY.
• Planning management and coordination of all activities in a project (design, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning associated with job site.)
• Create Project Planning Schedule with MS Project.
• Prepare information such as specs and drawings then send them to Vendors
(Sub Contractors).
• Select vendors, discuss deals with Operation Manager and send the information to generate the purchase orders.
• Send the Purchase Orders to Vendors in USA.
• Keeping track of each vendor, helping them answer questions.
• Prepare Monthly report and Management Change Orders. Freelancer Huntersville, NC January 2016-December 2017. Estimator, Project Manager Construction, HVAC, Plumbing, Metal Frame, Acoustical Ceiling, Concrete.
• Prepared estimates for turnkey commercial and residential projects.
• Estimated for HVAC, plumbing, Civil Works, Architectural (Interior), structural, concrete, and electricity projects.
KHD Humboldt Wedag, Norcross, GA April 2015 – November 2015 Field Service Engineer - Lafarge New Expansion Exshaw, Alberta, Canada and Ravena, NY
• Supervise installation of KHD’s equipment such as Clinker Cooler, Bag Filter, Preheater Tower and Tertiary Air Duct according to KHD’s drawings and specifications.
• Dust Collectors according to KHD’s drawings and specs. Outotec, Jacksonville, FL February 2011 – July 2014 Project Manager - Grinding Mills North America
• Planning management and coordination of all activities in a project (design, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning associated with job site.)
• Create Project Planning Schedule with MS Project.
• Oversee basic and detail design engineering (Grinding Mills) with Design department in Finland and Sweden.
• PFD preparations with OUTOTEC design Engineers.
• P&IDs preparation with OUTOTEC design engineers, vendor engineers and customer’s engineers in all hydraulic equipment (as hydraulic bearings system, Lube system, and Lube motor system) at all Ball mills, SAG mills and Rod mills.
• Prepare information such as specs and drawings then send them to Vendors
(Sub Contractors).
• Select vendors, discuss deals with Application Engineer and send the information to generate the purchase orders.
• Send the Purchase Orders to Vendors in USA, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Europe (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain.)
• Keeping track of each vendor, helping them answer questions in junction with the department of design and application engineer.
• Link and Interface with client.
• Prepare Monthly report and Management Change Orders.
• Help to prepare Operations and Maintenance procedures in accordance with the best practice in a timely manner.
• Familiar with codes, standards, regulations and practices applicable to the design and construction (API, ASME, ANSI, AGMA.)
Projects:
Phoenix, Molycorp (Ball Mill), California USA
$USD 4,520,000.00 project.
Tayahua, Condumex (Ball Mill), Mexico
$ USD 8 Million project.
DSOT TSMC (Rod Mill), Canada.
$ USD 1,740,000.00 project.
MASA-A-MS-107 Sadiola (Ball and SAG Mills), Canada, Mali Africa
$ USD 6 Million project
Penoles (Three Ball Mills and three SAG Mills), Mexico
$USD 30 Million project.
Freelancer Huntersville, NC January 2010-Decemeber 2010. Estimator, Project Manager Construction, HVAC, Plumbing, Metal Frame, Acoustical Ceiling, Concrete.
HF Builders, General Contractor Charlotte, NC May2009 – September 2009
Estimator
• Prepared estimates for turnkey commercial and residential projects.
• Estimated for HVAC, plumbing, Civil Works, Architectural (Interior), structural, concrete, and electricity projects.
Aumund Corporation, Kennesaw, GA March 2008 – March 2009 Field Engineer, Consultant Cement Equipment
• Oversee installation of equipment, maintenance in the Cement and Mining industry for North America and the Caribbean.
• Supervise the installation of chain conveyors, bucket elevators and pan conveyors.
Projects:
Holcim St. Genevieve, Blooms, MO, FLSmidth Project CEMEX Balcones, New Braunfels, TX USA
Maintenance:
GCC Río Grande In., Pueblo, CO USA
Florida Rock, Newbery, FL USA
American Cement, Summerville, FL USA
St Mary’s, Bowmansville, ON Canada
JMC Design & Construction LLC, Charlotte, NC, March 2004 – March 2008
Project Manager/ Estimator
• Oversee the construction of commercial buildings and residential wood frame, metal, cast concrete walls, ceilings and concrete projects. Engineering and Construction Ltd, Bogotá (Colombia) Nov 1986- October 2000
Estimator, Supervisor
• Assist in BID process and prepare estimates.
• Planning, management and coordination of all design, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning associated with job site.
• Prepare Project Planning Schedule with MS Project.
• Generate the purchase orders for all supplies.
Projects:
Ecopetrol (Colombian Oil Company)
• Construction and installation, of air supply for starting diesel engines at Pump Station. The scope of this job was the installation of compressors, air storage tank,
2 ", 4" pipe schedule 40, to reach the 12 cylinder engines, to start these, with compressed air. To pump the crude from the storage tank to the ship tanker on the bay. El ‘Retiro’ Magangue and Covenas Pump Stations. ECOPETROL.
• Construction and Installation of 24 Pump stations, to inject water to Oil wells to extract the oil that is in the interstices of the soil with Schrader Camargo Engineers Associates S.A.
I was in charge from build foundation (Civil engineer work), build manifolds different sizes pipe, up to 6”, working with different piping schedule 40, 80, 120 and fittings Tees, Reducing elbows, Elbows 90, 45, reducers, installed of valves, all instrumentation devices to connect SCADA. ECOPETROL
• Construction Bank of instrumentation products for the SCADA project, Villeta and Alban stations ECOPETROL.
• Wiring and Installation of Instrumentation Pipeline SCADA project, Villeta and Alban stations ECOPETROL.
• Geotechnical protection work from K22 +800 to K23 +500 Vasconia Porvenir pipeline ECOPETROL.
• Construction and complementary works Repeater Caseta Cerro Neiva ECOPETROL.
• Construction and Installation of overhead crane 25 tons Apiay plant ECOPETROL
• Construction of concrete foundations in Cement Plant Expansion Project HERCULES San Gil Santander.
• Construction and assembly of Cyclones, Separators, Hovercrafts Cement Transport, assembly and Steel Structure System, laying of mains Cement Plant Expansion Project HERCULES San Gil Santander.
• Dismantling and assembling rotary kiln Cement Plant Expansion Project HERCULES San Gil Santander.
• Cooler Repair Polysius cooler with Cementos Samper (CEMEX) ‘Siberia’.
• Mechanical Maintenance Plant ‘La Siberia’ and ‘La Esperanza’ with Cementos Samper (CEMEX).
• Construction of the steel structure for electrostatic filter plant ‘La Esperanza’ Cementos Samper (CEMEX).
Cementos Samper (CEMEX) Bogotá, Colombia, February 1981-Sep 1986
Maintenance Manager Clinker Plant
• I manage the activities to maintain the equipment of the plant (Rotary Kiln, Vertical Mill, Rotary Mill, Crusher Machine, Stockpile, Reclaiming Equipment, Silos, Buckets elevators, incline elevators, Fans, Pneumatic conveyors
(Claudius Peters Technologies).
Installation and Commissioning Clinker Plant
• Supervisor of installation of equipment of plant of clinker, Project ‘La Esperanza’, grinding, packing and dispatch of cement Santa Rosa. FLSmidth
• Assistance Project Manager, prepare plans and specifications to deliver national construction companies.
• Supervise the construction and installation of equipment for new Cement plant (Kiln, clinker mill, coal mill, limestone crusher, bucket elevators, metal silos, fans.) FLSmidth.
Professional Associations
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) – Member # 940985 American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air- Conditioning Engineers
(ASHRAE)-Member # 8096312
Society of Piping Engineers and Designers (SPED)-Member MI #142995 Asociacion Colombiana de Ingenieros (ACIEM)-Member