Mechanical Engineer Engineering

Luke Chandler

**** ***** **** **.

Loudon, TN ***74

Phone: 757-***-****

E-mail: **********@*****.***

Objective

A career related to mechanical engineering in a company looking for someone with experience in technology and manufacturing, technical problem solving, and coordinating projects within the company and with outside contractors.

Education

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

GPA 3.35/4.0 Graduated May 2005

Relevant Experience

Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding –Newport News, 11/2006 – 07/2010

Mechanical Engineer II.

Possesses a current Security Clearance

Performed a wide range of problem solving tasks involving piping systems aboard new nuclear aircraft carriers as well as those undergoing overhaul. These systems included firefighting, oil pollution prevention, sewage treatment, and plumbing drains.

Edited extensive system technical manuals and ship-wide system diagrams.

Resolved issues with equipment suppliers in accordance with the applicable specifications.

Recorded the complex shipboard space constraints for valves to be installed aboard the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) and created 3D models to determine the best orientation for the valves and actuators.

Reviewed technical manuals for valves, pumps, and other piping related equipment.

Created innovative solutions for system problems for the vacuum collection/marine sanitation device aboard the U.S.S. George H. W. Bush (CVN 77), and coordinated a team testing project to troubleshoot system performance.

Arranged a competitive bid between outside vendors to perform calcium removal of the sewage collection piping for the U.S.S. Carl Vinson (CVN 70), and later went aboard for engineering support during the ship’s sea trials.

Superior Steel Components, 04/2006 –06/2006

Truss Designer.

Read architectural drawings, created building wall layouts, analyzed and modified light gage steel truss designs, and created final layout drawings in AutoCAD

Milliken and Co., 06/2004 – 08/2004

Summer Engineering Intern.

Improved textile plant weaving process, created maintenance schedules for a production machine, did a presentation of results to high level management

T.V.A. Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, 05/2001 -08/2001

Summer Engineering Intern.

Drafted components for control room simulator, completed neutron flux maps of the reactor core.

Skills and Accomplishments

Received a TAP Award with monetary compensation at Northrop Grumman for calculating and identifying allowable working pressures for several hundred commonly used pipes and fittings.

Experience creating and reading engineering drawings, using SAP, AutoCAD, Inventor (an Autodesk 3D modeling program), and the Microsoft Office suite.

Reduced a textile weaving error at the Milliken Plant by 84%.

EIT certified, 2005.

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