Project Manager Engineer

Jairo Tibabuzo ‘JT’

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Project Manager, Project Engineer, Field Service Engineer, Proposal Engineer, Maintenance Manager, Maintenance Engineer, Mechanical Engineer. More than 25 years of experience in oil, gas, cement, and mining.

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, which consists of various disciplines and specialists.

Maintain good relationships with customers and other stakeholders.

Manage Purchase Orders, risks, and change orders.

To help vendors follow the technical specs, and invoicing until the

the project was closed.

Managed invoices to Customers, until the project was closed.

Manage Scheduling to follow the project from design,

manufacturing, installation, commissioning, managing the last invoice and

close the project.

Report project 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 the 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 of Windows, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel), MS Project, AutoCAD, Plan Swift, and SAP.

I speak English and Spanish.

Education and Training

Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering, National University of Colombia Bogota, Colombia South America.

Process Plant Layout. Society Piping Engineers and Designers. Houston, Texas USA

Knowledge of 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, commissioning, and maintenance of Bucket elevators, Beumer-Germany.

Design, construction, installation, and commissioning of cement packing equipment, Haver & Boecker-Hamburg Germany.

Design, construction, installation, and commissioning of limestone crusher machine, Hazemag-Madrid, Spain.

Design, construction, installation, and commissioning of Stacker and Reclaimer machine, Buhler Miag-Madrid, Spain.

Professional Experience

Lehigh Hanson Cement Plant April 11, 2022.

Plant Project Engineer, Mason City, IA.

Planning management, preparing information such as specs and drawings design, procurement, construction, installation, and commissioning associated with the job site.

Lafarge Holcim Cement Plant 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 the job site.)

Create a 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 the Operation Manager and send the

information to generate the purchase orders.

Send the Purchase Orders to Vendors in the USA.

Keeping track of each vendor, helping them answer questions.

Prepare Monthly reports 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 the job site.)

Create a 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 the Operation Manager and send the

information to generate the purchase orders.

Send the Purchase Orders to Vendors in the USA.

Keeping track of each vendor, helping them answer questions.

Prepare Monthly reports and Management Change Orders.

Engineering Project Consultant. 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 the job site.)

Create a Project Planning Schedule with MS Project.

Oversee basic and detailed 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 (such 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 Engineers, and send the information to generate the purchase orders.

Send the Purchase Orders to Vendors in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, and Europe (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain.)

Keeping track of each vendor, helping them answer questions in conjunction with the Department of Design and Application Engineering.

Link and Interface with the client.

Prepare Monthly reports and Management Change Orders.

Help to prepare Operations and Maintenance procedures by

the best practice promptly.

Familiar with codes, standards, regulations, and practices applicable to the

design and construction (API, ASME, ANSI, AGMA.)

Capex 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.

Engineering Project Consultant. Huntersville, NC January 2010-December 2010.

Estimator, Project Manager Construction, HVAC, Plumbing, Metal Frame, Acoustical Ceiling, Concrete.

HF Builders, General Contractor Charlotte, NC May 2009 – 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, and 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, HVAC, Plumbing, and concrete projects.

Engineering and Construction Ltd, Bogotá (Colombia) Nov 1986- October 2000

Estimator, Supervisor

Assist in the BID process and prepare estimates.

Planning, management, and coordination of all design, procurement,

construction, installation, and commissioning associated with the 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 into 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 of building the foundation (Civil engineer work), building manifolds of different sizes pipe, up to 6”, working with different piping schedules 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 works 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 the 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, Bucket elevators, incline elevators, Fans, and Pneumatic conveyors (Claudius Peters Technologies).

Installation and Commissioning Clinker Plant

Supervisor of installation of equipment of the clinker plant Project ‘La Esperanza’, grinding, packing, and dispatch of cement Santa Rosa. FLSmidth

Assistance Project Manager, prepare plans and specifications to deliver to national construction companies.

Supervise the construction and installation of equipment for the 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

Engineering Colombian Association (ACIEM)-Member.

Colombian Society of Engineers (SCI).

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