Project Manager Plant

James F. Riley, Jr.

**** ****** *****, ********, ** 28104 Phone: 704-***-**** email: *************@*****.***

Instrumentation and Electrical Maintenance Supervisor Aug 2011 to Oct 2018

Mill Creek Steam Station

Louisville Gas and Electric

Responsible for a group that consisted of three I&E maintenance groups, two computer techs and a college intern engineer. Each I&E group consisted of a group leader and seven (7) technicians. In addition to leading these groups, I also had major project responsibilities. These groups had major problems with huge backlogs of work orders. My assignment as explained by the plant manager was to:

Reduce the backlogs of each of the three I&E groups – each group had over 500 work orders in the backlog dating back to over 10 years.

Reduce the number of safety and critical work orders in the backlog.

Locate and eliminate phantom trips on his generators

Try to improve the work habits of a number of technicians – some of technicians often reported to work late, left work early, took extended brakes and were generally not very productive. This facility had strong union influence.

Try to improve the relationship between the union craft and management.

Replace the rotten wire and lights his scrubbers

Take care of two delinquent capital budget projects.

Purchase and install a new transformer (TR) set for the #4 generator unit.

Purchase and install a new trash compactor for the warehouse.

My results within three years included:

All work order backlogs for my groups were reduced to less than 50 work orders in the backlog for each group with no work order being over 90 days old.

All safety and critical work orders were always addressed prior to the end of the workday.

Located and eliminated all the phantom generator trips.

Effectively addressed and greatly improved the work habits and effectiveness of my groups, this included the problems between the union and station management.

Repaired both the TR set for the #4 generators and warehouse trash compactor.

Project Manager 1 Dec 2009 to Dec 2011

Projects and Outage Management

Duke Energy Generation Support

Description of Major Job Duties/Accountabilities:

This group assures that assigned projects are completed within the allowed funding and schedule criteria. Projects for which I had responsibility or assisted included:

Space allocation. Developed a plan for creating additional employee seating space and “walled offices” for managers on the 10th floor of EC-11. The plan included converting 12 storage libraries into the configuration needed. After the plan was approved my management, my task was to coordinate the efforts of company employees and a contractor in converting the storage libraries into the configuration needed. The results was seating for an additional 16 employees and five walled offices suitable for supervisors and/or managers.

Auxiliary cable upgrade. Cradle to grave coordination effort between the station and sub-contractor hired to install the cable and related switchgear. This project was completed on schedule and below cost.

Continuous Emissions Monitoring upgrade. Assigned to assist another project manager in coordinating the installation efforts of various plant employees and contractors. This project was ongoing when I left the company.

Feed water heater upgrade. Assigned to assist another project manager in coordinating the installation efforts of various contractors and plant personnel. As a former power plant engineer, I had considerable experience with this type of equipment and was able to help resolve a number of issues that were keeping the project from getting on tract. This project was on going when I left the company.

Support Staff Engineer Dec 2006 to Dec 2009

Operations and Support Team

Duke Energy

This team functioned as a liaison between the general office and the generating stations. My assigned duties included:

Assist in providing general direction and guidance for the flexible operation of the fossil stations and station equipment.

Assist the station in meeting customer (Grid Ops/BPM) requirements for generation, voltage, frequency and load requirements.

Develop and coordinate equipment reliability testing such as full and minimum load, max VAR ramp rates, unit runbacks, etc.

Assist in the identification and resolution of system, equipment and procedural problems.

Establish positive relationships with station personnel to identify potential operations issues and develop plans for making necessary corrections.

Maintenance Engineer Oct 2000 to Oct 2006

Riverbend Steam Station

Duke Power

In this position, I was responsible for the station’s Equipment Systems Monitoring (ESM) and control processes that included all plant instrumentation with the exception of the WDPF control and monitoring system. Equipment and processes for which I had responsibility included precipitators, ash removal, coal burning, coal weighing and opacity monitoring equipment. Equipment responsibility included providing budgetary information and maintenance and preventive maintenance activities. As part of the maintenance support team, I also assisted with the job planning processes. Some major accomplishments for which I was directly responsible were:

Station pre-heater basket upgrade – completed on schedule and under budget.

Made use of excess department revenue to purchase and install needed coal mill feeders.

Instituted preventive maintenance process that lead to an 80% reduction in forced loss MWh due to mill maintenance.

Developed a regional mill team and provided vendor training at no cost to the station.

Developed and instituted a process tat tied mill maintenance to mill run time - this process became a good tool for anticipating parts and labor needed for mill maintenance activities.

Developed and instituted a PM process that led to a 90% reduction in forced loss MWHs due to precipitator maintenance.

Operations Engineer Oct 1977 to Oct 2000

Riverbend Steam Station

Duke Power

In this position, I had the lead position in providing support for a four-sift operations group. Some of the duties included managing day-to-day operations including shift staffing, handling environmental compliance and health and safety issues, developing and/or improving unit start-up and shut down parameters, providing supervisory support when needed and providing for or arranging training support to the operating shifts. Support Production Office activities such as maintaining daily and monthly records, maintaining environmental records and assisting with equipment insurance inspections, etc. Some major accomplishments during my tenure were:

Greatly improved working relationship between the operations craft and station management.

Led continuous improvement team that led to a 20% reduction in the required staffing for the four operating shifts.

Resolved many long-standing control valve problems experienced by the station. Some noted control valve problems the station had been experiencing included:

oBoiler feed pump re-circulation

oAuxiliary steam to deaerator from the boiler drum

oDeaerator inlet water regulating valve

oSteam to the steam jet air ejectors

Contracts Engineer Oct 1972 to Oct 1977

Department of Defense

Contract Administration Services

Burlington, NC

In this position, my group and I provided technical support for the pricing group and the defense audit agency in negotiating a number of cost type contracts between the defense department and one of the government’s prime contractors. Some of these contracts involved, procurement of equipment that was, at the time, top secret projects or equipment needed by the defense department.

EDUCATION

BS Electrical Engineering – Tuskegee University

High School Diploma - Union Academy

Certificate of Completion (Electronics Engineering) Polk Jr. College

Related Training or

Certifications Received:

EIT refresher course

EIT Certificate

WDPF programming training

WDPF maintenance training

Principles of Project Management

Project Quality management

AutoCAD 2004 Level 1

Project Management Skills Program

Computer skills:

Windows 7 Home Premium, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, Microsoft PowerPoint, PI Excel, AutoCAD 2000

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