Instrument & Electrical Technologist Resume

SUMMARY

Journeyman Industrial Electrician and Instrument Technician with over 30+ years progressive experience and working in heavy industry and petrochemical for the past 20 years.
Am a highly skilled Electrical & Electronics Troubleshooter with extensive experience in relay logic, industrial electronics, PLC installation & programming, solid state controls, process control, and instrumentation.
Possess good management and people skills, running crews as Foreman for myself and other contractors installing conduit, cables, wires; and terminating circuits.
CAD and estimating experience.
CPR and First Aid Certifications are up to date.
SAP CMMS, scheduling for preventive maintenance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Instrument & Electrical Technologist

Responsibilities:

All duties pertained to I&E on location including / not limited to load calculations, troubleshooting, installation, and maintenance of Motor Control Centers (MCC), transformers, motors, switches, lighting, HV switchgear, circuit breaker panels, Variable Speed Drives, sensors, and all conduit and cabling; installation, configuration, and calibration of 4 - 20mA loop instruments including temperature transmitters and controllers, flow meters, pressure transmitters, and differential level transmitters, auto valves, including loop controlled proportional valves, and high level sensing probes.
Setup / calibrated LCD and LED readouts for tank volumes and scales using load cells; maintained / calibrated gas sensors for LEL% alarm system; E&I on boilers & incinerator system; troubleshoot / repair Siemens Moore APACS & GE DCS using Series 90-70 and Genius Modules, and various stand alone PLC systems such as waste water. As Qualified Electrical Representative, responsibilities were the oversight of outside electrical contractors and crews giving instructions in our electrical safety policies and monitoring installation of conduit, panels and wiring in Class 1 Division 1 and 2 environments.
Setup PPM computerized maintenance system with SAP when Confidential Inc. purchased plant.

Confidential

Chief Electrician

Responsibilities:

Supervision of rig electrical crew performing installation, troubleshooting, repairs, and PM of all drilling rig electrical equipment and instrumentation including diesel powered generators, Mud Pumps, MCC, instruments, etc.
Supervision, installation, troubleshooting, repairs, and PM of all electrical equipment and instrumentation pertaining to the drilling rig and rig camp. Supervised / assigned work orders to four native Electricians. Rig was AC powered of cantilever design built by Confidential .
Top drive was a Varco TDS-11. M&I Electric in Houston designed and built the MCC and VFD houses containing Eaton FX9000 VFDs through 1500HP, and Cutler Hammer switchgear and control components, which were powered by five Caterpillar diesel generator sets of just under 1,000 KW each.
Drill control was a semi-cyber system, microprocessor controlled using a Windows XP computer and PLC units from Allen-Bradley and Wago, with A-B touch screen control communicating over TCP-IP and Profibus.
Draw works was Confidential driven by two 1000 HP AC motors, as were the triplex mud pumps. Other equipment included mud pits with agitators and transfer pumps with motors in the 10HP to 75HP ranges.

Confidential

General Electrical Foreman

Responsibilities:

Supervising refinery upgrades, maintenance, troubleshooting and repair.
I supervised up to thirty journeyman and apprentices working on Shell precipitator and catalytic unit installations.
Worked off prints to assign jobs, order materials, kept work records of time and materials used as well as time sheets.
Also worked several months at Dow Chemical performing instrument installations and calibrations, electrical troubleshooting, repairs, and PM on equipment.