Qualifications:
Possess 30 years of management experience in both construction and maintenance, including 9 years of experience in the nuclear power field. Skilled in all types of welding and fabrication, all fields of residential and commercial construction, robotic and machine welding and cutting of all types of material in both nuclear and non-nuclear surroundings.
Work Experience:
03/09 – Present
Mechanical Field Engineer/Assistant Project Manager
Extended Power Uprate Project
Crystal River Nuclear Plant
Crystal River, Florida
Current job duties include overseeing design of safety related Engineering Changes (EC’s) for the 2012 refueling outage, which will conclude the final phase of the EPU project. EC’s include Low Pressure Injection Cross-Tie for EPU Specifications, Make-Up Tank Bypass, Atmospheric Dump Valve Replacements and Upgrades, and Emergency Feedwater Pump Upgrades.
During previous refueling outage duties consisted of overseeing Extended Power Uprate related work in the Turbine building including:
• Removal and installation of heater drain valves, isophase bus duct fan cooler, secondary cooling heat exchangers, condensate drain heat exchangers, secondary coolant pump impeller and motor upgrades, secondary coolant pump bypass piping, turbine building lube oil heat exchanger tube bundles.
• Installation of new Belly Drain Heat Exchangers including valves, piping, and pipe supports
• Installation of new Fiber Optic Back Bone system
• Extended Power Uprate lead abatement, Extended Power Uprate insulation installation and Extended Power Uprate asbestos sampling
JAMES E. PRESSLEY
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Work Experience (continued)
1988 – 2009
Owner/Manager of Press Construction
Talladega, Alabama
Owner and manager of residential and commercial construction company. Supervise up to twenty people in various contracts. Perform wide variety of commercial and residential construction including: residential remodeling, installation of sprinkler systems, assembly and installation of metal buildings, concrete slabs, underground and overhead irrigation systems, installation of basketball, football and baseball scoreboards for Coca Cola, and other complete jobs from the ground up. Press Construction provides welding, pipe fitting, and fabrication work in house (is not subcontracted). Experienced Operator of forklifts, boom trucks, bobcats, backhoes, and all digging and trenching equipment. Performed job contracts at Anniston Army Depot where familiarity and adherence to OSHA safety was required.
1985 – 1988
Machinist Fitter Supervisor
Power Cutting Inc.
100 Energy Drive
Lake Bluff, Illinois
Supervised Specialist jobs setting up robotics and diametric welding in hot radiation areas in Nuclear Power Stations throughout the southeast United States. Other Specialist job duties included: bolting a space shuttle engine to its testing platform; working with feed water heaters, boilers, and other work which involved special equipment. Repaired heat exchangers, reactor coolant pipe and other equipment located in high radiation areas by setting up audio visual equipment and performing work by remote control.
1980 – 1985
Pipe Foreman/Material Coordinator
Daniel Construction
Greenville, SC
Worked at various Nuclear Power Plants including: Surry Power Station in Surry, Virginia; Brunswick Power Station in South Carolina; and Oconee Power Plant in South Carolina. Also worked at Kimberly Clark paper mill in Alabama. As Material Coordinator tracked material from the time received on site through installation performing quality assurance to meet nuclear ANSI standards. In nuclear worked closely with Health Physics, Quality Control and Safety in performance of all pipefitting work. Worked pipe from Schedule 5 to Schedule 160 Carbon and Stainless. Worked various Pipe systems including seismic pipe hangers. Certified in 11 crafts: Pipefitting Construction, Pipefitting Maintenance, Rigging Construction, Instrumentation Construction, Instrumentation Maintenance, Millwright Construction, Millwright Maintenance, Ironworker Construction, Boilermaker Construction, and Boilermaker Maintenance.
Education:
1974 – 1978, Graduate – Talladega High School, Talladega, Alabama
1979 – 1980, College – University of Alabama at Birmingham – Engineering Curriculum Visit Personal Website
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