SUMMARY:

• Innovative Maintenance Supervisor with a background in nuclear power industry. 20+ Years of experience as a First Line Supervisor over both, union and non - union employees. Extensive experience supporting and developing short and long-term improvement and corrective plans designed to reduce equipment downtime, support equipment installation and rebuilds. Recognized for ability to engage, train, and develop employees through timely feedback, empowerment, involvement in decision making and the MARC Process. Extensive experience in nuclear involving process improvement, team building, project management and identification / implementation of corrective actions to prevent reoccurrence. Proven track record utilizing Operating Experience, PM data, employee expertise and teamwork to improve equipment condition and reduce out of service time. Proficient at scheduling assigned work through use of manpower availability, external resources, plant condition, and system availability for both outage and on-line activities. Recognized as creative problem solver with strong project management and people skills with the ability to manage timelines, budgets, manpower and reduce reliance on external services. Performed duties as Site FME (Foreign Material Exclusion) Coordinator at two different nuclear generating facilities, obtaining positive results at both sites through employee empowered committees. Excellent success rate with converting employees labeled as unproductive and/or not meeting expectations into productive and effective workers.
• Preventive / Predictive Maintenance Equipment Reliability Lean Principles
• Root Cause/Apparent Cause Analysis Safety Conscience Work Environment Process Assessment
• Analytical Troubleshooting Process Improvement Coaching Industrial Safety
• Employee Effectiveness Foreign Material Exclusion Work Management
• Equipment Failure Investigation Human Performance Review Supplemental Oversight
• Customer Service Individual / Team Ownership Continuous Improvement
• Dose Reduction

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Nuclear Maintenance Supervisor

Responsibilities:

• Enhance worker knowledge and behaviors in the area of FME prevention techniques.
• Benchmark other BWR 6 site for FME best practices.
• Perform duties of a First Line Supervisor as requested in support of upcoming INPO (Institute of Nuclear Power Operators) evaluation during 06/2014.
• Raised FME risk level at routine entry area of station affecting all site workers on a daily basis resulting in heightened worker awareness of the FME program and FMI (Foreign Material Intrusion) defenses.
• Developed FME worker DLA (Dynamic Learning Activity) with for administration to all workers starting with maintenance. This resulted in strengthening of an identified weakness in maintenance workers behavior related to completing FME closeout inspection paperwork following performance of closeout
• Created and chartered a FME / Housekeeping committee requiring each department on site to provide at least one dedicated committee member to establish direct communication between the committee and each department on site.
• Provide oversight and coaching to maintenance workers during performance of their work activities resulting in a reduction of work delays caused by incorrect tooling, additional parts, improper tool usage, and work order / procedure compliance.
• River Bend Station received its first ever INPO 1 rating (best) out of the 06/2014 evaluation with zero FME related issues identified.

Confidential

Nuclear Specialist - Nuclear Oversight Department

Responsibilities:

• Conduct of Maintenance
• Industrial Safety
• Human Performance
• Work Management Process
• Departmental Performance of Self-Assessments
• Safety Conscience Work Environment
• Nuclear Regulatory Compliance and Reporting
• Monitoring of behaviors for indications of SCWE (Safety Conscience Work Environment) challenges / violations.
• Attending T-schedule meetings to ensure preparedness, ownership, teamwork and accountability is exhibited by both activity owners and support organizations.
• Observing and participating in daily station condition report review team meetings.
• Evaluating individual department effectiveness at improving performance through OE (Operating Experience), CAPR’s (Corrective Action to Prevent Reoccurrence) and INPO network reports.
• Monitoring of departmental and program performance indicators to ensure accurate and timely input is maintained and correctly documented
• Analyzing activities and trends to determine leadership program effectiveness.
• Providing feedback to safety and senior management concerning industrial safety behaviors observations.
• Performing effectiveness reviews of station programs associated with site maintenance, work management, refueling outage readiness and supplemental workers.
• Presentation of bi-weekly assessments to Senior Site Management regarding improving and/or declining trends and performance indicators including issues affecting station performance as defined in INPO PO&C (Performance Objectives and Criteria).
• Observing and evaluating the conduct, timeliness and effectiveness of HURB’s (Human Performance Review Board) when events / issues met procedure criteria resulting in the convening of a review board.
• Task performance field observations with immediate feedback to task workers and their supervision.
• Evaluating use of the “Change Management Process” by the station when altering processes, procedures and programs.

Confidential

Nuclear Maintenance Supervisor

Responsibilities:

• Identified two separate types of SCWE behavior challenges in their early stages (employee/supervisor communication and retaliation) and reported both to the applicable site’s senior management representatives for further review.
• Identified weaknesses in the change management program evaluation for new FME program requirements prior to implementation.
• Identified past and present PU&A (procedure use and adherence) failures in the area of switchyard activities regarding supplemental supervisor qualification verification and oversight of supplemental workers by site supervision, to site senior management. Unfortunately, follow up bi-weekly reminders to senior management prior to a scheduled outage were unsuccessful with affecting change in this area and the site experienced two major human error incidents with switchyard supplemental personnel (mobile crane tipped over on its side and 50% loss of offsite power).
• Invaluable exposure to the abundance of information available from INPO, NRC, EPRI, etc. related to industry OE, best practices and evaluations.
• Served as FME (Foreign Material Exclusion) Coordinator ( ) and successfully eliminated INPO FME AFI (Area For Improvement) in one 18-month refuel cycle. (Kewaunee specific )
• Created, chartered and chaired a “FME / Housekeeping Committee at Kewaunee Power Station. The communication and work performed by the committee members with station personnel was instrumental in completing the INPO FME AFI in just one refueling cycle.
• Designed “maintenance friendly” FME covers for hand-hole openings on GM EMD engines resulting in the recovery of three man hours lost every twelve hour shift.
• Following first time use of these covers, I requested manufacturer to produce and make available to other owners of this type engine. These covers were purchased by other utilities that owned this style engine including the OEM vendor.
• Recognition of self-assessment evaluation information to improve program effectiveness.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Successfully completed 5½ year Power Station Mechanical Journeyman Program.
• Obtained of Quality Control Inspector Level II and Level II VT Inspector I, II, III, IAW ANSI N45.2.6