Quality Manager

William E. Spiers

Address: **** ***** ******

Pearl City, Hawaii 96782

Tel. +1-808-***-****

Email: *******.******@*******.***

www.linkedin.com/in/williamspiers1

SUMMARY

A Quality/Construction Manager with 20+ years experience encompassing welding, welding inspection, mechanical inspection, shop/procurement inspection coordination, implementation of Quality Control inspection programs, auditing, development and management of project QA/QC programs and construction supervision/management of multi-discipline, culturally diverse project staff. Skills include:

Piping

Steel structure

Architectural Finishes

Welding

Civil

Leadership

Mechanical

Coatings

Team oriented

WORK SKILLS:

Compilation, review and approval of project specific plans and procedures to ensure that appropriate elements of the Site Quality Program have been addressed.

Development and effective implementation of QA/QC programs to meet specific project quality requirements.

Maintain client relationships to assure free communication of information and reasonable, timely resolution of quality issues so that project goals are attained and ensure pro-active actions are taken.

Provide training of personnel to develop technical ability, safety, lessons learned and understanding of project specifications, applicable codes, standards, inspection methods in all disciplines.

Establish and approve Inspection and Test Plan (ITP) and surveillance monitoring program for all disciplines i.e. Piping, Welding, Mechanical, Civil, Steel Structure, Painting, Insulation, Electrical and Instrumentation.

Witness and/or approval of site testing requirements for civil, mechanical, welding, i.e. soils testing, concrete testing, Non-Destructive Examination testing and mechanical test for PQT approval for Welding Procedure, Post Weld Heat Treatment procedures.

Approval and coordination of tracking systems to collect and maintain required quality documentation, including inspection acceptance records, welding/ NDE verification, non-conformance and preventive action resolutions.

Perform and supervise quality assurance assessments of material/ equipment suppliers and assess performance of contracts requirement, procedural compliance and project requirements.

Review of equipment purchasing documents for inclusion of quality requirements.

Coordination and monitoring of equipment inspection activities in accordance with Supplier Inspection and Test Plans.

Provide oversight of Contractor implementation of procurement processes and procedures.

Review of key supplier quality plans, procedures and ITPs.

Ensure equipment supplier surveillance activities are alignment with project equipment criticality ratings.

Review of erection Piping Hydro test Packages with corresponding Isometric Drawings, P&ID’s GA drawings, and critical check sheets.

Provide assistance and coordinate system walk down for punch listing for all disciplines on Turnover packages.

Coordinate punch list clearing and review completed Turnover packages prior to client Care Custody Control / Pre-Start-Up Safety Review to system start-up.

Review, approval and monitoring of quality control programs developed by construction subcontractors.

Provide periodic reports to project management regarding the effectiveness of the quality program.

Site experience in dealing and working with multi-national work force/ organization. Supervision of technical aspects and providing quality project management expertise to and between senior management, Client, other departments, Home Engineering Office, Vendors, and Contractors.

Monitoring and supervision of E&I loop check packages activities.

Handling Multi-task issues and working under pressure situation such as priority system and sub-system handover.

Development of departmental procedures and cost -effective execution of the projects. Cognizant and knowledgeable with the International Specification-material standards, codes, regulation and practices.

Ability to provide technical assistance/leadership from installation, testing, commissioning to maintenance and repair of various equipment in power generation and heavy industrial plants.

Ability to work with minimal supervision. Strong interpersonal, analytical, organization & communication skills. Establish, develop & maintain a close working relationship with other Department, Sections, Contractors and Clients.

Responsible to develop standardized Quality Plan documents used by EPC contractors and construction site management.

Implementation and maintenance of project quality plans, quality procedures parallel to client specification and International code and standards, such as ASME I, II, V, VIII, IX, ANSI B31 codes, API codes, ASTM, Exxon Mobile Global Practice (GP).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Date : November 2022 to Present

Position : Field Construction Specialist – Track Inspector

Employer : HNTB

Location : Seattle, Washington

Project : E130 Eastlink I 90 Light Rail Project

Date : April 2019 to October 2022

Position : Lead Stations Construction Compliance Specialist

Employer : PSC Consultants

Location : Honolulu, Hawaii

Project : Honolulu Authority for Rail Transit Project - Provide oversite of EPC contractors engineering, construction and inspection activities on behalf of the City & County of Honolulu for the Airport Guideways and Statins portions of the Honolulu Rail Project.

Date : January 2019 to March 2019

Position : QC Manager

Employer : AECOM

Location : Panama City Beach, Florida

Project : Hurricane Michael Recovery Project, Naval Support Activity Base, Panama City

Date : May 2017 to January 2019

Position : Superintendent / QC Manager (Prime Contractor)

Employer : AECOM

Location : Honolulu, Hawaii

Project : Repair/Renewal of Building 40: Forensic Toxicology Drug Testing Lab/

Department of Clinical Investigation, Tripler Army Medical Center

Date : February 2017 to May 2017

Position : Quality Specialist (EPC)

Employer : CB&I

Location : Delta, Pennsylvania

Project : Calpine York 2 – Combined Cycle Power Plant

Date : July 2016 to February 2017

Position : Construction Manager

Employer : Black and Veatch

Location : Saint Paul, Minnesota

Project : Xcel Energy Gas Compressor Replacement Project - Sibley

Responsible for the management of all construction activities, worked with the safety engineer to ensure safety compliance. Held weekly safety meetings with subcontractors to ensure that work planned was executed safely and installed in a quality manner. Reviewed AHA’s within pre-construction planning meetings and provided review comments to the safety engineer.

Date : January 2014 to July 2016

Position : Deputy Construction Manager – Night Shift (IPMT)

Employer : Black and Veatch International

Location : Pretoria, South Africa

Project : Eskom Kusile Power Project

Responsible for the management of all night shift operations, Worked with the night shift safety engineers to ensure safety compliance. Held nightly safety meetings with subcontractors to ensure that work planned was executed safely and installed in a quality manner. Reviewed AHA’s within pre-construction planning meetings and provided review comments to the safety engineers.

Date : January 2013 to January 2014

Position : Quality Manager – Night Shift (IPMT)

Employer : Black and Veatch International

Location : Pretoria, South Africa

Project : Eskom Kusile Power Project

$30 Billion - 6 Unit 4800 MW Super Critical Coal Fired Power Station

Responsible for the management of the QC process, worked with the night shift safety engineers to ensure safety compliance. Held nightly safety meetings with subcontractors to ensure that work planned was executed safely and installed in a quality manner. As part of the project QC process, reviewed AHA’s within pre-construction planning meetings and provided review comments to the safety engineers.

Date : May 2012 to January 2013

Position : Quality Audit Specialist (EPCM)

Employer : WorleyParsons Arabia Ltd.

Location : Yanbu Industrial City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Project : Saudi Aramco Mobil Refinery Clean Fuel Project

The project encompassed significant, phased modifications to the existing refinery in order to reduce the sulfur levels in gasoline and diesel to 10ppm in order to meet the environmental regulations of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Date : June 2011 – May 2012

Position : Field QA Engineer – (IPMT)

Employer : WorleyParsons Iraq

Location : Basra, Iraq

Project : BP Rumaila Full Field Development Project

Refurbishment of Rumaila Oil Field in southern Iraq

Date : November 2008 – June 2011

Position : Site Quality Manager – NCP South Plot (PMC)

Employer : Parsons E&C United Limited

Location : Jubail Industrial City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Project : National Chevron Phillips Project (NCP)

$5 Billion Petrochemical Complex, which comprises of a 1.2 million (TPA) olefins

cracker, a 1.1 million (TPA) polyethylene unit, a 400,000 (TPA) polypropylene unit,

and a 200,000 (TPA) metathesis facility, 1.2 million (TPA) 1-hexene facilities.

Date : March 2008 – November 2008

Position : Procurement Inspection Manager – NCP South Plot (PMC)

Employer : Parsons E&C United Limited

Location : Seoul, South Korea

Project : National Chevron Phillips Project (NCP)

$5 Billion Petrochemical Complex, which comprises of a 1.2 million (TPA) olefins

cracker, a 1.1 million (TPA) polyethylene unit, a 400,000 (TPA) polypropylene unit,

and a 200,000 (TPA) metathesis facility, 1.2 million (TPA) 1-hexene facilities.

Date : February 2006 – March 2008

Position : Quality Supervisor (PMC)

Employer : Parsons E&C United Limited

Location : Jubail Industrial City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Project : Jubail Chevron Phillips Project (JCP)

$1.5 Billion Petrochemical Complex, which comprises of a 230,000 (TPA) ethane

cracker. A 715,000 (TPA) styrene unit and an 850,000 (TPA) ethyl-benzene unit.

Date : August 2005 – February 2006

Position : Project Quality Manager (EPC)

Employer : Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation

Location : Washingtonville, Pennsylvania

Project : Montour Power Station FGD Project

Which involved the installation of flue gas desulfurization equipment on 2- 745

Megawatt Coal Fired Steam Electric Generators in order to reduce sulfur

emissions.

Date : February 2004 – August 2005

Position : Quality Supervisor/Welding Engineer (PMC)

Employer : Stone & Webster Asia

Location : Hong Kong SAR

Project : Black Point Power Station

Construction, Start up and Commissioning of 2 – 312 Megawatt Combined Cycle

Gas Turbine Fired Heat Recovery Steam Generators.

Date : August 2003 - February 2004

Position : Senior Auditor

Employer : Stone and Webster Engineering Corp

Location : Los Alamos, New Mexico

Project : Los Alamos National Laboratory

Welding Back-look Assessment, risk assessment of previous welding activities at

the laboratories 7 Nuclear/ Biological Sites

Date : July 2002 – August 2003

Position : Site Quality Supervisor (EPC)

Employer : Shaw Constructor’s

Location : Tonopah, Arizona

Project : Harquahala Power Station

Construction, Start up and Commissioning of 3 – 448 Megawatt Combined Cycle Power Plant

Date : May 2002 - July 2002

Position : Quality Supervisor (EPC)

Employer : Shaw Constructor’s

Location : Jennings, Louisiana

Project : Bayou Cove Peaking Power Project

Construction, Start up and Commissioning of 4 – 80 Megawatt Gas Fired Combustion

Turbine Electric Generators

Date : April 2002 – May 2002

Position : Site Quality Manager (EPC)

Employer : Cajun Constructor’s

Location : Holmesville, Mississippi

Project : Pike Country Power Project

Installation of underground utilities and civil for 4 – 300 Megawatt Combined Cycle Power

Plant

Date : August 2001 – April 2002

Position : Shop Quality Manager

Employer : Fabricated Pipe Incorporated

Location : McComb, Mississippi

Assignment : Pike Country Power Project

Responsible for quality management of 60,000 Sqft ASME/ ISO 9001:2000 Certified Pipe

Fabrication Shop

Date : March 2001 – August 2001

Position : Site Quality Manager (EPC)

Employer : PCE Constructors Inc.

Location : San Marcos, Texas

Project : Hays County Energy Generation Project

Construction of 4 – 275 Megawatt Combined Cycle Power Plant

Date : February 1996 - March 2001

Position : Pipe Welder – Multi Process

Employer : Turner Industries

Date : February 1992 - May 1994

Position : Welder - Fabricator

Employer : Hammond’s Welding Service

Date : July 1988 – July 1997

Position : Sergeant

Employer : US Army- Military Intelligence Corps and Louisiana National Guard

Assignment : Cryptologic Voice Interceptor/Counter-Intelligence Agent

E D U C A T I O N

Southeastern Louisiana University – Completed 170 hours toward Accounting/ Foreign Language Degree

Defense Language Institute/ Presidio of Monterey California – Honor Graduate of German Language Course

Technical Language Systems – Completed Basic Arabic Language Course

T E C H N I C A L T R A I N I N G

ASNT-TC-1A Dye Penetrant Examination Level II Stone & Webster 2005

ASNT-TC-1A Radiographic Interpretation Level II Stone & Webster 2005

AWS/Certified Welding Inspector 2000

OSHA 30 Hour Construction

EM 385-1-1 Awareness

NAVFAC – CQMC Certification

Anti-terrorism Awareness training

Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED

State Certified Nurses Aide – Hawaii

40 Hour HAZWOPER

AFFILIATIONS

American Welding Society

Red Cross

Lions Club of the Philippines

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