Control Engineer

Summary

• Conscientious professional with ** years experience in process control design, programming, field installation, performance testing, commissioning and operation

• Excellent interpersonal skills working with engineers and operations personnel, both company and client, to integrate priorities and provide a superior solution for each project

• Proficient in document preparation and review including process description, interlock lists, P&ID, wiring and loop diagrams, ISA instrument sheets and vendor submissions

• Developed and instructed operator training programs, both in house and a client facilities, and had primary responsibility for remote technical support

• Experienced with Rockwell and Allen Bradley, RSLogix 5, 500 and 5000, SLC 5, MicroLogix, CompactLogix, ControlLogix, PanelBuilder32, RSView32, PanelMate, PanelView, RS232, RS485

• Familiar with Siemens, GE, Automation Direct, and other vendor equipment and software

• Successful with field start-up, troubleshooting, modification and commissioning of process control systems including drives, pumps, valves, process instrumentation and associated control systems

• Extensive treatability experience, both laboratory and pilot plant

• Regulatory compliance including DMR and other CDPHE correspondence, safety oversight, MSDS and HAZCOM instruction, and effluent monitoring for discharge to environment or POTW

Professional Experience

Environmental Health & Safety Manager

Unicircuit, Inc, Littleton, CO 2010 – 2012

Health and Safety oversight of 170 employees, including OSHA and RCRA training and compliance with state and local regulations including RCRA hazardous waste management and disposal, radiation monitoring, fire safety, process materials storage and wastewater discharge. Supervision of waste treatment system and design of modifications to support increased printed circuit board manufacturing. Acquired new PPE and safety equipment for comfort and protection from aggressive plating chemicals and implemented a new waste chemical labeling system to minimize possibility of incompatible chemical storage or reactivity during waste treatment operation.

Process Control Consultant

Self Employed, Golden, CO 2009 – 2010

Graphical control and PLC process modifications to optimize existing equipment and support new equipment installation for improved efficiency and reliability at a high BTU landfill gas system in Oklahoma City, OK. Compressor system modifications and improved remote operator capability reduced downtime due to control parameter excursions, resulting in improved equipment performance, increased landfill gas quality and throughput, and a 50% reduction in evening and weekend operator call outs. Supervised installation of landfill gas wells, transmission piping, and gas flare for an arid landfill in Ft. Collins, CO. Well field methane collection optimization after start-up increased methane collection by 20%.

Process Control Engineer

Behrent Engineering Company, Wheat Ridge, CO 2008 – 2009

Full service engineering and construction management

Specialty gas manufacturing process logic and HMI control changes from parallel batch to continuous operation that increased production by 30% in Longmont, CO. Control logic and operator interface for multi-step quality control gas transfer of bulk manufactured gas to sale cylinders modified from fully manual to operator controlled automatic, increasing safety and product quality. Control system support for high BTU landfill gas processing system in Oklahoma City, OK. Quality control pump PLC changes for a brewery bottling line in Golden, CO.

Senior Control Systems Engineer

Golder Associates Inc, Lakewood, CO 1990 – 2008

Worldwide ground engineering and environmental services

Process Control Design, Field Installation and Supervision 1995 – 2008

Control system development for new systems and modifications and upgrades to existing systems. Created interlock lists, piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&ID), and operation and maintenance (O&M) manuals for industrial water treatment plants. SCADA design and installation, including HMI development, PLC software programming and process instrument selection. Control system wiring and troubleshooting during final construction and operational testing and system optimization during start-up. Supervised site operations and developed and taught instruction programs to prepare water treatment operators for process operation and state certification exams.

Engineering Support and Field Operations 1990 – 1995

Water treatment alternative evaluation in the laboratory and in pilot plants. Engineering and office support. Start-up operator during commissioning of water treatment plants. Obtained Colorado Water and Industrial Wastewater Level A certifications for operation of water treatment facilities at commercial sites and on DOE facilities.

Project Experience

HMI and PLC control development for industrial treatment process, including engineering design review and O&M documentation preparation. Field installation of control wiring and instrumentation and troubleshooting and start-up of treatment systems. Operator training and ongoing remote programming and telephone support for operations staff of commissioned treatment systems.

Design, installation and commissioning of the control system and supervision of process instrumentation and communication installation for a closed gold mine in South Dakota. Assisted design and implementation of field process piping and control changes when the system did not meet effluent requirements at start-up. Integrated Rockwell, Siemens and GE control equipment on a profibus network.

Process control design and installation to support multi technology treatment of contaminated basin water and hazardous waste landfill condensate at a decommissioned weapons and chemical production facility in Denver, CO. Subsequent contract to make modification of existing system to incorporate expansion of treatment facility.

Design, installation and start-up of controls, instrumentation and equipment for hydraulic cut off systems to pump and treat ordinance contaminated ground water in Nebraska and in Colorado.

Oversight and design improvements for a Superfund site at 12,000 ft. elevation in Colorado, peak flow of 1.5 million gallons per day (MGD).

Operator in charge for an acid rock drainage (ARD) treatment system for a closed molybdenum mine in Colorado.

Lead operations for treatment, solidification and disposal of radionuclide contaminated wastewater requiring work in respirators and radiation monitoring at a nuclear weapons closure site near Denver, CO.

Construction and operation of a trailer mounted mobile chemical precipitation, membrane filtration and activated carbon system for radionuclide, heavy metal and organic contaminated surface water on a DOE closure site.

Operation of a precipitation, membrane filtration and ion exchange system at a uranium mill tailings remediation (UMTRA) site in Utah.

Education

Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO

Certifications

CDPHE Class ‘A’ Water and Class ‘A’ Industrial Wastewater Operator

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