Construction Management Pipeline Inspections General Inspections

Joe Lavoie GSC., NCSO., ICCS., MMP., RSE.

Current Address: West Edmonton, Alberta Canada

Previous Addresses: Fort McMurray Alberta Canada. Kitimat British Columbia Canada. Contact Information: E-mail: ****@****.** Mobile: 780-***-**** Website: https://www.qmic.ca/ Key Accomplishments

Insured $5 Million as Construction Manager / Supervisor / Consultant at Quality Management Industrial Consultants, Supervising & Consulting Petro Chemical Industrial Projects. Six Sigma approach to all projects quantifying cost savings in the millions.

Provided quality leadership and assurance within an operating plant for eight years. Development of weekly contractor reporting procedural format, designed to update middle, executive management, and stakeholders on the schedule progress and multiple project SPI and CPI assessments. Performed Earned Value Analysis and Cost Benefit Analysis.

Completed the turnaround in a contractor’s performance, assigned self-assessment strategies to contractors, and well-designed quantitative safety objectives with milestone deliverables.

Completed an "Install Manual" of standards for Electrical contractors across Suncor site. Improving SPI & CPI to meet agreed upon bid documents.

QMP Quality Management Leader Electrical. Supported the formation of an owners Quality department. Reducing Risk through application of 7 tools of Quality. Perform Quality Inspections, review Standards and provide improvements to Quality & Installation Standards, reducing owner’s risk.

Experience

Pipeline 48” – BORE/Open Cut/General Inspector

Construction – 08/ 2022 to 11/ 2022

General Inspector: Reaming 72” Casing. Mountain BORE Drill & Ream 60” / insert 48” Pipeline.

BC Camp 12+ hour days 20 / 10 shift. Contract General Inspector of HDB drill rig AND civil operations in the summit mountains of British Columbia under harsh civil and rocky conditions.

Daily reporting activity progress to quality, environment, safety, and reviewing contract documents, specifications, IFC Drawings, procedures, and contractor plans.

Duties included, reviewing excavation permits, supervisors Toolbox’s, crew FLHA’s. Approving contractor time & equipment, reviewing progress updates timesheets and inspections.

Monitor, Inspect & report on 48” sections not limited to, receiving, opencut, bedding & padding, lowering-in, covering, backfilling, achieving rough grade and restoration. o Construction daily activities may include, rough grading & stripping, stringing, ditching, backfilling, installing breakers & ditch-plugs while monitoring crews across KM’s. Taking pictures, filing daily reports and evaluations.

(Heavy snow and adverse weather conditions the last week causing project slowdown @ high elevations top mountain summit).

Joe Lavoie GSC., NCSO., ICCS., MMP., RSE.

Pipeline - HDD/Open Cut/HDB Supervisor

Energy Services - Construction – 08/ 2018 to 03/ 2019 and 02/ 2015 to 03/ 2015

Supervisor HDB & HDD operations involving over 100 underground Hotline and H-Slot drills for various sizes from 6” to 24”.

Contract supervisor of HDD drill rigs civil operations in mountains of northern Alberta. Managing HDD drilling operations 50 days on 14-hour shifts as part of a leadership team, HDD operations through 28KM of rough challenging terrain. 16” & 18” HDD Install, coatings and repairs as needed.

Duties included, writing all permits (Ground Disturbance, General, Specific, etc..), management progress updates and timesheets invoice review / approvals. Lead meetings, toolbox, FLHA, safety and General Manpower Safety Management. Reporting, advising, coordinating contractors’ superintendents, as the prime contractor/owner representative. (Project Shutdown due to rainy season in 2015)

Construction Manager

08/ 2017 to 02/ 2018

Responsible for schedule, cost, safety, delivery of projects, execution, team leadership & development, planning long term, problem solving, hiring, employee engagement.

Managing a BC provincial Construction portfolio of construction projects from design to commissioning through project management process.

Assigning Supervisors as needed, mentoring (1 on 1, workshops, weekly meetings, etc.)

Communicating, collaborating, problem-solving, analyzing, planning out project’s supervisors for the year.

Working with coordinators, operations, area managers, maintenance, procurement, represents department in meetings (Example Lean Level 1) and within the community for Rio Tinto.

Reviewing quality and technical requirements of work packages, before going to procurement tender.

Development of workflow processes to help provide direction and lean out workflow. Defined authorization of said processes.

Leadership of ten (10) construction supervisors and two (2) document control, one (1) Administrative assistant six of which I directly hired.

Development of IFR/RFQ/IFC Process approval network and signoff.

Reviewed Construction Packages with update Rev. comments before RFQ

Scheduled in 11 Construction Supervisors into a spread of 60 plus projects into 2018 / 2019. CAPEX & OPEX Projects.

Commitment to continuing education and self-development while leading my team in educational development through workshops for higher learning. Joe Lavoie GSC., NCSO., ICCS., MMP., RSE.

Projects Raining from single size of $40 Million 2017 - 2018 Dec. to multiple capital projects into 2018

$50M+ approx.

Construction Coordinator Supervisor

Petro Chemical Gas / Gasoil / Naphtha / Diesel - 2004 to 2012

Overseeing an organized matrix that incorporates responsibility of the construction Petro Chemical projects with trade disciplines. Scopes as assigned through the coordination of fixed price and budgeted Cost-Plus Contracts. Completed in-house estimates, hired subcontractors, and managed site supervisors. Corrected contractor CPI & SPI as needed to conform to owners Benchmark. Ground Disturbance, general and specific permit writer & approver projects based.

Monitored Petro Chemical constructability reviews of large projects, EDS, Hazop’s for projects and reviewing all detailed plans, resource loading, multi-Project Schedules, commissioning, startups, turnarounds, outages on existing and Greenfield projects. Electrical, Mechanical, Piping and structural Repairs. Prime interface between, the corporation and outside contractors, engineering firms, and called upon frequently to resolve contractual or design issues. Quantifiable cost savings in the millions.

Leading Petro Chemical Role Experiences: I have been involved in and taken leading roles as in construction management, QMP (One Year), Superintendent Building Trades, scheduling, planning, commissioning, Workface Planning, coordinating, reporting, start-ups, scheduled and unscheduled shutdowns, outages, turnarounds, maintenance management, sustaining projects, Six Sigma and speaking engagements as examples. Having the most construction experience across the Petro Chemical Oil & Gas industry including bitumen up-graders, Extraction, naphtha, gas, gas/oil, diesel, hydrogen plant, sulfur plant, extraction plant, high and low pressure steam, utilities, reclamation, tailings ponds, Coker units, Tank farms, Tank inlet and outlet piping, ABOVE & BELOW GROUND Storage Tanks Civil prep work base grounding installations, vacuum recovery units (VRU), fractionators, flare stacks, control systems, low & high pressure steam, sulfur lines, utility systems, civil ground disturbance coordinator, Fire Insulation mechanical

(Steel columns, Vessels above & underground), Hot Taps tie-ins, QA/QC, ITP & NCR's, safety tours, and safety meetings with presentations. Manage punch lists, Petro Chemical pre- commissioning and commissioning Petro Chemical oil & gas construction and operational tie-ins to TCCC (Total Care Custody and Control). Working on 3D models in developing models and P&ID to assist field installations and issue resolutions.

Supporting Petro Chemical prime contractor (owner) requirements on all quality reviews and installations adhering to owner’s standards and reviewing those standards, providing input to owner engineering to standard amendment reviews. Edit and approval of WFP (Work Face Planning) Packages, electrical, scaffolding, etc... Qualifying / Quantifying contractors WFP packages.

President

Ocean Electric Ltd - 1989-2002

Medium Commercial and Small Industrial Projects

o Commercial Residential Apartment Complex; Small Mills, Retail Gas Stations, and Commercial Renovations.

Joe Lavoie GSC., NCSO., ICCS., MMP., RSE.

6 Direct Fulltime with 40 indirect Employees

Petro Chemical Project Experience Examples

VRU (Vacuum Recovery Unit)- Project E&I Coordinator

Provided design input on Electrical systems such as, Electrical Heat-trace Assemblies, Power Assemblies Control systems Assemblies, instrumentation, power substation tie-ins, civil, structural, civil, platform designs & locations, and scaffolding support.

Reviewed over 26 packages on electrical (heat trace, instrumentation, power, etc..) from scoping study to IFC, Revs, 1, 2 and 3

Chaired weekly / biweekly progress meetings, provided team leadership, reviewed cost reports, schedules, safety manpower numbers.

Reverse Acting Check Valves - Project Coordinator

Provided critical design input, scoping study to operational turnover. This project was a direct result of a major fire within the plant, to ensure the valves world close in event of emergency all were changed to electrical DCS operation from local air assist.

17 insulated valves were designed and installed, provided critical input and developed testing procedures for CS&U and monthly maintenance procedures.

Provided design input on Electrical systems such as, Electrical Heat-trace Assemblies, control systems, instrumentation, power, Insulation and Mechanical layouts. Flare Tip Removal 59F-101 - Project Coordinator

Reviewed IFR & IFC drawings, electrical, mechanical, low-pressure steam, old flare tip removal & supply and install new flare tip.

Provided leadership on hazard assessments, safety zones, reviewed weather patterns and set hours of operation for removal.

U2 (Millennium plant) U1 (Base plant) turnarounds and unplanned outages - Construction Coordinator Superintendent to Building Trades, Mechanical, Electrical, Scaffolds, Insulators, Specialty Contractors, Quality Inspections & Review / approve QC documentation.

Provided support, leading teams (electrical, mechanical) to successful completions on planned Petro Chemical outages.

Support, providing leadership to construction during unplanned outages such as fires, incident investigations, plant tie-ins, outages, major equipment failures, supporting operating Petro Chemical brown-field plants.

Often as a leader I am temporally relocated to critical fast track projects, leaving current projects to new area and situations, new fast paced projects of high priority. Deep-bed Sand filter Project - Plant 55 Gas-oil - Construction Superintendent Coordinator

Provided Design input on electrical, mechanical, control systems, civil, structural, scaffolding support. Reviewed drawings, addendums, at EDS, to IFC. Attended meetings, provided leadership at meetings.

Joe Lavoie GSC., NCSO., ICCS., MMP., RSE.

Education

Leadership Qualifications

Journeyman Red Seal (RSE) # D-04-01227

Gold Seal Construction Superintendent (GSC)

Industrial Construction Crew Supervisor (ICCS) # 004410G

Maintenance Management Professional (MMP) # 00497

National Construction Safety Officer (NCSO) # 000053

Project Management

First Level Supervisor Training

Masters Six Sigma

Advanced Project Risk Management

Managing Multiple Projects

Safety Training

CSTS 20 Upgrade # 11824977

Electrical Safety Training System (ESTS) 2017 # 11954103

Leadership Safety Excellence Certification (LSE) # 11802613

Principles of Injury Management # 20286

Leadership Safety Excellence Proficiency (LSE) # 11804755

Construction Safety Legislation & Administration # 19935

Confined Space Entry/Monitor Reg.# 87WEA

Standard First Aid – CPR/AED Level C # 103460290

TDG – Transportation Dangerous Goods - 5736446

H2S Alive – # S5DAS

Pipeline Construction Safety Training (PCST)

Ground Disturbance for Supervisors 201 # 5734814

WHIMS # 5401

Safety Orientation # 4100

Bear Safety Awareness # 359-***-****

OHS Legislation Awareness # 11091158

Secondary & Upgrade Education

OSSA Fall Protection # 7CQ3X

EWP - Elevated Work Platform # OL71G

Fit Test North Full Face 7600

Black Belt Six Sigma; Lean Six Sigma

Quality Management

QC Field Inspection

Tele-handler / Forklift

Substation Construction

Protection Skills; Switch Gear; Arc Flash

Joe Lavoie GSC., NCSO., ICCS., MMP., RSE.

MCC - Motor Control Centers

VFD - Variable Frequency Drives - TBA

ALTALINK Utility Worker Substations

ALTALINK Substation Orientation Cert# 362-***-****

ALTALINK Field Orientation Cert# 362-***-****

OSSA Regional Orientation C#258-2013

OSSA Basic Safety Orientation (BSO) # 27070

Project Estimating & Scheduling

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