To have a safew work enviorment, to enjoy day to day accomplishments and problems, work through to resolve any and all porblems, no work stoppages, to bring a project in on time below budget estimate and control cost.
JAMES LARRY MAHATHY
174 N. W. Childers Road
Danville, AL
jlmahathy[at]aol.com
Systems Managed:
Fossil fuel power plants, coal fired boiler installations, Gas turbines, Simple Cycle, combined Cycle, Refinery, Thermal units, Chemical, LNG and Petro plants installations and turn-a-rounds, refurbish, outages, power boilers installations, outages, shutdowns, piping fabrications and installations, tank farm, water purification, aeration piping installations, filter beds, 5 ea plants 2 on 1, 3 and 1ea 3 on 2 and 6 o 2 and 3 from 850 MW to 2000 MW out put, all piping. Civil excavations, underground utilities, compactions, retainer walls, caisson, spread footing, Boiler tube replacement, traveling grate refurbish and replacement, stud welding, all levels of heat from flash to superheat areas, precipitators, soot blowers, smelt spouts, re tube to include membrane replacement, valve refurbish and replacement, command control areas, boiler tube installations, carbon, S/S chrome welding, structural, tank farm, BOP and HRSG installations, pipe, pipe supports water treatment plants DI water systems, oil systems installation and commissioning test runs to 10 day trial run for power to grid. Alstom, Delteck, Nims, and GE, B&W, Toshiba, Tampella, systems installed, following all ASME, AWG, ASTM, NEMA, EPA, installation, testing and commissioning codes, managing all lifts, lifting procedures, lifting devices, with jib load lines, certification of operators, sling usage and tagging, safety inspections, Following all code and safety protocol and procedures, welding, mechanical attachment, electrical and water discharge current codes.
Westinghouse simple cycle and GT installation and commissioning, Primary Pipe fabrications and installations
Power boiler, fossil fuel, solid fuel Gas turbines, installation, pumps, turbine, servo valve refurbishing, fan and feed water pumps, donkey (helper) boilers, seismic systems and drive systems, cooling tower rebuilds to include testing balancing and commissioning all systems.
Siemens, GE systems installations, maintenance to include commissioning systems HRSG, fossil fuel fired and coal fired.
Pipe fabrications, installations and commissioning, HVAC, plumbing, heating electrical and instrumentations.
Turbine, Terry, Elliot, Westinghouse, Alstom, GE Generator installation, rebuild and commissioning.
Gas Turbine Management, all O&M day to day run time and scheduled down time, preventive to predictive maintenance, to include combination and package boilers.
GE, Fiat, Siemens, Alstom boilers, coal fired and GT’s, CT’s.
Site Safety, policies and procedures and company safety manuals, OSHA 1926
PC proficiencies, Excel, power point, work and word, spreadsheet and presentations, light primavera scheduling
Responsibilities:
Managing Installations, retro fit, refurbishing, to total rebuilds, Structural, mechanical piping, civil, combined cycle, simple cycle fossil fuel power plants, budget, permit, material procurement, spec’s, manpower, document control, engineering, QAQC, drawing review, to include pipe fabrications and installations, structural, mechanical, electrical installation of fossil fuel, refineries, Petro plants, chemical and LNG plants, coal fired boilers, combination boilers, Gas turbines, Simple Cycle and combined cycle systems, turbines, compressors, exchangers, Water treatment plants, DI water system, oil systems, Ammonia system pumps, drives, piping, generators, field engineering utilization scope of work, schedule, QAQC, walk downs to assure spec’s, repairs, rebuilds, installations and commissioning systems installed, or rebuilds. Coordinating document control, manpower, schedule, scope of work, budget, scope of work, payment procedures, to include civil excavations, back fills, compactions, drainage, dewatering, Site Safety, policies, procedures and protocol, materials procurement, staging material, document control, spreadsheets, cost, schedule management, placement of personal, safety policies and procedures, OSHA in house training 10, 30 hour courses, CPR training, Contract and contract management, post and pre bid-to-bid awards. Concrete pours, steel fabrication and installations, maintenance, contracts management schedules, scope and specifications, planning, cost, estimating client relations, safety, value engineering, document management, civil engineering, structural engineering, electrical installations, pipe fabrications and installations, rotating equipment finger printing by analytical tools rebuilds, replacement and installations, plumbing fabrication and installations, steel erections and load calcs, foundations, spread footing and caissons. Dedication to contract completion, client and customer relations.
Experience:
42 years hands on skills, supervision, manager, management and training skills for apprentice to journeyman craftsmen, maintenance, installations and repairs, outages, turn-a- rounds. Allocating material, manpower, installations, rebuilds, turn-a-rounds and outages within water treatment systems, pipe fabrication and installations, chemical injection systems, purification systems, petro, pharmaceutical, refineries, chemical, fossil fuel, HRSG, coal fired combination power boilers, GT’s and CT’s work or projects, refineries, LNG facilities, to include coordinating construction activities, staffing shutdowns, and maintenance management, fabrications, outages, pipe fabrications and installations, centrifuge, compressors, turbines and gen-sets, both steam production and simple cycle and combined cycle. (Man loading of schedule) testing and balancing to commissioning all installations. Rotating equipment rebuilds, refurbishing and installations, replacement, alignments, commissioning. Pumps, turbines, compressors, centrifuge, conveyors, fans, blowers, gears, gearboxes, transferee cases, direct drive and coupled drives. Westinghouse-Siemens V64, V95.7, FA 3, 4, 5, 7, 9 installations, maintenance coordination. Fossil fuel power plants, BOP and HRSG 450-1350 MW GE, Alstom, Deltack, Nims, underground utilities (gas, electrical and sewage) pipe installation above and below ground. (All material and processes). Boiler code compliance, vessel code compliance, rotating equipment certified, and indicating dual indication, and Lazar alignment, opti alignment. Equipment installation, permits, scheduling, subcontractor placement (contract award), QA/QC, welding procedures, weld mapping, weld tracking, O&M manuals, with strict attention to site safety policies and procedures. Safety compliant personal selection and placement, development site safety policies, Site Safety, procedures, policies, evacuation protocol, accident investigations and site safety manuals. OSHA mandated site safety with general provisions applied to reducing the MMR rate for each client and general contractor.
Systems Commissioned
Deltack, Fiat, Nims, (Alston, Babcox-Wilcox, Westinghouse, Tam Pella, Toshiba coal fired,) Siemens V64 and V94 Gas Turbines, Frame 4, 5, 7 & 9 GT’s, HRSG, BOP water treatment facilities, HVAC systems installation, Central Plant, refurbishing or new construction. To include hydro, hydro lazing, commissioning/cleaning oil process, turning gear to steam blows, ten-day runs. Heat exchangers, compressors, generators, Turbines, pumps and water purification systems. Water plant, injection, aeration, filter, intake, distilnation, underground water ejection measurements.
WORK HISTORY
General Electric / Granite Services; South Africa, Johannesburg 2008-2009
Project Manager - Rotek / Eskom
Managing overall run time, down time, scheduled outages, turn-a-rounds, preventive and predictive maintenance techniques, coordination of total Rebuild, refurbish, retrofit Combined cycle gas turbine, 6 ea coal fired boilers maintenance repairs, pipe fabrications and installations, high pressure steam pipe (to 1200 PSI) rebuild refurbish, tube replacement, wall membrane, studs, smelt chutes, valve replacement, grate replacement, mud drum internal rebuild, pulverizer rebuild, precipitators sheet panel replacement, rapper and rapper rod replacement, pipe fabrications and installations, steam, hydraulic, pneumatics, fuel carriers, hydrogen carriers, compressed gas, mechanical equipment, repairs and installations, documentation,
Value Engineering Drawings, Man loading, scheduling, procuring material, to include bid docs, bid presentations to client, contract acceptance and signage to include all subcontract awards, outage prep, material availability, material documentation and tracking, manpower, schedule status, shop availability for fabrication and rework REWINDS, placement of all field employees millwright, welders and apprentice. All safety for all shifts. (Eskom) and Rotech Engineering. Additional input to engineering and craftsmen for proven practice, means and method. Placement of personnel trained for specific detailed work assignments, assuring all crane operators, welder and other equipment operators are licensed to including rigging credentials, assurances of subs availability to coincide with outages schedules. Preparing documentation for both client and Rotech outage prep.
Granite Service
Project Manager--- Power Boiler 2006-2007 Ivory Coast, Malaysia
Managing, construction craft personal, engineering, scope of work, pipe fitter fabrication and installations, pipe welders, structural installations, civil excavations, material allocations and purchase, budget, change orders, cost control, sub’s, material purchase, and deliveries, submittal review, manpower allocations, scope of work, spec’s and pipe and welding codes AWS, AWI, and QAQC for all pipe installations, fabrications, repairs, replacement, tube repairs, replacement, exchanger repairs, structural support replacement, repairs, Pipe bridge repairs, Pneumatic reinstallations, tank repairs, DI water pump replacement and rebuilds, valve repairs, MOV replacement, pumps rebuilds, repairs, replacement, (feed water, recirc, condensate) exciters drives, turbine, controls, peck installations testing and commissioning of all installations, water purification and treatment facility, generator, installations, servo valve installations, electrical installations, compressors, boiler, plumbing, steel fabrications and equipment installations. Alignments, documentation of weld mapping, QA/QC acceptance, boiler code compliance, ASME, B31.1 compliance; all mechanical alignments, maintenance and commissioning, pipe fabrication and installations underground utilities, temp construction to perm power, structural steel pipe support fabrication and installations. Fossil fuel power regeneration, Shutdown, turn-a –rounds.
NES Global; Kirkuk, Iraq 2005, 2006
Mechanical Manager, Siemens, GE GT’s, CT’s Turbines
Managing and training multicultural and multi national craft personal, scope of work, spec’s, coordination of work material, schedule, QAQC, educating craft personal of care and custody of correct pipe fitting, welding procedures, bearing, gear, installations, shaft care, pump repairs, preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance. Time line improvements, manpower allocations, and Site Safety personal, setting goals for safety, policies and procedures, material procurement, staging, deliveries to site, coordination between contractors, Installations of water treatment facility, purification systems, ammonia injection system, clarifier, rake and drive, slush gates, weir plates, tube inspections. QAQC Bora-scope steam pipe, rebuild pumps, replace drives, inspect turbine, Siemens- Westinghouse Frame 4 and 7 installations and rebuilds. Safety implementation, safety program development, weekly safety meetings, Piping fabrications and installations, QA/QC, all walk downs to systems with P&ID and ISO’s to verify installation completion and all welds have PT, RT or X-ray, Weld mapping, weld tracking to include O&M manual turn over to client. Pipe installation, pipe flushing, hydro’s, insulation installation, Instrument installation (ABB) Valve installation, welding procedures, proper rod usage, proper heat being utilized, proper penetration of weld (wall break down), heat exchangers, compressors, product carriers, instrumentation, pumps, pump alignment, turbine alignments, setting of base, grouting, all commissioning, Installation of all gas burner piping, alignment of turbine to generator, oil flushing, seals, lifting and bearing oil. Commissioning of facility, first fire, 10 day run, and power to grid. All work recorded, Microsoft word, Excel daily for review to client
Pen Power, Granite Services/Bechtel; Baghdad, Iraq, Egypt 2004, 2005
Mechanical Manager, Siemens Gas turbine installations, Water treatment facility, V 64, V 94 GT’s
Managing and training craft welders, pipe fitters, millwrights for mechanical installations, rework rebuilds and run-ability, preventive and predictive skills trainer to includemanagin scope of work, document control, budget, cost control, schedule, manpower, specs. Coordination of contractors training and classification from single craft to dual craftsmen. Training pipe fitters, pipe welders, mechanical installations, engineering, problems, client relations, managing multicultural and multinational personal piping fabrications and installations, rework and QAQC for 5 ea 350 MW coal fired power boilers, complete rebuild. Identifying parts, pipe replacement, and equipment replacement, material support equipment required satisfying long term run ability. Documentation and records to PM then to Bechtel for evaluation to determine material should could be purchased and installed. Researching all feed water pumps, pump alignments to documentation of all, pumps in general (shafts, bearings, seals, impellers, wear plates and alignment), water treatment, controls, electrical switchyard, spare parts inventories, and safety compliance for site personal. Assessing problem and determining resolution for site. To include site safety, site safety officer placement, water treatment facilities (additives, DI water systems filterization processes, clarifiers) condensers (tube structures, pumps), turbines (wear, vibration probes, MW output, suppliers to each), generators (vibration probes, oil supply, Implementing proven methods to improve quality, procedures are maintained including daily reporting MW output, wear on armature and brushes), oil type usage and waste to resolve. Client and customer relations, dedicated to solving problems of material shortage, material procurement. Implementation of preventive maintenance to predictive maintenance programs. Implementing records filing, use of PC Microsoft professional 2007, record failures, record repairs, record time on line and off line.
Pen Power/Granite Power Services 2001-2004 Louisiana, Alabama,
General Superintendent, Chevron, Amoco Refineries
Supervising and on site training of craftsmen, pipe fabrications and installations, small bore and large, tube installations, silencers, down comers, drains, structural, recirc, system water treatment facility, DI water, Feed water pumps, Oil reservoir QAQC of installation, pumps, boiler, feed water system, turbines, cooling towers, generators, valve installations, mechanical pipe and supports, hangers, hydros, chemical flush, and commissioning of all systems installed. QAQC, submittals, spec’s scope of work budget cost control schedules, material, safety policies and procedures, projections, quantities, requisitions, training, Installation water purification and treatment facility, Simple Cycle Gas turbine installations, 230 MW out put, Siemens Turbine Systems. Managing carbon, S/S, chrome pipe fabrication and installations, fabricating mechanical supports, thrust supports to include HVAC installations chillers, all piping, make up air and air handlers, condensate pumps, pump alignments and recording alignments to doc control, Gen-sets, Pneumatics, compressors, final test and balancing to commissioning of all installed systems instrumentation, electrical installations. Duties included subcontractors, crafts, material schedules, manpower safety, and fossil fuel power plants.
Pete Kiewit & Sons 1996-2001 Louisiana, Alabama
Site Superintendent / commissioning Engineer
Managing installation of HRSG, craft personal, material allocations, budget, cost control and deliveries, submittal review, manpower allocations, scope of work, spec’s for all pipe, pumps, drives, turbine, controls, peck installations testing and commissioning of all installations, water purification and treatment facility, generator, installations, servo valve installations, electrical installations, compressors, boiler, steel fabrications and equipment installations. Alignments, documentation of weld mapping, QA/QC acceptance, boiler code compliance, ASME compliance; all mechanical alignments, maintenance and commissioning, pipe fabrication and installations underground utilities, structural steel pipe support fabrication and installations. Gilbert Southern Fossil fuel power regeneration, HRSG Installations 3 on 1, 2 on 2, (Gilbert is a sister company to Kiewit.)
Heery International; 1994-1996 Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia
Site Superintendent
Responsibilities, HRSG installations, structural, civil foundations, boiler, pipe, pipe supports, QAQC, weld mapping and procedures, heat exchangers, Oil systems and commissioning, steam blows, Hydros, chemical cleaning, hydro lazing, manpower allocations, material, Safety, Mechanical pipe, water treatment and purification, chemical injectors, ammonia systems, drive, compressors, (Ingersoll Rand) exchangers, turbines, ( Alstom, Westinghouse) double induction pumps, AC and DC drives, to include mechanical equipment installations and commissioning, Boiler tubes, condensers, pipe bridge, oil res, water treatment plant, DI water system, Recirc system, Feed water Pumps, Silencer stacks, Gen-sets, switch gear, control, security systems. Gas feeds systems, tank farm, pneumatics, chemical injection system, turbine installation, valve installations, manpower, QAQC, field engineering, design changes, value engineering, testing and commissioning for 10 day trial runs, to power to grid.
Champion Paper Corp; Retired 1971-1994
Multi-craft, Maintenance Mechanic
Level 2 Vibration Analysts
Maintenance Superintendent/ (All areas of paper making) Coated white paper industry
Multicraft mechanic, 16 years, Superintendent 7 years, Managing run time, materials, budget, manpower outages, preventive to predictive maintenance implementation, teaching proper, correct methods of rotating equipment, pumps, compressors, turbines, fans, vertical and horizontal pumps, double and triple suction. Alignments for all required utilizing latest proven methods to include fingerprinting signature finger printing of first roll for analytical evaluation, pipe fitting, pipe and structural welding procedures.
Managing up time for 5 ea power boilers, producing 465# steam, 1 ea Westinghouse GT simple cycle system supplying power to operate the plant. Cost of maintenance manpower, material, estimated projected over runs and up time availabilities, budget, material procurement, deliveries, inventories, spare parts, spare equipment, manpower, safety, in house training, Managing day to day run ability to include assurances of dependability of preventive, predictive maintenance, scheduled and unscheduled outages management, personal, material procurement, Basement pumps, drives, turbines, fan pumps, compressors, head box, roll forming, line shaft, 1, 2 and 3rd press sections to dryer cans, realer to re realer. I managed a work force of 123 Multicraft mechanics, welders, pipers, millwright,, electrical, boiler makers and instrumentation in the power house maintaining 5 ea power boilers, and all equipment assisting, feed water pumps, (turbines, Elliot, Gould and Terry) Boiler internals rebuild, replacement, from traveling grates to percips. Tube welder for over 16 years. These were coal, gas and fuel fired power boilers producing both power and steam for paper machines
EDUCATION,
West Morgan High Graduate
Shoals Community College, Math
Calhoun Community College, Construction Management
Calhoun Community Vocational College - Welding Certificate, Certified Welder
REFERENCES:
Van Hathorn, Senior Recruiter, Granite Services, Global
Phone 813-242-2334
Van.hathorn[at]gsinc.com
David Cook, Senior Recruiter, NES Global
David.cook[at]nesglobal.com
Robert (Bob) Segal Executive PM, Tishman Construction, DC
Phone #1-252-339-5762
E-mail bsegal[at]charter.net
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