Project Management Controls Engineer
Resume:
Garris Varner
Florence, SC ***01
Email: **************@*****.*** Summary
My experience began with industrial construction in 1992. I have obtained nuclear qualification, NCCER instructor certifications in 1998 for multiple craft and safety. State Licensed in South Carolina, Georgia, and Louisiana as a General Contractor Unlimited. Bachelors Degree from Jacksonville State University. I have worked around the world in Korea, China, Mongolia and Canada. I have worked with Fluor Corporation, BBI/Shaw, BE&K/KBR, Becon/Bechtel, ProEnergy, Yates/PCL, CBI and HB Zachary and others over the last 32 years. I have been in senior level positions for the past 12 years.
Qualifications
I have managed all types of nuclear and non nuclear work with titles as QA/QC and Engineering Leads, Prj Mgr/Superintendent, lead planner for elect/mechanical/and welding, procurement mgr, and startup/commissioning project mgr. while concurrently taking on temporary assignments with my own general contracting company. Positions include construction-manager, turnaround coordinator/mgr, E/I Planner/Engineer/Lead/manager/superintendent, Pipe Planner, QA/QC Lead inspector for E/I/and pipe, instrument calibration tech, project controls engineer, and safety mgr. I am confidently experienced in interfacing with client and other office and construction personnel. My responsibilities have included work scheduling, budgeting, quality, maintenance, engineering, and management roles. I specialize in Electrical and Instrumentation and knowledgeable in mechanical and welding construction. I have successfully completed work on nuclear outages, maintenance contracts, 7FA GE gas turbine generators, 7FA Mitsubishi dual gas turbine generators, Coal Fired Boilers, Petro Chemical Facility Refineries and Pharmaceutical plants. Electrical installations have included conduit installation, cable pulling, wire termination, grounding, lighting, high voltage systems up to 245kva, motor control centers MCC’s, UPS Systems, programmable logic controllers PLC’s, various bus, and distributed control systems DCS equipment, making weld docs as maps and travelers, piping and tubing 2”s and below, as well as mid piping up to 12”. I have had maintenance contracts for manufacturing in several areas including PLCs. I’ve managed union and open shop. Certified as OSHA 30 and hold a TWIC card and am current for nuclear clearance. During my military career I specialized in avionic maintenance troubleshooting the aircraft to the component and then in shop trouble shooting the component to the issue and correcting the issue.
Education
2005- Masters in Construction Science & Management, Clemson University
1999-2002 Bachelor of Science, Jacksonville State University while working 60 hours a week for Bechtel
1998-1999 NCCER Electrical Instructor Certified
1994-1996 Certificate, USAF Electrical Engineering Associates Degree
1994-1996 Certificate, USAF Instrument Engineering Checkout/Calibration Specialist
1988-1992 Diploma, Laurence Manning Academy
Employment Specific
4/2024-8/2024 SR Mechanical Engineer/Mechanical Signoff Lead, Superior WI
Worked as a client representative planning all mechanical and instrumental/electrical projects for the Alky Rebuild project after being destroyed by fire in 2018. I also was the acting client mechanical lead for all initial walkdowns and wrote punch list. After items were completed they were returned signed off for me to rewalk and approve for final signoff with 3 other client executives. I also handled procurement for the items needed.
2/2023-1/2024 SR Nuclear Planning Engineer, FPL/NextEra Energy, West Palm Beach/Jupiter West FL
Worked in corporate office for all nuclear power plants owned by FPL and Nextera Energy planning for Electrical, Mechanical, and some I&C. This included plants Port St Lucie, and Turkey Point. Worked with NAMS, NEO, Weld Coordinator, Seal Pro, Prism, and Documentum. Scoped work to be performed, takeoffs and provide material lists, ordered material, and ordered tools needed to facilitate each project. Planned the step-by-step process with the required procedures and safety regulations. Made weld maps as needed. Included weld travelers, seal pro sheets, and field drawings as necessary. Ordered scaffolding, coating, and insulation ahead of and after work when needed. Implemented all NQA1 work for the field at multiple nuclear facilities following all NCR and DOE regulations. Worked closely with design engineering to help facilitate changes when necessary.
12/2019-11/2021 SR Nuclear Electrical Engineer, Talascend, Waynesboro GA
Worked Vogtle units 3 & 4 as an engineer overseeing and signing off completed work after verification of procedure correct installation. Moved to unit 3 to help with installation and to rework issues that had been overlooked or placed on punch list. This work included scrutinizing everything and providing procedures and drawing justification to parallel the new IR signoffs. Also was tasked with making weld maps, ordering tools and materials as needed, opened and closed work packages (WP), made WP changes as needed, made new inspection records for WPs as needed, verified and signed off all non-safety verifications and paralleled signoffs with QC on all safety related verifications. Wrote conformance or non-conformance reports, RFIs, and ESRs as necessary to create necessary follow up for incorrect installations that allowed fixing issues. This included same work done below at Bechtel and Hire Technologies. Work was performed with software systems such as maximo, witts, set route, autocad, as well as others.
10/2018-12/2019 SR Nuclear Electrical Engineer, Bechtel, Waynesboro GA
Scoped work to be performed, Do takeoffs and provide material lists, Order material, Plan the step by step process with the required procedures to implement all NQA1 electrical work for the field at a nuclear facility following all NCR and DOE regulations. Verify installations and quality implementation. Sign off all safety and nonsafety final inspection records. Complete and close work packages after work signed off. Answer RFIs write ESRs and consult for E&DCRs. Work was performed with software systems such as maximo, witts, set route, autocad, as well as others.
7/2017-9/2018 SR Nuclear Electrical Engineer/Planner, Hire Tenchnologies, Inc
Scoped work to be performed, Do takeoffs and provide material lists, Plan the step by step process with the required procedures to implement all NQA1 electrical work for the field at a nuclear facility following all NCR and DOE regulations. Work was performed with software systems such as maximo, witts, set route, autocad, as well as others.
5/2016-7/2017 SR Engineer Coordinator/Planner for Elect/Inst and Pipe Test/Write Procedures then was the Sr Commissioning Manager, CB&I, Martinsville In
Engineer coordinator for E/I as well as Turnover Coordinator for all disciplines. Created work packages/planned work and test packages for E/I and Piping. Writing testing packages and procedures for pipe testing. Walked down systems for commissioning to create punchlist after QA/QC turnover.
Ordering materials for inst/elect/pipe. When construction was completing systems I was changed over to SR Commissioning Manager overseeing startup and run ins. This was 4 GE 7Fa on 2 Toshiba Steam generators for 2 2on1 configurations.
11/2015-4/2016 SR E/I Turnover Coordinator, Client Representative, Marathon Petroleum Texas City TX
Construction Manager overseeing E/I for 3 fast paced petroleum plants overlapping for shutdown rejuvenation. Included new projects, system updates, remove/replace worn and dated devices as well as some P6 planning/scheduling. Managed turnover documentation.
2/2015-11/2015 SR Electrical/Mechanical Lead Engineer, Client Representative, Yates Construction Charleston TN
As a client representative engineering manager I answered RFIs of Elect and Pipe for contractors and lead Qa/Qc in verifying and signing off completed work for the turnover to Wacker Chemie AG. I also awarded small contracts less than $20 million.
3/2014-2/2015 SR Electrical Start-up/Turnover Coordinator/Manager ProEnergy Holyrood NewFoundland, Canada
Over electrical startup/commissioning and was charged with turnover coordinator manager collecting and organizing all documents for client turnover. I organized and created a system for turnover, as well as built all books from scratch without a turnover software.
2013-2014 7/2013-1/2014 SR Commissioning Manager, Fluor/SCE&G Goose Creek SC
Over all aspects of checkout, walkdown, punchout, start-up, and commissioning of a coal unit modification producing 350MW. Turnover docs.
4/2012-7/2013, Projects Controls Manager, Electrical/Instrumentation Superintendent/Engineer Fluor International RioTinto, Oyu Tolgio Mongolia/RioTinto, Dublin Ca/ RioTinto, Salt Lake City Utah
Utah-Material takeoffs and material ordering for all of E/I for a grass roots mining concentrator expansion including all tie-ins and other needed buildings/pipe racks. Scheduled work for all installations and tie-ins to existing plant. Wrote LOTO procedures. Oversaw all installation of electrical instrumentation, and communication systems.California-I participated in the design process as well as oversaw the job scheduling, material takeoffs, procurement, and timed shipments.Mongolia-Managed construction of electrical high voltage switchyards operating at 220kva,Worked with turnover 8/2011-4/2012 Night Shift Construction Manager, Fluor Amgen Pharmaceuticals, Providence RI
Directed night shift activities which included multi-discipline arrangement of laborers, pipefitters, civil, operators, and elect/inst personnel. Also oversaw the night shift Qa/Qc.
9/2010-8/2011 Construction Manager/ Electrical Superintendent, Fluor Southern Co, Atlanta Ga
4 Combustion Turbine Generator Set (MHI 501-G1)and 2 Toshiba Steam Turbine Generators over $470M. These gas turbines included dual fuel, fuel oil and natural gas and were in a four on two power plant configuration for Southern Company in Atlanta Georgia. Total facility output was 1700 MW. As the superintendent I was personally responsible for saving Fluor a large portion of $37M in profit and preventing a $950k daily liquidated damages. As CM I oversaw multidiscipline contractors pushing a successful completion injury free and on time.
10/2009-8/2010 Qa/Qc Manager Electrical/Instrumentation/Pipe, KBR Dupont, Moncks Corner SC
Oversaw the QA/QC inspections and process including documentation for all E/I/Piping work of grass roots power plant and Kevlar MFG facility.
5/2008-8/2009 Site-Manager, Proformance Group Inc Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Holly Springs NC
Managed all aspects of an E&I dominant job for Novartis Pharmaceuticals. As the first person on site I set up office trailers and hired all employees. I headed Safety and initiated incentive programs. This project was finished ahead of schedule and under budget with an adjustment upward due to change orders exceeding $46M. The original contract was only $24M. As site manager I was able to complete contract work as well as negotiate additional work to almost triple the total of the original contract. When I arrived it was a dirt lot where I personally installed office trailers and when I left it was an operational pharmaceutical plant/disease lab facility.
8/2005-5/2008 CEO, Varner Construction LLC, State of Louisianna/Texas
Worked in the FEMA hurricane relief efforts area for Fluor, MMR, SHAW and other general contractors as a subcontractor hauling and setting camper trailers, building mobile home parks, and hauling setting mh’s. Varner Construction had as many as 220 subcontractors at one time. VCLLC lead with a safety first incentive program which helped our group finish with zero safety incidents. 2006-08 was a residential/commercial GC.
2003- 2005 Electrical Superintendent, HB Zachry International Paper, Eastover SC
Worked as an electrical superintendent for a paper mill overseeing regular plant maintenance and managed the annual shutdowns as coordinator.
2002-2003 Superintendent, Fluor Enterprise Frito Lay, Detroit Mi
Managed the demolition of an operational plant and crated and redirected all machinery to other plants around the world. Union Labor
1992-2001 Journeyman/Foreman/General Foreman/Field Engineer, Start-up for Various Large Industrial Construction Co
Managed an electrical team of 14 as a foreman and 3of these teams as a General Foreman responsible for the installation of conduit, wire pulls, terminating and all equipment installation. I also worked as a field engineer for start-up and checkout and signed off for quality control.
2000-202? Varner Construction LLC, Construction Manager, Various Projects, Residential-Commercial
I oversee construction projects as the owner operator of a small family company. I oversaw 17 million dollar projects for Louisiana after hurricane Katrina. Build multiple restaurants such as IHOP, Smokey Bones, and Japanese chains. I have overseen complete renovations of apartment complexes with more than 110 units and more than 224 units. I have also constructed spec and custom homes. This is ongoing and is where I work in between projects where I am hired as an employee or consultant.
I have been in industrial construction since 1992 and put Safety as the number one focus for myself and my team.
I strive to continue personal improvement via learning at every opportunity and want to continue collegiate studies of higher learning.
I have been recognized for assisting in saving Fluor $37 million dollars of loss during the Plant McDonough power project.
I pay attention to the details in order to provide error free results.
I work as a team player and try to help others as much as I can even if it does not pertain to my job.
I am willing to do whatever is required of me to ensure that I remain current and pertinent and fulfill cutting edge needs.
I always volunteer for additional training/education that could help me as well as my employer.
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