GERARD S. HALSTEAD
11152 Westheimer Road #224
Houston, Texas 77042
713-305-7967 713-305-6855
e-mail: gerardhalstead[at]yahoo.com
ACADEMICRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
DATACivil Engineering and Business Management
SUMMARY Field Engineering to Construction Manager on domestic and international projects.
Responsibilities include field engineering, site development, field staffing, budgets, scheduling, construction practices and liaison between field and home office and project engineering team to resolve problems. Field supervision for all crafts. LNG, HVAC, clean room. Unit debottlenecking, turnarounds, safety audits. Extensive experience with proposal development, subcontract planning, engineering, procurement, progress measurement, quality assurance, constructability & system turnover, union & open shop projects. Modular construction for on & offshore, dredging, ship docking and loading facilities.
Received awards for valued engineering and cost savings.
PROFESSIONAL COFFEYVILLE RESOURCES 02-06 02-09
EXPERIENCERefinery Capitol Projects Expansion $450MM
Coffeyville Kansas
Engineering / Field Construction Supervision Management
Major refinery expansion included SRU, CCR modular units, new rail facilities, flare projects, site development. Ultra low sulphur diesel & gasoline, HDS upgrade. New Administration Building and two new modular office complexes.
Responsible for all field engineering interfaced with operations & maintenance for project design and construction. Work safe programs. Contractor resourcing and pre-award activities, develop work scopes, schedules, estimates, bid reviews, project budgets. Develop pre-turnaround & turnaround scopes, schedules, work packages, tie-ins, manhours, materials, equipment, identify materials and equipment. Site remediation and containment. Systems completion, contract settlement negotiations. Completed on schedule.
AKER KVAERNER October 05 - February 06
GTMO Bay Cuba U.S. Navy $50MM
Sr. Project Manager
Assigned to liquidate all of Kvaerners assets at GTMO by 02-2006.
Complete projects under construction and general maintenance of buildings and equipment under contract. Audit projects previously completed for payment. Assignment completed one month ahead of schedule.
HITACHI INDUSTRIES July 04 - February 05
Proton Beam Accelerator $75MM
MD Anderson Houston Texas
Mechanical Supervisor
Manage subcontractors daily schedule and estimates of fabrication and instillation setting and alignment of equipment, complete piping systems for commissioning, clean room specifications required. Completed on schedule.
ABB LUMMUS GLOBAL 2001-2004
Yanpet Debottlenecking Project $150MM
Yanbu Saudi Arabia / Exxon Mobil
Construction Manager
Project Constructability Coordinator at the home office.
Interfaced with Yanpet operations and maintenance for planning and scheduling of outages for tie-ins. Heater, Off-sites & Utilities, develop unit turn-over procedures for units with Yanpet/Exxon Mobil.
ABB Lummus / Samsung Joint Venture Seoul S. Korea $150MM
SABIC Industries PDH & PP Project
Engineering Director
Oversaw the completion of engineering at Samsungs office to meet construction schedule for all disciplines and purchasing & shipping. Fabrication shops, FAT test at Honeywell. Completed on schedule.
Lyondell Equistar Nox Project (Low Emissions Project) $75MM
Channelview, Deer Park, Chocolate Bayou and Mount Belvue, Texas
Construction Manager
Develop a construction strategy and estimate for ammonia injection for convection modular units. Modified and repaired the existing ethylene cracking furnaces at four plants. Review drawings for constructability. Coordinate construction planning and scheduling with plant operations. Qualify local sub-contractors for bidding. Develop proposals for construction execution. Project was put on hold by Lyondell.
N-ROC Grassroots Ethylene Project $700MM
Beaumont, Texas
Construction Manager
Responsible for contractor safe system completion by system for turnover of the plant to plant operations.
COASTAL CORPORATION 1998-2001
Aruba Refinery Expansion $400MM
Chief Field Engineer/ Field Construction Coordinator
Resolve engineering problems, with operations, engineering design group and the contractor. Ship docking and loading facilities. Responsible for quality of construction activities during project. Responsible for safe system completion turnover of the units to operations. Develop scopes of work for proposals and subcontracts.
FOSTER WHEELER 1997-1998
Talcahuano, Chile-Delayed Coker, HDP and Cogen $350MM
Systems Completions Manager
Resolve engineering & design problems with FW Iberia Spain, and construction contractors. Coordinate with QA/QC to resolve construction procedural problems.
RAYTHEON (BADGER) E&C 1991-1996
Thai Refinery Constructors, Thailand
A JV of Badger and Fluor Daniels
Shell Grass Roots Refinery $2.2B
Area Engineer / Field Superintendent
One year at Badgers and Fluors offices in the Hague performing constructability reviews during design. Develop construction schedules, and scopes of work. Reviewed subcontractors proposals and schedules,
resolve client problems from the field in The Hague office.
On site field engineering and construction supervision of all crafts for the Crude and Platformer, Hydrocracker units during construction. System completions and start up. Mechanical completion three (3) months ahead of schedule.
BP Petroleum Wastewater Project
Belle Chase, Louisiana $75MM
Subcontracts Manager
Prepared subcontract bid packages. Reviewed and approved all sub-contractors invoices for payment by BP.
Westlake Styrene Project
Lake Charles, Louisiana $80MM
Senior Construction Engineer / Construction Manager
Responsible for all craft construction
Direct hire construction project.
Direct hire project won a national award from ABC for Excellence in Construction. Completed on schedule.
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